Slavery Traffic Bills Highlight Boston Hearing
White Slave Commission urged new measures to curb trafficking in a joint hearing with the social welfare committee. Bills proposed include licensing lodging houses, 30 day search warrants, personal liability for property owners, requirements to reveal true names in questionable resorts, and easier revocation of red light case licenses. Governor Walsh announced a New York health plan presentation and a health board reorganization. House rejected by a 20 to 61 vote a bill tying party strength to gubernatorial votes, affecting representation on boards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
White Slave Commission
Social Welfare Committee
Walter E. Fernald
Walsh
Herman F. Biggs
Health Commission of
New York City
Boston
New York
Committee On Public Health
Board of Health
House
Republican Party
Curley Lops More Heads at Gallops Island Station
Mayor Curley dismissed Gallop Island quarantine superintendent Charles Dale and matron Mrs. Dale, replacing them with Thomas Mulligan and his wife. Dales had served nursing smallpox patients under Fitzgerald era. Superintendent salary is 900 dollars yearly and matron 300 with board and lodging. Tim Kelley’s title in the poor department is cut from rolls. he had held a 1600 dollar annual post after transfer from park janitor duties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Dale
Gallop’s Island
Curley
Thomas A. Mulligan
Payson Avenue
Dorchester
Dales
Fitzgerald
Timothy W. Kelley
Kelley
Park
Nude man runs through Newburyport streets
March 27 residents on Court street saw Arthur Cashman undress and sprint through the street and into the parochial residence of the Church of the Immaculate Conception. Police chased and detained him as clergy and city marshal responded to the disturbance. The man, about years old, is thought to be temporarily unbalanced from overwork.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newburyport
Court Street
Church of the Timmaculate Conception
Arthur Cashman
Arene
Iliam Hiere
Svar Pole Ofcers
Shocking Kisses From Boston Telephone Girls
The discovery of a dangerous electrical condition in telephone operators was announced by Harvard instructors. Experts say winter brings higher charges, causing potential shocks during kisses, with metal fillings especially risky. A Cambridge group issued precautions on hair stroking, holding hands, and close proximity to avoid shocks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greater
Boston
Harvard
Pierce
Hall
Kennelly
Arthur Kennelly
Professor Kennelly
Post
Cambridge
Katherine Magner
Cambridge Exchange
Clever Boston Collie Donna Shops and Tricks Master
Donna the collie, owned by C. B. Chapin of Roxbury, is famed in Boston for shopping prowess. She retrieves Post breakfasts, barks for papers, returns lost items, and even uses a 10 cent coin to buy candy. She also fetches slippers, hats, and gloves, and once halted a horse by leaping in front of it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Donna
C. B. Chapin
Myrtle Place
Roxbury
Boston
Mr. Chapin
Argentine Minister to Talk at Clark University
Dr Romulo Naon, Argentine minister, accepted an invitation to deliver Clark University Worcester commencement address on June 18. His theme is The Moral Sense of the People as a Condition of Success in a Democracy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Romulo
Naon
Clark University
Worcester
Mass
Women Voters Needed at Massachusetts Jubilee
At Ford Hall a jubilee banquet celebrated the suffrage victory with speeches by Sah, Attorney Sherman E. Whipple, Mr Walter Eaton as toastmaster, and figures such as Miss Alice Carpenter, Senator Hobbs, Senator Horgan, and George Creel. Whipple argued for practical expediency and equality, noting educated women as essential to the state while criticizing male inertia in political duties. The event highlighted cross party support and the push for women to participate in public life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sherman E. Whipple
Massachusetts Political Equality Union
Ford Hall
State House
Walter =. Eaton
James Parker
George Creel
Colorado
Guy Ham
F. J. Horgan
Clarence W. Hobbs, Jr
Alice Carpenter
Attorney Whipple
Hobbs
General Court
Horgan
Ham
Progressive Party
Roxbury man dies by gas after note to wife
William H. Burke aged 52 of 14 Dimock Street Roxbury turned on gas in his bedroom and hanged himself to a bed post. He left a note to his wife saying farewell and good luck and posted a placard reading Dont come in here. Mrs Margaret Burke found him despondent after a period of unemployment.
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William H. Burke
Dimock Street
Roxbury
Burke
Margaret Burke
Wants 3000 for a Kiss
Mrs Fanny Marston of Lynn sues William B Robertson a Lynn janitor for 3000 alleging he stole a kiss last November. Marston 39 Newhall street Lynn says Robertson a widower with six children works as a janitor for Lynn Gas and Electric. She has known him for years and claims the kiss occurred at his place of business.
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Fanny Marston
Lynn
William B. Robertson
Marston
Newhall Street
Robertson
Lynn Gas & Electric Company
Boston Underworld Trial Focuses on Fence Shulman
Hyman Shulman a Boston tailor facing trial as a fence for burglars. James W. Pringle Jr., 18, self confessed offender of 50+ break ins, testifies detailing payments for stolen goods and liaison with Shulman at 1056 Washington St. Witnesses from Newtonville,Waltham and Everett describe break in methods via cellar windows.
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Boston
East Cambridge
Hyman Shulman
Shulman
Washington Street
James W. Pringle, Jr
Pringle
Alton H. Allen
Newtonville
Edna Blodgett
Waltham
Ruth Wiggin
Everett
Frank KE
Jeffrey
Concord Reformator
Joseph J. Gaffney
Watson
Gaffney
James
Manners
Bertha Eldredge
Woman on Visit Swallows Poison in Lynn Crisis
Despondent over domestic troubles, Mrs. Catherine Rawlins of 78 Central Avenue, Lynn, swallowed bichloride tablets last night while visiting her sister in law at the Algonquin House on Washington Street. She was taken to Lynn Hospital where her name was placed on the danger list.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Catherine Rawlins
Central Avenue
Lynn
Algonquin House
Washington Street
Lynn Hospital
Woman in Lynn Attempts Suicide by Hanging from Window
Mrs. Lesley Pearl Galzareth, 24, of the Littlefield building in Lynn, tried to end her life by hanging from a third floor window around 6 15 PM. Officers rescued her, she was revived at Lynn Hospital, then placed in custody at the Central police station awaiting mental examination. She later damaged a coffee cup in her cell while resisting restraint.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lesley Pearl Galzareth
Littlefield
Sutton and
Essex Streets
Lynn
Tral
Pavia Bartlett
Central
Bartlett
Casey and
Moore
Lodge
Galzaleth
Cordelia .Prazier
Court hearing highlights girl Miss Bertha Widredge girl of 17
Miss Bertha Widredge, nearly 17, visited Pringle during court hours and amid a courtroom crowd, attempting to steer him toward a straight life. The scene included a fist fight in the detention room dock between Pringle and witness Davis Finklestein as the trial unfolded. Pringle testified about relations with Shulman and handling stolen goods.
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Shulman
Pringle
Boston Common
William Sharton
Lowell
Bertha
Bertha Widredge
Court House
Lfe
Davis Finklestein
Concord Reformatory
Cheap Westbound Rail Tour Offer From C B Q
An advertisement promises cheap railroad tickets to the Far West and Northwest on the C B and Q line. It offers a free map and illustrated material showing destinations, and says the sender is paid by the railroad to provide information at no cost. Readers are urged to write for details and to request material.
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Ces Ats Bez
St. Seton Fal
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Pr. Coolidge
Lakeville
Simon Swig
Dr. Coolidge
Murphy
Coolidge
Thorndike
Committee On Banks and Banking
Frederick P. Fish
John A. Sullivan
Public Service Corporation
Charlestown
Hiere
Clark
Whipple
Gee
William T. McCarthy
Sudbury Street
Pringless
Big West
Northwest Country
Bostonia
Vorenbergs
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