Paving Item Shut Down In City Budget Battle
City Council struck out a 59 983 budget item for bitulithic paving on Commonwealth avenue amid charges of restricted bids. Dillon said Timilty would supply and lay the material, with plans to reopen bidding after a special appropriation is sought. Granolithic sidewalks on Columbia road were also in the item.
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Dillon
Park and Recreation Commission
Commonwealth Avenue
Bitulithic
Central Construction Company
James P. Timilty
Timilty
Warren Bros
Columbia Road
Lost agility athlete sues for damages after elevator fall
Percival R. Waters former amateur athlete sues owners Charles E. Cotting and Fr Adams for 15000 dollars claiming injuries from an elevator accident in the Paddock Building 101 Tremont Street on July 9 1915. Waters 33 says he could run 100 yards in 11 seconds and jump distances before the crash.
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Tremont Street
Percival R. Waters
Waters
Charles E. Cotting
Fr. Adams
Paddock
Hamlin Wins Damages Over Tenean Beach Land Sale
Edward Hamlin president of the Metropolitan Coal Company wins a $32 456 46 verdict against the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in a Superior Court jury trial. The suit sought damages for land taken at Tenean Beach for Neponset Boulevard construction by the State.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Hamlin
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Stevens
Superior Court
Metropolitan Coal Company
Tenean Beach
Neponset Boulevard
83 Year-Old Hampton Man Hangs Self
Richard Price, an 83 year old Hampton resident, killed himself by hanging from a tree near his home. He was found by his granddaughter and had lived alone for some time amid despondency.
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Hampton
Hampton, N. Y
Richard Price
Somerville Denies Liquor Pony Express Licenses
Somerville remains dry as the board weighs 21 petitions for liquor licenses. Mayor Cliff ordered Police Chief Kendall to stop liquor expressmen until licenses are decided. all licenses of this class expired last Saturday. A public hearing is set for Monday evening in the aldermanic chamber.
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SomerVille
Pony Express
Board of Aldermen
Cliff
Kendall
Aldermanic Chamber
Prisoner from Elmira Hat Leads to Fall River Robbery
Joseph Montpelier of Providence wearing an Elmira reformatory hat was arrested in Boston with a suitcase showing $800 in silver watches and silks tied to the Fall River burglary of 237 Eagle Street. Montpelier gave false Providence addresses, was detained by Boston inspectors, and is to be arraigned in Fall River's Second District Court.
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Joseph Montpelier
Providence
R. I
Reformatory
Elmira
N. Y
Boston
Hart
Conway
All River
South End
McGarr
Montpelier
Armstrong
Ilmira
Joseph Lamoth
Eagle Street
Fall River
O'Brien
Second District
Compulsory Physical Education Talk by Mrs Storrow
Mrs James J Storrow spoke before the Special Aid Society at 801 Boylston Street on compulsory physical education and preparedness in properly cooking food during emergencies.
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James J. Storrow
Special Aid Society
Boylston Street
Mousme of the Japanese Toy Shop at East Boston High
East Boston High School hosted Mousme of the Japanese Toy Shop a three act musical play by Mabel M Swan under the Home Club with Beulah S Cone Helen Hodgkins directing over 40 members participated. Performances featured five speaking roles and dances including Tokio dolls a Japanese fan drill and a Topsy dance with solo and chorus numbers by May Hodson Evelyn Albee Isabel Wetherell Sacha Allen Janet Graves Edith Goodwin and Leila Crocker.
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Hirome Club
East Boston
Hgh
Gladys Rollins
Beulah Allen
Viola Allen
Blanche Hinds
Effie Cornfoot
Theresa Wehrle
Elizabeth Wehrle
Ruth Hodgkins
Martha Bausch
Alice Dow
Isabel Simpson
Elsie Hannington
Lelia Dagnio
Home Club
Mabel M. Swan
Elizabeth W. Pigeon
Beulah Scott Godfrey
Beulah S. Cone
Helen Hodgkins
Mousme
Beulah S&s. Cone
Evelyn C. Smith
Tokey
Alice M. Dickeer
Grace M. Strong
Kioto
New York
Deathbed confession spurs will contest in Crosby case
Miss Maud F. Crosby a longtime Lawrence School District teacher in South Boston disclosed on her deathbed plans to wed in California. In a Supreme Judicial Court hearing relatives challenge her will claiming lack of sound mind and undue influence by Dr. Herbert J. Keenan and Wilfred B. Keenan. McGeough executor testified about Crosby’s remarks. Crosby died in January 1916 after making two wills in 1915.
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Maud F. Crosby
Lawrence
Boston
California
Supreme Judicial Court
Herbert J. Keenan
Boston School Board
Wilfred B. Keenan
McGeough
Miss Crosby
South Boston Girls Club Holds Dance for 509 Couples
Secretary John J. Murphy acting for Mayor Curley led city and state officials at a South Boston Girls' Club dance in the municipal building. The event drew 509 couples in a festive community gathering.
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South Boston Girls’ Club
John J. Murphy
Curley
South Boston
New Haven Freight Handlers Strike Walks Off Piers 4 and 5
More than 100 freight handlers employed by the New Haven railroad at Piers 4 and 5 quit work yesterday morning. They had been strike breakers during last fall’s dispute and demanded 2.50 dollars per day and 30 cents an hour for night work. Police were called as a precaution, and workers were escorted to South Station. Some returned to work by noon as management expected full staffing by afternoon.
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New Haven Railroad
Northern Avenue
May Festival Plans At Boston College May 9
A May festival lunch and lecture are planned by the Philetmen Club at Boston College University Heights. Mrs Edwin Arthur Shuman will preside with committees led by Mrs Dennis Fk Sheehan hospitality and Mrs Charles Mooney decorations. A lecture by Rev Michael Jessup S J vice president of the college is set for Wednesday May 17 at Boston College.
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Mathean Club
Boston College
University Heights
Edwin Arthur Shuman
Engineers’ Club
Dennis Fk. Sheehan
Charles Mooney
James J. Scully
Vincent Roberts
John P. Reed
Thomas Atkinson
William Ruddick
Harriet Cunningham
H. D. Lyons
Martha Moore Avery
James . T. McGarry
Connell Ward
John Wiggen
John P. Feeney
Cassidy
Edward J. Brandon
Dennis J. Mahoney
David Corcoran
John F. Fitzgerald
L. J. Mullin
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van Loon
Council
Relief Bureau
Massachusetts
Grand Lodge
Knights of Pythias
Ford Hall
Resolutions Committee
Pythian Relief Bureau
Roger Sherman York
St. Dr. York
George K. Howe
John J. Brown
Vandalia
Ill
F. A. Whittaker
Vermont
George Hazletine
New Hampshire
Ilarlan P. Knight of
SOC
Russettyle
Cors & Stodder
School St
Fast Boston
Man
America
Maine
Alaska
Walter H. Woods Company
Washington St
Willi
Mary Curtis Clark
Bickerstaff St
Mass
Charles H. Chase
Newton St
Faneuil
Watertown Arsenal
Phono-Pneumo
Huntington Ave
Mechanics Building
A. S. Gibson
M.D
Borvisten St
B. C
Philomathean Club
The
Philo
Morse
Wash
Sir
Adams Cor
Brattle & Ld
TA Square
New England
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