Mayor Cuts Five From School Department Pay Rolls
Mayor Curley announced a roll back of city salaries, dropping five school department employees from service. The affected staff include Eva A. Duplessis, a stenographer, George H. Grueby, an inspector, Henry Pickering, an inspector, William P. O’Toole, superintendent of Plumbing, and Joshua B. Blair, an architect, with total annual salaries removed totaling 4490 dollars.
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Curley
Eva A. Duplessis
West Concord Street
George H. Grueby
West Rutland Street
Henry ©. Pickering
Ormond Street
William P. O'Toole
Washington Street
Joshua B. Blair
Bellevue Street
West Roxbury
Noiseless Pavement Planned for Back Bay Streets
Mayor Curley announced that Newbury and Marlboro Streets in Back Bay will be resurfaced with noiseless pavement. Residents reportedly urged the project, with near unanimous support cited by the mayor.
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Bach Bay
Curley
Newbury
Marlboro
Back Bay
Cambridge Plans Largest War Memorial for Daniel A. Haggerty
Plans in Cambridge direct a grand burial for Daniel Aloysius Haggerty with Montana arriving from Vera Cruz. The service will be at St Patrick's Church with Mass in the field canceled, state armory viewing, and a nine oclock funeral procession to Cambridge Cemetery. A final volley will salute the fallen marine as all city business halts for the tribute.
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Montana
New York
Vera Cruz
Cambridge
Daniel Aloysius Haggerty
Harding Street
Mayor Good
Naval
Cambridge Cemetery
Haggerty
Cambridge Field
St. Patrick's Church
Berkshire and
York Streets
John A. Butler
James I. Doherty
Joseph A. Barden
Boston Harbor
Trimountain
Haggerty House
York
Columbia Streets
Lafayette Square
Massachusetts Avenue
Harvard Square
Soldiers and Sailors
John J. Ryan
P. R
St. Paul's Church
Curley's Fire Hazard Law Sent to Hundreds
Mayor Curley proposed a new fire hazard law to prevent repeats of the Arcadia lodging house and Melvin apartment house fires. About 1000 copies were printed and distributed to the Finance Commission City Council members the Legislature Chamber of Commerce and Real Estate Exchange. The measure is described as the most drastic of its kind in many years.
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Curley
Arcadia
Melvin
Finance Commission
Chamber of Commerce
Real Estate Exchange
Post
Public service rivals waste money say city club head
Frederick P. Fish of the Boston City Club told the New England section of the National Electric Light Association that competition among public service firms is wasteful and harms the common people. He urged support for large public service corporations and warned against overregulation. A second speaker, Thomas Wilbur, shared stereoscopic scenes from the Mexican revolution.
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Frederick P. Fish
Boston City Club
New England
National Electric Light Association
New American House
Mr. Fish
Boston & Maine
New York
New Haven
Hartford
Fish
Thomas Wilbur
Mexico City
Hear Factory Side of Strike at Wakefield Hearing
Arbitration board will begin hearings Monday at 1 30 to hear Haywood Brothers and Wakefield Company management case. Wakefield Town Hall session featured operatives testimony as Bump and Wood preside. AFL mass meeting set for Sunday afternoon in union hall. IWW seeks permission for public meeting on the Common using the band stand. decision due Saturday.
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Wakefield
Arbitration Board of the Commonwealth
Haywood Brothers and Wakefield Company
Wakefield Town Hall
Bump
Wakefield Park Commission
W. W
Financing of Gould Road Fails Again in New York
May 8 report says Kuhn, Loeb & Co refused to extend Missouri Pacific railway 25 million three year notes due June 1. Directors held a special session as talks of new notes or extended terms with cash bonus emerged. Speyer & Co. expected to meet note holders while Gould entities weighed stock market weakness.
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New York
Gould
Kuhn, Loeb & Co
Missouri Pacific Railway
Kuhn, Loeb & Co’s
Missouri Pacific
Speyer & Co
Missouri Pacific Directory
One Dead Many Missing In Birmingham Fire
In Birmingham Alabama a deadly blaze at the Birmingham Railway Light and Power Company offices leaves one dead two dying and several missing. H H Kaiser died Moody Childers and a man named Smith were fatally injured after leaping from the top floor of the four story building. An explosion of a gas stove on the first floor caused the fire. Two women were seen in upper windows as flames rose and their fate is unknown.
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Birmingham
Ala
May S
Birmingham Railway Light & Power Company
H. H. Kaiser
Moody Childers
Smith
Mayor Asks Fitzgerald for Papers in City Inquiry
Mayor Curley urges ex Mayor Fitzgerald to return city papers and correspondence tied to concessions granted in parks and public grounds. The Finance Commission says some items were removed and lacks full access to facts. Fitzgerald claims his staff packed private papers and mixed items may be present. He accuses the Commission of neglecting lighting contracts worth millions.
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Fitzgerald
Curley
Finance Commission
City Hall
John F. Fitzgerald
Welles Avenue
Dorchester
James M. Curley
Picayune
May Breakfasts for Newton Hospital Promise Doubled Funds
Newton churches host May breakfasts to support Newton Hospital. Last year the fundraisers raised over 2500 dollars and the organizing committee hopes to double the amount this year with events planned across the community.
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Newton Hospital
Newton
Neal Institute morphine cure praised by physician patient
An unsolicited physician letter extols the Neal Treatment for morphine and other drugs, claiming eight years of daily drug use ended with a painless withdrawal. The doctor describes prior addiction to morphine cocaine and whiskey and reports quick conviction in the method.
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Neal
Neal Institute
Newbury ST
Boston
Back Bay
Worthington St
Springfield
Morgans Visit Son's Fiancée in Boston
John Pierpont Morgan and his wife traveled from New York to Boston to meet Miss Louise Converse of Lime Street fiancé to their son Junius Morgan. The visit at Copley Plaza coincided with a Harvard board of overseers meeting, and Morgan attempted secrecy before his identity became known.
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John Pierpont Morgan
Boston
Louise Converse
Lime Street
Morgan
New York
Harvard Board of Overseers
Miss Converse
Junius §. Morgan
Harvard
Mr. Morgan
Young Morgan
Morgans
Tragedy at New Lenox: Man Killed by Train
Joseph Tumas 29 died when he ran onto railroad tracks on the New York New Haven and Hartford line near New Lenox. Witnesses say he threw himself onto the ground and placed his head on a rail as a train approached.
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Pittsfield
Joseph Tumas
New York, New Haven and Hartford
New Lenox
Tumas
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