House Rejects 32 Measures Killing State Highway Funds
The Massachusetts House voted in about an hour to defeat 32 appropriation bills, mostly for highway construction, halting a $1,500,000 tax increase. Leaders Warner of Taunton and Lomasney of Boston drove a united front across party lines, including Governor McCall’s project to duplicate the John Hancock house.
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Ways and Means
Representative Warner
Taunton
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Warner
Lomasney
Boston
McCall
John Hancock
State House
Cox
Governor Praises House and Ways and Means Committee
Governor McCall expressed appreciation for the House and Chairman Warner and the ways and means committee. He said the House has not shown a more patriotic stand in his legislative experience and noted his own John Hancock house measure should be rejected for now.
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Ways and Means Committee
McCall
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Railroad chiefs confer with General Edwards on war mobilization
New England railroad leaders from Boston & Maine New York New Haven Hartford Maine Central and Boston & Albany met General Edwards commander of the Northeastern Department to discuss war systematization of trunk and feeder lines and mobilization sites for the first New England quota. Edwards will tour the region from the Maine border to Connecticut along main lines.
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General Edwards
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Edwards
Maine-Canada
Connecticut
James H. Hustis
Boston & Maine
Edward J. Pearson
New York, New Haven & Hartford
Morris McDonald
Maine Central
Howard M. Biscoe
Boston & Albany
Council of National Defence
Mullen Removes Five Of Glenwood Cemetery Trustees
Everett Mayor dismisses five of six Glenwood Cemetery trustees for allowing burials of non residents. Horace A. Derry remains as cemetery superintendent and sole remaining trustee.
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Mullen
Everett
Glenwood Cemetery
Glenwood
Horace A. Derry
Painter Killed by Falling Roof Hook in Holbrook
Parker Rogers, a Brockton painter, was killed when an iron roof hook fell and struck him on the head in Holbrook today. The accident occurred this afternoon as workers repaired a roof, and Rogers was pronounced dead at the scene.
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Painter
Miss Dorothy Whipple Engaged to Harvard Senior
Miss Dorothy Whipple eldest daughter of Sherman L. Whipple of Clydehurst Brookline was engaged to Russell Thurston Fry a Harvard senior and son of Mr and Mrs Thomas W Fry of Claremont New Hampshire The announcement came early because Fry reports to Plattsburg on Monday Fry held roles with Harvard Glee Club Crimson and Speakers Club Delta Upsilon Signet Hasty Pudding D K E Institute of 1770 Stylus and managed Yale Yale Glee Club warbler style song earlier by Whipple two years ago wrote The Flag of Blue for Yale for the Harvard Yale game
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Clydehurst
Brookline
Whipple
Russell Thurston Fry
Harvard
Thomas W. Fry
Claremont
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Fry
Harvard R. O. T. C
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Hasty Pudding
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Stylus
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Speakers’ Club
Rug Plant Fire Damages Canal Street Building
A fire at the rug plant of 1 8S Mann, 90 Canal Street, damaged the fourth and fifth floors, with losses estimated at 50 000 dollars. It threatened the district, displaced three families, and halted trolley traffic while causing extensive smoke and water damage to nearby firms including Leopold Morse and A Mc Arthur Co.
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Mann
Canal Street
Leopold Morse
A. McArthur & Co
Device to cut deafness from heavy gun detonation
Chicago May 10 A small aluminum ear valve invented by Professor Albert Michael son of the University of Chicago Nobel Physics Prize winner reduces deafness from heavy gun detonations. A spring keeps the valve open for ordinary sounds and it automatically closes for loud blasts. It has been tested at Fort Sheridan.
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Chicago
Albert Michaelson
University of Chicago
Fort Sheridan
Bull Rampant Sparks $4000 Suit in Suffolk Superior Court
Julius Brodsky of Boston sues Parefsky and Co Inc for $4000 alleging injuries from being knocked down by a bull on February. The action was filed yesterday in Suffolk Superior Court.
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Suffolk Superior Court
Julius Brodsky
Boston
Parefsky & Co., Inc
Brodsky
Injury by Bull on Premises at 18 Abattoir Brighton
A man lawfully on the defendant’s premises at 18 Abattoir Brighton was struck by a large bull that ran at him and injured his head face and body while he acted properly. The incident describes the animal’s attack and the resulting injuries.
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Brighton
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