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Newspaper

Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

May 15, 1915

Page

2

Larger Navy Is Needed at Navy League Dinner

New York May 14 Advocacy of a larger navy dominated tonight's Navy League dinner for Atlantic fleet officers. Speakers including Colonel Robert M. Thompson urged increased material support and preparedness, while Franklin D. Roosevelt and Admiral Fletcher warned against complacency and isolation.

New York Navy League Robert M. Thompson Army Navy Germany White House Franklin D. Roosevelt Congress Haiti Fletcher

Porters call for larger navy and Abbott on government role

General Horace Porter argued for a bigger navy citing failed treaties and The Hague agreements as mere scraps. Dr Lyman Abbott expressed disappointment that appeals to reason have not yet prevented international disputes.

Horace Porter Hague Lyman Abbott

Sham Fight on Boston Common Rousing Cavalry Rendezvous

Troop A Lancers First Squadron of Cavalry M V M held its annual field drill on Boston Common attracting several thousand spectators. In uniform with rifles, they staged a mock battle targeting a hill by the Soldiers' Monument and, after a brisk skirmish, captured the hill amid cheers.

Boston Common Lancers

Man Loses Hand In Accident At Amory Street Shop

Timothy Ryan aged 32 of 221 Dudley Street had his right hand severed when a heavy trip-hammer fell in the Tri Mount Wrench Company workshop on Amory Street yesterday afternoon.

Timothy Ryan Dudley Street Trimount Wrench Company Amory Street

Telephone company disputes labor law charge at exchanges

New England Telephone and Telegraph Company answers the State Commission of Labor and Industry disputing claims of labor law violations in certain exchanges. The case hinges on whether extraordinary emergency and extraordinary public requirement justify the company’s actions.

New England Telephone & Telegraph Company State Commission of Labor and Industry

Telephone Operators Debate Work Hours and Laws

The commission reviews findings from a week ago that declared operators working 6 pm to midnight and resting in company rooms were on duty. Telephone officials argue no law violation under Chapter 494 of 1911 and Chapter 758 of 1913 and 1918, citing extraordinary emergency exemptions and requiring written reports to the State Board of Labor and Industries.

Commission State Board of Labor and Industries

Sign Petition for L. M. Frank Gain Momentum in Boston

Boston leaders including ex-Governor John L. Bates and Mayor Curley joined a petition to Governor Slaton of Georgia urging clemency for Leo M. Frank sentenced to death in Atlanta for the Mary Phagan murder. The group also sent letters urging executive clemency and a chance to prove innocence.

Leo M. Frank Atlanta Mary Phagan John L. Bates Curley Frank

Miss Lawlor to Wed Chelsea Police Officer

Miss Ida Mae Lawlor of Crescent avenue Chelsea will marry David J. Hickey a Chelsea police officer. The wedding is set for June 20 at her home 57 Crescent avenue Chelsea.

Miss Lawlor Chelsea Ida Mae Lawlor Crescent Avenue David J. Hickey Catholic Women’s Guild St. Rose’s Church

Man Sleeps in Two Cities Poole Case Stirs Everett Revere

Joseph R Poole of Haskell avenue Everett Revere straddles city lines sleeping and eating across Everett and Revere The Everett Board of Assessors and the school board weigh where his residency lies with a line running through his bay window The decision lands with city solicitor General Leroy Sweetser and local officials as Poole quarrels over his true home location and school assignment.

Poole Everett Revere Joseph R. Poole Haskell Avenue Everett- Revere E. Leroy Sweetser Chelsea Everett Board of Assessors Wilson Joseph, Jr Webster School

Sunday Talks to Women in Paterson Tabernacle

Billy Sunday delivers a heart to heart talk to twenty two thousand women in Paterson New Jersey. He denounces society’s treatment of motherhood and warns against premarital sex and shallow marriages while urging moral purity and reform through education and personal responsibility.

Paterson N. J Billy Sunday Society New York New Jersey Tabernacle Hospital Tabernacle France Charnel America Earth

Statistics of the Paterson Campaign

Attendance totals show 11 500 in the afternoon and 11 000 in the evening for a day total of 22 500 with cumulative 623 700. Charity collections for the Pas saic County Children's Home reach 543.42, campaign expenses 29 710.94, and overall totals 35 449 38. Converts counted 259 afternoon and 281 evening, day total 540, with grand converts 14 161 to date.

Passaic County Children's Home

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