Labor Leaders Criticize Inaction by Boston Post Office Officials
President John A. Kelley of Boston Local National Federation of Post Office Clerks criticized local postoffice officials at a meeting held at 724 Washington Street. He denounced inaction and lack of support to grievances, noting a year end report and ongoing indecision since last December due to inspectors' investigations.
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John A. Kelley
Boston
National Federation Postoffice Clerks
Washington Street
Postoffice
Kelley
Boston Post Office
Local post office debated as officials seek speedy department decision
Local officials report they were barred from making recommendations to Washington until the department advised. Six months elapse, indecision lingers as a committee visits Postmaster Baker to press for a fast inspectors report decision. National Vice-President Murphy reports on relief for night work and cites Congress support. Officers installed include Kelley as president and Murphy as trustee.
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Boston
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Congress
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Murphy
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Trades Auxiliary Whist Parties Planned at Ancient Landmark Hall
Members of the Printing Trades Auxiliary announce two whist parties at Ancient Landmark Hall 3 Boylston Place. The first is this afternoon and the second on May 22 from 2:30 to 4:30. Proceeds aid the auxiliary publicity drive. Committee: Mary J. McCarthy, Mary L. Kagan, Kathryn Deery.
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Printing Trades Auxiliary
Ancient Landmark Hall
Boylston Place
Mary J. McCarthy
Mary L. Kagan
Kathryn Deery
Women Are Like That starts in Boston Sunday Post Magazine
Bernice Brown introduces an enjoyable series beginning with stories of interest in the Boston Sunday Post Magazine. The feature titled Women Are Like That promises engaging vignettes exploring social roles and opinions.
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Bernice Brown
Boston Sunday Post
Two Holdups Near the Public Garden
Police investigated two early morning robberies near Commonwealth Avenue involving the Engineers' Club basement at 2 Commonwealth Avenue. Night watchman Warl L. Freeman was struck and bound, later diagnoed with head injuries. Joseph Paul Tayne of 91 Elm Street Charlestown was beaten and robbed after reporting a confrontation with two men and a gang.
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Joseph Paul Tayne
Elm Street
Charlestown
Burke
Tayne
Freeman
John D. Owens
Smith Street
West Newton
City Hospital
John Sullivan
Sullivan
Reservoir Street
Cambridge
Wendell
Arlington Street
Hub broker ends life by hanging on Devonshire street
A hub broker on Devonshire Street ended his life by hanging after tying a clothesline around his neck and leaping from a second floor railing.
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Boston brokerage firm suspended amid bankruptcy and death
Elizabeth Haskell found her father dead at home as Chas. H. Tyler notified police. Medical Examiner Durrell ruled the death self inflicted. The Haskell brokerage firm and Henry Nichols were suspended from the Boston Stock Exchange and the New York Curb. Federal Judge Morton appointed Robert A. Jordan receiver after creditors claimed 24000. Examination of firm records shows no immediate cause found.
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Porter Street
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Henry G. Nichols
Salem
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Robert A. Jordan
Boston
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London Times praises Harvey as ambassador to Britain
The Times runs a special article on George Harvey’s first year as American ambassador at the Court of St James. It lauds his efforts to ease Anglo American misunderstandings and notes his speeches dispelling illusions while aligning with President Harding’s policy.
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Harding
Woman ordained to the ministry in small Rhode Island town
Pascoag Rhode Island May 14 The first woman to be ordained in the Methodist Church in any conference was Mrs Alice Haire now the Rev Alice Haire of Centre Primitive Methodist Church Block Island. She came to America in 1918 and had preached since age 15. Her husband John Haire and son Victor attended the ceremony.
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Primitive Methodist Church
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Methodist Church
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Mill Town
Alice Haire
Centre Primitive Methodist Church
Block Island
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B. Humphries
Billerica
Matthews
J. Proude
Brooklyn
N. Y
Haire
Elizabeth Rigby
Primitive Methodist Arch
England
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America
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Victor
Maple syrup from brewery vats touted by New York farmers
Brewery vats once faded from use may revive via experiments in making maple syrup. Haffenreffer brewery in Roxbury reports success using maple sugar from Vermont farmers, producing a genuine syrup preferred over market substitutes. Syracuse breweries are also being used by farmers to reintroduce real syrup.
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Theodore G. Haffenreffer
Vermont
Syracuse Breweries
Woman Minister Delivers Mothers Day Sermon in Lexington
The Rev. Anita Trueman Pickett of Woburn preached The Modern Mother at Fellow Universalist Church in East Lexington yesterday morning. Her husband, Rev. Harold L. Pickett, heads the Universalist church in Woburn and formerly led the Last Lexington parish where she spoke. A Mothers Day anthem was sung by the church quartet with violin accompaniment by Miss Phillis Shipp.
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Woburn
Fellow Unitarian Church
East Lexington
First Woman Ordained in Primitive Methodist Church
In Pascoage a crowded service marked history as Mrs. Haire and A. M. Butterfield became the church’s first women ordained. Delegates from the Eastern Conference witnessed the laying on of hands after an ordination sermon, reinforcing the church’s doctrine of gender equality.
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Methuen
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Lowell
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Lonsdale
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New Bedford
Haltre
Methodist Church
Twelve year old struck by car in South Boston
Arthur O'Brien aged 12 of 7 Blake Terrace South Boston was seriously injured last evening after being struck and knocked down by an automobile opposite 68 Dorchester Avenue. The car was driven by Leomas Hammond of 46 Liberty Street Revere.
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Arthur O’brien
Blake Terrace
Boston
Dorchester Avenue
Leomas Hammond
Liberty Street
Revere
Hatfield Funeral Held At Cambridge Home
Funeral services for Adolphus Hatfield who died of heart failure at his Cambridge home will be held Tuesday afternoon at 2 30 at the residence Interment will be in Cambridge cemetery.
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Adolphus Hatfield
Humboldt-street
Cambridge
Passion Play Revived in Bavarian Village After 1910
The Highlanders of a Bavarian village staged the Passion Play for the first time since 1910 drawing about 4000 spectators. The revival followed a period of war and aligned with conferences in Washington and Genoa.
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Sion
Christ
Washington
Genoa
Oberammergau Passion Play Draws World Leaders For Peace View
Washington and Genoa figures discussed reconstruction of goodwill while Oberammergau hosts the season pilgrimage to witness the passion play. Anton Lang praises the play as a peace catalyst and a basis for better international understandings amid villagers’ decades old devotion since 1633. Thousands visit the town for the event and its scenic surroundings influence observers.
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Genoa
Four Corners
Christendom
Oberammergau
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Christ
Lang
Passion Play Opens as Oberammergau Concludes Cast Funeral
The Oberammergau season begins with the last mass for Anton Mayr the Thomas from the Passion Play cast who died after catching a cold while rehearsing. His funeral was held yesterday as Americans and others fill the audience while locals billet visitors and readiness crews stand by.
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Thomas
Mayr
Cigarette Boom Fueled by Wartime Demand
The article reports a sharp rise in tobacco use in the United States with more than 50 million smokers rising yearly. It notes Uncle Sam’s nephews and nieces among heavy smokers and cites Internal Revenue Bureau figures. It also mentions World War I boosting cigarette popularity and tobacco consumption, while the county simultaneously grows one third of world tobacco production and consumes two thirds.
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Internal Revenue Bureau
Richard
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