Blaze Scares Office Girls at Tremont Street Office
A fire caused by cigarette carelessness started in a waste basket in the Pilgrim Specialty Company office on the 10th floor of the Kimbal building at 10 Tremont Street. Miss Marion Donovan narrowly escaped as flames jumped toward her desk and set off the smoke alarm, causing a still alarm and about 100 dollars in damage to office fixtures.
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Kimbal
Tremont Street
Pilgrim Specialty Company
Marion Donovan
Doctor Stevens to be tried in Middlesex Court
Dr Michael M Stevens of Woburn under indictment for manslaughter in the death of Grace M Logue. The case, based on an autopsy and investigation, will be tried at East Cambridge court next Monday with Assistant District Attorney Charles W Blood prosecuting.
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Michael M. Stevens
Woburn
Middlesex County
Grace M. Logue
East Cambridge Court
Miss Logue
Dr. Stevens
Charles W. Blood
Diamonds Seized From Light Socket on Night Express
Customs officers stopped the night express at Rouses Point and seized 40 diamonds valued at about 200000 hidden in a Pullman car lamp socket. Two men, Louis Lever and Victor Zerville of Philadelphia, were arrested and jailed in Plattsburg. One carried a passport showing recent Europe travel. a second wooden leg was searched with no concealments found.
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Burlington
Rouse's Point
Boston
New York
Louis Lever
Victor Zerville
Philadelphia
Clinton County
Plattsburg
Sabrina the goddess statue tours Amherst field scene
Sabrina, famed goddess of the even year classes at Amherst College, appeared at Pratt Field as the Amherst Cornell baseball game ran. Guarded by F. R. Clark and P. M. Long, the statue rode in a baggage car on the Boston and Maine line, then sped away, evading the crowd. Sabrina had been held by the odd classes for 24 years before capture in 1920 and was recaptured by the even classes last year at Litchfield.
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Amherst
Sabrina
Amherst College
Pratt Field
F. R. Clark
Boston
P. M. Long
Lancaster
Maine
Litchfield
Conn
Stabbing Case Ends With 30 Day House of Correction Sentence
In Concord on May 16 Judge Prescott Keys sentenced Mrs. Hattie Webb of Grove Street North Lexington to 30 days in the House of Correction after the charge was reduced from assault with a dangerous weapon to simple assault. The incident occurred May 8 when Webb allegedly stabbed her husband Henry L. Webb while he slept. Webb was hospitalized at Symmes Arlington but attended court in a weakened condition.
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Concord
Hattie Webb
Grove Street
Lexington
Henry L. Webb
District Court
Prescott Keys
Webb
Symmes Arlington Hospital
Riverway to bloom with 3000 new plants in Fenway
Mayor Curley ordered the Park Commission to plant 3000 rhododendrons kalmias and azaleas along the Riverway from Brookline to Huntington Avenue. The Muddy River banks near Simmons College and Notre Dame Academy will see azaleas kaempferia and salmon merging on red as blooms follow.
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Brookline
Huntington Avenue
Fenway
Curley
Park Commission
Simmons College
Notre Dame Academy
Union Case May Develop At Adjustment Board Meeting
The suspension of three chief operators from New England Telephone at Roxbury South Boston and Granite exchanges for alleged inaccuracies in pegging accounts will be considered by the adjustment board this afternoon. Anna Burke Miles Katherine C Walsh and Miss J W Sullivan are under indefinite suspension pending investigation. If other clerks and operators join, the issue may become a full union case before the board.
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New England Telephone & Telegraph Co
Roxbury
South Boston
Granite
Quincy
Adjustment Board
Boston Telephone Operators’ Union
Anna Burke
South Boston Exchange
Miles Katherine C. Walsh
J. W. Sullivan
Roxbury Exchange
Forest Fires Believed Set in Massachusetts
Massachusetts suffered 2500 spring forest fires costing five lives and 36 000 acres burned along with 70 buildings and 190 275 dollars in losses. Commissioner Bazeley and Fire Marshal Neal attribute many fires to incendiaries and unemployed workers, with windmatch cited as another cause. most fires resulted from careless burning, smokers, and children.
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Massachusetts
William A. L. Bazeley
George C. Neal
Bazeley
City quarters for war vets move to city buildings
Mayor Curley announced after a meeting with Superintendent Kneeland that all unoccupied city buildings may provide quarters for veteran groups including American Legion posts. The plan extends the Civil War and Spanish-American War veterans’ spaces to World War veterans under a 1820 act permitting habitable meeting rooms for ex service members.
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American Legion
Curley
Fred Kneeland
Composer Harry H. Williams Dies in Oakland
Harry H. Williams, noted composer and motion picture director, died in Oakland after a brief illness. He wrote popular songs including In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree and I'm Afraid to Go Home in the Dark.
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Oakland
Calif
Harry H. Williams
Theolog y Graduates Face Plentiful Openings in Boston
Boston theological schools report June graduates will have three job options each far surpassing other fields in early postwar market. Classes are large, shortages in many denominations noted as war hysteria ends and Americans pursue wealth less.
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Greater Boston
Ministers Move to Lucrative Pulpits Amid Salary Rise
The report notes higher salaries across denominations, especially in Unitarian and Episcopal churches. Ministers are described as shifting from other pulpits to the more lucrative ones, creating vacancies for graduates entering the ministry.
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Unitarian
Episcopal
Old Offender Sentenced
David Bayley age 26 of 76 Village Street was sentenced in connection with the case. Proceedings indicate a conviction and penalty imposed by the court.
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David Bayley
Village Street
South End Morphine Seller Sentenced to Six Months
Police say the defendant is a longtime offender. Judge Murray sentenced him to six months in the House of Correction in Municipal Court for selling two drams of morphine to a police agent.
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South End
House of Correction
Murray
Eugene P. Nute Dead in Farmington New Hampshire
Eugene P. Nute 70 died suddenly in Farmington New Hampshire tonight. He was for 16 years A S Marshal for the district of New Hampshire and a former prominent shoe manufacturer in the town.
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Farmington
N. H
Eugene P. Nute
District of
New Hampshire
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Mu Ustar
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Framingham
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Jack Rose Motor
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