Girl 16 Foils Boy in Suicide Attempt at Boston Bridge
Esther Schnitzer, 16, of West End, leaped from the Boston end of the Harvard Bridge into the Charles Basin in a death bid sparked by a family quarrel with her father. A 10 year old boy alerted rescuers who reached her as police pulled her from the water. She survived and was taken to Massachusetts General Hospital with her father watching by her bedside through the night.
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Esther Schnitzer
Spring Street
West End
Boston
Boston Bridge
Charles Basin
Otris Schnitzer
Sughreve
Joy Street Ton
Michael Sullivan
Metropolitan Police
Hyman Rosenthal
Miss Knitzer
Mechanic Arts High School Reorganized By School Board
The School Board voted to convert Mechanic Arts High School into a training school for industrial foremen and superintendents. It also opened a new school for girl clerks and allowed modern dances at school parties, despite opposition from the Boston Central Labor Union.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston Central Labor Union
Mechanic Arts High School
Boston School Board to Reorganize Mechanic Arts High
Chairman George Brock plans a hearing for labor leaders before mapping a new course of study at Mechanic Arts High School. The 22 year old plant valued at 1 million dollars will shift from a manual training focus to a scientifically oriented industrial training program guided by Professor Prosser. Headmaster Charles W. Parmenter will remain, with staff, to implement the changes amid labor input and chamber of commerce backing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Brock
Mechanic Arts High School
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Worcester Polytechnic School
Brock
Charles W. Parmenter
Parmenter
Brook
Charles A. Prosser
National Society For the Promotion of Industrial Education
Boston Chamber of Commerce
Prosser
Boston Central Labor Union
Boston Federal Reserve Bank to Open Within Sixty Days
Officials from English banks and Boston financial leaders announce the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston will open within sixty days. The site and nine directors are not yet chosen, pending Federal Reserve Board completion by the President.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston Federal Reserve Bank
Boston Clerical School Opens For Girls At Roxbury High
The Boston Clerical School will open September 8 at Roxbury High School, offering two divisions for bookkeepers and clerks and for stenographers. Several longtime teachers retired with pensions, tuition rates for nonresident pupils rising across schools, and Latin entrance exams rescheduled to June 5. Mt Hope district will not be set off as a separate school district.
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Business College
Commercial School
Commercial College
Boston
Roxbury High School
Boys High School of Commerce
Emerette O. Patch
Mary C. Howard
Hyde Park
Alonzo Reserve
Bewdoin
Jane M. Bullard
Shurtleff
Mt. Hope
Mrs Storrow Recalls Two Month Horseback Trip
Mrs James J Storrow described a two months trek through Arizona and Colorado to 40 members of Boston Women’s City Club at the Mayflower Club Park Street She wore a corduroy riding skirt flannel shirt and sombrero and shared photos of her route plus scenes of the Painted Desert Grand Canyon Navajo and Hopi life The talk preceded plans for stereopticon slides and a fall club program.
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James J. Storrow
Women’s City Club of
Boston
Arizona
Colorado
Mayflower Club
Park Street
Women's Club
Painted Desert
Grand Canyon
Arlington physician injured in car overturn on Pleasant street
Dr. R. H. Meikle of Arlington Heights was seriously hurt when his car overturned after a tire blew on Pleasant street. He was unconscious at times, later regaining consciousness briefly as doctors treated him at his home.
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R. H. Meikle
Arlington Heights
Pleasant Street
Arlington
Federal Reserve Bank Project Set Through Five New England Banks
The certificate of incorporation was executed yesterday by five New England banks named by the reserve organization committee. The document moves to Washington for acceptance and, after stockholders elect directors, control passes to a local Boston board. The bank aims to aid other banks in emergencies and issue money backed by merchant paper, with a small customer base initially.
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New England
Reserve Bank Organization Committee
First Bridgeport
National Bank of Bridgeport
Conn
Charles G. Stanford
O. H. Brothwell
Casco National Bank of Portland
Fred N. Dow
John H. Davis
National Shawmut Bank of Boston
William A. Gaston
Benjamin Joy
First National Bank of Concord
N. H
William M. Chase
C. W. Brewster
National Bank of Commerce
Providence
R. I
C. Prescott Knight
Henry L. Wilcox
Organization Committee
Washington
Boston Bank
Federal Reserve Bank
Gaston
Captain King Dies After Boston Fire Duty
Captain Benjamin King who led out-of-town firemen during the great Boston fire of 1872 died at his Wollaston home. He had suffered heart pains for days and collapsed after breakfast as Dr. C S Adams found him dead.
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Benjamin King
Boston
Highland Avenue
Wollaston
Captain King
C. S. Adams
King
Captain King A Boston Fireman Hero Of 19th Century Service
Captain King born in Boston on August 4 1832 started as a fireman on the Boston and Worcester railroad. He survived being pinned under a locomotive, fought for months, and later worked 54 years in railroad shops. He retired in 1902 with a purse from the railroad and was a charter member of the Boston Veteran Fireman's Association. He led Hose 2 in the Cove district and helped command out of town forces in the 1872 Brown Durrell fire amid an equine epidemic.
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Captain King
Boston
Boston & Worcester Railroad
Brookline
Boston Veteran Fireman's Association
Hudson Street
Cove
King
Regan
Brown-Durrell
Patrolmen Exonerated By O Meara In McManus Arrest
The long dispute over the December 10 arrest of Representative P. Joseph McManus in Adams Square ends with Patrolmen Herbert W. Andrews and Timothy J. Kelley found not guilty by Police Commissioner O Meara.
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P. Joseph McManus
Adams Square
O'Meara
Herbert W. Andrews
Timothy J. Kelley
Mr. MelManus
Commissioner clears officers in assault case against McManus
The commissioner ruled the violence charges against the former officer were not substantiated by testimony and noted officers believed if the case against the representative was dropped, all proceedings against them would end. McManus was arrested for drunkenness. Judge Murray soon found him not guilty and discharged him.
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McManus
Murray
Andrews
Kelley
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Little Hero
Charles
Pelee
N. Sallinger
Peoples Credit Co
Waltham, Elgin
Howard, Hamilton and
Imilinois
Washington St
Boston ‘Penvenings
Westminster Street
Louis Supply Co
Washington Street
Dyer
W. H. Chase
Portland
W. A. Gaston
National Conn
C. P. Knight
W. H. Davis
W. F. Ager
C. R. Ruggles
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Regional Bank
Thomas
Jason Weiler & Son
America
Tiffany
Antwerp
Paris
Mrs. Storrow
Trip
G. O. Taylor
Penn
Bromfield St
Fort Hill
Boston Representatives of Florists’ Telegraph Delivery Association
Quincy
O’meara
Shaman Clothing
Shuman
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