Flowers to Be Auctioned Off at Salvation Army Rally
Leading actors and actresses from Froston theatres will auction 50,000 flowers at a Liberty Hall rally on Boston Common this morning to aid the Salvation Army drive. Governor Coolidge and Mayor Peters are invited to attend as florists pledge proceeds to the fund. The Florists Association of Boston organized Tuesday night aims to broaden flower use and improve distribution while supporting subscriptions. Henry Penn was elected president with officers including William H. Elliott, William C. Stickel, Elijah De Gorney, and Frank Edgar.
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Salvation Army
Liberty Hall
Boston Common
Florists’ ‘Association of Boston
Coolidge
Peters
Salvation Army Fund
Boston
Florists’ Association
Florists
Greater
Parker House
Sailor Ryan
Harry Manniff
Henry Penn
William H. Elliott
Brighton
William C. Stickel
Lexington
Elijah Dc. Gorney
Frank Edgar
Waverley
Cobbler arraigned on mail gun charge in federal case
Salvatore Campesi a West Newton cobbler was arraigned before a United States commissioner on a charge of sending a loaded automatic revolver through the mails to a Lawrence man. The weapon allegedly slipped from a parcel post package. He pleaded not guilty and was held in $1000 for a hearing later.
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Salvatore Campesi
West Newton
United States
Lawrence
Smoking Cars Debut on Lawrence Trolley Lines
May 21 Lawrence reports a new smoking car experiment on main trolley routes. Cars run during rush hours with large white signs, allowing smoking between regular coaches, attracting men while reducing crowded seats for non-smokers, and coinciding with a citywide shift to pre payment trolleys.
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Lawrence
Taik
Dollar a Year Fund for G. O. P. Campaign Plan
Chairman Hayes of the Republican national committee announced that no donor would exceed $1000 for the campaign and outlined a plan for nationwide small individual subscriptions. The May 21 statement aims to finance efforts through many modest gifts rather than large contributions.
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Washington
Hayes
Republican National Committee
Republicans to shift campaign funding to small dollar donations
Mr Hays announces a plan to decentralize fundraising into small contributions from the party’s vast membership. A general committee of ways and means, with Mr Upham as treasurer, will organize pickups in states and towns, keeping contributions year by year and capped at a thousand dollars per giver. The approach aims for open campaign finance in line with law.
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Hays
Mr. Hays
Upham
Funeral for Rev Walter J Browne Held Tomorrow
The funeral of Rev Walter J Browne pastor of the Church of Our Lady of Lourdes Jamaica Plain who died Tuesday afternoon will be held from the church tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock. The Rev Wiliam A Ryan rector of St Margaret's Dorchester will be celebrant of the solemn high mass of requiem with Rev Francis J Ryan rector of St Angela's Mattapan as deacon and Rev William B Whalen pastor of St Monica's South Boston as sub deacon. Cardinal O'Connell is likely to preside and Bishop Anderson may attend. The body will lie in state this afternoon and evening with delegations of sodalities and Knights of Columbus as honorary guard. A requiem mass for the children will be held tomorrow at 8 a.m.
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Walter J. Browne
Church of Our Lady of Lourdes
Jamaica Plain
Wiliam A. Ryan
St. Margaret’s Church
Dorchester
Francis J. Ryan
St. Angela’s Church
Mattapan
William B. Whalen
St. Monica's Church
South Boston
Cardinal O’connell
Anderson
Men of the Sodalities
Knights of Columbus
Charlestown man found not guilty in fatal hit and run
John J. McNamara, struck by an automobile on Chelsea Street near Medford Street in Charlestown during the night of April 7 8, was yesterday found not guilty by the jury hearing his case.
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John J. McNamara
Chelsea Street
Medford Street
Charlestown
Engine Tender Jumps Tracks in New Hampshire Run
Manchester N H May 21 The tender of the train bearing Governor John H Bartlett and members of his council from Portsmouth to Concord jumped the tracks in the yards here today causing a shake but no other harm None of the cars left the track
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Manchester
N. H
John H. Bartlett
Portsmouth
Concord
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