Fine girl for mail offence in Fall River
Ada Pruneau of Williams Street Fall River was indicted after sending improper postcards to a rival via the mails. Judge Morton fined her 50 dollars with warning that a repeat offense could send her to jail. Arthur B. King of Gloucester pleaded guilty to stealing a parcel post package and received three months in Salem jail. Roy T. Zahn of Arlington Heights, a railway mail clerk, was sentenced to a year and a day at Plymouth House of Correction for robbing the mails.
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Fall River
Morton
United States
Hatton
Ada Pruneau
Williams Street
A Warn
Ing
Arthur B. King
Gloucester
North
Salem
Roy T. Zahn
Arlington Heights
House of Correction
Plymouth
Rearrest of Former Dry Agent for Conspiracy
James Waldie, a former prohibition agent, was re arrested in Torrington and then New York City with Felix Prince. They face charges of conspiring to violate the Volstead act by altering selling permits after Waldie was released on $5000 bail for transporting liquors unlawfully.
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New York
James Waldie
Torrington
Conn
Felix Prince
Actors Fund Benefit in Boston Nets $9500
The annual Actors Fund of America benefit at the Colonial Theatre drew a full house and raised $9500, the largest sum ever for this purpose in Boston. Ziegfeld's Follies, the Mary company, Ada Mae Weeks, Juliette, Marilyn Miller, Sam Hardy, Daniel Frohman and Elsie Ferguson were among the performers. Proceeds from tickets, flowers, programs and confections supported the fund's treasury.
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Actors’ Fund of America
Colonial Theatre
Ziegfeld
Mary
Tremont
Lester
Ada Mae Weeks
Alian Tell
Charm School
Juliette
Marilyn Miller
Sam Hardy
Daniel Frohman
Fund
Elsie Ferguson
Boston
Memorial Sunday Observances Across Churches
World War veterans join Grand Army members in Memorial Sunday services tomorrow. Catholic memorial masses and Protestant services will be attended by thousands of former soldiers and sailors honoring departed comrades.
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Grand Army
Apple Trees Shine At Arnold Arbor Etum In May Splendor
Hundreds of visitors admire masses of white and pink blossoms at Arnold Arbor etum as apple trees bloom, with fragrant blooms announced by spring breezes. Transplanted shrubs also bloom, but old New Englanders favor the humble apple tree in peak May display.
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Arnold Arboretum
New
New England
Ellis Against Hays Rent Bill
Herbert E. Bilis special adjuster of the Boston rent and housing committee opposed the Hays anti rent profiteering bill then before the Legislature. He argued the measure would spur rent increases by about eight percent of Boston landlords and cited 700 cases reviewed as showing only around twenty percent raised rents abnormally.
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Herbert E. Bilis
Boston Rent and Housing Committee
Boston
Ellis
Doston
Pop Orchestra Night’s Program at the Pops
Agide Jacchia leads a program of symphony players at the Pops featuring marches overtures and operatic selections. The bill includes Stars and Stripes Forever, Rienzi overture, Aida Medley, Liszt arrangements, and Carmen Prelude among others with solo violin and chamber pieces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Agide Jacchia
Suppe
Gillet Peere Verdi
Tschaikowsky
Maria
He Schuber-Wilhelmi
Boston Farmers Protected From Crooked Peddlers
Superintendent of Markets Patrick J. McGourthy announces new measures to shield farmers in Boston markets from a class of peddlers who obtain produce by deceit. Beginning June 1 the market office opens at 4 a.m. daily with a deputy on patrol to stop peddlers from taking produce and failing to pay farmers.
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Boston
Patrick J. McGourthy
Eyes of the Unworthy in Boston Sunday Post Magazine
Howard M. Hoke’s tale Eyes of the Unworthy, a somewhat different story, will appear in the next Boston Sunday Post Magazine.
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Howard M. Hoke
Boston Sunday Post
Boston School Cadets Drill Plans for Infantry Division
The Fifth Regiment of Boston School Cadets held its annual drill in the East Armory with Major General Edwards as guest. Plans were announced to form an infantry division drawn from top cadet companies, with a silver cup by Edwards awarded yearly and titles of major general and brigadiers for winners.
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Boston School
Hyde Park
West Roxbury
Brighton
East Armory
East Newton Street
South End
Edwards
Boston High School
Boston
Armory
Brighton High School
Carlo de Simane
Thomas A. Harrington
Raymond Shaw
Paul Kenney
Hyde Park High
Lawrence Killilea
Clifford A. Anderson
Charles E. Fogg
West
Roxbury High
John Beverstock
Howard Bunker
Robert Kingston
Harding Sandell
Cambridge Hospital League Benefit Entreatments Draw 400 Attendees
A series of entertainments for the Cambridge Hospital League concluded with an assembly in Brattle Hall. About 400 prominent Greater Boston residents attended, marking the season's smartest affair in Cambridge.
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Cambridge
Cambridge Hospital League
Brattle Hall
Greater Boston
Harvard Officials Attend Reception Amid Social Efforts
In the receiving line were Mrs. Lawrence Lowell wife of Harvard President Mrs Wayland Minot Mrs Francis Stuart Kersh Mrs Henry Tudor Mrs John No and Mrs Stoughton Bell. Due to untiring efforts of Mrs Minot who headed the gent et committee and Mrs Noble who led a dance committee the affair was a huge success.
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Lawrence Lowell
Preside Lowell
Harvard
Wayland Minot
Francis Stuart Kersh
Henry Tudor
John No
Stoughton Bell
Minot
Genet
Noble
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Spot
Gli
Rearrest
Conspiracy
the Twitchellamplin Co
Portland
Actors
Panama
Knox
Delano Shops
Washington Street
School Street
Arboretum
Apple Trees Inn
Hays
the Pops
U.S. Navy
Devonshire Street
Mass
Navy Department
Navy
Phus Daniels
Etary
Adamson
Aid
Cambridge Hospital League By Entertainments
Onrad
Conrad & Co
Winter Street
Worsteds
Boys’ Union
Balbriggan
Hanover St
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