Amherst Ven Baseball Game Postponed to June 19
Amherst May 23 The Amherst ven baseball game scheduled for today has been postponed due to rain and will be played on June 19.
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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1913
Page
5
Boston Board of Examiners Implements Builder Licensing
The newly formed Board of Examiners for Builders in Boston announces a new licensing system. From now on any person who personally oversees construction alteration removal or demolition of buildings in the city must be licensed by the board.
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Board of Examiners For
Boston
May party draws thousands to Horticultural Hall
Horticultural Hall was crowded by more than 2000 Operators' Union members and friends for the annual May party. Telephone girls in evening dress danced to two steps, waltzes, and schottisches amid festive decorations.
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Horticultural Hall
City board prepares new building code and permits system
Since the appointment of the board it has prepared for its work new to this city and expected to lead to safer better buildings. The old permit practice allowing nearly anyone to construct alter remove or tear down has been replaced. From now on the situation will be different.
New Auto Law Requires Accident Reports to Highway Commission
Drivers must report all accidents to the Highway Commission under the new law that took effect yesterday. Violators face revocation of their licenses.
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Highway Commission
Evening Ball Sees Large Turnout With Union Guest
Guests began arriving early as the hall filled by eleven. Miss May Matthews led the entertainment committee with Miss Annie Malloy as floor marshal and aides including Miss Mary McCarthy and Miss Katherine Sheeran. Miss Alice Donovan chaired publicity while International Vice President of the Electrical Workers Union G. Berquitt attended alongside Peter Linehan and other chief operators. No turkey trot was planned.
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May Matthews
Annie Malloy
Miss Malloy
Mary McCarthy
Katherine Sheeran
Alice Donovan
Electrical Workers’ Union
G. Berquitt
Peter Linehan
Turkey
Milford Strikers Fight Police In Major Riot
Riot erupts as 700 strikers and sympathizers confront police in Milford. Officers Nelligan Goss and McGrail sustain injuries while strikers Shanan Papasian Antonio Chisanza and Isadoro Gicomo are arrested for rioting and stone throwing. Cars on Draper plant routes are targeted as tensions rise near Depot Square.
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Nelligan
Andrew Goss
James McGrail
Clinton
Shanan Papasian
Antonio Chisanza
Isadoro Gicomo
Draper
Edward E. McKenna
C. F. Roper Company
Hopedale
McKenna
Daniel T. Callahan
State
Arthur E. Keating
Depot Square
Main Street
North Bow Street
J. J. O’neil
Metropolitan Park
Richard Qualters
Papasian
Worker Falls to Death on Dorchester Roof
John Gray 52 fell 45 feet from a roof at 227 Bowdoin Street Dorchester yesterday afternoon. He died almost instantly from the fall while at work.
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John Gray
Bowdoin Street
Dorchester
Woman Fashion Shopkeeper Arrested for Smuggling French Goods
Mrs Mary A Dolan of Brookline who runs Madame Driscoll on Boylston street surrendered to federal authorities and was arrested by Deputy Marshal James Ruhl on charges of smuggling gowns and other wearing apparel from France totaling eighty eight thousand dollars over the past six months.
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Mary A. Dolan
Brookline
Boylston Street
Driscoll
Madame Driscoll
United States
James Ruhl
France
Indictments Paint Smuggling Case Involving Shevlins
A grand jury charged Mr. and Mrs. Terrence L Shevlin of Somerville with smuggling and receiving smuggled goods in six importations. Mme Driscoll aka Dolan was also indicted for aiding and abetting. Bail set at 7000 for the Shevlins. Dolan held at 10000. All were linked to a separate conspiracy case with New York dressmakers.
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Grand
Terrence L. Shevlin
Somerville
Shevlins
Dolan
Mr. Shevlin
Kate A. Brennan
Margaret Mulhall
New York
Society Leader Loses Wardrobe in Hotel Fire
Mrs. Maurice Dimond a society leader and wife of a noted horse man lost her entire wardrobe valued at thousands in a fire at the Woodland Park Hotel Auburndale. The blaze drove 160 guests to the street and three women guests were rescued from smoke by Dartmouth and Amherst track teams. The loss was set at 15000 with the Dimond suite on the first floor burnt, including gowns from a Paris tailor. The Dimond horses were housed at the hotel stable during a Brookline show and many guests were staying for the N E I A A U events.
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Maurice Dimond
Woodland Park
Auburndale
Dartmouth
Amherst
Dimond
Brookline Country Club
Mrs. Dimond
St Aidan’s Parish Sets Lawn Party in Brookline
More than 150 parishioners gathered at St. Aidan's Brookline last evening to prepare for a lawn party to be held on church grounds and Crowninshield property on Saturday June 7. Rev. Joseph F. Coppinger was chosen chairman of the executive committee.
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St. Aidan's
Brookline
Piggsant and
Freeman Streets
Crowninshield
Joseph F. Coppinger
Harvard as Democratic University at 17th Harvard Clubs Meet
St Louis May 23 Harvard University is growing more democratic Lowell tells 300 Associated Harvard Clubs members at the 17th annual convention. He says the democratic spirit wanted at Harvard is now an actual fact and widespread.
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ST. Louis
Harvard University
Abbott Lawrence Lowell
Harvard Clubs
Harvard
Harvard Club Scholarships Planned Amid Campus Reforms
President Lowell notes dormitory expansion for freshmen to fuse groups and curb regional divides. Frederick Birmingham cites Western students as likelier self funding, while 50 new Harvard scholarships were approved to aid scholars via club funds. A cafe hosts a performance honoring visiting Harvard men.
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Frederick Birmingham
Chicago
Harvard
J. D. Phillips
Boston
Commodore B. W. Hodges Dies in Washington Home
Commodore B. W. Hodges U. S. N. retired former Boston resident died suddenly at 1279 21st Street N W. Born April 14 1856 in Mississippi he entered the Naval Academy in 1875 and graduated in 1877. He served in the Spanish American War commanded ships Rainbow and Wisconsin and was later at Boston Navy Yard and naval observatories. He retired as commodore in 1911 after a long career in the U S Navy.
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Washington
Commodore B. W. Hodges
Boston
Boston Navy Yard
21St Street
N. W
Commodore Hodges
Mississippi
Naval Academy
Naval Observatory
Chicago
Troy
Rainbow
Galveston
Naval Station
New Orleans
Wisconsin
Fahey Denies Bid for Boston Port Collectorship
John H. Fahey issued a statement saying he is not a candidate for collector of the port of Boston or any other public office. He added that his name may have been presented to Secretary McAdoo without his knowledge or approval.
Lights Fail Dorchester Field's Corner Darkens Citywide
A widespread power outage struck Dorchester last night after a failure in Edison Company equipment, plunging the Field's Corner area into darkness and affecting stores and residences as repairs were underway.
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Dorchester
Edison Company
Burglary Report at Forest Hills Home
Mrs. William J. Dowling found her kitchen door battered in and her apartment ransacked after a thief entered via a rear bulkhead. Jewelry valued at about 175 dollars was stolen. A neighbor described the intruder to police after seeing him enter the house.
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William J. Dowling
Wenham Street
Forest Hills
Dowling House
Dowling
Tonight at the Pops Eneme Urack Guests and Wagner Selections
Tonight's Pops programme features Mr Urack's final night with an program including Entrance of the Guests Into the Wartburg Wagner Organ Mr Marshall selections The Firefly Ride of the Valkyries Bach Mazourka D Minor Puccini La Boheme Tannhauser Der Fidele Bauer The Beautiful Blue Danube and Strauss American Fantasy with accompanist Nagel and Mr Otto Urack.
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Urack
Wartburg
Wagner
Marshall
Jim
Popper
Otto Urack
Nagel
Tannhauser
Scanazatnla
Dace Hoe Wagner
Fidele Bauer
Strauss American Fantasy
Seeeeeee Herbert
Dorchester Rats and Murky Water Spark Mass Meeting
Harrison Square Improvement Association met at Dorchester Yacht Club to protest illness linked to murky swamp water. Residents from Mill Houghton Mapes Park Freeport and nearby streets blame rats and flooding. doctors condemn the swamp as a health menace and criticize New Haven rail line bank maintenance.
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Harrison Square
Dorchester
A. R. Bailey
Boston Board of Health
Giblin
J. J. O’brien
F. S. Parson
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