Plead for United Free Church of America voiced
Rev. Samuel A. Eliot urged forming a United Free Church of America to end sectarianism and promote interdenominational fellowship. Taft accepted honorary president role of the National League of Unitarian Laymen as part of anniversary events at Tremont Temple.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Free Church of America
Samuel A. Eliot
Taft
National League of Unitarian
Eliot
Channing Hall
Edward Everett Hale
Graham Taylor
William H. Carruth
Kansas University
Draper
M. Y. Garvin
Lancaster
Cyril H. Burdett
New York
Courtenay Guild
Boston
Delbert Decker
Washington
D. A. Fletcher
Jacksonville
Fla
Morton D. Hull
Chicago
Ralph Wilber
Portland
Ore
C. W. Ames
St. Paul
Minnesota
American Unitarian Association
Tremont Temple
Thomas R. Slicer
Peter H. Goldsmith
D. D
Salem
Slicer
Man Attempted Suicide After Police Find Liquor
Morris Jenker, son of 302 Montello Street, Brockton, shot himself in the head when raiding officers uncovered a large quantity of liquor on his premises. He is listed on the hospital’s dangerous list at Brockton Hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brockton
Morris Jenkerson
Montello Streets
Brockton Hospital
China Adopts U S Coinage
Peking May 24 An edict promul gated today establishes national decimal coinage throughout China and orders the cessation of all coinage by provincial mints. The new currency includes dollar 50 cent 25 cent 10 cent coins in silver 5 cent coins in nickel and copper cash minted in copper.
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Peking
China
Missing Leominster Man Sought by Wife
Edwin A. Burke has vanished from Leominster since May 7. Police say he left his wife and five year old child to attend a mission service and no trace has been found.
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Leominster
Edwin A. Burke
Death of Charles C Dickinson after gas explosion in laboratory
Charles Courter Dickinson former Carnegie Trust Company president and noted financial author died in New York hospital after inhaling noxious gas from an explosion in a Scranton laboratory. He had recently retired as president following a previous severe accident in Central Park. His brother 8 C Dickinson and a friend were also involved and transported to the city. the nature of the experiment remains unknown.
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New York
Charles Courter Dickinson
Carnegie Trust Company
Dickinson
8. C. Dickinson
Scranton
Leslie M. Shaw
Central Park
Mayor pushes open Sundays for sports and playgrounds
Mayor Fitzgerald promised a bill to legalize Sunday baseball tennis and golf and keep city playgrounds open Sundays to curb idleness among youths. He met with Dr. Harrington and urged open hours for school playgrounds and a central athletic field for high schools. The talks touched beaches at Tenean and McKenzie and settlement of bathhouse disputes with the park commission and bath trustees.
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Fitzgerald
Boston
Harrington
Robert §. Peabody
Park Commission
Walter R. Mansfield
Bath
Tenean
McKenzie Beaches
Rae
Boston Chamber Favors Workmen Compensation Bill Aid
The Boston Chamber of Commerce backed legislative aid for a workmen's compensation system and stock validation queries for the New York New Haven and Hartford railroad. E A Filene and Henry Sterling opposed referring the issue, arguing for action to fix employer wage earner indemnity and factory workers protection.
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Boston Chamber of Commerce
Boston Holding Company
New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad
E. A. Filene
Robert Luce
Henry Sterling
State House
Filene
Mr. Filene
Sterling
Fish
State Board of Education
Luce
Fires in Everett cause $7200 damage in two buildings
Two fires in Everett yesterday damaged the stables of A. G. Crosby and the factory of New Hall and Walker, totaling $7200. Investigators believe both fires were incendiary in origin.
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Everett
A. G. Crosby
Newhall and
Walker
Banquet by Alumni of Boston College
The annual dinner and election of officers of the alumni association of Boston College will be held in Boston. Details on date and venue are to be announced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greater Boston
Alumni Association
John A. Coulthurst
William A. Murphy
Draper
Archbishop O'Connell
Melvin O. Adams
Charles DeCourcey
Thomas W. Proctor
James J. Phelar
James M. Morrison
William F. Kenny
James W. Kenney
Boston College
Bos’ College
Boston Citytomer
Chinese mobs torch Changsha as riots burn 100 houses
A Yang messenger reports 100 houses burned by rioting mobs in Changsha. Officials fled leaving the town at mob rule. Telegraph wires cut and details scarce as riders move northward. several villages are destroyed.
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Chang-Sha
I Yang
Three Fined for Contempt in Patent Case
Samuel Rosen bloom Louis Kessel of West End Spring Bed Co at 56 Lowell Street and Samuel Kreplik of Outlet Bedding Co at 164 Canal Street were fined $100 each by Judge Dodge in the United States Circuit Court yesterday for contempt. They failed to comply with an injunction banning tents on metal couch beds and further sales of the coaches. The Complainant was The Conch Patents Co of New York. Each defendant may pay within 20 days.
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Samuel ‘Rosenbloom
Louis Kessel
West End
Lowell Street
Samuel Kreplik
Outlet
Canal Street
Dodge
United States Circuit
Conch Patents Company of
New York
Courts Disburse $10 of His $12 a Week
Charles D. Martin of Patterson New Jersey must pay one dollar weekly toward a judgment rendered by Judge Black. He owes 601.65 dollars and will pay interest plus principal. at twelve dollars a week his wage supports alimony and child support. He earns about 12 dollars weekly in brass finishing and boards with his parents.
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New York
Charles D. Martin
Hamilton Avenue
Patterson
N. J
Black
Martin
Court of Chancery
Favors a New Bridge on Mystic
Lt Col Edward Burr of the U S Bureau of Engineers urges a $1,000,000 drawbridge to connect Charlestown and Chelsea over the Mystic. The plan widens the draw to 100 120 feet with 20 feet clear height, shifts the location, and supports a smelter project by New England Gas & Coke with $125,000 in deepening the channel. Congress has allotted $72,000 already. 3,000,000 tons pass the bridge annually, underscoring commerce needs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Burr
United States Bureau of Engineers
Mystic
Charlestown
Chelsea
Boston
Burr
Washington
War Department
William Marshall
Dickinson
Senator Lodge
New England Gas & Coke Company
Congress
Mystic River
Chinel
Burrs
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Aoi
Winchester
America
Unitarians
U. S
Charles C. Dickinson
Yi Yang
Yale
U.S
Lodge
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