Octopus Poised for Final 200 Foot Dive Test
Floating at the pier in choppy seas the submarine Octopus sits ready for the 200 foot test planned for tomorrow. Guard Watchman Abilgaard and the Starling tender accompany the craft as Constructor Kurtz and Electric Boat officials prepare the submersion amid weather and security concerns. The crew, staying at Hotel Pemberton, hopes to join the dive if allowed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
N. C. Abilggaard
Naval Board
Momm
Ore River
Hull
Starling
D. A. Kurtz
Electric Boat Company
Rowe
Boston
Soap Capitol Model Sells Washington Display
A window display at Gilchrist Company’s Daylight Store uses fifty thousand Royal Cuticle soap cakes to reproduce a miniature United States Capitol, showing arch of triumph and colossal columns. The summer exhibit aims to illustrate the completed 1911 structure with precise architectural detail. A second miniature recreation depicts the Mary Washington monument at Fredericksburg.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Street
Gilchrist Company
United States Capitol
Washington
Soap Company
Winter Street
Mary Washington
Fredericksburg
Hearing on Post telephone rates Near at hand
Public hearing on lower telephone rates and better service is near with a conference planned in the highway commissioners room on Wednesday. Governor Guild's involvement prompted the move, and Stone & Webster experts will present cost and accounting details to the commission and Robb of the same firm will review ledgers and reports. The purpose is to prepare a thorough report for the resumed public hearings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Highway Commissioners
Guild
Parker
Office of
Stone & Webster
Patterson
Iowa Man Appeals to Police Over Women
Des Moines May 26. R. J. Higgins says life is a burden as he is hounded by many women seeking his attention. He appeals to police for help and warns he may seek mental rest in an asylum if no aid is found.
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Iowa
Des Moines
R. J. Higgins
John W. Hutchinson
High Rock
Edgar
Tremont Temple Sunday School Anniversary
More than 109 young girls in white occupied the Tremont Temple platform for the Sunday school anniversary. They sang and recited in solo and chorus, with a brief address by Rev. P. S. Henson and a prayer by Rev. EF W Parker. Cyril Henry Raper sang The Holy City.
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Tremont Temple
Temple
P. S. Henson
Cyril Henry Raper
Holy City
Missing 14 Year Old Ferdinand Lehr Sought
Ferdinand Lehr aged 14 son of Mr and Mrs Jacob Lehr of the William Tell Hotel remains missing after two weeks of police and private detective searches in Boston. He recently moved from Cambridge and refused to attend Phillips School prompting the truancy officer to pursue him.
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Ferdinand Lehr
Jacob Lehr
William Tell
Boston
Mr. Lehr
Cambridge
Ferdinand
Phillips School
Protest at Water Department Contract Work Meeting
Protests at a Water Department Employees Union meeting protested contract work and non union teamsters in city outfits. George I Tagen spoke for the C L U teamsters committee as the group bought $15 in benefit concert tickets. James W Wall of Worcester commented on tobacco trust methods.
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Water Department
Carpenters
C. L. U. Committee For the Teamsters
James W. Wall
Worcester
Tobacco Trust
New York New Haven and Hartford Workers Accept 7 Percent Wage Rise
Car department employees and car inspectors of the New York New Haven Hartford railroad voted to accept a 7 percent wage increase. The mass meeting in Brodine Hall followed a Bay State Lodge 102 Brotherhood of Railway Car Men of America committee recommendation. The raise makes NYNH&H rates the highest among New England roads.
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New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Car Department
Brodbine Hall
Bay State Lodge 102
Brotherhood of Railway Carmen of America
Car Department
N. Y
New England
Lowell Textile Union Rejects 5 Percent Wage Offer
On May 26 in Lowell the Textile Union rejected a 5 percent wage increase offered by manufacturers and called for a conference with the Manufacturers' Association to seek an amicable agreement. The decision followed notices of a 10 percent raise in other New England mill centers.
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Lowell
Lowell Textile Union
William A. Southworth
Manufacturers’ Association
Textile Union
Textile Council
New England
Franklin Outing Club Announces Grand Outing at Rosen's Grove
The Franklin Outing Club will stage its first seasonal outing at Rosen's grove on Quannapowitt Lake in Wakefield on Memorial Day. Events include towing and running races and a baseball game between the club's first and second nine. Committee members are H. Ritter H. Rosenblatt M. Brown and T. Polornoff.
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Franklin
Rosen’s Grove Quannapowitt Lake
Wakefield
Memorial Davy
H. Ritter
H. Rosenblatt
M. Brown
T. Polornoff
Despondent laborer ends life in Quincy quarry
Luigi Carlotti, 47, of West Quincy, faced six months of unemployment and left a note asking not to blame anyone. He descended 140 feet into Breakneck Hill quarry this morning, cut his throat, and died after his body was found in the water below. His wife and three children are in Venice, Italy.
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Quincy
Breakneck Hill
West
Luigi Carllotti
Luigi
Reil Street
Venice
Italy
Will
Jury Room Experiments Free Edgar Meikle in Acquittal
After a lengthy jury deliberation the court found Edgar Meikle not guilty of killing his father. The jurors tested the suicide theory with revolver angle experiments in the jury room, backing Medical Examiner Pinkham’s stance. Meikle, pale and weary, greeted neighbors and supporters, including his pastor Mrs. Mary Meyers and his teachers.
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Meikle
Pinkham
Edgar Meikle
Mary Meyers
Friends’ Society of
Lynn
Miss Fisher
Ball of Columbus Club Promises Notable Boston Event
Final arrangements completed for a grand ball by the Columbus Club at the Intercolonial building next Wednesday evening. The event aims to be a major social affair with dancing whist prizes and lavish decorations. Notables invited include Governor Guild Mayor Fitzgerald and officers from the battleships Missouri and Vermont.
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Columbus Club
Boston
Governor Guild
Fitzgerald
Missouri
Vermont
Grand Knights
Knights of Columbus
Kuroki Visits Niagara Falls In Canada
Baron General Kuroki of the Imperial Japanese army visited Niagara Falls Ontario with his aides. Through an interpreter he declined to comment on recent attacks on Japanese in San Francisco, saying he was unfamiliar with the matter. He proceeded by private car to Buffalo tonight, then to Chicago tomorrow.
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Niagara Falls
Ont
General Kuroki
Imperial Japanese Army
San Francisco
Baron Kuroki
Buffalo
Chicago
British Amateur Golf Championship Opens At St Andrews
Edinburgh May 20 The British amateur golf championships begin tomorrow on the St Andrews links. About two hundred contestants start with six Americans including Eben Byers and F Horstman among others from Chevy Chase CC and Carnegie.
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Edinburgh
Scotland
St. Andrew's Links
Eben H W. Byers
F. €. Horstman
Chevy Chase Club
Wassiteton
Oo. CC. WC
Carnegie
Ernest Thompson
H. L. Gore
F. R. Scovel
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Octopus
Viper
C. N. Lippincott
C. D. Bergstrom
C. B. Miner
R. Phinney
George Morgan
E. H. Evertz
M. Mornier
N. C. Abilgaard
H. Gamber
R. ©. Swolster
Charles Bergh
W. C. Windemann
National Capitol
Gilchrist
N. H
Franklin D. C
Razor
Ofhree
True
Children of
St. Mary's
Endicott Street
North End
Stillman Street
William J. Quigley
S. J
Joseph A. Gorman
Gretchen Bryan
Delia Gaudreau
Alfred Hoskins
Hoskins
Peabody
Mary
Mary's Church
Ball of Columbus Club
Peter F. Hanley
John S. Donahoe
Dennis F. Carpenter
Walter Burke
J. J. Slattery
John 5. Dore
Charlies
Murphy, Jr
John I. Fitzgerald
J. J. O'Callaghan
Wish Mire
Ee. O’connor
T. J. Kelley
Charles Nixon
Robert Allen
C. Clougherty
W. J. Nutley
John 8
Driscoll
William O’kane
John D. Marr
Francis. Dolan
Fs ‘Coveney
William J. O'Brien
Anna Flood
Anna Heffernan
Aloise Tierney
Margaret McMahon
Anna Monahan
Ida Walsh
Annie Daley
Catherine Barry
Mollie Barry
Nellie Collins
Mary F. Hanley
D. I. Prendergast
H. J. O'Keefe
J. F. Bilder
Ki. Clancy
J. Brady
J. C. Fitzgerald
Castoria
Lep
Kuroki
Cluett
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