Carnival for the Children opens at Shepard Stores
Opening day of a week long Children’s Carnival at Shepard Stores drew hundreds of youngsters and surprised elders with a parade of clowns bears fake animals and fairyland characters. The event featured Punch and Judy, dancing for kids, motion pictures, and a real mystery man and Princess Wong from Hawaii mingled with the crowd.
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Shepard
Lieve
Franklin Park Zoo
Norumbega Park
Hovestadt
Hawaii
Building Laborers Threaten to Strike in Greater Boston
A strike by more than 2500 laborers is threatened to halt building operations outside government work in the Greater Boston area next Saturday unless wage demands are met. The union seeks increases of five to seven and a half cents per hour, presented in January, with compromise offers deemed unsatisfactory by Local 209 of the International Hod Carriers' Building and Common Laborers' Union of America.
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Greater
Boston
International Hod Carriers’ Building and Common Laborers’ Union of America
Local 209
Last Tribute to Mrs O Day Funeral in Brookline
Relatives, friends, and town officials attend the Brookline funeral of Mrs Mary E O Day at her home 48 Boylston Street. A high requiem mass was held at St Marys Church of the Assumption with clergy and choir. Burial followed at Holyhood Cemetery with pallbearers named from nearby towns.
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Mary E. O'Day
Boylston Street
Brookline
O'Day
Ave Maria Court
Springfield
Brookline Court
St. Mary’s Church of the Assumption
John P. Sheehan
Bernard O’kane
Aloysius #inn
Father Finn
Marshall Brooks Faxon
Foresters
Gertrude
Isabelle Granger
John D. Fahey
W. A. Harrison
Francis Barry
Etta Hale
Patrick Duffy
Margaret Wells
Frank W. Lavery
Edward Hill
Sarah
Winnie Hines
David Curtis
National Casket Company
Hollander’s
Annnie Donahue
Ada Bolton
Arthur Caulfield
Joseph Carreiro
James Fossa
Taunton
George Kelley
Newton
William Thomas
John Logue
Roxbury
Patrick J. McArdle
Charlestown
Joseph B. Tondorf
Thomas Hill
Frank Duffey
James Casey
Holyhood Cemetery
Campbell named head of Allied War Expositions
Chester I Campbell former Quincy mayor and noted conductor of industrial and patriotic expositions has been invited by the U S government through the Committee on Public Information to lead the Allied War Expositions to be staged in major cities starting July first.
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Chester I. Campbell
Quincy
United States
Committee On Public Information
San Francisco
New Thievery Trick Nets Robbers $20,000
Two men posing as process servers fooled a New York Melville Shoe Corp loft staff and an elevator operator, awaiting a favorable moment to grab $20,000. They corralled two messengers and the operator in a corner and escaped before police intervened.
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New York
Melville Shoe Corporation
Campbell to accept post if Nantasket outing proceeds
Mr. Campbell leaves Boston for Washington to discuss a government offer while pledging to conduct the annual Nantasket Beach outing for Boston's crippled and orphan children on June 5. The Allied War Expositions tour will visit major cities from July, showcasing war trophies to bolster patriotic sentiment. Campbell brings extensive expo experience and holds leadership posts at Quincy Trust and Back Bay National Bank.
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Campbell
Boston
Washington
Wendall McMahill
Nantasket Beach
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Seattle
Denver
Chicago
New York
Grand Central Palace
Quincy Trust Company
Back Bay National Bank
Vahey Pleads Carmen Case Before War Labor Board
The full War Labor Board, with former President Taft, heard consolidated requests from street car employees of Cleveland and Detroit. Attorney James H. Vahey argued workers earning 85 to 40 cents hourly need higher wages, noting 58 percent rise in uniforms and Detroit men now run nine trips daily. He urged one day off weekly due to peak Sundays and holidays. The board then went into executive session.
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Chicago
War Labor Board
Taft
Cleveland
Detroit
James H. Vahey
Boston
Amalgamated Street and Electric Railway
United States
Canada
Detroit Car
Vahey
Brown Ends 150th Year at Brown University
Providence May 27 Brown celebrates its 150th anniversary during Commencement week. President Faunce lashes Teutonic military autocracy in a baccalaureate address. Alumni Night features tributes to ex President Andrews by notable speakers. Wednesday graduation at First Baptist Church with honorary degrees. A Brown Dartmouth baseball game is on Andrews Field at 4 p m.
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Providence
Brown
W. H. P. Faunce
Jesus Christ
The
Brown Union
Ing
E. Benjamin Andrews
John M. English
Walter C. Bronson
James H. Higgins
Rhode Island
Alexander Meiklejohn
Amherst
First Baptist Church
Faunce
Beekman
William A. Neilson
Smith College
Henry Cabot Lodge
Massachusetts
Dartmouth
Andrews’ Field
Yale Students' Cases Up June 3
Ten Yale students faced charges stemming from a demonstration in New Haven and campus areas. The case, postponed until June 3, includes breach of the peace as the general charge and additional counts of failure to disperse after police orders and obstructing sidewalks.
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New Haven
Yale
Minister to Wed Divorcee Minister to Wed Divorcee
A June wedding is planned at the People's Temple on Berkeley Street for Rev. Charles H. Hanaford 88 a retired Methodist clergyman of South Lancaster and Hattie B Getchell 59 a divorcee of 25 Milford Street South End. They formed a romance after he joined the temple and she sang in the choir and taught Sunday School. They applied for a city marriage permit yesterday.
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People’s Temple
Berkeley Street
Charles H. Hanaford
South Lancaster
Hattie B. Getchell
Milford Street
South End
Hanaford
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CASCO
Thuete, Peabody GY Co Inc. Makers
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