Salvation Army Opens temperance hotel in Boston
The Argonne Hotel at Bulfinch street and Bulfinch place opens as Boston’s first temperance hotel for men. It offers 200 rooms with 75 cents to 1.50 per night, a cafeteria and temperance bar, reading and writing areas, music, and a mothers room. About 300 men can be accommodated. City officials and military reps inspected the new facility.
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Salvation Army
Rexford
Annie A. Russo
Harry Kelley
Fred Pereira
Albert van
W. A. Antrim
Charlestown
Bulfinch Street
Bulfinch Place
Argonne Hotel
Army
Navy
Boost in Rents Is Called Off In Chelsea
Mayor Breath and Secretary Howie announced continued action against rent profiteering after tenants reported landlords rescinded prior notices of rent hikes. The officials said investigations would continue until all avenues to stop profiteering are exhausted.
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Breath
Chelsea
Howie
State Commission On Necessaries of
Newton Church to Dedicate Memorial in War Honor
Chaplain Lyman Rollins of the 101st will speak at seven fifteen Sunday evening in Trinity Church Newton Centre for the dedication of a memorial and honor roll to six parish men who died in the war and forty nine service members. The carved oak rear wall features two kneeling angels, Pershing and Sims figures, and inscriptions honoring the fallen and the service.
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101St
Trinity Church
Newton Centre
General Pershing
Army
Admiral Sims
Navy
George Thomas Maxwell
Edward Asa Hooper
Leonard Jackson
Alfred Thomas Crane
George Stewart Huggard
Edward Augustus Wight
Advert for Laxative Bromine Quinine Tablets
Public health style ad urges readers to prevent illness by taking Laxative Bromine Quinine Tablets in larger doses than usual. It frames influenza as an exaggerated grip and promotes preventative use to avoid sickness.
Sugar famine ad targets Coolidge and sugar bosses
A political advertisement accuses Calvin Coolidge of inaction over a sugar shortage. It alleges Republican sugar interests control refineries and urges the governor to prosecute friends seen as manipulating the sugar situation to alleviate suffering of families.
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Calvin Coolidge
Mr. Coolidge
Coolidge
Feeney Claims Police Strike Favored by Curtis and Coolidge
In Woburn Lyceum Hall Feeney and Vahey told about 1200 listeners that the Boston police strike was desired by Commissioner Curtis Governor Coolidge and capital. He said the motive was to hurt union labor and denied political aims in their campaign.
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Curtis
Coolidge
Capital
John P. Feeney
Policemen’s Union
Lyceum Hall
Woburn
James H. Vahey
Mr. Feeney
Parker
Riots in Boston Claim Seven Lives
In Boston seven people were killed during the riots with no record of who fired the fatal shots or any effort to identify the shooters.
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Bay State
Boston
Street Work Progress in Roxbury Rain Delays
The Finance Commission informs Mayor Peters that Bermudez Company completed street surfacing in Roxbury during rain. It notes the job will be good next season if inspectors stop delaying and ensure disciplined continuation.
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Finance Commission
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Roxbury
Bermudez Company
Willard Named Director of Extension Service at MA College
Trustees of Massachusetts Agricultural College appoint John D. Willard of Amherst as director of extension service with duties starting around January 1. He succeeds Professor W. R. Hurd who resigned to join the soil improvement committee in Chicago. R. W. Redman remains assistant director.
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Massachusur Agricultural College
John D. Willard
Amherst
W. R. Hurd
Soil Improvement Committee
Chicago
R. W. Redman
Campaign drive aims to raise 400000 for Federated Jewish Charities
Workers at a City Club meeting adopted a slogan Win we must and launched a $400,000 campaign. The effort seeks to surpass the target by next Monday evening when a dinner will be held at the Elysium Club to close the drive.
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Federated Jewish Charities
City Club
Elysium Club
Be corking two-bagger campaign gifts boost drive
Additional pledges and gifts totaling 15815 were acknowledged in committee reports. Louis E. Kirstein noted un solicited gifts of 1000 from the Boston Globe and Boston Post and urged continued effort as the campaign nears its end. The luncheon drew many volunteers and groups received 1500 pledge ecards for follow up. Contributions by category included cigars 875 and wool 2100 among others.
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Louis E. Kirstein
Boston Globe
Boston Post
Sidney S. Conrad
Kirstein
Boston
Taft Calls Hub Strike a Mutiny at Worcester Rally
At Mechanics Hall Worcester ex President Taft Governor Allen and Lt Governor Cox praised Governor Coolidge for his stance in the Boston police strike. Taft denounced the strike as mutiny noting police deserted their posts and urged law and order through state action if needed.
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Mechanics’ Hall
William H. Taft
Henry J. Allen
Kansas
Channing Cox
Coolidge
Boston
Salem Square
Worcester Brass Band
Federation
Taft labels strikes as mutiny and conspiracy
Ex President Taft condemns the Boston policemen strike as mutiny and warns miners and railway workers of a general strike as a conspiracy. He questions the legality of large worker blocs forcing terms by threat of economic coercion and argues for appropriate congressional laws.
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Axel H. Magnuson
Republican City Committee
Edward T. Esty
Taft
Boston
Congress
Woman Struck by Auto Injures Two Women in Malden
Mrs. T. H. McDonough of Brownville Maine suffered a broken leg and arm when struck by a car driven by Mrs. Edith Anderson of Malden at Main and Winter streets. Mrs. G. H. Bell was also knocked down and lightly injured. McDonough was taken to Malden Hospital. she is staying with Mrs. Bell at 314 Main Melrose.
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Brownville
Malden
Edith Anderson
Linden Avenue
G. H. Bell
Main Street
Winter Street
McDonough
Malden Hospital
Bell
Melrose
Fall River textile leader Thomas Taylor dies after brief illness
Thomas Taylor, longtime secretary of the Loomfixers' Union and a member of Fall River Hospital Trustees, died today after a brief illness. He was a prominent textile labor leader in New England.
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Fall River
Thomas Taylor
Loomfixers’ Union
New England
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