May Day riot trial details emerge at Roxbury
Julia Rushman one of nine defendants on trial before Judge Fessenden and a jury for assaulting Officer Samuel Hutchins on May 1 at Roxbury. Witness Edward N. Coyle says Rushman kicked Hutchins during the May Day disturbance. Oscar Richardson testified seeing officers overwhelmed and asking for more help. Court adjourned to Wednesday as Judge Fessenden planned to vote at his Greenfield home.
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Julia Rushman
Fessenden
Samuel
Hutchins
Roxbury
Wiseman
Edward N. Coyle
Oscar Richardson
Warren Street
Daniel Lyons
Greenfield
Long Is Not Friend Of Labor Warns Walworth Chief
Edward Cooley president of Walworth Manufacturing and War Emergency Industrial Commission member says Richard Long misrepresents his labor stance. He cites wartime record showing Long supported strict plant inspections and permit conditions on women workers. Cooley urges Massachusetts voters to consider these facts before the gubernatorial race.
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Long
LABOR
Edward Cooley
Walworth Manufacturing Company
War Emergency Industrial Commission of Massachusetts
Richard H. Long
War Commission Reveals Long Employment Violations At Plant
Testimony shows Mr Long admitted tolerating unsafe sanitary conditions and unlicensed child labor. He allowed minors without labor certificates and workers exceeding 48 hours a week. The building lacked proper fire escapes with one gate kept locked. A night shift permit was granted then revoked after he started without approval.
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Cooley
Long
Industrial Commission
Commission of Labor
Mr. Long
Commissioner of Labor
Ban on Open Sugar Bowl Returns in Massachusetts
Brigadier General John H. Sherburne, chair of the Commission on the Necessaries of Life, urged hotels and restaurants in Massachusetts to abolish the open sugar bowl due to sugar shortages. The letter to Boston Hotel Association president John J. McCarthy requests resuming wartime distribution methods and removing open bowls until supplies improve.
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McCarthy
John H. Sherburne
Services for Mrs Howe at Quincy This Afternoon
Funeral services for Mrs Abbie Redlon Howe will be held at the home of her brother Gilbert F Redlon 192 Taylor Street Wollaston this afternoon. She was killed Monday at Brownsville Texas when she fell from a horse. She was the wife of Captain Wilson D Howe U S A stationed at Brownsville.
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Abbie Redlon Howe
Gilbert F. Redlon
Taylor Street
Wollaston
Rescue Efforts Foiled in East Boston Wine Cellar Fire
A fire at Gem Wine & Grocery in Maverick Square East Boston drew hundreds of would be heroes. Firemen arrived quickly and entered the cellar as spectators watched. Four youths sang you cant have the key to my cellar no. A State Guardsman stood at a broken window. The damage was slight.
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Gem Wine & Grocery Company
Maverick Square
Boston
Sweeney
Bury Dr. Hall in Northampton
Preparations were under way to send the body of Dr. Junius M. Hall a pioneer Chicago physician who died suddenly yesterday. The funeral arrangements were being planned in Northampton, with city officials awaiting further details.
Doctor Hall Remains Endnote in Northampton Burial
Dr Hall born 1851 in Northampton Massachusetts. He graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons New York in 23 years. After the Chicago fire he came to the city and was appointed one of three medical inspectors under Dr De Wolfe, serving fourteen years.
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Mass
Dr. Hall
College of Physicians and Surgeons
New York City
Chicago
de Wolfe
Servin
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