Shaw ends his 53 day campaign in Boston rallies
Prohibition candidate William Shaw concluded a 53 day campaign with a whirlwind Boston tour. Thousands heard him at Jamaica Plain Roxbury Roslindale and other wards while supporters pledged votes. He spoke with Prohibition leaders Solon W. Bingham Virgil G. Hinshaw and W. G. Calderwood joining night rallies.
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Prohibition State Committee
Virgil G. Hinshaw
Prohibition National Committee
W. G. Calderwood
New England
The
Prohibition Party
Gubernatorial Race Rally Charges Saloon Moral Crisis
Mr Shaw frames the election as a moral clash between home and child against the saloon. He denounces both major parties and says a vote for Walsh or McCall equates to supporting legalized liquor. He calls for voters to oppose the saloon in tomorrow’s ballot.
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Jesus Christ
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Nature's Internal Bathing Cure Brings Quick Constipation Relief
An advertisement touts internal bathing with the J. B. L. Cascade to cleanse the colon and improve health. It claims 300 000 Americans use the method, sold by Riker Jaynes Drug Stores in New England, with a free booklet on efficiency.
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Riker-Jaynes
New England
Shaw’s Prohibition Message on Election Day
William Shaw, Prohibition candidate for Governor, frames the vote as a stand for the annihilation of liquor and family happiness, pledging continued effort if not victorious this year. Solon W. Bingham touts Shaw as the reform choice and urges every citizen to back prohibition to ensure Shaw’s election.
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Shaw
Commonwealth
Solon W. Bingham
Prohibition State Committee
Old Bay
McCall
Walsh
Hocking seizure tied to registry dispute and ship owners
The seizure involved the Hocking and sparked debate over American registry. Officials questioned German interests and foreign ownership while Secretary Lansing ordered investigation. The vessel cleared registry and was admitted to American registry on Aug 10, with 15 native American shareholders and W J Berger as vice president.
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Taining
Owners Protest Seizure of Steamer Hocking
Richard G. Wagner president of the American Transatlantic Steamship Company filed a protest with Secretary of State Lansing over the seizure of the American steamer Hocking by a British man of war. The vessel was carried to Halifax with a prize crew aboard.
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American Transatlantic Steamship Company
Telegram to Lansing on seizure of ship Hocking at Halifax
Secretary Lansing receives a telegram from Mr. Wagner describing the capture of the Hocking, en route to Norfolk to load coal for Argentina under William R. Grace & Co. It requests a protest and explanation of the seizure. Wagner claims all American ownership and notes the ship’s history from Copenhagen to Rotterdam to the Gronland.
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Admiralty to issue warrants for Hocking and Hamborn seizure
Proceedings began in Halifax admiralty court to issue warrants for the arrest of the American steamer Hocking and the Dutch steamer Hamborn. British prize crews from a warship brought both vessels for examination after halt near New York.
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Fire Destroyes Car Barms in East Boston Yard
Firefighters battled a large blaze in East Boston destroying a car barn yard. Despite flames near gas tanks, crews confined the fire to the structures using hose and blankets, preventing spread to surrounding grass and bushes.
Fire at Barn Office Endangers Car Fleet and Five Hundred Dollars Seized
Conductor BE Howe and Motorman Ernest Jones sustained neck burns while saving gear. Motor man Harry D Hanson injured by a falling beam. Five hundred dollars in nickels stored in a safe likely destroyed. Firefighters from Boston Chelsea and Revere battled a blaze in the barn oil room, with 15 men and multiple engines responding. An explosion halted efforts as crews evacuated 10 cars and escaped flames.
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Hast
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Be, W. Howe
Chestnut Street
Chelsea
Ernest Jones
Falcon Street
Harry D. Hanson
Lexington Street
Henry Saco
Douglas McMillan
McMillan
James Jackson
George Ducloe
Ernest Howe
Edward Butler
Trenton Street
Revere
International snub proposed as peace weapon by Mrs Mead
Mrs Lucia Ames Mead of the Women's Peace Party urged the international boycott as a tool against militantly quarrelsome nations. She described how a strong coalition could cut off patents tariffs loans and imports to a hostile country. She spoke before young women at the YWCA outlining potential U.S. congressional action.
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Lucia Ames Mead
Women’s Peace Party
Germany
Mrs. Mead
Concord High Meets Watertown In School Football Clash
Concord today hosts the annual meeting between Concord High School and Watertown High School on the Concord playgrounds at 2 15 this afternoon. The game marks the sole scholastic football schedule around Boston.
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Boston
Concord High School
Watertown High School
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