Carpenters in Greater Boston Swamped by Demand
Secretary Joseph F. Twomey reports a high need for carpenters in Greater Boston. He notes he cannot supply all workers, with over 100 striking workers rerouted to projects in Back Bay Jamaica Plain Watertown and Worcester to fill contractor needs.
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Greater
Boston
Joseph F. Twomey
Carpenters’ District Council
Technology
Cambridge
Back Bay
Jamaica Plain
Watertown
Worcester
Neptune Collier Projects Success After New Trials
The naval collier Neptune, after failing initial tests, completed new trials meeting and surpassing contract standards. Trial board officials reported a top speed of 15.40 knots, 1.40 knots above required, with 14.31 knots average over five runs. A 12 hour Rockland Maine to Massachusetts Bay passage used turbines within fuel specs.
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Neptune
Naval Trial Board
Rockland
Massachusetts Bay
Trainmen Begin Movement for Eight Hour Day in East
Headquarters for the Eastern campaign to establish an eight hour workday will be in Boston. Clarence K. Mitchell of Stoneham has been named general chairman to lead locomotive engineers firemen conductors trainmen and telegraphers in the campaign across the East.
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Boston
Clarence K. Mitchell
Stoneham
Barge watchman drowned off Gloucester harbor
James Tarr, 66, of Gloucester, drowned off Staples wharf at 300 Congress street last night. His body was found by three men who notified the police.
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James Tarr
Gloucester
Staples Wharf
Congress Street
Peace Meet Postponed for Indefinite Time
American delegates to the International Congress for a durable peace in Berne Switzerland met in New York. Mrs Fannie Fern Andrews of Boston said a cable from the secretary of the central organization announced the congress date had been postponed indefinitely at the American committee’s request. The original December date was set, but many of 26 members could not attend. The postponement is expected to last several months.
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New York
Berne
Switzerland
Fannie Fern Andrews
Boston
Central Organization For A Durable Peace
American Committee
Andrews
Preparedness Plan Aims to Strengthen U S Defense
Speaker Champ Clark addresses Boston City Club on building national security for the 20th century without causing bankruptcy. He urges doubling Annapolis and West Point cadets, one year enlistment, teacher access to military education at cost, drills in schools, and using surplus cadets in the merchant marine.
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Champ Clark
National House of Representatives
Boston City Club
Clark
United States
Annapolis
West Point
Army
Navy
Entertaining address skews at Roosevelt and a Boston editorial
The speaker opened with a light jab at ex President Roosevelt and vigorously attacked a Boston newspaper editorial he called malicious idiotic slander. He shifted from ridicule to praise to condemnation with rapid changes, keeping the audience amused for about an hour and a half and receiving frequent applause.
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Roosevelt
Boston
Clark
Doctors rap use of drink on mental health warned
Eminent physicians at the Massachusetts Society for Mental Hygiene session in Ford Hall denounced moderate drinking as reducing efficiency and contributing to mental illness. Speakers attributed drunkenness to heredity, noted that many users are moderate drinkers, and called the “bracer” a snare.
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Massachusetts Society For Mental Hygiene
Ford Hall
A. J. Rosanoff
King’s Park
Allan J. McLaughlin
Frankwood E. Williams
E. Stanley Abbott
McLean Hospital
Belmont
Irwin H. Neff
A. Warren Stearns
State Board of Insanity
Williams
Samuel T. Orton
Philadelphia
Montenegrins Retreat on River Drin under Pressures
Paris dispatch reports Montenegrin headquarters stating the Montenegrin army in the Sanjak retreated to the River Drin on November 16 under pressure from superior forces.
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Drin
Paris
Sanjak
Dorchester Girl Marion Jackson Missing Believed Eloped
Dorchester police search for Marion Beulah Jackson 16 a Dorchester High pupil missing since Tuesday. Her mother Mrs. William E. Jackson says Marion eloped with an older Boston man married three times, claiming he influenced her. Marion left for school with books and lunch then vanished, reportedly traveled via Ashmont station, changed clothes, and may have gone to New York and Canada. Marion is 5 feet 7, blonde, light complexion, and appears older than her age.
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Dorchester
Marion Beulah Jackson
Dorchester Avenue
William E. Jackson
Boston
Marion
Ashmont Station
War Councillors of Britain Return From Paris
Premier Asquith Sir Edward Grey Arthur Balfour and David Lloyd-George returned to London from the Paris joint war council. The Journal Des Debats explains Russia and Italy could not take part in the deliberations, though they will influence strategic movements of the four powers.
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London
Asquith
Edward Grey
Arthur J. Balfour
Admiralty
David Lloyd-George
Paris
Journal Des Debats
Russia
Italy
Man Attempts to Grab Women's Handbags at Powder House Square
An unidentified man attempted to snatch the handbags of Mrs. Hannah W. Stewart of West Somerville and Mrs. Jessie Rowan of Roxbury as they walked through Powder House Square. He emerged from bushes, grabbed at the bags, failed to take them, and vanished into darkness.
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Hannah W. Stewart
Lowdon Avenue
West Somerville
Jessie Rowan
Roxbury
Powder House Square
Somerville
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