Boston Police Nab Chelsea Woman In Pickpocket Plot
A 21 year old Chelsea resident Mrs Lena Shores was arrested Saturday in Boston for pickpocketing in the shopping district during a demonstration. She carried two more pocketbooks and claimed the stolen one belonged to another woman. She said her husband was a traveling man in Chicago.
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New York
Boston
Knox
Watts
Orton Square
Sin
Lena Shores
Everett Avenue
Chelsea
Chicago
Body of Unknown Man Found Near Boylston Station
Jeremiah O Grady a track walker for the New York New Haven Hartford railroad found the body of a man about 30 years old and 6 feet 1 inch tall near Boylston station Jamaica Plain. The man wore a black suit and derby hat and had severe injuries including a severed left foot. The body was located within 150 feet north of the station at about five this morning.
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Jeremiah O. Grady
Hyde Park Avenue
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
Boylston Station
Jamaica Plain
Summer cottage fire destroys Boston banker’s project
In Manchester on Gloucester road a new two story stucco summer cottage built for Charles Head’s daughter Mrs Philip Stockton was consumed by fire from a basement blaze. Loss estimated near 40000 with workmen kit losses. Insurance not disclosed.
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Manchester
Charles Head
Boston
Philip Stockton
Gloucester Road
Fires Trigger Busy Night for City Department
The fire department dealt with at least 15 alarms from midnight to 9 p m including Shawmut Furniture fire and a blaze at 45 Commercial Wharf owned by John E Hines. Losses totaled about 1030 with smaller fires on Shawmut avenue 282 and 42 Union avenue. Minor blazes occurred at 263 Third Street South Boston 19 Willard Street and 199 Beach Street Roslindale with limited damage.
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Shawmut Furniture Company
Commercial Wharf
John E. Hines
Shawmut Avenue
Union Avenue
Frank Dowling
Third Street
South
Boston
James Welsh
Willard Street
Beach Street
Roslindale
Now to Honor John Harvard at Harvard College
With Harvard College celebrating the 300th anniversary of John Harvard the week features two lectures led by Andrew McFarland Davis on John Harvard of America. A John Harvard birthday dinner follows in Memorial Hall, hosted by President Eliot, with access to graduates. Special services and a torchlight procession are planned at Appleton Chapel and Stadium bonfires.
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Harvard College
John Harvard
Fogg Museum
Andrew McFarland Davis
America
Memorial Hall
Harvard
Eliot
Appleton Chapel
Lodge Talks of Spanking Boston Council in Commission Plan
The piece notes Senator Lodge suggesting the city might need a municipal commission to govern Boston, provoking counter moves by non-partisans. It discusses potential paths if Hibbard is defeated or Mayor Fitzgerald loses, and the Finance Commission’s role in weighing such a shift. A five to seven member body would rule city affairs, expelling the mayor and aldermen from politics.
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Senator Lodge
Boston
Hibbard
Lodge
Municipal Commission
Fitzgerald
Coulthurst
Washington
Congress
Finance Commission
City Hall
Dorchester Dedication of $12,000 Memorial Organ
The Sec ond Church of Dorchester in Codman Square dedicated a $12,000 memorial organ donated by Thomas Beaumont Townsend in memory of his parents. George A. Burdett played the recital with a quartet including Annie Estelle Hollis Jessie M. Nute George W. Want and Henry P. Dreyer. The organ features three manuals 42 speaking tubes 2996 pipes with full compass stops and a C to C manual range.
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Thomas Beaumont Townsend
Dorchester
Codman Square
George A. Burdett
Central Congregational Church
Annie Estelle Hollis
Jessie M. Nute
George W. Want
Henry P. Dreyer
Boston
Body of Unknown Man Found Floating Off Long Wharf
A man about 50 years old was found floating near the north side of Long Wharf yesterday morning. He likely had been in the water about three weeks, with no foul play suspected. The body was taken to North Grove street morgue for identification.
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Long Wharf
Station 2
North Grove Street
Magrath
Sintall
Adarts
Boston Hosts British Labor Delegates Before AFL Convention
Expects arrival of Sir Shackleton and Mrs Shackleton in Boston this afternoon. They travel as guests of the C L A D J Shackleton and a British Trades Congress fraternal delegation now closing at Norfolk Virginia. A Boston Central Labor Union committee will entertain them.
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D. J. Shackleton
M. P
British Trades Congress
American Federation of Labor
Norfolk
Boston
Complain of Armory Work in Charlestown and Medford
Boston Building Laborers' Union 6 warns contractors at the Charlestown and Medford armories to hire citizen labor as required by state law or face District Attorney Moran. Charlestown job employs about 60 laborers with only seven citizens and wages of 1.75 dollars for eight hours versus union standard 2.40. Union cites unsatisfactory contractor response and schedules meetings at 45 Eliot Street on the second and fourth Sundays monthly.
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Boston Building Laborers’ Union 6
Charlestown
Medford
Moran
T. J. Marooney
Building Laborers’ Union
Eliot Street
Pres Garrity Renominated In Boston Bartenders Union
Boston Bartenders Union members nominated officers for the upcoming vote on Sunday December 8 at Hollis Hall. President Richard W. Garrity and former Vice President Edward P. Hughes were named for president. Robert A. Callahan and Patrick H. O'Hara contest the business agent post. James J. English received a unanimous nomination for financial secretary business agent.
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Boston
Union
Hollis Hall
Richard W. Garrity
Edward P. Hughes
International
Robert A. Callahan
Patrick H. O'Hara
James J. English
Garrity
Boston and Maine Rail Service Under Review by President
Boston and Maine officials have not yet acted on changing service though under consideration. President Tuttle says no sweeping cuts or discontinuations will affect the public or traffic. changes may reduce service but details remain undecided after months of study across divisions especially the eastern. He notes they will remove trains only if passenger and freight traffic can bear it without inconveniencing travelers or business. The final decision date is not yet forecast.
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Boston & Maine Railroad
Tuttle
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Rex
Henry Siegel Co
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Tee
McDonald’s
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