Boston bookbinders strike gains vigor with mass meeting
About 150 Boston area bindery girls joined Bindery Women's Union 56 at Paine Memorial to back the eight hour day. They vow to strike unless employers agree to talks, with Mary Kenney O'Sullivan and others addressing the meeting. Union leaders anticipate International President Robert Gogling arriving soon to review the case.
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Frank H. Callahan
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Ambassador Tower Plans Retirement After Long Service
Berlin Oct 4 Ambassador Tower has asked President Roosevelt for permission to retire from the diplomatic service next spring. After 11 years abroad he seeks to live in the United States to provide a home for his sons headed to Harvard and tend to his mining and railroad interests. He will likely stay on until his Berlin lease ends and is presently with Mrs Tower and their two daughters in Baden Baden. His departure would remove one of America's most experienced European representatives.
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Harvard University
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Co respondent taxed for costs in New York divorce case
In the Mrs. Hugh Miller suit, Carlotta Knopf of Riverside Drive must pay about $75 into the White Plains Supreme Court. This amount is her share of the costs after Tuesday’s hearing before Justice Mills.
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Supreme Court
White Plains
Labor notes from local union meetings and events
The Central Labor Union meets tomorrow at Wells Memorial to nominate officers. The Massachusetts Federation of State City and Town Employees holds its quarterly convention in Malden on Sunday November 3. Electrotypers’ Union 74 reported four applicants and officers’ reports at 724 Washington Street. Boston Building Trades Council held a full meeting with reports and renewed optimism from President James A Haley. Branch 4 Commercial Telegraphers enjoyed a social session after the business meeting. Cornelius P Shea attended the final session of the retiring IBT executive board in Indianapolis.
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International Brotherhood of Teamsters of America
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Unusual Fireworks Display at Vallisbon di Roccasiceria Feast
The North End Park hosts a rare fireworks show Monday night for Vallisbon di Roccasiceria feast day. A $1000 budget funds aerial set pieces expected to surpass prior displays. Sunday parade and band concert run 4 to 7 PM. Antonio Gioiosa chairs, Joseph Martell is secretary.
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Society of Vallisbono di Roccasiceria
Antonio Gioiosa
Joseph Martell
War on White Slave Evil Begun by Straus
Secretary Straus and immigration commissioner general Frank P. Sargeant aim to end the white slave traffic in the United States. After touring the northwest and Pacific coast states his focus was on rising importation of women for illegal purposes in this crackdown.
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Metropolitan Street Railway buys ferry firm for 965607.19 dollars
An item in PSC accountant Marvin Scudder's findings reveals the Metropolitan Street Railway Company purchased the Fulton fall and Cortlandt Street Ferries Company from Anthony N. Brady for 965607.19 dollars, highlighting more financial entanglements in the system.
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Brady Rail Deal Exposed as Paper Company Scandal
The transfer from the Metropolitan to Mr. Brady involved a line that never existed with no track or streetcars. A 1895 Supreme Court injunction halted a route mapped by a corporation organized a decade earlier. Ivins reveals the inside facts of a deal that paid nearly a million to Anthony N. Brady for a nonoperational street railway, with Scudder prompting an investigation.
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Supreme Court
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Public Service Commission
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What Is a Child Article by G Stanley Hall
A prominent piece by Professor G Stanley Hall of Clark University urges all parents to read the Sunday Post Magazine feature exploring the development and future of children and the race.
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G. Stanley Hall
Clark University
Sunday Post
Tomorrows
Store Destroyed by Fire in Lincoln Vermont
The Versil Morgan owned building occupied by George Farr as a general store was destroyed by fire early today. Investigators say a defective chimney caused the blaze.
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Versil Morgan
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