City council backs mayor in port fight funding
The council unanimously supports Mayor Curtey in continuing efforts to persuade the Interstate Commerce Commission to abolish the adverse rail rate differential. A second $2500 payment to the Chamber of Commerce Maritime Association was approved to aid the campaign to restore the port of Boston on the map and defray shipping costs.
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Curtey
Chamber of Commerce Maritime Association
Interstate Commerce Commission
Boston
Chamber
Irish Youths Minted in National Army Vision
In Dublin a speech by Richard Mulcahy to troops at Gormanston discusses a future Irish army as a large national organization. He says young men will become better citizens through service and gain skills in arms during their period of duty.
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Dublin
Ireland
Richard Mulcahy
Gormanstown
British schooner M. J. Taylor reaches West Passage after loss at sea
The British schooner M. J. Taylor, sailing from Mississippi for the Virgin Islands, arrived in the West Passage after seven days at sea. A rough voyage washed away 50,000 feet of yellow pine from the deck while spar, rigging, canvas, and hull also require repairs.
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Newport
R. 1
M. J. Taylor
Mississippi
Virgin Islands
West Passage
Bur ton Opposes Cancellation of European War Debts
Representative Theodore E. Burton a member of the Allied Debt Commission declared against any cancellation of debts owed by European nations to the United States. His statement emphasizes continuity of repayment obligations despite wartime and postwar needs.
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Washington
Theodore E. Burton
Republican
Ohio
Allied Debt Commission
United States
Burton Defends Allied Debt Payments Ahead of Vienna Talks
Representative Burton argues against cancelling allied debts, citing binding national obligations, origins in American borrowings, and potential risk to world peace. He notes meetings with President Harding and Allied Debt Commission representatives, and touring Europe with other senators and statesmen to press the issue.
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Vienna
Burton
Europe
Harding
Ohio
Allied Debt Commission
Great Britain
United States
Father With Axe When Denied Food
Helmuch Klocksin, 28, confessed in Chicago that he fatally struck his elderly father with an axe after the parent refused to prepare supper. He said he went to the woodshed for the weapon and struck him about eight times.
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Chicago
United News
Helmuch Klocksin
Counterfeit Five Dollar Bills Plague Brockton
Hundreds of counterfeit five dollar notes circulated in Brockton last week after ten were seized. Investigators include S J Cooper of the Treasury Secret Service and State Officer A D Brouillard with Eddie Sherlock and Lt Daniel Guerin of Brockton police. John Salvador of Boston is under arrest in New Bedford and linked to the gang active near the fair grounds.
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Brockton
United States Postal
S. J. Cooper
United States Treasury Secret Service Department
A. D. Brouillard
Eddie Sherlock
Daniel T. Guerin
John Salvador
Boston
New Bedford
Salvador
Whaling City
Fair Grounds
Infant Elizabeth Feola Brushes Flapper Hair Trend
Elizabeth Feola, 11 weeks old of Newton, sports a bobbed Dutch cut hair style. Her mother notes the infant’s hair reached 50 inches at eight weeks and has been clipped twice, a rarity among siblings and healthy with robust growth.
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Elizabeth Felon
Elizabeth Feola
Thomas Feola
Richardson Street
Newton
Elizabeth
Post
Metropolitan Coal Offers Dock Space for Coke Shipment
Metropolitan Coal Company offered its Charlestown and East Boston docks for storage of the first coke shipment at no cost. Mayor Curley bought 2090 tons of coke at under 14 dollars per ton, to be unloaded at the navy yard or the coal company's docks for distribution to families in need later this week.
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Metropolitan Coal Co
Naval
Washington
Curley
Metropolitan Coal Company
Charlestown
Boston
Navy Yard
Judge Rosenblatt Advocates Jewish No-Vengeance Palestine Aid
Judge Bernard A. Rosenblatt spoke at Beacon Wall Brookline urging Jews to aid Palestine’s rebuilding under favorable auspices. He warned against revenge or conquest and urged a coexistence based on mutual interest and culture to foster peace between Arab and Jewish communities.
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Bernard A. Rosenblatt
World’s
Zionist Executive Committee
Palestine
Beacon Wall
Brookline
B'nai Arrith Amos Lodge
Israel
Judge Rosenblatt
Rosenblatt
State motion picture committee favors pre exhibition inspection
B Preston Clark chair of the State Committee on Motion Pictures argues for prior state department inspection of films to prevent unsuitable content. He rebuts a proposal to prosecute after viewing, calling post exhibition action ineffective and futile.
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State Department
B. Preston Clark
State Committee On
Charles H. Cole
Massachusetts
Clark
General Cole
Rupert Hughes Marks New Short Story in Boston Sunday Post
Renowned novelist and screenwriter Rupert Hughes presents an original short story titled Peachblow in the upcoming Boston Sunday Post Magazine, showcasing his narrative range and literary craft.
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Rupert Hughes
Watson Threatens School History Books as Un American Propaganda
Councillor James A. Watson moves to remove or bar from public schools and libraries a list of history texts including McGlaughlin and Van Tyne's History of the United States for Schools and Hart's School History of the United States. He accuses each title of British propaganda and labels John Hancock a smuggler and Samuel Adams a low man.
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Albert Bushnell Hart
James A. Watson
Helen Nicolaus
Watson
Harvard
United States
McGlaughlin and
van Tyne
Everett Barnes
Graves
Burke
Co. H. Ward
Guitteau
Muzzy
Edwin Greenlaw
Willis Mason West
Professor Hart
Councillor Watson
Boston
John Hancock
Samuel Adams
Brookline Maid Held on Assault Charge in $10,000 Bail
Mrs Catherine Kenny Mealey a Brookline maid was held on $10,000 bail after a judge refused bond reduction for arraignment on a charge of assault with intent to kill. She remains in Norfolk County Jail in Dedham with her mother and brother present in court.
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Mary Kenny
Joseph Kenny
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