Tech Union strike leaves students to wait tables
Five hundred fifty technology students at the Tech Union staged a noon strike after six professional waiters quit over promised raises from $7 to $8 a week. Colton denied collective talks, discharging Lundstrom and prompting the others to don aprons and serve their peers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tech Union
Tech
Trinity Place
Robert Colton
Nicholas Lundstrom
Colton
Charles Mason
Louis Cowan
Nathan Goldstein
John Fr. Kinkey
John Jensen
Tundstrom
Lundstrom
Chelsea
Mr. Colton
Suffragettes Raid Doctors in London Protests
Militant suffragettes raid Harley Street targets in London as they strike against Reginald McKenna's order to resume forcible feeding of hunger strikers. Women smash windows along the medical district, signaling the start of protests against the revived torture policy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Home Secretary
Reginald McKenna
Harley Street
Women’s Social and Political Union
Miss Rotch Triumphs Over Sears In Maryland Tennis Final
Miss E. L. Rotch of Boston defeats Miss Evelyn Sears of Boston in the Maryland women's championship final. The match ends in straight sets 1-5 and 6-2 with Rotch securing the title.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
E. L. Rotch
Boston
Mass
Hotchkiss
Evelyn Sears
Maryland
Yom Kippur Observances Fill Boston Synagogues
Thousands of Hebrews packed every synagogue and temple in Boston and vicinity as sundown marked the start of Yom Kippur. Officials estimate more than 100000 Jews gathered for the holiest day on the Jewish calendar.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Deny Chinatown Is Vice Denial Sparks Protest
The friends of Sing Wah, arrested at 25 Oxford Street Wednesday afternoon for possession of untaxed opium, gathered at Wah's store last night to challenge a published claim that the place lured white girls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sing Wah
Oxford Street
Wah
Day of Atonement Observed Across Greater Boston
Virtually all Jewish owned businesses closed at sundown and reopen at sunset. Congregations filled with out of town attendees, sailors, bankers, and military members in uniform participated in Kol Nidre and Day of Atonement services across Boston temples and synagogues. Clergy included Rabbis Levi, Wichler, Israeli, Rubenovitz, Shoher, and Sharfama with multiple temples hosting large crowds and special services into the day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greater
Boston
American Bankers’ Association
United States Navy
Temple of Jerusalem
Azazel
Greater Boston
Harry Levi
Temple Israel
Commonwealth Avenue
Chabei Shalon
Union Park Street
M. M. Wichler
EB. Wolkowich
Temple Adath Jeshurun
Blue Hill Avenue
Roxbury
P. Israeli
M. Halpern
Brunswick Hall
H. H. Rubenovitz
J. Karisburg
Mishkan Tefila
Moreland Street
Beth Hamedrosh Hagadal
Crawford Street
S. S. Shoher
Beth Israel Synagogue
Baldwin Place
North Nd
Emanu- el
Chelsea
Silver
Cincinnati
Sharfama
North
Russell Street
West End
Re AL
Re ES Eeierar
Chinatown Protests Over Accusations of White Slavery
Wah establishment officials deny claims of white slavery and press that two white women were not smoking opium when police searched the premises. A banker leaders’ crowd then witnessed Boston’s grand Charles River fireworks display for the American Bankers Association convention.
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Yee Wah
Sing Wah Tola
Post
Chinatown
Wah
Lew Way
Charles River Basin
New England
American Bankers’ Association
Admiral Dewey
Boston
Esplanade
Harvard Bridge
Cambridge
The
Charles
Argentine Beef Plans Meet Market Skepticism in Boston
Market traders doubt Boston buyers will accept frozen Argentine beef despite mayoral praise. They warn frozen meat risks and shrinkage, foresee slow growth for large imports to replace domestic beef, and chide the mayor for optimistic remarks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fitzgerald
Lunched Donated to Salvation Army After Bankers Clambake
Seven hundred lunches prepared for a visiting bankers clambake were given to the Salvation Army yesterday. Extra meals will be distributed today to the city’s poor as crowds had been smaller than expected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New England
Nantasket
J. Pluvius
Joe Knowles
United States
Boston
Salvation Army
Joseph Shepherd
People’s Palace
Shepherd
Gifford
South End
Nantasket Beach
Britain urged to join Panama exposition in 1915
At the Sons of St George banquet in Brunswick A W Gibbs of California announced a plan to move a resolution asking Great Britain to exhibit at the Panama exposition in 1915. Guests applauded. Gibbs urged Britain to reconsider its decision and support the event.
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Sons of St George
Brunswick
A. W. J. Gibbs
California
Great Britain
England
Mr. Gibbs
Germany
Pacific Coast Gazette
San Francisco
W. S. Barlow
Boston
Thornton Held After Seattle Flight From Bank Checks
Walter A. Thornton aged 21 living at 25 Denmark Street Back Bay arrived at police headquarters in custody from Seattle where he fled last February Inspectors Sheehan and Burke brought him across the continent Thornton was a trusted clerk for George C Brooks of Shawmut National Bank and is indicted for raising and uttering checks totaling 1140 Inquiries claim the scheme may have netted nearly 6000 since the indictment was filed
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Walter A. Thornton
Denmark Street
Back Bay
Sheehan
Burke
Seattle
Thornton
George C. Brooks
Shawmut National Bank
Fog-bound Boston harbor trip for bankers ends with fish dinner
Nearly 2500 delegates of the American Bankers Association took a foggy harbor sight-seeing trip from Boston to Nantasket. Three Nantasket-Boston steamers carried riders to view the harbor while a Port Book of Boston and loudspeakers explained sights.
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American Bankers’ Association
Boston Harbor
Nantasket
Boston
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Infante
van Loon
Arsenigo Paris Green
McChure Newspaper Syndicate
Hayes
Boston Market
Dainties
Will
Sons of St. George
Frisco
Golden State
Panama Exposition
Navy Yard
Hollis Street Theatre
Wrigley’s
Down Harbor
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