Runaway Horse Dragged Salvation Army Worker in Somerville
Adjutant Emily Parsons a 42 year old Salvation Army worker was dragged nearly half a mile by a runaway horse in Somerville. Patrolman Jeremiah O Connor seized the bridle and, with Joseph McAvoy and John Williams help stopped the animal after being kicked. Both Parsons and Lieutenant Nettie Rowe were bruised but not seriously injured and expected to recover.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emily Par Sons
Salvation Army
Somerville
Jeremiah O’connor
Joseph McAvoy
John Williams
Columbus Day Civic Celebration Plans in Boston
The Public Celebration Association approved by Mayor Peters plans a Monday civic celebration featuring an evening parade and a retreat ceremony by State Guard troops at Boston Common. A Pan American meeting, community singing, a South and Central America themed program, D Avinos band concert, and a Knights of Columbus banquet are listed with additional Italian society parade and Ford Hall mass meeting to follow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Guard
Parkman Bandstand
Boston Common
Public Celebration Association
Peters
South
Central America
D’avino
Knights of Columbus
Ford Hall
Denial of Coal Shortage in New England from Trade Leader
Borden Covel, president of the New England Wholesale Coal Association, telegrams Washington that there is no soft coal shortage in New England. He says Senator Lodge's push for better railcar facilities is unnecessary as dealers cannot move their stock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New England
Borden Covel
New England Wholesale Coal Association
United States Railroad Administration
Washington
Senator Lodge
Old Germanic Museum Now a Harvard Carpenter Shop
The Germanic Museum at Harvard has been transformed into a carpenter shop. Students wield saws and planers all day while the Kaiser and ex-Emperor imagery fade from attention. A buzzsaw replaces Wilhelm’s gleaming charger as work proceeds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kaiser
Holland
Harvard Carpenters
Old Germanic Museum
Crimson Knights
T Square
Wilhelm
Longshoremen Strike Expands After Wage Ruling
The National Adjustment Commission ruled against coastwise longshoremen demanding 6 cents to 1 dollar an hour. About 8,000 New York coastwise workers and similar numbers in Boston Baltimore Newport News and Norfolk are affected. Perishables to be moved by strikers including fruit cargo handlers and clerks. The strike began with deep sea workers and spread to United Fruit Company shipments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
National Adjustment Commission
Adjustment Board
Boston
Baltimore
Newport News
Norfolk
Williams
International Association
Deepsea
United Fruit Company
Zacapa
Limon
Costa Rica
Provincetown Couple Marks 60th Anniversary
In Provincetown on October 9 60 years after their 1859 wedding Evalina N Soper and Andrew T Williams were feted by locals and Cape visitors. Williams a longtime Centenary M E Church leader and small business man held roles in town affairs, fire company, library trustee and school board secretary since 1881. The couple has one son and two daughters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Provincetown
Evalina N. Soper
Andrew T. Williams
Cape
J. T. Wright
Williams
M. E. Church
Union Wharf Company
Rescue Fire & Ladder Company
King William Lodge
Marine Lodge
I. O
Joseph Warren
R. A
Counterfeit Silver Certificate $1 Bill In Circulation
United States Secret Service agents in New England report a bogus one dollar bill passed locally. The note is a silver certificate from 1899, considered a poor imitation by Harry L. Barker, head of the New England bureau, though the seal and blue numeral appear authentic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Secret Service
New England
Harry L. Barker
The
Secret Service
United States
Canadian government to take control of Grand Trunk
Ottawa reports the Canadian government will assume control of the Grand Trunk railway in Canada and the United States within weeks. The Grand Trunk will be operated by Canadian National Railway Corporation, which already runs the Intercolonial, Prince Edward Island, Canadian Northern, and National Transcontinental railways and the mercantile marine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottawa
Ont
Grand Trunk Railway
Canada
United States
Ottaw Journal
Canadian National Railway Corporation
State Today
Intercolonial Railway
Princ Edward Island Railway
Canadia Northern Railway
National Transcontinental Railway
Mercantile Marine
Bomber to Attempt Nonstop Flight to Chicago
Greenport New York dispatch says the Handley Page giant arriving from Parrsboro will try a nonstop flight to Chicago next week. New York representatives announced the plan with twelve passengers to be carried on the trip.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greenport
N. Y
Handley-Page
Parrsboro
Chicago
New York
Rosindale Woman Endorses Dr True Elixir Remedy
A Rosindale Massachusetts woman praises Dr True Elixir The Famil Laxative and Worm Expeller for relief from gnawing stomach pain and worm expulsion after years of weight loss. She claims renewed health and urges others to use the prescription sold at all dealers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert J. Patch
Rosindale Mass
Dr. True
True
Advocates Deporting Bolsheviks in Senate Debate
In Washington on October 10 Senator King of Utah attacked federal authorities for not deporting members of pestiferous gangs aiming to destroy the government by force. Senator McCumber of North Dakota argued deportations would have deprived the League of Nations debate of key witnesses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
King
Utah
Senate
McCumber
North Dakota
Senate Today
Foreign Relations Committee
League of Nations
Senators Debate Minor Case and Deportation Requests
The discussion followed a resolution directing the Secretary of War to report on Robert Minor the newspaper man arrested in France for alleged soviet propaganda Minor had returned to the United States to continue revolutionary activities and was likened to Leon Trotzky by Senator Poindexter Senator King urged action citing Minors New York activities and pressed for deportation of Bolshevik consul general L C Martens Senator Moses dismissed the idea that such positions were attained by stealth.
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King
Robert Minor
France
Poindexter
Washington
Minor
United States
Leon Trotzky
Canada
Europe
New York
Secretary of War
Department
Labnor
L. C. K. Martens
Bullitt
William C. Bullitt
Paris
Foreign Relations Committee
Moses
New Hampshire
Pressmen strike in New York linked to Bolshevist leaders
New York reports a strike and lockout of pressmen and feeders with hundreds of compositors walking out and magazines suspended. George L. Berry, head of the International Printing Pressmen union, accuses Bolshevist leaders of fomenting revolution and terrorism and outlines alleged party principles including hostility to contracts and worker profit distribution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Georgel. Berry
International Printing Pressmen and Assistants’ Union
Major Berry
America
Government to Persist with Fertilizer Licensing System
Washington reports the Department of Agriculture will keep using its licensing system to curb profiteering in fertilizer raw materials. A statement issued after the Oct 6-7 producers conference said a fair profit could not be determined and prices remain unfixed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Department of Agriculture
Butler Arrested in Necklace Theft Case
New York report states John Reider, a recent Russian arrival and butler, was arrested after attempts to sell a $3000 pearl necklace for $200 led to the recovery of jewels valued at $60,000. Police say the theft occurred Sept. 9 at the home of Malcolm D. Whitman, a New York cotton dealer, in Lawrence, L I.
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New York
John Reider
Russia
Reider
Malcolm D. Whitman
Lawrence
L. I. Reider
Free Zones Proposed to Ease Trade at U S Ports
Representatives from New York San Francisco Chicago Galveston Boston and other ports urged Congress to authorize free zones in American ports. They argued such zones would let foreign goods wait for export and allow processing of foreign raw materials into finished products for sale abroad without duties, with safeguards to protect American commerce.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Chambers of Commerce of
New York
San Francisco
Chicago
Galveston
Boston
Senate Commerce and
House
Ways and Means
Fordney
United States
Symphony Concert for Boston Motor Corps Guardsmen
Members of the First Motor Corps State Guard on police duty in the city attended a concert by the Boston Symphony Orchestra at the Cadet’s Armory. About 00 guardsmen were present. Afterward the musicians dined with corps officers at the Thorndike.
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First Motor Corps
State Guard
Cadet’s Armory
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Thorndike
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Emily Parsons
Nettie Rowe
Somerville Salvation Army
Sawhorse
Ex-Kaiser
Charger
Commission
Tha, Press Publishing Co
Maurice Ketten
Grand Trunk
Rosindale
Tremont Street
Beacon Street
Oughton & Uutto
Mitchell, Duffey Co
Mass
Bolshevistic
Union
Butler
Chambers of Commerce
Wolf’s
Zibeline
Hanover and
Portland Streets
Washington Street
E. Z. Union
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