Funeral for 17 Victims of Salem School Fire Today
Funeral services are set for 17 victims of a Salem school fire. Funds are being raised to cover funeral costs, with transport aid requested from local car owners. The investigation found the fire started in a closet with coats and matches, as Miss Alicia McCann led students to safety.
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F. L. Conway
J. B. McManus
Thomas Little
St. Mary's Cemetery
North Salem
St. John’s Cadets
Carmelita Marie
Alica McCann
Miss McCann
Boston to Inspect Public Schools After Fire Hazard Warning
Mayor Curley orders Building Commissioner O Hearn to launch an immediate investigation of Boston public schools and report necessary safety changes. Officials Corcoran and Lomasney defend school buildings as safe while addressing fears sparked by Fire Hazard Commissioner O Keefe.
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O'Keefe
Boston
Curley
O’hearn
Michael H. Corcoran
Joseph P. Lomasney
Schoolhouse Commission
Patrick O’hearn
Providence to Inspect Schools Fire Conditions Report
Providence, Oct. 29. By unanimous vote the school board adopted a resolution directing the committee on school houses to investigate and report fire conditions in public school buildings. Action follows the Peabody school fire tragedy on Thursday.
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Providence
Providence School Board
Peabody
Roosevelt avoids distress over separation suit
John Ellis Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt's cousin, remains jovial despite Edith M. Roosevelt filing a separation suit. He plans no longer to take an automobile trip through the Shenandoah Valley due to the action.
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New York
John Ellis Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Edith M. Roosevelt
Shenandoah Valley
Roosevelt Denies Cruelty Charge In Domestic Suit
In a vivid breakfast interview at the Roosevelt home 818 Madison avenue New York President Theodore Roosevelt fights the accusation of cruelty brought by his wife Edith Hamersley Biscoe. He laments the suit derailing his plans with daughter Jean and criticizes feminism while asserting a single household head. The article notes his marriage in 1914 and prior wife, with county clerk Schneider explaining the sealing of the matrimonial papers.
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Roosevelt
Madison Avenue
Jean
Mrs. Roosevelt
Tarpon
Isaak Walton
Edith Hamersley Biscoe
Washington, D. C
J. E. Roosevelt
Nannie M. Vance
New York
Jean H
Pansy
Gladys
Fairman Dick
Stuyvesant Tish, Jr
Roosevelt and Robbe
Wall Street
William F. Schneider
City Pay Request Aims at Union Wages for Bookbinders
Ex Representative P. J. Mc Manus filed with the City Council a protest over library trustees denying 11 city employed bookbinders their union wage scale. The council may next Monday be asked to approve mayoral transfers to fund the union rate until next fiscal year’s budget is approved.
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P. Joseph McManus
Mayors Ride Goat at Odd Fellows Mayors Night
Mayors Blakeley of Malden and Adams of Melrose rode the Goat during a Security Lodge meeting. Twelve Melrose Reading and Malden candidates reached the third degree as scores of visitors from the three towns attended.
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Blakeley
Malden
Adams
Melrose
Reading
Peabody School Fire Likely From Matches In Sweepings
Deputy George C. Neal and inspectors investigated the Peabody fire, deeming it started in the basement sweepings room where old cadet uniforms and four wooden barrels held sweepings. He rejected arson and cigarette theories, favoring ignition from matches with possible rat involvement.
Meat and uric acid cure with rheuma salts routine
The article advertises rheuma salts as a daily morning rinse for kidneys to flush uric acid. It claims meat raises uric acid and that two teaspoonfuls in water before breakfast neutralize acids and keep kidneys clean and active. Available at drug stores.
Obituaries and Births in Boston Area 1916 Notices
Birth announcement for Mr and Mrs Bucknam in Malden. Multiple death notices list funeral details across East Boston Roxbury Somerville and surrounding towns with churches and cemeteries. includes Costello in Lowell and other services. Names include Anderson Bratt Clemens Conlan Gately Graham Hazen Kelley Lally La Roche Leach Light McGrath Reardon Stripps Swallow Swepney Villemaire Wild Williams and An with various addresses and mass times.
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Gate of Heaven
Reardon
Brookline
Mary G
William J
Annie T. Reardon
Johnson
Swepney
Cambridge
William H
Annie J. Sweeney
Ford
Warren St
St. Patrick's Church
Holyhood
Tuthill
Walter B. Tuthill
Fayette St
Villemaire
Henry F
Ovide
Justine Villemaire
Thomas
Williams
North Reading
Carrie Fi
John H. Williams
Washington St
Medford
Mass
Jamaica Plain
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Philadelphia
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