Big crowds flock to South Boston Carnival Parade
The South Boston Carnival draws huge crowds for a two day event with a 2 PM fire fighting demonstration by the Boston Fire Department on land and water. Fireboat 44, water tower No 3, a hook and ladder company and two engines will stage near the Head House and Strandway as Governor Walsh, Mayor Gartner, and other guests observe. The mobile division, led by James J. Twohig, features 100+ pleasure vehicles plus corporate trucks, with three Woman Suffrage Association machines to parade and later speak along the Strandway.
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South Boston
Peninsula District
Boston Fire Department
Head House
Walter S. Eaton
Hook and Ladder
John J. Murphy
James J. Twohig
Internal Revenue
Paul J. Jakmaugh
Walsh
George A. Gartner
Marine Park
Michael J. Mahoney
Woman Suffrage Association
Parade Pageant and Civic Parade Elements Highlight in Broad Way District
The event line includes St Vincent's Brigade under Colonel John J. O'Brien with 500 troops and a 125 piece fife and drum band led by Raymond Benoit. Ex Alderman J Frank O'Hare and Henry Curry lead in charge as Loyal Order of Moose bring about 2000 in line. The Horribles with Tuohy provide comic relief as 7000 in parade. Baseball contests at M Street Playgrounds, open yacht club houses afterward, and evening fireworks cap the events. Winners include James McCourt Charles Sullivan Joseph Reardon William Mahan Joseph Sullivan James McDonough and George Glover. prizes awarded by Public Service Commissioner William H. O'Brien. The pageant At the End of the Rainbow draws large crowds with singing dancing and dialogue.
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St. Vincent’s
John J. O’brien
Raymond Benoit
Charlestown Navy Yard
Commonwealth
J. Frank O'Hare
Henry Curry
Order of Moose
William N. Cronin
Martin I
Tuohy
Lower Broadway
Dorchester Avenue
Broadway
Farragut Road
Strandway
K Streets
W. N. Cronins
James M. Curleys
M Street
Joseph Reardon
William Mahan
Joseph Sullivan
William Regan
James McDonough
George Glover
Tommie McCarthy
Public Service
William H. O’brien
Cubans Forget American Dead Memorial Turret Ship Guns
In Havana the Maine relics remain at the rubbish dock four years after the United States gave the turret and guns for a monument to American sailors who died in the Maine disaster. La Noche reports Cuban authorities plan to request return of the turret and guns to the United States as no memorial construction has progressed.
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Havana
American Congress
Maine
la Noche
United States
Cuba
Old Boy Wakes Up Campaign Tour Hits Essex Middlesex
Former Governor Eugene N Toss tours Massachusetts in support of the Republican bid for governor. His musical militia drew 2500 listeners across 14 Essex and Middlesex towns as campaign chatter and the Foss-Driscoll-Fitzgerald feud inject new life into the primary. Supporters shouted How's Fitz and Soak em Gene during the visits.
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Lowell
Eugene N. Toss
Militia
Essex
Middlesex
Foss-Driscoll-Fitzgerald
Foss
Fitz
Gene
Haverhill
Lawrence
Voss
Foss speaks to crowds as he tours New England
Activist Gene Foss greets large crowds in Haverhill Amesbury Merrimack and other towns. He dismisses labor strikes as political manipulation and vows readiness for confrontation while recalling a hat signal walkout. Police monitor Lawrence and Lowell crowds as Foss claims he will run for governor again.
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Itz
Foss
Washington
New York
Philadelphia
Denny Driscoll
Walsh
Amesbury
Merrimack
West Newbury
Groveland
Haverhill
North Andover
Andover
Lynnfield
Wakefield
Reading
North Reading
Georgetown
Lawrence
Lowell
Beacon Hill
Fitz
Veteran newspaper carrier retired to easier post at North station
Charles Th. Shaw, a 72 year old Civil War veteran who has delivered mail in Newspaper Row for 42 years, was relieved by Postmaster Murray yesterday and reassigned to an easier berth at the North postal station. Shaw carried letters for Richard Olney United States Commissioner Hayes Billy O Garcelon and local publishers. William J. O'Brien praised his long faithful service and announced a promotion to a better job at the North station.
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Charles TH. Shaw
Murray
North
Mr. Shaw
Richard Olney
United States
Hayes
Billy O’ Garcelon
William J. O’brien
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Joe Jackson
Alexandria & Murray
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Sully Family
Warren & Keane
Roberta
Verara
Eva Tanguay
Women's Orchestra
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Virtue Neal
Majestic
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Seust
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Victoria Reid Ladies’ Orchestra
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Revere
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