Public Open Markets Opened Across Boston Area
Under P. J. Connolly’s supervision a Roxbury Crossing market opened with an unusual vegetable sale as farmers from across the state arrived. The market will run each morning from 6 until sold out at Central Square East Boston Thomas Park South Boston Gibson Street Dorchester and Monment Square Charlestown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
P. J. Connolly
Roxbury Crossing
Central Square
East Boston
Thomas Park
South Boston
Gibson Street Playground
Dorchester
Monment Square
Charlestown
40 000 Draft Dodgers Herded Into New York Armories
In New York and nearby cities more than 40 000 suspected draft evaders were herded into armories during the war draft crackdown. Estimates show slacker rates from 50 percent in Brooklyn to 5 percent or less in outlying towns as the largest mobilization yet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
United States
Draft roundup sweeps Westchester and New Jersey communities
Federal draft sweep led by Charles F. DeWoody targets evaders across Westchester County and nearby New Jersey. Government agents and thousands of service members hunt for slackers as women plead for relatives, with prisoners sent to Fort Jay and Camp Upton. Some may wait days in the corrals before examination enables release or court action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Westchester County
New Jersey
Charles F. DeWoody
New York Bureau of Investigation
Department of Justice
Fort Jay
Camp Upton
No Change in Car Strike Sparks War Board Action
Middlesex and Boston Street Railway officials refuse to submit their workers strike for higher wages to the National War Labor Board. James Vahey, counsel for the Boston Street Car Men's Union, went to Washington with M J Higgins and W T Timmins to seek the expected wage award. Union support was voted at joint meetings. special sessions will decide further action as the fifth day passes with no settlement and both sides remaining firm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middlesex & Boston Street Railway Company
National War Labor Board For Adjustment
National Board
James Vahey
Washington
M. J. Higgins
W. T. Timmins
Boston Street Carmen’s
National War Labor Board
Boston Elevated Railway Company
Vahey
Middlesex & Boston
Boston Street Car Men's Union
Bay State Street Railway
Carmen's
Funeral attendance marks Tremont Theatre manager John Schoeffel
Actors and personal friends attended the funeral of John B. Schoeffel, late manager of the Tremont Theatre, at St. Cecilia's Church Back Bay. Ushers included theatre company reps and Local 11 members. Body to be taken to Rochester New York for burial.
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John B. Schoeffel
Tremont Theatre
St. Cecilia’s Church
Back Bay
Rochester
N. Y
Funeral for Rev John D Tierney in Charlestown Church
Cardinal OConnell presided at a high Mass of requiem for Rev John D Tierney late pastor of St Catherine s Charlestown. Officials included Bishops Peterson Patterson and priests Powers Walsh Higgins. Burial followed at Holy Cross Cemetery Malden.
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Cardinal O'Connell
John D. Tierney
St. Catherine’s
Charlestown
Mer
John B. Peterson
St. John's Seminary
George J. Patterson
St. Vincent's Church
South Boston
William F. Powers
St. Rose's Church
Chelsea
F Francis Walsh
Immaculate Conception Church
Revere
Patrick T. Higgins
St. Francis Church
Braintree
John Fletcher
St. Cecilia's Church
Thurifer
James McGuinness
Our Lady of Lourdes Church
Beach
Labor Congress Seeks New Trial for Mooney
In Derby England the labor congress adopted an urgent resolution urging President Wilson to grant a new trial for Thomas J. Mooney sentenced to death in San Francisco over the 1916 dynamite plot tied to the preparedness day parade.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Derby
England
Labor Congress
Wilson
Thomas J. Mooney
San Francisco
Solemn Mass Held for Private Leo J. Driscoll in Dorchester
A high mass was celebrated at St. Matthew's Church Dorchester for Private Leo J. Driscoll of H Company West Infantry recently killed in France. He was the son of Thomas Driscoll of 119 Milton Avenue Dorchester and enlisted in September 1917.
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St. Matthew’s Church
Dorchester
Leo J. Driscoll
H Co
West Infantry
France
Driscoll
Thomas Driscoll
Milton Avenue
Help from Cities Urged to Harvest bumper New England Crops
State Board of Agriculture and Public Safety Committee urge city workers and vacationers to aid in harvests during September and October. Secretary Wilfrid Wheeler asks men with September vacations and farm experience in stores banks and offices to work on farms for a week or two to augment farm labor. Officials aim to keep schoolboy farmers at work until Oct 12 if possible.
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State Board of Agriculture
Public Safety Comittee
Wilfrid Wheeler
Board of Agriculture
Public Safety Committee
Wheeler
Many arrests after shooting of Lenine
The Pravda reports Moscow arrests of many officers and Social Revolutionary party members tied to the Lenine assassination attempt. It cites searches after the Petrograd Aug 31 attack on Moses Uritzky and shots exchanged at the British embassy, with two fatalities including a Briton.
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Amsterdam
Pravda
Social Revolutionary Party
Moscow
Nikolai Lenine
Petrograd
Moses Uritzky
People’s Commissary
No Coercion of City Employees Statement Issued
After a City Hall conference with Mayor Peters, Congressman Peter F. Tague announces that the mayor will not permit coercion of city employees. He says department heads must not influence subordinates political views, denying rumors that Mayor Paynters would aid his opponent Fitzgerald.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peters
City Hall
Peter F. Tague
Fitzgerald
Keeper's Body Identified in Maine Coast Mystery
The body found near Long Island was identified as Samuel Holbrook 27 a first assistant keeper at Libby Island Light Station who drowned June 6. The body drifted 80 miles from Machias Bay to within five miles of his Swan's Island home. He was married.
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Southwest Harbor
Long Island
Samuel Holbrook
Libby Island
Machias Bay
Holbrook
Swan's Island
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C.C. Bowles & CO
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New York City
Bronx
Schoeffel Funeral
Tierney
Cardinal
Liberty Bank
Mooney
Lenine
Tague
Filene’s
The
Uniform Reclamation Bureau
America
Reclamation Bureau
Summer Street
Oxford
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Chillan
Cerral
Valdivia
Keeper
Castoria
War Industries Board
Filene
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