Hitch Over Title Deed to Gallups Island Sale
Boston city leaders reported a snag in selling Gallups Island quarantine station to the federal government. The deal lacks a mandatory care clause for smallpox and other patients, though Washington wants a separate care agreement. Council tabled the matter for the next meeting due to missing members.
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Gallups Island
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Washington
Congress
Boston
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Coleman
City coal contract attracts no bids from dealers
City institutions face a 17,000 ton soft coal supply gap as local dealers refuse to bid citing transportation and other issues. Mayor Curley met with two large dealers to seek help and plans to re advertise bids to close September 21.
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Curley
Irish athlete dies of wounds in France at 24
Michael Donovan, noted Irish athlete and rifle crack shot, died from head wounds in a Boulogne hospital after serving with Princess Patricia's Light Infantry. A native of Bandon Cork, he had worked for Cummings Woolen Co Worcester and volunteered from Ottawa in 1914. He leaves a mother, two brothers in England and France, and sisters Mrs Harris of Auburn and Mrs Finn of East Cambridge.
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France
Boston
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Bandon
Cork
Cummings Woolen Company
Worcester
Ottawa
Canada
Princess Patricia’s Light Infantry
Ireland
England
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Wellington Road
Medford
Thomas Harris
Auburn
William Finn
East Cambridge
Six Hundred Strikers Vote to Return to Work
Westfield machinists at the Westfield Manufacturing bicycle plant, who struck on August 18 over alleged union discrimination, voted to return to work next Monday. A conference next Tuesday will consider reinstatement of four men whose discharge sparked the strike.
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Westfield
Westfield Manufacturing Company
Six Nurses Graduate From Quincy City Hospital
Six young women graduated as nurses from Quincy City Hospital. The class includes Irene F. Corbett Gertrude B Fizherty Barbara K E Cameron Violet M Robertson Estelle M Babcock and Margaret Ga Tuohig. They presented the hospital with 100 to start a fund for a children’s ward.
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Quincy City Hospital
Irene F. Corbett
Gertrude B. Fizherty
Barbara KE. Cameron
Violet M. Robertson
Estelle M. Babcock
Margaret Ga. Tuohig
Burlington’s Personally Conducted Tours to the Pacific Coast
A Burlington advertisement promotes daylight travel from Denver to the Pacific Coast with guided tours. A seasoned agent promises attentive service and no extra charge, inviting readers to visit the Boston office or request folders and maps.
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Pacific Coast
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Colorado Springs
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Rockies
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West
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New
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Washington
Boston
Spirit of 76 and Spirit of 86 figure in Malden obituary
The funeral of James W. Costello 62 a Malden waterfront figure will be held from 95 West Street Malden and a requiem mass at Immaculate Conception Church. Costello born in London decades ago retired from a paper bag business. He popularized his shrimp fishing hobby wore a straw hat and carried a shrimp net. He marched in the preparedness parade and was celebrated by the Class of 1886 on a Nantasket trip. Also Brooke line children staged a Pageant of Flowers at Tech Field directed by Samuel Nason and others with costumes and calcium lighting.
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James W. Costello
Malden
West Street
Immaculate Conception Church
Costello
London
Atlantic Avenue
Joseph Jefferson
Grover Cleveland
Big Tech
Nantasket
Cape
Young Harold Kocen Returns Home After Wandering
After nine days with only a bathing suit, seven year old Harold Kocen walked back to 31 Lowell Street Revere, greeted by a worried mother. Patrolman Edward G O Hara chased the boy to Oak Island and compelled his homecoming.
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Howard Kocen
Lowell Street
Revere
Harold
Edward G. O'Hara
Belmont Gardener and Daughter Injured as Car Overturns
Henry Frost, 85, market gardener of Belmont, and his daughter Helen Butterfield, — both of 2x9 Pleasant Street — were injured when their automobile overturned on Forest Street Winchester while trying to move their machine from a car track near an approaching electric car.
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Henry Frost
Pleasant Street
Belmont
Helen Butterfield
Forest Street
Winchester
Up-to-date School Frocks by Maude Hall in Woman’s Section
Maude Hall explains how to modernize a simple material school frock. The piece appears in the Woman’s Section of the upcoming Sunday Post, offering practical style guidance for young girls.
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Maude Hall
Next Sunday Post
Dr. John W. Coughlin\u2019s Mother Dies at 95
Mrs. Abigail Coughlin, mother of Dr. John W. Coughlin national Democratic committeeman from this state, died at her home in Fall River at age 95.
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John W. Coughlin
Fall River
Abigail Coughlin
National Democratic
Love Letter Contest Sees Mail Volume Surge
The editor reports that love letter submissions have doubled in six weeks and urges readers to judge quality by the letters in the coming Sunday Post.
Connors Named Temporary Chairman for Springfield Convention
Theobald M. Connors of Northampton, former mayor and Democratic candidate for Congress in the Second District, was chosen by the Democratic state committee as temporary chairman for the state convention in Springfield on October 7 at 1 o clock. The permanent chairman will be selected later.
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Theobald M. Connors
Northampton
That
Congress
Democratic State Committee
Springfield
Mayor Curley Decries Budget Report as Juggle with Figures
The mayor denounces a Finance Commission budget report as grossly misleading. He says he secured 412 802 dollars for street work and insists he initiated the funding despite the rebuke.
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Curley
Finance Commission
Fraim and Somers Wed in Waltham Methodist Church
Miss Esther Fraim daughter of Mr and Mrs John Fraim of Waltham and Ransom E Somers of Waltham were married by Rev J E Coon in the First Methodist Church last night. A reception in the church parlors followed the ceremony.
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Esther Fraim
John Fraim
Waltham
Ransom E. Somers
J. E. Coon
State militia reserve forms with 50,000 members
A new State militia reserve was started at a meeting led by Adjutant-General Pearson at the South Armory Irvington Street. It will include all military training schools semi military bodies and high school regiments in the State with a total strength of about 50 000 men as of yesterday afternoon, with over 70 representatives from various military bodies in attendance.
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Pearson
South Armory
Irvington Street
Temporary organization forms to guide future military associations
A newly formed temporary body will oversee moulding various military associations into a compact group. Earl B. Blake is temporary chairman and Robert K. Stone serves as temporary secretary treasurer. A committee including Hugh W Ogden and F W Parks will draft legislation for state recognition and upcoming legislature presentation.
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Earl B. Blake
Brockton Business and Professional Men’s Training School
Robert KK. Stone
First Corps Cadets Business and Professional Men’s Training School
Hugh W
Ogden
Provisional Cavalry
F. W. Parks
Fitchburg Military Training School
Robert Bonner
American Legion
Joseph Sargent
Edward J. Sampson
Ninth Regiment Association
Blake
Stone
Taft Sees U S Favorable to League to Enforce Peace
Former President William Howard Taft telegrams Finley J. Shepard that the United States seems ready to favor the League to Enforce Peace plan for an arbitral league of nations after the European war ends. The statement came as the conference opened in New York.
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New York
United States
League
League of Nations
William Howard Taft
Taft
Finley J. Shepard
Sarah Adams hailed as expert cook in Sunday Post
Readers say Sarah Adams knows more about dinner than several French chefs. Her signed Sunday Post articles reflect a lifetime of experience.
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Sarah Adams
The
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