Delayed Arrival Costly Hit for Michigan Cargo
The steamer Michigan from Hamburg and Antwerp arrived in Boston harbor hours after midnight, costing consignees 25000 in new tariffs. Storms caused a 48 hour delay after leaving Antwerp on Sept 7, preventing a timely port arrival and triggering the loss. Captain A L Tribe reported the captain could not reach the harbor in time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Consignees
Michigan
Boston
Hamburg
Antwerp
Thuragay
Reading
A. L. Tribe
Episcopal Council is Completed In Portland
The National Council of the Protestant Episcopal Church is completed after deputies elected members and bishops ratified them. Elected by deputies: Free man, Mann, Milton, Stires, Baker, Stewart Bryan, Mansfield, Mather, Parker, Pepper, Bley, Wyckoff. bishops Brown Lines Manning and a Coadjutor These of southern Ohio chosen by bishops. Resolutions support fair treatment for ex servicemen and world peace. Women’s licensing as lay readers rejected. equal voice in church affairs urged. Council relations with Federal Church of Christ in America defined. communion service title to remain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portland
Ore
National Council of the Protestant Episcopal Church
House of Deputies
House of Bishops
James EK. Freeman
Washington
D. C
Alexander Mann
Boston
W. H. Milton
Wilmington
N. C
E. M. Stires
New York
Stephen Baker
John Stewart Bryan
Richmond
Burton Mansfield
New Haven
Philadelphia
Harper Bley
Rochester
N. Y
H. Co
Wyckoff
Watconville
Cal
National Council
W C. Brown
Virginia
E. T. Lines
Newark
W. T. Manning
Ohio
Federal Church of Christ In America
Social Service Department
Commission On Christian Unity
Council
Bishops
Coal Shipments Reach Boston As Strike Ends
An influx of hard coal by rail and barge flows into Boston after the miners’ strike ends. Cars, barges, and a 25 000 ton Devereaux coal shipment to Metropolitan Coal Company signal rising supply and optimism for New England fuel amid uncertain deliveries.
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Boston
Philadelphia
Xact
B. Preston Clark
New England
New Haven
New Haven Railroad
Boston Harbor
Chelsea
Devereaux
Metropolitan Coal Company
Germantown
Warning of New Counterfeit Twenty Dollar Bill
Chief Moran of the United States secret service cautions about a new counterfeit twenty dollar Federal Reserve note. The fake, linked to the Atlanta issue, bears check letter H and face plate 83. It appears lithographed on genuine paper by bleaching small denomination bills, with a crudely printed Cleveland portrait and hand drawn numbers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moran
United States Secret Service
Federal Reserve
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Cleveland
Secret Service
Two Boys Burned by Fireworks Bomb in Medford
George Delaney and Albert Parker aged 12 were badly burned and bruised on the arms and body last evening after a pyrotechnic bomb they were using as a hockey puck exploded. They found the unexploded device in the parkway earlier and played with it outside their home at 16 Rockville Terrace. A neighborhood physician treated them at home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Delaney
Albert Parker
Rockville Terrace
Medford
Parkway
Jews Observe Rosh Hashanah Across Boston Synagogues
Thousands fill Boston synagogues marking the Jewish New Year 5683 with ram’s horn blasts and prayers. Messages from President Harding and Louis Kirstein urge loyalty to the republic and aiding the less fortunate. Services held at Temple Israel and other temples. Jewish Prison Aid Society arranges special observances for inmates with special meals and no labor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Greater Boston
Harding
Commerce Hoover
Cox
New England
Louis Marshall
Louis E. Kirstein
Mr. Snirstein
Temple Israel
Commonwealth Avenue
Harry Levi
Henry L. Gideon
Levig
Temple
Temple Chabel Shalom
Union Park Street
Samuel J.abrams
E. Wolkowich
H. R. Gold
Adath Jeshurun
Blue Hill Avenue
Roxbury
Epstein
Crawford Street
David Shohet
Temple Beth- el
Fowler Street
Jewish Prison Aid Society
E. 8. Goulston
Prison Aid
Moses L. Sedar
Massachusetts
Miss Suzette Courtney to Wed John Clunie
The engagement lists Miss Suzette Courtney daughter of Dr and Mrs J W Courtney of 9 Bay State Road to John Clunie of 382 Commonwealth Avenue son of the late General Thomas J Clunie. The wedding is planned for late fall. Courtney is a Back Bay physician’s daughter and May School graduate class of 1922. Clunie is Harvard graduate of 1919.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Suzette Courtney
J. W. Courtney
Bay State Road
John Clunie
Commonwealth Avenue
Thomas J. Clunie
Miss Courtney
Back Bay
Miss May
Clunie
Harvard
Argonaut miners bury 46 after deadly mine disaster
The Argonaut mine in Jackson Cal where 46 bodies were recovered was burial today. The town halted all activity as rescue crews stopped their efforts for the seventh victim. Twenty seven bodies were taken to the Catholic Church with eight left at the scene or awaiting transport.
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Argonaut
Associated Preas
Jackson
Eigh Vatant
Newton Woman Grows Gigantic Sunflower
A Newton resident, Mrs. George A. Botsford of 153 Florence Street, has a giant sunflower reaching 11 feet tall with a 14 inch diameter blossom weighing 20 pounds. The plant reportedly started from a dropped seed and inspired other tall blooms like Black Eyed Susans at 15 feet and nasturtiums at 10 feet.
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Greater
Boston
George A. Botsford
Florence Street
Newton
George Botsford
Samuel Adams Early Life and Path to Revolution
The piece surveys Samuel Adams youth and education linking his Boston Latin School days to Harvard where his MA thesis questioned resistance to the supreme magistrate if the commonwealth cannot be preserved. It traces his Boston origins, family history, failed business start, and rise in town offices from age 30, culminating in his Stamp Act era leadership.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samuel Adams
Boston Latin School
School Street
Harvard
Commonwealth
Europe
Adams
America
Henry Adams
Quincy
Mount Wollaston
John Adams
Boston
Purchase Street
Skull Fracture in Odd Auto Mishap in Cambridge
Arthur Hall sixteen of 4 Mt Auburn Street Cambridge sustained a fractured skull yesterday afternoon when the chassis of an automobile he rode on collided with another car. The chassis driven by Frank S Mumford of 26 Pleasant Street Cambridge ran wild for 100 yards before striking John W Sweeney’s parked machine near Jarvis Street. Hall was taken to Cambridge Hospital in serious condition.
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Arthur Hall
Mt. Auburn Street
Cambridge
Massachusetts Avenue
Frank 8. Mumford
Pleasant Street
Jarvis Street
John G. Gallen
Garfield Street
Hall
Mumford
John W. Sweeney
Mall
Cambridge Ballef Hospital
Walter Winkley Too Fat to Fit in School
Walter Winkley, 16, of Little Rock weighs 216 pounds causing concerns at the start of the school year. Superintendent T. C. Abbott sought a suitable seating arrangement and considered alternative placements to accommodate the new pupil.
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Walter
Little Rock
Ark
Walter Winkley
T. C. Abbott
Cambridge Mayor Denies Endorsement of Plan C
Cambridge mayor Edward W. Quinn denied unauthorized use of his name in a petition seeking Plan C commission government. He stated the form offers no improvement over the current system and preserves neighborhood representation rather than centralized executive power.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward W. Quinn
Camridge
Cambridge
Indictments Publicized In Federal Case Involving Filmmaking Stock
Hector J. Stryckmanns of New York pleads not guilty as four Boston and New York men are named in a three month old secret indictment. The case concerns fraudulent mail promotion of stock in a motion picture company and a Conso lidated Films Laboratory Company scheme with Palisades Film stock. The defendants were released on bail.
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Morton
Hector J. Stryckmanns
New York
Federal Grand Jury
Boston
Federal Building
Stryckmanns
William J. Freeman
Simon E. Duffin
Chester D. Coram
Freeman
Duffin
Consolidated Films Laboratory Company
Coram
Consolidated Company
Palisades Film Laboratories, Inc
Consolidated
Officers Transferred by Radio Orders to New Hampshire College
The first use in Department of the Northeast history transfers two officers from Fort Terry New York to the New Hampshire Agricultural College Durham N H Major Eugene B Walker and Lieutenant Joseph E Magill will serve there with Walker as professor of military science and Magill as his assistant The orders were transmitted by radio from Washington to the First Corps Area headquarters at South Boston Army Base picked up at Charlestown Navy Yard and relayed to the army base.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Army
Department of the Northeast
Fort Terry
N. Y
Long Island Sound
New Hampshire Agricultural College
Durham
N. H
Eugene B. Walker
Joseph E. Magill
Walker
The
Agricultural College
Magill
Navy Department
Washington
First Corps
South Boston Army Base
Charlestown Navy Yard
Army Base
Two Cousins to Contest Will of Mrs Torrey
The will of Mrs. Alice W. Torrey widow of Elbridge Torrey, carpet merchant, leaves 650000 to charities and is challenged by two first cousins, the only legal next of kin. Lydia A. Pratt of Weymouth and Oran Prentiss Shaw of Milton seek a share. Counsel for Pratt notes she is a widow with only bare necessities.
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Torrey
Alice W. Torrey
Elbridge Torrey
Lydia A. Pratt
Weymouth
Oran Prentiss Shaw
Milton
William J. Holbrook
Kilby Street
Boston Post Office Shifts Under Baker Announced
Numerous supervisor changes at the Boston post office were announced after endorsement by state authorities. Timothy Sullivan becomes superintendent of the Postal annex and Boston parcel post station, replacing John E. O'Brien as superintendent of mails. John F. Keegan is promoted to superintendent of mails at the Postal station, succeeding W. McGrath. John A. Brennan becomes assistant superintendent of the annex, while Alfred H. Cullis moves from south shore to central office with assistant superintendent of mails title. William J. O'Brien transfers to central post office as assistant to Assistant Postmaster Esmond. Francis Crowley takes O'Brien’s old delly section post, and Alfred T. Hanson becomes ant superintendent at the South station. All changes take effect immediately.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston Post Office
Conter
Wvington
Timothy Sullivan
Boston Parcel Post Station
John E. O’brien
Central Post Office
O'Brien
Ant
John F. Keegan
W. McGrath
L. Hammond
John A. Brennan
Miner C
North Postal
Alfred H. Cullis
South Shore
Central Office
William J. O’brien
Esmond
Cullis
Francis Crowley
Delly
Alfred T. Hanson
Baker
Mayor approves Schoolhouse Commission appointment
The Civil Commission approved yesterday Mayor Curley’s appointment of H. Blackall of Boston to the Schoolhouse Commission.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Curley
H. Blackall
Boston
Civil Commission
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U. S
Simmons Hardware Co
Episcopal Council
DR. Mann
WRORD
Rawford
Crawford
Walker & Pratt Meg. Co
Union Street
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