Strikes Rise Over Union Recognition In Garment Trade
Frank H. McCarthy and Joseph Rudy, appointed to investigate the garment makers strike, began their conference with Business Agent Benjamin Horn and striker representatives. Horn said manufacturers broke faith, refused arbitration, and used hired men to provoke pickets while strikers demand full union recognition before returning to work.
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Joseph Rudy
State Board of Comibation and Arbitration
Benjamin Horn
North
West End
Horn
Physician Named for Court Work in Boston
Judge Bolster appointed Dr. Victor Vance Anderson, Harvard psychology instructor, as assistant probation officer of the Municipal Criminal Court. He will start Oct. 6 and apply Munsterberg’s humane, individualized approach to rehabilitating criminals, aiming to treat them as people with weaknesses rather than mere lawbreakers. He also serves at the Boston Psychiatric Hospital and Harvard Medical School, applying psychology to probation work.
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Boston
United States
Hugo Munsterberg
Harvard
Bolster
Victor Vance Anderson
Municipal Criminal Court
Anderson
Munsterberg
Boston Psychopathic Hospital
Harvard Medical School
Dr. Anderson
Barre Mayor Claims Local Milk Is Best in Nation
Barre Massachusetts September 26 Mayor John Fitzgerald of Boston declared after tests by the National Board of Health that Boston has the best milk in the country and Barre provides the most perfect milk to Boston. He praised local farmers across New England and urged them to aid in making Boston a big commercial center while insisting New England can excel beyond milk quality. His remarks drew enthusiastic applause from the Barre fair crowd.
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Barre
John ¥. Fitzgerald
Boston
National Board of Health
Boston Board of Health
Fitzgerald
United States
New England
First vessel passes Gatun lock on all-water canal
The tug Gatun hauled mud from the Atlantic entrance and became the first ship to pass a Panama Canal lock, ascending to Gatun Lake this afternoon. Col George W. Goethals and other officials witnessed the historic moment as Miraflores Lake floods planned for Oct 1 and Culebra Cut by Oct 10, completing the route.
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Gatun
Atlantic
Canal
Panama Canal
Atlantic Ocean
Gatun Lake
George W. Goethals
Panama Canal Commission
Hodges
Siebert
Schildhaver
Miraflores
Culebra
Will Sue Man for Not Doing the Housework
A domestic dispute outlines a husband waking at 4 a m to tend fires grind coffee cook breakfast wash dishes multiple times daily and perform all household chores including cleaning hen coops feeding 130 hens gathering eggs and hauling coal before preparing meals and the evening supper.
Mrs Purdy Seeks Divorce Over Husbands Wasteful, Abusive Habits
Mrs Hugh Purdy of Watertown declares she will sue for divorce after a prior non support case. She accuses her husband of getting up at 4, wasting gas, smoking cigars, playing checkers, letting the house and hen coops ruin, and consuming her earnings. She says he abuses her, accuses her of flirting, eats and drinks her food, and refuses to work. She plans separation as she works to support two children and manage a rundown home.
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Hugh Purdy
Watertown
Luce
Waltham District Court
Purdy Dispute Over Household Labor Splits Watertown
In Watertown Mrs. Purdy, a longtime boarding house operator at 52 Quimby Street, accuses her husband of wrecking her business with constant whining and laziness while she has built a successful enterprise the state. She plans to pursue divorce as redress, claiming she has supported him for years and that he does no productive work.
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Purdys
Watertown
Mrs. Purdy
Purdy
Post
Engineer Dies After Grieving Over Stamford Wreck
Charles J. Doherty an engineer on the Springfield express of the New York New Haven and Hartford railroad died at his New Haven home from heart failure after grieving over the June Stamford wreck that killed six people. He worked on the second section and witnessed the collision with the first section.
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New Haven
Conn
Charles J. Doherty
Springfield Express
New York, New Haven & Hartford
Stamford
Baffin's Land Has No Gold Says Explorer Captain Bernier
Quebec reports Captain Joseph FE Bernier returning from Baffin's Land stating no gold exists there. He accuses a 1912 voyage report by a steamer mate, details loss of the Algexon, and notes island life, salmon rivers, and limited vegetables. He describes four months of navigable Hudson Straits with wireless stations and sturdy steamers.
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Quebec
Joseph FE. Bernier
Baffin’s Land
Arctic
Baffin's Land
Algexon
Neptune
Hudson Straits
Bernier
Progressives plan nationwide progressive campaigns
Fifteen members of the Progressive national committee met in New York and decided to field a Progressive candidate in every district in the United States in the next congressional election. Illinois Representative William Hinesbaugh, chairman of the committee, stressed there will be no alliance with Republicans. Attention stays on Massachusetts where a Bull Moose candidate runs for Governor as plans for the state campaign dominate the session.
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New York
Progressive National Committee
United States
William Hinesbaugh
Illinois
Emperor Receives U S Ambassador in Vienna
Emperor Francis Joseph today received Frederick Courtland Penfield the new United States ambassador to Austria presenting credentials and recalling Richard C. Kerens. The ceremony followed the court’s full ambassadorial reception rites in Vienna.
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Vienna
Francis Joseph
United States
Frederick Courtland Penfield
New York
Richard C. Kerens
St. Louis
Swordfish Rammed Boat Off Portland Cape Breton Sailors Detect Break
The schooner Angie B. Watson leaked at ten strokes an hour after a giant swordfish rammed its hull leaving five inches of sword embedded in oak planking. Crew later found the broken sword end when the hull was examined, confirming the collision as the leak cause near Cape Breton.
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Portland
Angie B. Watson
Cape Breton
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