Harvard Alumni Rally for 15 Million Endowment Drive
Harvard alumni gather at the Harvard Club to push a $15,250,000 endowment campaign aimed at raising 60 percent salary increases for teachers who have had no raise since 1905. Eliot Wadsworth chairs, citing need to fund living wages and a $50,000 annual mobile fund for President Lowell to attract new leadership.
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Harvard College
Eliot Wadsworth
New York
Harvard Club
Lowell
Harvard
Dean le Baron Russell Briggs
Thomas Nelson Perkins
Boston Committee
East Boston man dies by his own hand
Andrew Pettti, 50, of 19 Brooks Street East Boston, is believed to have ended his life yesterday at home from illness and unemployment. His body was found by his son James when returning from work. The room’s windows were shut and a wall gas jet was turned on. His widow is in a state hospital.
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Andrew Petttti
Brooks Street
Boston
James
Deaths Hamill in Dorchester
In Dorchester on Sept 29 Hannah E Hamill widow of James Hamill formerly of the North End. Funeral from her late residence 12 Tebracst off Bowdoin St Thursday Oct 2 at 9 30 am Solemn requiem high mass at St Peters Church Meeting House Hill at 9 o'clock Relatives and friends invited to attend
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Hamill
Dorchester
Hannah E
James Hamill
North End
Bowdoin St
St. Peter's Church
Meeting House Hill
Destroyer Lardner Launched at Squantum Shipyard
The Lardner, the 27th destroyer built at the Squantum Bethlehem Shipbuilding plant for the United States Navy, was launched yesterday afternoon amid cheers. Sponsor Miss Margaret Lardner Large, granddaughter of Rear Admiral James L. Lardner, received a bouquet and engraved silver travelling clock.
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Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation
United States Navy
Lardner
James L. Lardner
Margaret Lardner Large
Large
Margaret Lardner
Short Sales of Gasolene Probed by Standards Commissioner
Commissioner Thure Hanson has summoned 68 Boston gasolene dealers to explain why they should not face prosecution for short sales of gas. Agents toured stations with decoy tanks to detect short measuring and report purchases of short measure gas this month.
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Commissioner of Standards
Thure Hanson
Boston
State House
Nat Taylor Honored at Boston City Club Dinner
Nathaniel H. Nat Taylor of the Globe received a reception and dinner at the Boston City Club on the occasion of his 50 years in the newspaper trade. Speakers recalled Boston newspaper history and Taylor’s wide circle of friends. Attendees included A. J. Philpott as toastmaster and many notable journalists.
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Nathaniel H. Taylor
Nat” Taylor
The
Globe
Boston City Club
Nat
Old Boston Times
Boston
Potash and Perlmutter Presented by Craig Players
The Craig Players stage Potash and Perlmutter at the Arlington Theatre with John Craig as Abe Potash and William H. Powell as Mawruss Perlmut ter. Betty Barnicoat plays Ruth Goldman and Mabel Colcord is Mrs Potash in a witty Jewish life comedy based on Montague Glass stories.
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Perlmutter
Craig Players
Arlington Theatre
Montague Glass
John Craig
Abe Potash
Mawruss Perlmutter
William H. Powell
Abe
Mr. Craig
Mr. Powell
Mawruss
Betty Barnicoat
Ruth Goldman
Miss Barnicoat
Mabel Colcord
Mrs. Potash
Mary Young
Food Grafters On Watch At Army Store In Boston
Colonel E L Glasgow reports few cases of small shopkeepers buying army groceries to resell. The South Boston base store has seen strong sales totaling 12 205.10 yesterday and 11 793.89 on Saturday. Purchasers warned against profiteering. salt shortage prompts 25 pound bulk limit. The store has operated only three and a half days with 45 623 15 invested by New England residents.
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E. L. Glasgow
Army
South Boston
Boston
New England
Uncle Sam
Army intelligence officers on duty at store watching suspects
Army intelligence officers have been deployed to a local store to monitor for individuals suspected of wrongdoing. The officers are assigned to observe entrances and report any suspicious activity to authorities.
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Army
Armed Posse Pursues Fugitive in New Jersey Swamp
A Burlington County sheriff leads more than 10 armed men to surround a swamp near Hainesport as they search for a Black man accused of brutal attack on Mrs Mary Notsey of Merchantville. Mayor Bennett vows no lynching and insists the fugitive will be shot if he resists.
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Merchantville
N. J
Lippincott
Burlington County
Hainesport
Mary Notsey
Bennett
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Ala
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Alouin
American Electrical Heater Company
Detroit
N. H. Taylor
Potash and Perlmutter
Craig
Army Retail Store
America
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Ile
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