Cambridge Police Commission Debate at Citizens Trade Association
At a Cambridge meeting the Citizens Trade Association voted to oppose a police commission for the city. Speakers including Ex-Senator Dallinger, Ex-Senator Rounds, Alderman Lake, and Chief Cunningham debated home rule, city rights, and police management with mixed support and warnings about over-government. The session ended with calls for future discussion and committees to report on broader city issues.
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Citizen’s Trade Association
Herman Bird
Dallinger
Senator Rounds
Cambridge
Citizens’ Trade Association
State House
Hunnewell
Rounds
Committee On
Frederick W. Dallinger
Somone
Alderman Lake
Mr. Bind
Houghton
Gilmore
Fox
Russell
Commonwealth
Boston
Lake
Greenhalge
Bancroft
Woodward
Emery
George D. Chamberlain
France
Republic
Paris
Russia
Mathew
Quay
Pittsburg
Harrisburg
Washington
Secretary of the Interior
George Allen
Cunningham
W. B. Davis
Lake Rose
Charles H. Thurston
Hirot
Fau
Police Commission
Sentinel
Clukas
Tribute planned for Chief of Fire Casey on fiftieth service
A Cambridge city gathering discussed a lasting tribute for Chief Casey of the Fire Department marking his fifty years of service. Plans include a banquet on April 16 and a city display of a portrait, with a large committee and subcommittees organized by Mayor Daly and other officials.
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Oane
Casey
Cambridge Fire Department
William J. Marvin
Hall and Sortwell
Edmund Reardan
J. J. Allen
Charles J. McIntire
L. J. Cloyes
J. A. Wood
Charles Bullock
John RK. Fitir- Sairn
Bancroft and Champiin
J. Howland Cox
P. J. McElroy
Chas. Ii. Stratton
Elmer H. Bright
John J.ahern
George W. Close
Frederick W. Dallinger
Clukas
Alderman Carstein
Edward F. Gamwell
Bancroft
Daly Presiden
James W. Bean
A Walker’s Gossip on Ward Crews and City Politics
A Sentinel columnist lists ward by ward appointments and alleged political favors made by Mayor Daly. Claims include favors to McCarthy and Wright, suspicions of bribery, and internal feuding among Non-partisans in Ward 7, with echoes of past payoff rumors and bitter clashes over appointments and patronage.
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Daly
Felix GC
McBride
Felix
East Cambridge
McNamee
Thomas Gallagher
Purity Party
Ward 7
Franklin H. Wright
Ward 8
Warren Ivers
Ingenlanal
Chub
East
Cambridge
Green Dragon
Sey
Antex
Aly
Murphy-McCormick
Registrar of Voters
Murphy
Doughty
Aga Tam
Clukas
Washington
Barnard
River Street
Lodging-house thief nabbed after string of room scams
Special Officer Jack Jwehan captured Frank Stussel alias Frank Stoddard Frank Stearns Frank Gray and Frank Stevens a 22 year old Kansas City man suspected in multiple city lodging-house thefts. He posed as a law student or clerk, paid with large checks, and stole items including a $20 overcoat and $60 worth of furnishings. He was arrested after a lodging house keeper detained him at Mrs Vose’s 407 Broadway. Held in $600 for a March 5 hearing.
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Harvard Square
Jack Jwehan
Frank Stussel
Kansas City
Sussell
Frank Stoddard
Frank Stearns
Frank Gray
Frank Stevens
Ile
Thomas O'Neil
Massachusetts Avenue
William Chauncey Towers, Jr
Quincy
Ill
Dechan
Mayor questioned over union labor on Elm Street project
A Cambridge Central Labor Union and Painters District Council of Boston committee pressed Mayor Daly about an agreement requiring union labor on Locatelli’s Elm Street schoolhouse contract. The mayor promised to review, while unions allege past city leadership enforced union work, and residents suffer from nonunion crews. At YMCA gym, Rindge M T B beat Somerville Hill 22 to 14 in basketball.
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Cambridge Central Labor Union
Painters’ District Council of
Boston
Daly
Locatelli
Elm Street
McNamee
Young Men's Christian Association
Rindge M. T. B
Somerville Hill
Merchants Unite to End Trading Stamp Evil in Somerville
About 100 to 150 residents gathered in Rhodes Hall to protest trading stamps and seek a unified bill for reform. Speakers including Representative Aylward and ex-Senator Apsey urged organizing, securing counsel, and pressuring lawmakers to curb the practice.
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Somerville
Rhodes Hall
John Wiggins
State House
Aylward
Apsey
Association
Judiciary Committee
Higgins
New England Dry Goods Retail Association
Boston, Grocery Association
Edward Cullen
Lowell
Morrissey
Elkhart
Ind
Cambridge
Jeweller
J. Dunphy
Representative Sennett
Representative Aylward
Committee For the Movement
Per Dertian Harrington
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Walter G. Davis
Beys
H. C. Houghton
George Close
H. A. Allyn
David A. Ritchie
E. D. Mellen
Charles
J. Kenth
Edmund Reardon
David I. Dickerson
Stoughton Bell
Edward J. Branden
Isaac Chase
William B. Teed
Thomas J. Case Ony
Dep't Gasey
Fire Department
Outlook Club
Noliu
William Hants
Nellie McCool
Kittle Imaher
Carrie Blatchford
James McGee
Philip Montgomery
North Cambridge Veteran Firemen
Prospect Hall
Charles E. McCarthy
Manuel Andrews
Diana
McCarthy
Coveney
Patrick J. White
George H. Monroe
Lyman W. Brooks
James H. Boyd
Ward 9
Jimmy
Edward F. Manigan
Ward
Charles W. Callahan
Tie
Maggie
Brandon
Wright
Alderman Anderson
Alderman Blodgett
Committee On Ordinances
Coolidge
Ater
Washington and Manual
Franklin J. Wright
George Fogarty
Officer
Jack Deehak
the Mayor
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