Cambridge Pupils See Boystown at University Theater
About 6000 boy pupils from Cambridge public schools attended a special showing of the motion picture Boystown at the University Theater. Boys from several elementary and high schools filled the audience during two sessions on Thursday and Friday morning, part of a three day special program by the Cambridge Youth Commission.
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Cambridge Public Schools
Cambridge Youth Commission
University Theater
James H. Leonard
Agassiz
Peabody
Houghton
Longfellow
Haggerty
Russell
Ellis
Abraham Lincoln
Putnam
Thorndike
Kelley
Wellington
Fletcher, Roberts
Morse
Specias
Mayor Lyons Seeks FBI Police Training for Cambridge
Cambridge mayor is negotiating with the FBI to send a local officer to a three month National Police Academy program. The course covers fingerprinting, arrest and search, confessions, firearm identification, latent prints, and micro examinations. The mayor will work with Chief Leahy to choose the attending officer.
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Cambridge Police
Lyons
Sentinel
F. B. S. Dept. of Justice
Washington
D. C
J. Edgar Hoover
National Police Academy of the
Dept. of Justice
Leahy
Mayor Kane to meet the Lions in Cambridge Somerville
Woburn’s colorful mayor William Kane will visit the Cambridge and Somerville Lions Club for a joint meeting at the Commander next Monday. Lunch and entertainment are planned and the Lions are noted for their occasional roar.
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Woburn
Wm. Kane
Cambridge
Somerville
Lions Club
Major Bowes audition Monday for Cambridge amateur talent
The Cambridge area hosts the Major Bowes audition on Monday at Central Square Theatre from 5 to 7 PM. Local aspirants will perform before Major Bowes representatives for a chance to appear on the September broadcast. A committee video gift was presented by Mayor Lyons on behalf of the city.
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Major Bowes
Cambridge
Central Square Theatre
Coke
Lyons
Memorial Day Observed With Ceremonies Across Cambridge
Memorial Day observances were held Tuesday by Sons of Veterans for deceased Civil War soldiers at Cambridge cemeteries. Russell E Hoyt Post and others staged water services at the Weeks foot bridge with Wm Hogan Jr as chief orator. Francis Roche reminded Spanish War Veterans of duty. Dey Falls Canine Post and American Revolution veterans were honored. Mayor Lyons attended multiple services as parades formed, with a brief clash near Weeks Bridge ending in a beating of a student by local youths.
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Cambridge
Sons of Veterans
John W. Weeks
Charles
Russell E. Hoyt Post
W. F. W. Atty
Wm. M. Hogan, Jr
France
Francis J. Roche
Cambridge Cemetery
Dey Falls
American Legion
Old Cambridge Cemetery
Wm. H. Moran
Lyons
Harvard
George Washingtons Distillery at Mount Vernon 1795
George Washington established a distillery in 1795 at Mount Vernon. The operation reflects early American whiskey production and the founding figure's domestic manufacturing ventures.
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George Washington
Mount Vernon
Public meeting weighs federal housing in Cambridge
Cambridge residents will hear views on the $5,000,000 federal housing project at a Cyprus Hall gathering. Speakers include A E Cosgrove, A S Housing Authority, Guy Hopwood, Camello, and C I O. supporters urge a referendum in November while critics call for better slum housing and practical government aid.
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Cambridge
Cyprus Hall
Prospect St
Labor
League
Lyons
A. E. Cosgrove
A. S. Housing Authority
Guy Hopwood
Newton Building Trades Council
Camello
N. E
Europe
Wies Pres
Sean O'Kelley
Boston
Ireland
Open Air Meeting Plans to Save Jerry's Pit Bathing Place
An open air gathering is scheduled Sunday at 3 P M at the city field on Rindge Avenue near Jerry's Pit. Citizens urge the city to acquire the Pit to maintain it as the district swimming place. Local owners had controlled access and opposed sanitary changes.
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Rindge Ave
Jerry's Pit
North
Cambridge
Manhattan Market Bank Absentees
At a bank meeting Thursday at 2 P M three ladies drew dividends. By 3 P M only Mary Ellis of St Paul Street appeared and would have received 25 dollars had she not discarded her member card. Absent were Mrs E Donehue of Mystic Valley Parkway Medford who missed 50 dollars and Mrs K Fowler of Banks Street who missed 25 dollars.
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Mary Ellis
Tst. Paul
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Stanley Sumner
Fred Astaire
Ginger Rogers
Paul Kelly
Ruth Hussey
THE
Law
Huchie McCinness
Ray Milland
Isa Mirandt
Hotel Imperial
Chas. Ruggles
Billy Lee
Cood
Mayor Lyons
F. B. I. Police
John Jr. McGillicuddy
Mayor Kane
LIONS
Rathskeller
Fem
Ehmae Tate
Crystal Cafe
Eee
Mass
Concord Avenue
Superior Laundry
Cambridge Savings Bank
Harvard Square
Cambridgeport Savings Bank
East Cambridge Savings Bank
Cambridge Street
North Avenue Savings Bank
Massachusetts Avenue
Mutual Savings Banks
Cambridge Lodge of Elks
Cambridge Common
Jack Marshall
Jack Moriarty
P.E.R
Dr.s. Berger
Jack O’brien
Tom McCaffrey
Peter Larkin
Bill Killion
New Street Dept
Hampshire St
Bok
Central Sq. Theatre
P_E_R
Jack O'Brien
Hamilton
Boylston ST
Tro
John
Mary
FOX & Tishman
Main St
Kendall Sq
Chas. F. Hurley
Commonwealth Avenue
Pew
Electric Supply Co
Camera
Cambridge, Mass
Drake
V. George Baddian Central
St. Bidg
Mass. Ave
Kier
Dublin
O'Kelley
Jerry’s
Manhattan Market Bank
Central Square
Kentucky
Belero
California
Sherry
Muscatel
Manhattan
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