Boston's Acting Mayor - Acting Mayor John E. Kerrigan of Boston, former head of the City Council, who was appointed acting mayor when Maurice J. Tobin resigned to become governor of Massachusetts.

Hindenburg explodes

A Slave's Collar. A runaway slave, if recaptured, was sometimes compelled to wear a metal collar riveted about his neck. One of these collars, still preserved at Rome, bears the inscription: Servus sum dom(i)ni mei Scholastici v(iri) sp(ectabilis). Tene me ne fugiam de domo. - "I am the slave of my master Scholasticus, a gentleman of importance. Hold me, lest I flee from home."

Boston Fish Pier

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