Mayor Curley Attacks Finance Commission Over Cuts
Mayor Curley blasted the Finance Commission after its report proposing $433 000 cuts in 16 departments. He argued the panel mistook expenditures for estimates and faulted its investigators as inexperienced while asserting control limits over departments under the Mayor.
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Mayor Critics Commission Data Gathering Method
The mayor criticized the commission for relying on subordinates for information rather than department heads and for using telephone inquiries instead of strict personal interviews.
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Hasty Pudding Actors Stage Final Harvard Comedy
The Fattest Calf, Harvard Hasty Pudding Club’s annual musical comedy, was performed last evening at the Toy Theatre by undergraduate Harvard actors. Final presentations are scheduled this afternoon and evening at the Toy.
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Mental healer awarded damages in Boston case
Martha F. Young of 687 Boylston Street won $45 in the Municipal Civil Court yesterday in her suit against Walter Shaffer chief engineer of the steamship Onondaga for mental treatment services. Testimony described telephonic sessions and concentrated thoughts aiding Mrs Shaffer in a troubled mood and insomnia.
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Suit Over Medical Bills Reformatted For 1914
The suit claims 16 12 weeks of treatment before March 1 1914 at the agreed rate of $ per week plus interest, totaling 52.50. Mrs. Shaffer is currently in New York. The record notes treatment for a general nervous condition.
Officials seize 500 life preservers over unsafe resale
Government agents raided waterfront junk shops and condemned about five hundred life preservers deemed unfit for use. The crackdown targets salvage from steamship lines sold to motor boat owners for profit.
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Uncle Sam
Harvard Prize Poem Selections Draw Kaiser War Satire
Harvard selects C Huntington Jacobs of Los Angeles for the prize poem Gott Mit Uns. Judges Dean Le Baron R Briggs and Prof Bliss Perry praised the verse which mocks Kaiser Wilhelm and German war aims with stark antiwar imagery and classical allusion.
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Harvard Advocate Poem Targets Kaiser in War Theme
The Harvard Advocate offers a $25 prize for poems by student contestants addressing the war in Europe. A Harvard poet delivers bitter satire directed at the German Kaiser, whose phrase Gott Mit Uns or God is with us features as the poem title.
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Russian envoy uses slang in brief hotel interview
George N. Bakhmeteff the Russian ambassador to the United States avoided questions on Russia's temperance movement and refused interviews and photos at Copley Plaza saying nothing doing as he headed to a taxi.
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United States
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Russia
US must act in Europe says Ellsworth Shumaker review
The review defends Shumaker's case for American duty to intervene in Europe and fund Red Cross and allied efforts while urging realism about the limits of sentimental pacifism. It argues that the war must be fought to exhaustion and notes Usher’s caution about European perceptions of American peace appeals.
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A Girl of the Blue Ridge Receives Mountaineer Portraits
Payne Erskine’s latest novel blends real life with romance set in Southern mountains. It follows Lary Bab from wild beginnings to rescue by women building a settlement school, then confronts drink and its harms, with vivid mountain types and a fearless liquor trader. The prose captures vernacular and character truth, though the plot is episodic and unevenly developed.
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Book notices on Payne Erskine and Stratemeyer titles
A brief review roundup notes A Girl of the Blue Ridge by Payne Erskine from Little Brown & Co. and Dave Porter in the Gold Fields by Edward Stratemeyer. It praises the stories as good yarns accessible without prior volumes and highlights Stratemeyer’s popularity. The Stratemeyer book is published by Lothrop, Lee & Shepard priced at 1.25.
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The Good Shepherd by John Roland reviewed
A wartime antidote to despair, The Good Shepherd follows Charles Edwards an exiled American doctor in Southern Austria. He journeys to Thiersee to aid a village, battles deep mental distress and finds love and spiritual renewal through a noble woman and guiding passion.
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The Harbor by Ernest Poole review and details
A modern era novel set in New York harbor receives high praise for its broad vision and social scope. The Harbor centers on mass aspirations shaping a world republic, with Poole weaving past and future in a sweeping, humanistic narrative.
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The Doers review echoes simple childlike tales
A brief critique praising The Doers as natural and engaging for very young readers. It highlights a five year old hero who observes workers with his cat and cart, learns from craftsmen, then returns home. The reviewer notes the book departs from Hopkins’ usual style but retains charm.
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William John Hopkins
A Sunday School Tour of the Orient and The Place Beyond the Winds
Book notices review two works from Doubleday Page & Co. The first follows a 1913 World Sunday School Association committee through Japan China Korea and Siberia with Zurich on return. rich in travel scenes and Christian growth. The second, The Place Beyond the Winds by Harriet Comstock, centers on Priscilla Glenn a determined Canadian girl amid family limits and village life, aided by a refugee schoolmaster. praised for vivid characters and strong narrative.
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Priscilla Glenn
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Sunday School Tour of the Orient
A brief notice noting a work titled Sunday School Tour of the Orient by Frank L. Brown published in New York by Doubleday Page Co. The entry identifies the book and publisher in a concise catalog-like line.
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Frank L. Brown
New York
Doubleday, Page & Co
Rambles in Catholic Lands by Michael Barrett review
A concise critique of Barrett’s Rambles in Catholic Lands from Benziger Bros describing the author’s leisurely travel through Catholic Europe. The piece highlights vivid word pictures of Hamburg Rhineland Coblenz Switzerland Munich and Venice and notes the book’s fine printing and illustrations.
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New York
Benziger Bros
Lieutenant Joshua Hewes Eben Putnam History Review
Eben Putnam reviews Lieut Joshua Hewes Eben Putnam a pioneer biography noting its strongest pages explore wider communal life in 17th century Boston with valuable antiquarian insight. The work is published by the author.
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