Six Cent Fare Fails Before Legislative Committee
Boston Elevated six cent fare bill backed by William J. McDonald was rejected by the legislative committee on metropolitan affairs. The panel also turned down bills for subway extensions and new tubes in Dorchester and Roxbury, with the extra cent to fund subway improvements no longer advancing.
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Boston
Legislative Committee On Metropolitan Affairs
William J. McDonald
McDonald
Dorchester
Roxbury
Government orders boost Maynard woolen mills for 250000 blankets
Maynard reports that the American Woolen Company's mills have secured a government order for 250,000 blankets. This aligns with a wave of war orders placed with woolen mills nationwide to supply soldiers with bed clothing and related items.
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Maynard
American Woolen Company
United States
Doctors Promise Bon-Opto Eyesight Rescue in Home Use
An advertising feature touts Bon-Opto as a real help for eye strain and glasses wearers. Dr. Lewis and a physician advocate its use, claiming many report restored vision after 15 days and can discard glasses, with the pill dissolved in water and eye baths two to four times daily.
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Philadelphia
Lewis
Liggetts-Riker-Jaynes
Daily calls on naval reserve increase training intake
Fifty more Massachusetts division naval reserve members are called today to report for active service and depart for Marblehead Neck. The push continues daily to train about 2000 enrolled recruits in the fourth class coast defence division as well as the transfer of new men to Commonwealth Docks in South Boston after Boston’s receiving ship USS Georgia is abolished.
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Massachusetts
Naval Reserve
Naval Training Station
Marblehead Neck
Coast Defence Division
Georgia
Seek Strange N. H. Aviator Over Portsmouth Bridge
Commandant William L. Howard of the Portsmouth Navy Yard asked the press to help verify a report by National Guardsmen on a bridge near Portsmouth that they fired on an airplane flying over the city last night. Officials seek to determine if the craft was American operated and to trace the machine. Public tips are sought by local naval authorities.
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Portsmouth
N. H
William L. Howard
Portsmouth Navy Yard
Here
Howard
Marine Corps Armored Car Arrives to Recruit in Boston
An armored car with a Bennet-Mercier machine gun arrives at the US Marine Corps recruiting HQ at 22 Tremont Row to urge enlistments. Serjeant J B Hagan speaks to about 600 onlookers as the car, protected by steel armor, has traveled nearly 30 000 miles in government service.
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Bennet-Mercier
United States Marine Corps
Tremont Row
J. B. Hagan
King Motor Car Company
Armored Motor Car Company
Charles Loring
Frederick Stevenson
Boston
Fred C. Bradfield
New Haven
Thomas
Swindler
Hagan
Zarillo
Gifford
Loring
Stevenson
Big War Farm of N England Conference Aims at Doubling Acreage
County farm bureau agents from across six New England states met at the Committee on Public Safety to organize a war farm campaign. They urged expanding cultivated land to near twice the current area with corn beans barley wheat and potatoes to support fighting forces. James J. Storrow Henry B. Endicott and Wilfred Wheeler spoke on solving seed and labor problems for emergency farming.
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Committee On Public Safety
New England
James J. Storrow
Henry B. Endicott
Safety Board
Wilfred Wheeler
State Board of Agriculture
Exoneration of Sparrowhawk Crew in Cable Conspiracy Case
United States Commissioner Hayes discharged three men arrested aboard the yawl Sparrowhawk in Boston harbor on a charge of conspiracy to interfere with an Atlantic cable. The exoneration follows a careful investigation clearing them of all suspicion.
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United States
Hayes
Boston Harbor
Atlantic
Boston plans parks to be used as farms on vacant land
Mayor Curley outlined a plan to cultivate 4500 school volunteers and 200 acres of city land in Franklin Park Deer and Long Islands with vegetables for public institutions. The proposal seeks 25000 for tools seeds and insecticides and 16000 to build a bridge to Governor's Island for Boy Scouts use.
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Boston
Curley
Harbor Islands
Franklin Park
Austin
Pierce Farms
Park and Recreation Department
Pierce and
Austin Farms
Governor's Island
Boy Scouts
East Boston
City Hall
Boston Committee On Public Safety
Ile
Bill to Aid the L Road Advances in Metropolitan Affairs
The legislative committee on Metropolitan affairs reported favorably a bill to aid the L road to recoup finances. It voted to drop eminent domain for enclosed transfer areas and will decide Monday on a separate bill. The panel also restored Transit Commission powers to alter the East Boston tunnel or extend it up to 2000 feet from Maverick Square.
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Legislative Committee On Metropolitan Affairs
L Road
The
Transit Commission
East Boston
East
Boston
Maverick Square
Railway Employees Concert and Dance at Memorial Hall
Last night Division 373 Bay State street railroad workers held their eighth annual benefit concert and dance for the sick fund at Memorial Hall Dedham. Highlights included dancing by Mr and Mrs Loftus Maguire and the division flag unveiling with dancing continuing from 9 to 2. Members hail from Hyde Park Dedham Norwood and Needham with many friends in attendance.
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Memorial Hall
Dedham
Bay State Street Railroad
Loftus Maguire
Hyde Park
Norwood
Needham
Pro-German Newspaper Offices Wrecked in Brazil
In SAC PAULA Brazil a mob of pro ally sympathizers wrecked the offices of the Dia Rio Alemano a pro German organ last night amid rising tensions as World War II raged.
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Brazil
Sac Paula
Dia Rio Alemano
Adrift at Sea Four Days Rescue of Portland Youth
Hollis Galley aged 17 of Portland Maine rests at the Marine Hospital Chelsea after drifting four days in a dory hauling trawls ten miles northeast of Boston Light. He survived exposure and hunger after eating raw fish and being rescued just in time. Berlin reports no internment of Americans in Germany with broad freedoms similar to neutrals though restricted from fortified areas and under strict police registration.
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Hollis Galley
Portland
Marine Hospital
Chelsea
Galley
Boston Light
Bernie & Bessie
Berlin
London
Germany
Wilson
United States
Fore River Wins $9 Million Order for Battle Cruiser
Fore River Shipbuilding Corp announced from Washington that it secured a 9 million dollar contract to construct one of five battle cruisers. The project spans 48 months with preparations underway for rapid production. The Quincy-built cruiser will be named the Constitution.
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Fore River Shipbuilding Corporation
Washington
Quincy
Somerville Brakeman Killed at Waltham North Station
Edward G. Marden, 48, a brakeman, was killed last night at the Waltham North Station of the Boston and Maine when caught between two train cars during coupling. He resided on Montrose Street, Somerville.
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Edward G. Marden
Waltham North
Boston & Maine
Marden
Montrose Street
Somerville
Potatoes Rise to Eight Dollars a Barrel in Aroostook
In Houston Missouri April 13 potatoes sold for 8 a barrel in Aroostook county an increase of 2 from a week earlier dealers report less than 600000 bushels remaining and warn of higher prices to come.
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Houston
Aroostook
Lydia E Pinkham's Remedy Praised by Nurse in Toledo
A Toledo nurse describes chronic back and abdominal soreness from female troubles and credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with relief. She says the product contains no narcotics and notes many testimonials stored at the Pinkham laboratory.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Toledo
Ohio
Lydia FE. Pinkham
Elizabeth John
Lydia I. Pinkham
Pinkham Laboratory
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Marblehead Station
Aviator
Gilbert Mfg. Co
Ware
Mass
Marine Corps Armored Car
U. S. Marines Corps
England
Kolynos
Kolynos Co
Legislative
E. B. Tunnel
Fore River
S. S
Sswhite Dental Mfg. CO
South Twelfth Street
Ibutter
Blake Sci
Green River
Booth
Ginter
Tremont St
Summer St
Canal St
Union St. Cor
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Bromfid
Ginter Co
C.B. Brown Co., Inc
Specialty Shop Inc
Washington St
Noor
Sam Arage
Sears, Roebuck and Co
Chicago
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