Would Limit Immigration Criteria Debate at Cosmopolitan Clubs
At the Eastern Massachusetts Cosmopolitan Clubs convention in Boston a push to restrict immigration via educational requirements drew broad support. Dr. Charles W. Eliot urged national groups to break racial barriers, aiming for unified, lawfully contributing citizens. Lieutenant Governor Alyan Fuller welcomed delegates. attendees included Dr. George W. Tupper, George Quimby, John Mahoney, Pinanski, Grady Stetson, and Joseph Angelou, who was elected first State president.
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Charles W. Eliot
Harvard
Alyan T. Fuller
Eliot
Tupper
George Quimby
Associated Industries of
John Mahoney
Bureau of Education
Pinanski
Bureau of Immigration
Graydon Stetson
Joseph Angelou
Brockton
Skidding Auto Triggers City Flood at Portland and Hanover
A skidding car smashed a water main at the junction of Portland and Hanover streets, flooding two streets and threatening thousands of dollars in goods in nearby basements. Emergency crews lifted the sunken car after an hour as stopcocks were shut and volunteers saved merchandise from cellars.
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Hanover
Water Works Department
Nain
Boston
Bell protests to State Department over Maine detention incident
Dr Alexander Graham Bell arrived in Washington to file a formal complaint with the State Department after his wife and secretary Catherine Mackenzie were detained overnight in Vanceboro Maine by a U S immigration officer.
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Washington
United States
Catherine
MacKenzie
Vanceboro
Maine
Alexander Graham Bell
State Department
Canadian Notified of US Border Incident Amid Train Detention
Dr and Mrs Bell and Miss MacKenzie faced an immigration inspection at a border train with an alien head tax demand. The party left the train after protests, stayed at Vanceboro, then continued to Washington where authorities intervened. The Bells plan to complain to the State Department and Labor Department over alleged unfriendly conduct by the immigration official.
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State Department
United States
Derby to See Sinn Fein in Irish Talks
Premier Lloyd George has authorized Lord Derby to consult Sinn Fein for possible common ground toward negotiating an Irish settlement before the forthcoming elections. Derby, long close to Irish affairs, returned from Lympne and dined with Lord Edmund Talbot, governor-general of Ireland, in London.
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Lloyd George
Sunday Times
Lord Derby
Sinn Fein
The
Trish
Lympne
Lord Edmund Talbot
Ireland
Dr Sun Yat Sen To Be Inaugurated May Fifth
Washington representative in Washington of Dr Sun Yat Sen says a cable from Dr Sun confirms he will be inaugurated May 5. He rejects rumors that Dr Sun may abandon the presidency after a broad parliamentary election victory.
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FAMO
Dr. Sun
Washington
May Soo
Sun Yat Sen
Canton
Sun
The
Chinese World
San Francisco
Altoona Electric Railways Workers Offer Wage Cut
Three hundred employees of the Altoona and Logan Valley Electric Railways offer to accept a five cent per hour wage reduction starting May 1. The cut remains in effect until working conditions improve.
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Altoona
Penn
Altoona & Logan Valley Electric Railways
Colby College Accepts Conditional $50 000 Gift
The Colby College trustees accepted a $50 000 gift from the General Education Board, conditional on raising $100 000 for the general fund. A fall campaign will be launched, and a hygiene and physical education department for the women’s division will be created. Alumni board plans for new grandstands and a gymnasium will be prepared for commencement week discussion.
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Portland
General Education Board
Colby College
Robbers hold up manager in downtown cash heist
Three armed payroll bandits robbed James Goldsward, Globe Paper Company manager, of 1800 dollars in downtown Cleveland as he carried cash from a bank to company offices. The suspects escaped with the money.
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Cleveland
James Goldsward
Globe Paper Company
Sacred Heart Church Announces Special Mass at 12 30
Reverend Hugh F. Blunt of Sacred Heart Church East Cambridge said a special mass would be celebrated today at 12 30 to accommodate clock changes. Regular masses follow on the new schedule: 6 30, 7, 8 30, 9 15, 10 80, 11 50 and 12 30 o'clock.
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Hugh F. Blunt
Sacred Heart Church
East Cambridge
Sacred Heart Churchill
Last Surviving Custer Scout James Flanagan Dies
Mandan North Dakota April 23 James Flanagan aged 84 who was said to be the last surviving white scout of General Custers 7th Cavalry died here yesterday.
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Mandan
N. D
James Flanagan
Custer
7Th Cavalry
Depew Confident as He Near Centenary
New York on April 23 marks Chauncey M. Depew's 87th birthday. He says the occasion deserving little comment and looks forward with enthusiasm to entering his 100th year.
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New York
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