New Record Expected In BU Enrolment This Autumn
Boston University anticipates a new entering class across all departments with the business school alone predicted to exceed 500 students. The Year Book reports Liberal Arts 910, Business Administration 878, Theology 216, Law 381, Medicine 2, Graduate School 106, with largest gains in Liberal Arts 27, Business Administration 104, and Law 20.
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Boston University
College of Liberal Arts
College of Business Administration
School of Theology
School of Law
School of Medicine
Graduate School
Cashier Vanishes With Payroll At Subways Project
Police issue general alarm for Edward C. Kindred assistant cashier of Booth Flynn after he disappeared with 22000 of weekly payroll money. He left the Liberty National Bank where the outside workers’ payroll was being cashed for the subway tube project under the East River. He was last seen driving away in his car after returning from the street to cash a forgotten draft.
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New York
Edward C. Kindred
Booth & Flynn
Kindred
Liberty National Bank
East River
Fin Com and Mayor Agree to End Sunday Reports
The Finance Commission and the Mayor reached an agreement to stop issuing Sunday reports for Monday newspaper publication. The Mayor cited economy and cannot staff his office all Sunday. He argued Sunday reports are unfair and hard to respond to due to limited weekend information.
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Finance Commission
U S Must Carry Own Trade Urges Navy Support
Secretary McAdoo urged a U S merchant marine to carry U S commerce and form a naval auxiliary fleet in war time in a letter read to the Greensboro Chamber of Commerce on August 4 in Greensboro North Carolina.
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Greensboro
N. C
United States
McAdoo
The
Treasury
Greensboro Chamber of Commerce
American Navy Needs U S Naval Auxiliaries Now
The secretary argues for immediate action to build an American fleet of naval auxiliaries funded by public money. He dismisses private capital and subsidies, warning a modern navy cannot operate far from home without adequate support ships. He ties this to expanding South American and global trade.
Marine Commerce Proclaimed Under Stars and Stripes
A statement vows that marine trade will reach the ends of the earth only under the flag of the United States, asserting that foreign banners cannot carry commerce as effectively as the Stars and Stripes.
State Health Dept Bets On Movies To Teach Health
The State Department of Health adopts a film based plan to educate the public on unsanitary conditions child neglect typhoid and related health issues. Films with accompanying lectures will be available free to cities towns schools or organizations upon application. Professor Gunn expects more films and an extensive winter campaign.
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State Department of Health
State Health Department
State Board
Selskar M. Gunn
Department
South Boston Police Move Day Today
South Boston Police move day is under way as Police Division 6 headquarters transfer from Broadway to the new building at Athens and D streets per orders issued by the police commissioner yesterday evening.
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South Boston
Police Division 6
Broadway
Athens and
D Streets
South
Boston
Contracts of Boston Defended
In a report to the Mayor, Edward F. Murphy, commissioner of public works, states that street work contracts do not privilege any single preservative oil. The city council ordered explanations, and the report argues no brand is favored, with multiple oils considered as viable options.
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Edward F. Murphy
Public Works
Commissioner Praises Open Wood Block Pavement Specification
In his report Commissioner Murphy notes the wood block pavement specification as the most open among large cities. It requires no special preservative oil beyond an antiseptic water proofing and preservative oil of a specific gravity. He says such oil is readily obtainable and discusses resurfacing costs and 1909 versus later years noting traffic changes including the rise of automobiles and the absence of commercial trucks.
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Murphy
Japanese Thought Exponent to Speak at Harvard
Professor Inikichi Hattori of Tokyo Imperial University, successor to Dr Masaharu Anesaki, will arrive in Cambridge around Sept 8 to deliver two Harvard lectures on Confucian ethics and Japanese life and on Schools of Confucian Thought in Japan.
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Inikichi Hattor
Imperial University
Tokio
Masaharu Anesaki
Harvard
Cambridge
Hattor
Japan
Pekin University
New Haven Girl Drowns in Pearl Lake
Eleanor Hendee aged 18 from New Haven Conn drowned while bathing in Pearl Lake at Kemptville N S where she was staying with her parents for the summer. The body had not yet been recovered.
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Yarmouth
N. S
Eleanor Hendee
New Haven
Conn
Pearl Lake
Kemptville
Kemppville
Grand Jury Probes Graft in Revere Junk Licenses
District Attorney Lavelle and the grand jury will meet next Friday to decide if grounds exist for graft in obtaining junk licenses in Revere. Mayor Curtis City Solicitor Casassa Police Chief Bradbury and Lt Tappan aided the DA's office with three Revere junk men present and a go‑between, plus two councilmen named in the scheme.
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Lavelle
Revere
Arthur B. Curtis
Andrew A. Casassa
Charles T. Bradbury
William E. Tappan
Pemberton Square
Antis Extend Time Of Their Contests
The Women’s Anti-Suffrage Association of Massachusetts extends contest deadlines. The poster contest closes Aug 16 with $100 in prizes for the four best anti suffrage posters. The question contest closes Sept 1 for suffragists with $50 in prizes for answers to 14 questions.
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Women's Anti-Suffrage Association of
Massachusetts
Bodies of Seamen Killed in Haytian Way Here
The supply ship Celtic carries the bodies of William Gompers and Casson Whitehorse killed in the Haytian insurrection on July 31. Gompers, a seaman from Brooklyn New York, and Whitehorse, an ordinary seaman from Norfolk Virginia, served on the cruiser Washington.
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Celtic
Charlestown Navy Yard
William Gompers
Casson Whitehorse
Gompers
Whitehorse
Washington
Brooklyn
N. Y
Norfolk
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