Union Supports Bangor & Aroostook Strike Lawyers Attend Big Meeting
More than 250 Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen representatives gathered at Lawrence Hall in Boston to back the Bangor & Aroostook railroad strike both morally and financially. The all day event included initiation of more than 100 candidates and featured remarks by former Grand Master C W Maier and leaders from Boston and Maine, New Haven, and Boston & Albany.
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Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
Lawrence Hall
Washington Street
Bangor & Aroostook
Washington, D. C
Buffalo
N. Y
New England
Boston & Albany
New Haven
Boston & Maine
Charles W. Maier
Los Angeles
California
C. W. Corley
H. M. Williams
D. J. Blake
F. 8. Mahler
Bangor &Aroostook
Growth of membership spans Canada Mexico and U S
The event drew women and men as friends of members. With Assistant President Timothy Shea absent due to a sudden call to Washington, D C., Past Grand Master C. W. Maier delivered the main address detailing expansive growth in membership across the United States and into Canada and Mexico.
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Timothy Shea
Grand Lodge
Washington, D. C
C. W. Maier
Canada
Mexico
United States
Urge Action in Gym Fund at Harvard
Harvard undergraduates push for a 2 million dollar gymnasium with 25 thousand pledged locally and alumni expected to cover the rest. The Crimson urges immediate fundraising and a freshman committee to advance the movement, noting waning momentum as winter arrives and outdoor exercise grows difficult.
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Harvard
Harvard Crimson
The
Crimson
Dean Bradford
Sargent
Nineteen-Seventeen
Harvard Seniors Turn To Politics After Football Season
A Harvard nominating committee named to prepare a provisional list of senior class officers. The committee includes John Went worth of Chicago Stetson Avery of East Braintree Arthur M. Boal of Ronceverte W Va and Winthrop Faulkner of Keene NH. Elections for most officers occur at the December 10 class election.
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Harvard
John Wentworth
Chicago
Stetson Avery
East Braintree
Arthur M. Boal
Ronceverte
W. Va
Winthrop Faulkner
Keene, N. H
Teachers Are Most Abused and Underappreciated Says Federation Leader
Miss Margaret Haley of the Chicago Teachers Federation urges organized action to empower educators. She criticizes pay and conditions and calls for local branches to send delegates to Education Board meetings. She compares lack of teacher democracy to autocratic rule and cites the National League of Grade Teachers.
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Margaret Haley
Chicago ‘Teachers’ Federation
School Voters’ League
Mary Morton Kehew
Chestnut Street
Ella Flagg Young
Chicago
Board of Education
Russia
National League of Grade Teachers
Dorothea Jordan Feted at Copley Plaza Dansant
The ballroom at Copley Plaza shone with lights and flowers for a dansant in honor of Miss Dorothea Jordan, hosted by Mrs Thomas P Curtis.
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Copley Plaza
Dorothea Jordan
Thomas P. Curtis
School Board to Probe Saturday Dances at City Halls
The Boston School Board directed Superintendent Dr. Franklin B. Dyer to investigate Saturday night dances held at the Washington School West End and East Boston High School centers. Questions focus on who authorized 5 and 10 cent admission and where proceeds went.
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Franklin B. Dyer
Washington School
West End
East Boston High School
Michael H. Corcoran
Corcoran
Brock
State Board of Education
Chelsea
Revere
Boston
Personal Tours and Shopping Escort Offered at Store
In February at 3 p.m. personally conducted tours start from the restaurant on the eighth floor, covering wireless station to engine rooms. Personal shopping escort can be arranged by applying to the Personal Service Bureau on the first balcony or to any floor superintendent.
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Ena
Personal Service Bureau
Hawley
Summer Streets
Burglars Break Safe at Star Raincoat Company
A gang of safe burglars wrecked the safe on the third floor of 158 Blackstone Street Star Raincoat Company and escaped with $12 in cash, several checks, and 50 raincoats valued at $350. Police hunted the suspects after the Sunday break-in.
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Star Raincoat Company
Blackstone Street
THE
Burglars Hit Weinberg Dry Goods Ware Rooms
Robbers checked the Weinberg Dry Goods Company on Hanover Street, taking $15 in sweaters and high priced woolen underwear. Investigators believe the burglars hid in the building Saturday night and struck early Sunday, moving a 1600 pound safe and forcing doors with a pick axe.
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Weinberg Dry Goods Company
Hanover Street
Weinberg Company
Injured Boston Common Dove Is Rescued and Freed
A well known Back Bay woman, unnamed by the MSPCA, helped lure and rescue an injured dove on Boston Common. The bird had a wire tether embedded in its leg, was treated at the MSPCA dispensary, the band was cut away, swelling subsided, and the dove was released back to the flock.
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Boston
Tufts Wins Recognition as Tufts Medical School Clinics Open
Tufts College gains hospital recognition after Grace Hospital closure opens scope for Tufts students’ clinical training. Tufts clinics now operate at Massachusetts General City St Elizabeths Carney and the Boston Dispensary with expanded privileges at City Hospital and New England Eye and Ear Infirmary. Receivers prepare court papers to terminate the Grace Hospital contract.
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Tufts
Grace Hospital
Harvard
Boston
Thomas W. Streeter
Tufts College
Dodge
United States Circuit
Tufts Medical School
Massachusetts General
City
St. Elizabeth’s
Carney
N. &. Eye and Ear Infirmary
Boston Dispensary
Medical School
Massachusetts General Hospital
William M. Conant
Harvard Medical School
Conant
St. Elizabeth's
New England
United States Hotel
Harvard combines drama and dance for one admission
Harvard plans a combined drama and dance event for one price with reduced rates for undergraduates. The Harvard Dramatic Club presents Let's Get Married by Examett Beach on December 11, with dancing to follow until midnight and regular pricing for the public.
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Harvard
Harvard Dramatic Club
Examett Beach
Cambridge
Indictment Charges UMWA Officers in Labor Monopoly Attempt
Federal grand jury in Pueblo Colorado indicts United Mine Workers of America national officers J P White president Frank J Hayes vice president and William Green secretary treasurer for attempting to secure a monopoly of labor.
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Pueblo
Colo
Federal Grand Jury
United Mine Workers of America
J. P. White
Frank J. Hayes
William Green
Grand-nephew of Hayes visits White House
Master Edward Hayes of Columbus Ohio, four years old and grand-nephew of President Hayes, visited the White House with his nurse. He viewed a portrait of his ancestor and a special arrangement set for him to shake hands with President Wilson on Thursday.
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Hayes
Capital
Washington
Edward Hayes
Columbus
President Hayes
White House
Wilson
Man Released to Attend Wife's Funeral in Fort Kent
Kalil Ziter of Fort Kent Maine was released from East Cambridge jail on $250 bail to attend his wife and child's funeral. Judge Morton revoked an 18 month sentence imposed a week earlier and set a new date to January 5. Mrs Ziter died Friday after childbirth and the funeral was planned for today in Fort Kent.
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W. Stanwoogg Field
Kalil Ziter
Fort Kent
Morton
United States District Court
Ziter
Zelaya to Return to Barcelona Ending U S Standoff
J Santos Zelaya former Nicaragua president agrees to leave the United States and return to Barcelona Spain after daylong talks at the State Department. Zelaya will have time to settle important business before departing on the next New York to Barcelona boat.
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Washington
United States
J. Santos Zelaya
Nicaragua
Zelaya
Barcelona
Spain
New York
States Department
Polk
Corry M. Stadden
Nicaraguan Leader Extradition Case Entangles Bar Work
State department officials push that after departure the deposed dictator head to Barcelona and avoid political intrigues in Nicaragua. Charles A. Douglas advised cancellation of extradition requests as Chamorro cables Nicaragua to halt efforts related to Masaya incidents in April 1901. Zelaya stresses the charges are political from the outset.
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State Department
Barcelona
Nicaragua
Charles A. Douglas
New York
Douglas
Chamorro
Foreign Office
Poent
Masaya
Zelaya
Gate Carrying Fails, Man Arrested At Somerville Station
Frank Barnard of Main Street Charlestown lifted a gate from Sullivan Square terminal after an L train ride and attempted to carry it from the Boston Elevated property. He was captured and will face larceny charges from the company.
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Frank Barnard
Mainstreet
Charlestown
Heron
Broadway
Sommerville
Somerville Blec
Barnard
Sullivan Sqd
Boston Elevated
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C. W. Cook
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Miss Haley
Miss Jordan
Joseph Lee
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