History books brighten gift lists for Christmas reading
A review of several history focused books suitable as gifts. Fairgrieve argues geography shaped civilizations, Chesterton champions ideas over battles, and Radziwill delivers a sharp view of Prussia. Local histories by Shackleton and Lippincott celebrate New York Philadelphia and Virginia with lively anecdotes.
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Dutton
James Fairgrieve
Cleopatra
Pascal
Fairgrieve
Sahara
Antony
Egypt
Prussia
New York
Penn
Robert Shackleton
Shackleton
Manhattan
America
Boston
The Heart of Her Highness in Old Flemish Tales
A romance set in medieval Flanders centers on Mary of Burgundy amid chivalry and brutality. The tale, praised for descriptive excellence, dramatizes Mary’s troubles and eventual marriage within a vivid historical backdrop.
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Flanders
Ghent
Bruges
Louvain
Mary of Burgundy
Charles the Bold
Clara E. Laughlin
Stanley Weyman
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Mayor Curley Blasts Peters in City Campaign Rallies
Mayor Curley denounces his opponent Mr Peters at rallies in Charles Sumner School Roslindale and Vernon Hall Roxbury condemning the opposition’s campaign as corrupt under a cloak of dignity. He notes the December 18 election and praises orderly East Boston turnout at an overflow rally.
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Peters
Curley
Charles Sumner School
Roslindale
Vernon Hall
Roxbury
East Boston
Ward Room
Meeting Disrupted by Hoodlums At Maverick Street Rally
A crowd packed the hall and blocked access forcing an outdoor adjournment on Maverick street. Police removed the agitator Giblin after he disturbed the meeting amid accusations of paid hoodlums and questionable parkland deals tied to Rugby Park Mattapan.
City Street Lamps Fail Leaving Side Streets in Darkness
Lamps of an older style without electric lighting went dark across the city last night. Police stations received many irate calls noting that the outage could invite hold ups in smaller side streets.
Lamplighters Strike Leaves Boston Streets in Darkness
Police reported no trouble as lamplighters from Rising Sun Street Lighting Company went on strike over pay. Mayor Curley reviewed city contracts and could not grant the wage demand, pledging to seek an amicable settlement. Some districts reported all lights dark with patrols steady and minimal disruption.
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Rising Sun Street Lighting Company
Curley
Dorchester
Roxbury
Boston
Jamaica Plain
House postoffice bill cites 333 million with new censor item
Washington December 7 breaking speed records the House postoffice committee reported the annual postoffice appropriation bill totaling 333 million dollars. A new item of 1.2 million dollars funds censoring foreign mails. The bill carries no money for pneumatic tube service.
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Washington
House Postoffice Committee Today
Censorship of foreign mails funded. tube service debated
Congress authorizes censorship of foreign mails under existing grants and adds 2 million dollars to transportation funds, totaling 3.2 million. Debate continues over abandoning pneumatic tube service as Pest Master-General Burleson and Rep Moon push for a report from a special committee due by June 30, 1918.
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Congress
Burleson
Representative Moon
Moon
Special Congressional Committee
Federal Employment Service Proposed in Congress
A bill to establish a government employment service was introduced today by Senator Robinson and sent to the labor committee. Each state would name a three member board to cooperate. A similar bill was introduced in the House by Representative Keating of Colorado.
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Washington
Robinson
Labor Committee
Keating
Colorado
Belmont Presents Red Cross with $10,000 Liberty Bonds
The Red Cross received $10,000 in Liberty bonds from August Belmont. The funds come from the Hour Less purse won in the Laurel Maryland race against Omar Khayyam on October 18. Belmont and Hour Less owners agreed to donate the winnings to the Red Cross.
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Belmont
RED Cross
Washington
Red Cross Today
Hourless
Omar Khayyam
Laurel
Maryland
LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE Price Increase Authorized
The widely sold cold remedy announces a price rise to 30 cents per box due to higher costs of its six medicinal extracts. The product has claimed long-standing popularity for over twenty five years and is used in many nations.
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Abigail Adams
Appleton
Laura F. Richards
Middle West
Bruggist
Aivt
C. S. Bayne
Grimm
Wontattl Larop
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England
Lane
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Chesterton
Henry VIII
Germany
Funk & Wagnalls
Catherine Radziwill
Berlin
William I
Frederick III
William II
Bismarck
Philadelphia
Lippincott
Horace Mather Lippincott
Macmillan
Elizabeth Deering Hanscor
Massachusetts
Old Dominion
Mary Newton Stanard
Virginia
Benedict
Mr. Stimson
Arnold
William
Marjorie Bowen
William the Silent
Netherlands
Anne Pedersdotter
Little, Brown
H. Wiers-Jenssen
John Masefield
Bergen
Norway
Florence JL. Barclay
Worcester
Putnam
Harper
Margaret Hill McCarter
Nathan Gallizier
Rome
Tristan
Hellayne
Mr. Gallizier
Doubleday
Page
Asa Don Dickinson
Helen Winslow Dickinson
Hawthorne
Irving
Longfellow
Cooper
Little Folks
Albert F. Blaisdell
Francis K. Ball
Robert E. Lea
Robert E. Lee
Houghton, Mifflin
J. G. de Roulhac-Hamilton
Mary Thompson Hamilton
Lee
Charles H. .I. Johnston
New World
Leif Ericsson
Peary
North Pole
Columbus
Hudson
Amerigo Vespucci
Ponce de Leon
Balboa
Cortez
Magellan
Francis Drake
Lewis and Clark
Manhattan Bay
Britain
France
Italy
Russia
Henry van Dyke
Captain Desmond
V. C
Maud Diver
N. Y. Times
Ethel M. Dell
N. Y. Tribune
G. P. Putnam’s Sons
London
Henri Barbusse
Fitzwater Wray
E. P. Dutton & CO
Arthur Guy Empey
Old Salem
Mary H. Northend
New England
Old
Salem
Moffat, Yard & Co., Publishers
West 32d St
Scribner Holiday Books
Holland
New York Tribune
Richard Harding Davis
Charles Belmont Davis
New York Times
Gilbert Nobbs
Hanpey
Nobbs
Philadelphia Evening Ledger
Happy Valley
John Fox, Jr
John Galsworthy
the World
Thomas Kelly
Arthur Train
Charles
Scribner’s
Giblin
Maverick Street
Dover
Michael H. Corcoran
Richard Lane
Roger Scannell, Jr
Rugby Park
Mattapan
Dennis Reardon
Mr. Peters
Fred Finnigan
Federal Employment Service
Federal Reserve Act
Gregory
Federal Reserve Board
Girl Comfort
Darragh Aldrich
Eleanor Hoyt Brainerd
Doubleday Page & CO
Garden City
W. E. Hill
Bill Hill
Houghton Mitflin Company
Martin J. Scott
S. J
Cardinal Gibbons
Frank H. Vigetelly
Ocket
Grenville Kleiser
Hudson Maxim
United States Post Office
Daniel CO. Roper
Boo
del Pee
Holmes W. Merton
Seorongnay
Merton
Atlanta Constitution
Primitive Church
Camden M. Cobern
Desk Standard Dictionary
Hazel P. Hanshew
the Fair Maid
Attila the Hun
Robin Hood the Outlaw
Prince Arthur
Mary Queen of Scots
Handel the Great Musican
Eric Wood
Livingstone
Stanley
Amundsen
Liberty
Lincoln
John Brown
Haig
Somme
D. A. Parry
Dennis
Trench
Edward Cressey
Watt
Price
Funk & Wagnalls Company
Fourth Avenue