Revenue Cutter Service asks Congress for more ships and unity
Captain E P Bertholf urged Secretary McAdoo and Congress to boost the revenue cutter service with more vessels for high seas Great Lakes and river aid. He cited 327 lives saved 2755 assisted on distress ships and $18 900 in derelict recovery while noting underfunding and proposing coast guard consolidation and an Alaska supply depot to cut costs.
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Congress
Revenue Cutter Service
High Seas
Great Lakes
Ohio
Mississippi
McAdoo
E. P. Bertholt
Bertholt
Bertholf
Revenue Cutter
Coast Guard
Alaska
Dutch Harbor
Miss Wilson to Speak to Spugs in New York Meeting
Miss Margaret Wilson daughter of the President will speak at a New York Spugs meeting to be held Tuesday night. Maude Wetmore chair of the Women's Department of the National Civic Federation will also speak, having organized the Spug movement in Washington.
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New York
Margaret Wilson
Spugs
Society For the Prevention
Maude Wetmore
Women’s Department
The
National Civic Federation
Washington
Two Men Trapped Under Car In Ferry Street Accident
On Ferry street Malden yesterday afternoon a runabout overturned trapping Ralph S Carter 27 of Melrose and Eugene R McCarty assistant superintendent of the Malden Melrose Gas Light Co. Carter was seriously injured at Malden Hospital while McCarty escaped with minor injuries. The driver Carter freed by strength after the car caught in tracks and overturned.
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Ferry Street
Malden
Ralphs. Carter
Franklin Street
Melrose
Malden Hospital
Eugene R. McCarty
Carter
McCarty
Carter Taken After Incident at Malden Hospital
Men were brought to the office of Dr. Walter W. Kingsbury for first aid and Carter was then rushed to Malden Hospital.
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Walter W. Kingsbury
Carter
Malden Hospital
Stabbing at Lynn License Rally Leaves Man Hospitalized
Alfred Sereno a Lynn barber was stabbed three times during an argument over the license question at a crowded Lynn event. Nicholas Nizetos was arrested after being found with a knife wound and fleeing the scene. The license vote, set for tomorrow, looms amid a heated campaign as both sides push for or against reopening saloons after six years.
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Casino Hall
Summer Street
Lynn
Alfred Sereno
Nicholas Nizetos
Nizetos
Real Winter Weather Forecast For Week Across Nation
The Weather Bureau reports a real winter spell will grip most of the country next week. Low temperatures, likely the season's coldest yet, will hit interior regions east of the Rockies. Monday night will push the chill to the Atlantic coast with continued low temps through the week.
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Washington
Weather Bureau
Rocky Mountains
Atlantic Coast
Country Day School Damaged by $10,000 Fire
The Country Day School on Nonantum Hill Newton near Brighton line suffered about $10,000 in damage from a fire caused by a defective flue. Two alarms brought Newton fire companies and Boston aid was sent.
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Country Day School
Nonantum Hill
Newton
Brighton
Boston
Country Day School OF
Fire at Bowman Estate School Damages Upper Floors
William Lindo, a janitor, spotted a blaze at 2 30 and notified police. Flames roared from the third story as a citizen activated a fire alarm. Chief Randlett sent a second alarm and called Brighton for help. Instructors Chase Johnson and Stroymer rescued equipment from labs as water damaged lower floors. The Bowman estate school, valued at 60 000 dollars and owned by K Kerns, may remain closed for weeks.
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William Lindo
Randlett
Brighton
John H. Chase
R. B. Johnson
Bertram Stroymer
Bowman
K. Kerns
Boston
Newton
Kostrucks Welcome 29th Child in Stevens Point
Stevens Point, Wis. Dec. 7. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Kostruck added to a year of record breakers by welcoming their 29th baby in 1913. The couple says they wish for a large family and take the milestone calmly.
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Stevens Point
Wis
Joseph Kostruck
Kostruck
Mr. Kostruck
Out of Jail Given Banquet to Harry H. Kemp
Harry H. Kemp poet and dramatist who served three weeks in a London jail is now hosted at a banquet by leading London literary figures, following his release.
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Harry H. Kemp
Upton Sinclair
London
Kansas poet Harry Kemp feted in London after jail spell
After three weeks in jail as a stowaway aboard the Olympic Kemp the Kansas poet and exiled “affinity” of Upton Sinclair was guest of honor at a Poetry Society banquet in London. Prominent figures hail him as a great American poet and a successor to Emerson Poe and Whitman. Kemp seeks material for a Napoleonic play and a Nathan Hale narrative poem.
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London
Harry Kemp
Kansas
Upton Sinclair
Poetry Society
Kemp
Gaylord Wilshire
Emerson
Poe
Walt Whitman
Whitman
G. C. A. Jonson
Olympic
New York
Nathan Hale
Canadian steamship lines form big merger
Port William Ont December 7. Several Great Lakes steamship lines have merged and will operate as the Canada Steamship Lines Limited. Joining are the Quebec Steamship Company Richelieu and Ontario Navigation Company Ontario and Quebec Navigation Company Canadian Inter-Lake Line Inland Lines and Northern Navigation Company. The combined firm will control over 100 steamers.
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Port William
Ont
Great Lakes
Canada Steamship Lines, Limited
Quebec Steamship Company
Richelieu & Ontario Navigation Company
Ontario & Quebec Navigation Company
Canadian Inter-Lake Line
Inland Lines
Northern Navigation Company
Cocktails for Horses as Meals Surprise Harvard Audience
Dr. F. H. Osgood outlined novel ideas in a public lecture at Harvard Medical School on care and diseases of horses and cattle. He urged cocktails and hors d oeuvres for tired horses, feeding hay before oats, and night molasses dilutions to boost appetite, while noting horses’ liver resilience and race to civilization risks.
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F. H. Osgood
Harvard Medical School
Dr. Osgood
Osgood
Fires in East Boston Struck Two Buildings
Two early morning fires kept East Boston fire crews busy. At 3 03 in a 31 Webster Street barber shop owned by Joseph Caggiano, a $1000 loss to building and contents occurred with unknown cause. At 6 52 a fire in a three flat at 243 East Eagle Street, home of Arthur Mooney, resulted from a dropped lighted lamp with $25 damage.
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East Boston
Webster Street
Joseph Caggiano
East Eagle Street
Arthur Mooney
Fail to Find Mrs Colby In Newton Search
An all day rain soaked search through Newton Oak Hill and Newton Highlands by police and Boy Scouts failed to locate Mrs Annie Colby who has been missing since last Thursday. Police plan to drag Silver Lake again as they pursue the theory she drowned herself near the Newton Centre sanitarium.
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Oak Hill
Newton
Newton Highlands
Annie Colby
Silver Lake
Colby
Highlands
John H. Colby
Boston
Brookline
Samuel L. Eaton
Newton Centre
Cold snap chills Middle West with snow and frost
Chicago felt a sharp winter advance as temperatures plunged by 2 to 38 degrees in 24 hours with snow flurries. Weather officials warned of further drops as fog dispelled by the cold in the city today.
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Chicago
Middle West
Weather Bureau
French Marabou Trays Figures Animals Cups Plates
Items include trays figures of animals and cups and plates in a French marabou motif. Decorative sets offered with vintage styling and collectible potential.
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