Steams of Christmas Smuggling and Holiday Books
Alfred S. Clark notes December brings stealth and smugglers, then reviews a shelf of children’s books. Gene Stratton-Porter’s Morning Face features nature photos. Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Black Arrow is illustrated by N. C. Wyeth. Other titles include The Kewpie Primer, The Goop Encyclopedia, The Chatterbox, Aunt Sadie’s Rhymes, Betty’s Beautiful Nights, Woodcraft Manual for Girls, Chickadee Dee and His Friends, The Indian Fairy Book, The Princess Pocahontas, The Jolly Book of Playcraft, Marjorie’s Literary Dolls, The Mary Dawson Game Book, How Boys and Girls Can Earn Money, The American Boys’ Book of Electricity, A Nursery History of the United States, Our Little Anglo-Saxon Cousin of Long Ago, A Little Maid of Bunker Hill, The Boy’s Prescott, Jane Stuart Comrade, and The Rod of the Lone Patrol.
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Doubleday
Page
Gene Stratton-Porter
Gene
Robert Louis Stevenson
Scribner’s
York and
Lancaster
Stevenson
N. C. Wyeth
Mr. Wyeth
Ford Speaks on Boston Streets at West Roxbury Rally
Francis J. W. Ford of South Boston, a Citizens' candidate for City Council, addresses street policy at West Roxbury rallies. He urges a definite street laying out plan to develop outlying wards and protect repairs, backed by Major O Keefe and associates. Taft contributes a piece on the young man and the law.
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West Roxbury
Francis J. W. Ford
South Boston
Boston
P. F. O’ Keefe
Ford
Wellington
Montague
O’keefe
Coffee Urn Explodes at Restaurant on Commercial Street
Two men received facial and neck scalds after a coffee urn exploded at a Commercial Street restaurant. Peter Brock, an employee, was treated at Relief Hospital. Diner John F. Daily of Chapman Street, Charlestown, suffered minor facial scalds and declined further treatment.
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Commercial Street
Peter Brock
Relief Hospital
John F. Daily
Chapman Street
Charlestown
Adventurers decode treasure map in Virginia caves tale
Two boys discover a manuscript with cipher directions to a Virginia treasure. After solving it they journey to caves but fall into extensive passages. The December issue of The American Boy offers this bold adventure alongside Mark Tidd and other features for young readers.
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Virginia
Mark Tidd
Clarence B. Kelland
James Willard Schultz
Theophilus Jones
Haysworth Baldrey
Terrell Croft
Dry Boston A Solution Promoted To Clean Licensing Slate
Charles R. Gow former licensing board chairman told the Master Builders Association that a one year dry period would straighten licensing board issues in Boston. He suggested starting over with a clean slate and reducing licenses to three or four hundred, answering a member’s question reluctantly amid the wet and dry debate. He noted revoking licenses for paper values harms fair action.
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Boston
Charles R. Gow
Master Builders Association
Gow
Swampscott Man Wins John Fritz Medal
Dr. Elihu Thomson of Swampscott received the John Fritz medal for distinguished scientific achievement at Technology Institute ceremonies in Central Hall. The award was presented by Charles Waerren Hunt with remarks from John J. Carty W. W. Rice and Dr. Richard C. Maclaurin. Thomson delivered a reply.
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John Fritz
Elihu Thomson
Swampscott
Central Hall
Technology Institute
Charles Waerren Hunt
John J. Carty
W. W. Rice
General Electric Company
Richard C. Maclaurin
Technology
Thomson
Rickard Eyes Madison Square Garden Lease Talks
Tex Rickard, boxing promoter, said he is negotiating with New York Life Insurance to lease Madison Square Garden for five or ten years. He has offered to take over the entire building and plans to confer with the new owners the next day about the amphitheatre and related matters.
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Rickard
Madison SQ. Garden
New York
Tex Rickard
New York Life Insurance Company
Madison Square Garden
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