Books and Biographies for the Holiday Season
A reader’s guide highlights new cookbooks with American dishes, child friendly biographies from Macmillan, and war writings from Kipling and Cable. Notable titles include A Book of Pennsylvania Recipes, Romance of Old Belgium, Thomas Edison and Franklin biographies, Water Babies new edition, and Making the Movies by Ernest A. Dench.
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Grossmutter
Mendel Krotz
Boovna Schenkel
Kartoffle Klose
Paprikash
Gefulte Rinderbrust
Mary
Edith M. Thomas
Quakertown
Penn
Pennsylvania
Atlantic
Macmillan Company
Thomas Edison
Robert Fulton
John Smith
William Penn
Benjamin Franklin
Davy Crockett
Houghton, Mifflin
Heath Robinson
Atlantic Keeps Purity in English Amid Glib Era
The Atlantic is praised for steadfast literary standards as modern writing shawls humor with wit. A review covers W L George notes on women and a playful piece on the cello by Robert Haven Schauffler, plus Talman’s Accents Wild and Mary Shepherdess poem by Marjorie L C Pickthall.
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Atlantic
West
the Atlantic
Casabianca
Casey
Mesdames Pankhurst and Company
Mr. George
Robert Haven Schauffler
Mr. Schauffler
Euterpe
Elman
Kreisler
Schauffler
Charles Fitzhugh Talman
Mary Shepherdess
Marjorie L. C. Pickthall
Miss Pickthall
American Boy Leads High Class Juvenile Literature Movement
Socrates Smith notes efforts to improve juvenile literature amid a decline in nickel novels sales. He praises the American Boy magazine of Detroit for 16 years of clean, inspiring stories that encourage action over prohibition, proving thrillers can be engaging without evil content and drawing about a half million readers.
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Detroit
Mich
Juvenile reading guides and boy’s books in focus
The American Booksellers Association promotes Juvenile Book Week from November 28 to December 4 to encourage clean reading for boys. The American Boy highlights quality content by top writers with thrill and virility, yet remains clean and suitable for parents to give to sons. The magazine costs 10 cents a copy and $1 per year, published by Sprague Publishing in Detroit. Dr S E Forman’s History of the United States reaches a ninth large edition noting focus on national development over regional emphasis.
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Toy Dept
Mollie
Waddy
Tony
American Booksellers’ Association
Sprague Publishing Company
Detroit
S. E. Forman
United States
Mystery Girl Will
Arthur Payton, a girl of mystery who posed as a man for years around Boston, is recovering at City Hospital after an unsuccessful suicide attempt by asphyxiation.
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Arthur Payton
Boston
City Hospital
Secret Life of a Woman in Roxbury Room
An investigation of a Roxbury room found no feminine finery but clothing and underwear items. Letters showed the resident used the name Arthur and had lived at 353 Columbus avenue. Neighbors and a real estate dealer described Arthur as mannish, heavy drinker, and a worker in gardening and painting.
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Alice Connolly
Williams Street
Roxbury
Arthur
Columbus Avenue
Florence A. Russell
Mayor Curley to Attend Charity Benefit for Joyce
The Navahoe Club plans a benefit concert at Hollis Street Theatre tomorrow night for Charles Joyce who has faced illness. Mayor Curley will attend after subscribing to a block of seats, and Edward Brennan confirms the event. Cornelius A. Reardon promotes the fundraiser as a record success.
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Charles Joyce
Navahoe Club
Hollis Street
Curley
Edward Brennan
Cornelius A. Reardon
Joyce
Bangor Democrats Nominate Byrnes for Mayor
Bangor Massachusetts? Bangor Democrats in caucus nominate Patrick J. Byrnes as their candidate for Mayor to be decided in the special election on December 2 to fill the vacancy caused by Mayor Frank Robinson's death. There was no opposition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bangor
Democrats
Caucus
Patrick J. Byrnes
Frank Robinson
New Scale Presented to Boston Telephone Operators Union
A scale prepared by a committee representing all local operators of the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company was presented to the Boston Telephone Operators Union last evening after several months of work by the schedule committee.
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New England Telephone and Telegraph Company
Boston Telephone Operators’ Union
Union Rejects Company Wage Offer For Operators
The union, by unanimous vote, rejected the company wage increase citing discrimination against operators with over five years service. The company proposed a $12 max after five years, while the union’s plan seeks $15 after seven years and $13 at five years. Details on when the new schedule will be presented remain undecided.
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Representative Committee
Adjustment Board
Dukas Work Flows In Mixed Boston Symphony Concert
Boston Symphony Orchestra under Dr Karl Muck in Symphony Hall offered Beethoven’s sixth symphony Dukas orchestral scherzo The Sorcerer’s Apprentice Smetana and Enescu Roumanian Rhapsody The Beethoven performance was eloquent the Dukas piece heavy handed Smetana’s work left a strong impression and Enescu’s Rhapsody drew tepid reaction despite warm audience applause.
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Boston Symphony Orchestra
Karl Muck
Symphony Hall
Beethoven
Dukas
Smetana
Enesco
Dvorak
Boston Central Labor Union backs license in 1915 Boston vote
The Boston Central Labor Union adopted resolutions Dec. 5 1915 urging organized labor to vote yes on city license. It argues no license would harm employment and morality and would affect 10000 wage earners, while pledging support to trades unions and enforcement of laws.
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Boston Central Labor Union
Boston
American Federation of Labor
Organized Labor
Henry Abrahams
Beverly Mayor Seeks Graft Probe Into City Officials
Beverly mayor Mac Donald asked District Attorney Michael A. Sullivan to present to the grand jury facts about alleged attempts by city officials to obtain graft money from contractor Michael McDonough of Swampscott.
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Beverly
MacDonald
Michael A. Sullivan
Lawrence
Grand Jury
Michael McDonough
Swampscott
Engineer Corps Chief Shoots Self in Honolulu
Lieutenant Colonel Charles S. Bromwell, head of the army engineer corps, fatally shot himself today in his Honolulu residence. He died two hours later. Mrs. Bromwell, their daughter and a Harvard student son were in the United States.
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Honolulu
Charles S. Bromwell
Army Engineer Corps
West Point Grad Summers Bromwell Aide to Service
Lieutenant Colonel Charles Summers Bromwell has served extensively in the United States Engineering Corps since his 1890 West Point graduation, including several years as a military aide.
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Charles Summers Bromwell
United States Engineering Corps
West Point
Engineer Leader Aged 46 Passes Away
The obituary notes a public works engineer who served as temporary colonel and headed engineering for multiple projects. He directed public buildings and grounds in Washington for a period and was born in Newport Kentucky. He died at age 46.
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Roosevelt
Washington
Newport
Picture Star Seeks Divorce in New York Case
Clara Kimball Young, silent film star, files for separation from James Young, Peerless Feature Producing Company director and former movie star. They married in 1910 in Jersey City after his prior divorce. She alleges threats and physical abuse in March and sues for 250000 in a separate action.
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NEW 1Ork
Clara Kimball Young
James Young
Peerless Feature Producing Company
Young
Supreme Court
Jersey City
Aida Johnson Young
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Howard Russell Bangs
Ellis Parker Butler
Belgium
Elizabeth W. Champney
Putnams
Hendric Fjord
Europe
Fjord
Ernest A. Dench
Macmillans
Mr. Dench
Anna McClure Shell
Hearst International Library Company of New York
William McCleod Raine
Steve Yeager
Kipling
France
Doubleday, Page & Co
Boyd Cable
E. P. Dutton & Co
Slagazine
Mliscellany
Arthur Spencer
de Maupassant
Paderewski
Chopin
Mrs
Mary Sheplers
Bacons
Brule
Halib Robert W. Cranes
Laddie
Tife
Carmen
Harvester
Jack Chanty
Tembarom
Ward
Jef
Browning
Tennyson
Byron
Golden Treasury
Moore's
Longfellow
Evangeline
Whittier
Campfire
Bobsey Twins
Little Prudy
Girls of Central High
Moving Picture Girls
Meadow Brook Club
Meade, Alcott
Boy Scout
Tom Swift
Dreadnaught
Boy Inventors
Wireless
Comrades
Moving Picture Boys
Alger
Henry
Hollis
Castleman
Heaven
Stationery Dept
Michael O'Hallori
Star Rover
Bingle
Heart of the
Sur
Rainbow
Dickens
Rebecca
Ellis
Stevenson
Omar Khayyam
Waterman
Socrates Smith
By Booth Tarkington
America
Tarkington
London Illustrated News
Harper & Brothers
Mystery Girl
Byrnes
BY Olin Downes
Old Corner Book Store, Inc
Bromfield Street
Engineer Corps
Col
Bromwell
Picture Star
Clara K. Young
Lippincott
Ralph Henry Barbour
Eleanor M. Ingraham
Caroline Lockhart
Me Smith
Uncle Billy
Bruce Burt
Charles Dickens
Arthur Rackham
Victoria Gracen
Grace L. H. Lutz
Marcia Schuyler
Miranda
Lo Michael
Edwin L. Sabin
California
Panama
Boy Scouts of
Snow Shoe Lodge
Rupert Sargent Holland
Adirondacks
Winona
Margaret Widdemer
B. Lippincott C
Heidi
Johanna Spyri
Elisabeth P. Stork
Marlae Kirk
Ivanhoe
The
London Standard
Boston Globe
Beltane
Jeffery Farnol
N. Y. Evening Post
Brooklyn Eagle
AT All Booksellers
Little, Brown & CO
Old
Italy
London
Bedford St
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