Protest on E Trustees Demands Public Transit Reform
Representative-elect Frank H. Cowin presided as trustees urged the ward representative in the Legislature to repeal or enact new laws abolishing trustees and placing service under public control. They called for restoration of the Essex Street line from Meeting House Hill and the Field's Corner Savin Hill Massachusetts Avenue line.
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Frank H. Cowin
Cowin
Essex Street
Meeting House Hill
Field
Public figures speak at city meeting passage
Representative Joseph McGrath and Representative Daniel Murphy joined former Councillor Alfred Wellington and Senator Edward F. McLaughlin as speakers at the gathering.
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Joseph McGrath
Daniel Murphy
Alfred Wellington
Edward F. McLaughlin
Equality Alone Can Avert War Says World League Vision
A series of speeches urges a league of nations as the path to peace. Speakers insist on equal security and economic opportunity, the creation of international law, and world cooperation. They warn the war’s end requires action to prevent future chaos and promote global order.
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League of Free Nations
League of Free Nations speakers urge global unity
Prominent Americans including President William Allan Neilson and Ralph S. Rounds spoke at Huntington Hall urging a league of nations to back Woodrow Wilson's Versailles proposals. They argued war must end and a democratic, extended alliance is needed, with an international commission to enforce peace and oversee postwar penalties and resources.
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William Allan Neilson
Smith College
Ralph S. Rounds
New York
Huntington Hall
Rogers Building
League of Free Nations Association
Massachusetts
Woodrow Wilson
Allied War Council
Neilson
League
League of Nations
Germany
Balkan
Eczema Relief With Resinol Ointment Advertisement
Frightful eczema on the legs caused itching and sleepless nights until Resinol Ointment provided relief after a single application. The user, F B Price of Indianapolis, reports full recovery after using about one jar, with Resinol Ointment and Resinol Soap available at druggists.
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F. B. Price
Downey St
Indianapolis
Ind
Interurban freight wreck kills five in Cleveland crash
Five people died and another was dying with a likely fatal injury after an inter-urban freight car jumped tracks and struck two automobiles in Cleveland on December 12. Three victims were sailors in one of the cars.
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Cleveland
Favor Three Cent Fares For City Point Transit
The South Boston Citizens' Association called for a zone or mileage based Elevated fare and opposed any raise in car fares from City Point to downtown Boston. It backed a three cent fare to the heart of the business district. The group plans to spend most of its 1000 treasury for Liberty loan bonds. Mayor M Frank Smart was re elected president. Fred O Watt became secretary and P Joseph O Leary treasurer.
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South Boston Citizens’ Association
Elevated
City Point
M. Frank Smart
Fred O. Watt
P. Joseph O’leary
Hyde Park Protest Calls Halt to Mattapan Line
Hyde Park residents filled Hyde Park High School to oppose the closing of the Hyde Park Mattapan line of the Bay State Street Railway and to denounce an eight cent elevated fare and 14 cent city limit fare. They formed the Citizens' Transportation Association of Hyde Park and urged the Legislature to create a metropolitan district in Eastern Massachusetts.
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Hyde Park
Hyde Park High School
Hyde Park-Mattapan
Bay State Street Railway Company
Boston
Citizens’ Transportation Association of
Massachusetts
Metropolitan Park Commission to run district electric car systems
At a recent meeting Representative-elect Frank Phinney led the session. Speakers included Senator-elect Samuel Trinkel and Senator-elect John Jackson Walsh, Representative George Hamburger, David W. Murray, Edwin C. Jenney, and Dr. David E. Hanlon.
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Metropolitan Park Commission
Frank Phinney
Samuel Trinkel
John Jackson Walsh
George Hamburger
David W. Murray
Edwin C. Jenney
David E. Hanlon
Davison to sail for France next Monday
Washington Dec. 12 Henry P. Davison chairman of the War Council of the American Red Cross said tonight he will sail from New York next Monday. He was asked by President Wilson to be ready to go to Europe for work connected with the peace conference.
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J. Randolph Coolidge, Jr
Association
League of United States
League of Nations
New York
Vermont
Germany
Switzerland
America
United States
League of Free Nations
Talcott Williams
Westphalia
Berlin
France
Japan
England
Italy
Chateau Thierry
Sedan
William Tohenzollern
Washington
Henry PV. Davison
War Council of the American Red Cross
Wilson
Europe
City of Montreal in Rioters' Hands Amid Strikes
Dec 12 Montreal on strike as police and firemen walk out for higher wages leaving city at mercy of rioters. Fire stations wrecked, stores looted, saloons open, citizens powerless to stop hoodlum gangs as law and order collapse.
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Montreal
Derly
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Boston Elevated Railroad
Dorchester
Cyrus Townsend Brady
Boston Post
Diamond Merchants
Waltham
Seth Thomas
Montana
Paitergo Fu
Diamond Merchants and Jewelers
Summer Street
Rounds
John E. Moors
Joseph Walker
Edward F. McGrady
Central Labor Union
Horace M. Kallen
War Charities
Penounce
Mattapan
Davison
League of Free Nations Assn
J. Randolph Coolidge
Henry B. Cabot
Chas
W. Birtwell
Mt. Vernon St
League To Enforce
Sor As
Solomy Xgnas
Nedar
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