Postmaster General Urges Aerial Mail Service and System Reforms
Postmaster-General Burleson reports the Postoffice Department is now self sustaining and urges reforms including government ownership of telegraph and telephone lines in Hawaii Alaska and Porto Rico an aerial mail service expansion motor truck routes mail compensation shifts to space basis and raising deposit limits with readjusted postmasters salaries based on parcel post impact.
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Hawaii
Alaska
Porto Rico
Washington
Benjamin Franklin
Postoffice Department
Burleson
Wilson
Burleson forecasts postal growth and surplus for 1914
Mr Burleson reports enormous growth in the department due to parcel post and postal savings bank divisions and urges postal legislation to expand activity. He cites a projected 1914 year surplus of 3,569,545 dollars, the second surplus of his administration.
Collision injures three women near Brookline and Massachusetts
Three women were hurt when two electric cars collided at Brookline Street and Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge last night. Passengers were jolted into a panic, with windows broken and debris scattered as one car toppled from its rails but recovered.
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Brookline Street
Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge
Three women injured in crash rushed to Cambridge hospital
Three women were bruised scratched and shaken up and taken to Cambridge Relief Hospital. Three other women fainted and revived in a nearby bug store. Car crews were uninjured though motor men in demolished vestibules had narrow escapes. Injured are Miss Mary Hennessey 164 Webster Ave Cambridge Miss May T Mahoney 1298 Commonwealth Ave Allston and Miss Esther Archer Tremont St Newton.
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Cambridge Relief Hospital
Mary Hennessey
Webster Avenue
Cambridge
May T. Mahoney
Commonwealth Avenue
Allston
Esther Archer
Tremont Street
Newton
Moon Phases and Evening Star Events Update
The notice lists moon phase changes for December including last quarter on December 10 and new moon on December 16, with first quarter on December 24. It notes Jupiter as an evening star in the southwest and Venus and Saturn as morning stars, plus auto lamp times and historic anniversaries for George Washington, Roald Amundsen, and Alabama statehood.
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Jupiter
Venus
Saturn
George Washington
Rondd Amundsen
South Pole
Alabama
Italian demand for relief over consul’s removal in Arabia
Rome reports Baron Sonnino, Italy’s foreign minister, urged Turkey to free G. A. Richardson the British consul at Hodeida and seek public satisfaction for the consulate violation after Richardson was allegedly removed from the Italian consulate and taken aboard a boat to an unknown destination.
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Rome
Baron Sonnino
G. A. Richardson
Hodeida
Arabia
Italy
Sonnino Answers Interpellation On Hodeida Incident
Baron Sonnino details Consul Richardson arrest and Italian officials in Hodeida. He notes Sig nor Cecchi remained at home under watch until coast guard ship Giuliana and cruiser Marco Polo arrived. He says Turkey awaits information before taking reparations steps and doubts Ottoman willingness to share coastal rights violation. Chamber adjourns until Feb 18.
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Chamber of Deputies
Hodeda
Richardson
Signor Cecchi
Hodeida
Giuliana
Marco Polo
Italia
Weather forecast for Boston area Monday into Tuesday
The forecast calls for rain or snow Monday with clearing Tuesday as colder air moves in. Expect northerly to easterly winds, shifting to westerly Tuesday, with northern New England and southern New England plus eastern New York experiencing snow. Cloudy and colder Monday, then Tuesday becomes fair and colder.
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Boston
Vicinity
New England
New York
Fight to dissolve extraordinary trusteeship in Worcester
Worcester reports a fight to end an extraordinary trusteeship allowing 87 year old civil engineer Martin Green to divest himself his wife and his children of control over a fortune estimated between 200000 and 500000 in value in a historic move under American jurisprudence.
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Worcester
Martin Green
Hamblin Seeks Help to Unload Strange White Elephant
Frank H. Hamblin of Hamblin & Russell Manufacturing will help dispose of a fortune tied up in a paper he signed as a casual witness after the death of Worcester attorney John S. Gould.
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Frank H. Hamblin
Hamblin & Russell Manufacturing Company
John S. Gould
Worcester
Extraordinary deed grants trustee absolute power
A peculiar deed of trust appears to appoint Mr. Hamblin not only as trustee but as holder of absolute power over the Green riches. He could turn the fate of property and control proceeds with unchecked authority.
Man Fires Barn Sets Blaze Endangering Stock
Frank Barrata of Water Town reports a man set fire to a barn behind his home on Palfrey Street early this morning. Barrata fired at the arsonist with a revolver as flames killed two horses. firemen saved the barn with about 2000 dollars in damage.
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Frank Barrata
Palfrey Street
Watertown
Kaiser to Undergo Throat Operation After Illness
A Berlin report says Emperor William I I will need a throat operation once recovered from a mild illness. Doctors deem it unwise for him to return to the front for several weeks, likely keeping him at home for Christmas. Crown Prince Frederick William has arrived in Berlin.
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Geneva
Switzerland
Basle
Berlin
William
Frederick William
Germans Renew Attacks on Ypres Front Driven Back
Four major German assaults near Ypres over 36 hours are repulsed with severe losses. The British expeditionary force with Indian troops and the bulk of the French left wing are concentrated in the area. Even if Germans reach Ypres, they cannot hold against the allied line, according to reports.
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London
Ypres
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