Boston No-License plan offers half savings to proposer
A proposal seeks a five year contract with Boston to share half of direct and indirect savings from liquor license and related revenues if the city adopts a No-License policy. A three person commission to oversee terms would include the mayor appointee, the proposer, and a third member. The plan also pledges to help displaced bartenders find work and notes rapid occupancy of vacated real estate by legitimate business in other cities.
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Boston
Seattle
Denver
Man Found Hiding in Woods Near Lincoln Park
Warwick police traced a report of a strange acting man near Lincoln Park and found a poorly clad figure nearly dead from exposure hiding in a dense thicket. The man was cold exhausted and undernourished as of December 15 in Providence.
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Providence
R. I
Lincoln Park
Warwick
Deserted man reveals treasure belt and sister clue
Jose Freitas, found hiding in the woods and unable to speak until fed at a police station, claimed Eastward travel from Southern California to find his sister. A belt containing 5315 in gold was removed, with 5285 in gold, and banks offered limited deposit. Freitas said his sister lived in Middletown Rhode Island. A patrolman accompanied him to Middletown to locate her.
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Jose Freitas
California
Cranston
Freitas
Chief Cranston
Middletown
R. I
North Bound Washington Street Cars Diverted Tonight
Divert northbound Washington street cars starting at 10 p m tonight due to track work at Franklin and Washington streets. Service will run inward to Summer street then via Summer High Federal Postoffice square until Sunday noon. Southbound routes remain unchanged.
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Washington St
Franklin
Washington Streets
Washington Street
Adams Square
North Station
Summer Street
High
Federal
Postoffice Square
Pope to issue Christmas peace appeal says Zurich dispatch
Zurich dispatch reports the Pope will issue a Christmas proclamation to all belligerents in response to the central powers peace note. The message was relayed from Copenhagen via the Exchange Telegraph Company and appeared in Tageblatt of Berlin.
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London
Zurich
Tageblatt
Berlin
Copenhagen
Exchange Telegraph Company
Vatican
Yale Youth Renounced by Father After Elopement
Walton Paul Smith, Yale freshman turned Hartford department store floor walker, is temporarily disinherited and placed on a year’s probation by his wealthy father who runs a Kansas City based chain of stores. The elopement with Miss Parker followed Yale Princeton games, and Judge Dickenson suspended the usual fine. Mrs. Smith had met her husband only six weeks before the marriage.
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Hartford, Conn
Yale
Scientific School
Peared
Dickenson
Mr. Smith, Sr
Smith
Hartford Youth in Court Over Elopement Drive
The Hartford police court heard young Smith charged with leaving his automobile in a restricted district for over 40 minutes after eloping with Frances Caroline Parker on November 19. Judge Edwin C. Dickenson presided as witnesses tracked the car left on Temple Street near police headquarters.
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Hartford
Young Smith
Frances Caroline Parker
John Dwight Parker
Hartford Insurance Company
Edwin C. Dickenson
Sage-Allen Company
Temple Street
Timothy Killard
Charles Daly
Smith Ap
Four Hartford men arrested for selling stolen auto in Pittsfield
Four young men from Hartford claimed to be commissioned to sell a Hartford car and were arrested at Union Station on a charge of stealing a $500 auto from Fisher of Hartford and fleeing. They allegedly sold the vehicle to Michael Kline, a local junkman, who alerted police after cashing part of a $52.50 payment and a $32 check. The quartet bought two shirts and a suit with the balance and received change.
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Pittsfield
Hartford
Conn
Springfield
Union Station
Fisher
Michael Kline
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