Common Council Reshuffles Duties and Appropriations
The Boston Common Council passes an order making District Attorney Moran custodian of public buildings department papers. It also approves a 2000 portrait for the late Mayor Collins and votes a 2000 library-building appropriation for Charlestown, with other budget and auditing amendments discussed.
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Sherwin J. Cook
Common Council
Moran
Pubiic Buildings Department
Public Buildings Department
Suffolk County
Barrett
Committee of Investigation
Arthur Dolan
Crowley
Charlestown
Dolan
Murray
Fitzgerald
Ward 6
Noyes
Collins
Madden
Vwriday
Moran Demands on State Police Weighed by Officials
Boston officials fret over Moran and Police Board clash as district attorney presses liquor-law enforcement. Moran seeks state police help amid threatened licenses and hotel operators prepare to reapply under new names. Attorney General Parker has offered no public comment as talks continue.
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Emmons
Cole
Parker
Boston
Everyone's Magazine Promotes Year Ahead Deals and Reading
A clipped ad touts Everybody's Magazine as a Christmas gift for friends at 15 cents single and 1 50 per year. It promises masterly fact stories about grafters and bosses in 1906 and notes Russell's Soldiers of the Common Goods as a guide to a better life. The issue features light fiction and asks for special representatives in towns without dealers.
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Russell
Police Board Responds To Letter On Authority Over Officers
The Police Board replies that it has no legal authority to send officers to Moran’s office. Moran cites Section 7 of Chapter 108 and accuses Boston officials of failing to enforce liquor laws at Adams House Parker House Young’s Hotel and Hotel Essex. Moran asks for an investigation into liquor sales and proposes coordinating with authorities to enforce the law. Chief Shaw, ill at home in Lynn, says he will confer with authorities and notes the department acts under the Governor’s orders.
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Boston
Moran
Parker House
Young's
Adams House
Hotel Essex
Pierce
Tlugh Lee
Lee
Iotin B. Moran
Police Board
Tee
Fee
Charles H. Cole
Massachusetts
Commonwealth
Hotel
Essex
Board of Police
City of
John B. Moran
Winthrop School's 1855 origins tied to Tremont land purchase
The Winthrop School house, linked to the Hotel Touraine liquor license revocation, dates to 1855 per city auditor. The Tremont street land, bought in 1834-35 for 11,928.50, later housed the Johnson School, rebuilt in 1854 and renamed Winthrop.
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Winthrop
Moran
Hotel Touraine
Tremont Street
Johnson
Carlton Chambers Café Decor Pleases Fenway Visitors
The Carlton Chambers cafe near the Fenway, owned by Lester Roberts, draws attention with its cheery holiday display and inviting decor.
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Carlton Chambers
Fenway
Lester Roberts
Minister Griscom Home to Meet New Honors
Washington reports Minister Lloyd Griscom of Japan will not return to the Orient. He is set for a new honor while his wife Mrs. Griscom remains a prominent social figure. Griscom expected to succeed David R. Thompson as ambassador to Brazil. Thompson may later be named to Mexico City.
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Washington
Lloyd Griscom
Japan
T.loyd Griscom
Wihio
United States
Brazil
Heroine Battles Flames At West End Fire
Miss Gordon, a fearless bookkeeper, saved company valuables by locking them in a steel vault as a blaze gutted the third floor. Firemen rescued trapped workers and a man named Rumanno later died at Massachusetts General Hospital. The crowd cheered Ladder 1’s Hinloff who lowered Rumanno to the street.
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West End
John Canty
William Ryan
Exatherine Gordon
Cordon
Green Street
Linloff
Hinloff
Ian
Gardner
Massachusetts Generalsrospital
Rumanno
Frank
Charles Ryan
Frank Ryan
Tom
Prince
Salvation Army
Bridges
Miss Gordon
Massachusetts Avenue
Boston
Cambridge City Celebrates 275th Anniversary Amid Rain
The Cambridge Historical Society led plans for the 275th anniversary celebration of Cambridge. Rain disrupted afternoon events including planned exercises, but Sanders Theatre drew a large crowd for speeches by Attorney General Herbert Parker and others. The day featured school programs, an oil portrait presentation of General Israel Putnam, and remarks from Harvard officials and local leaders.
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Cambridge Historical Society
Cambridge
Sanders Theatre
Huling
William Roscoe Thayer
Harvard Graduates
Bradbury
Edwin D. Mead
Putnam School
Israel Putnam
E. B. Malley
G. A. Giles
C. J. McIntire
Richard Henry Dana
MM. Crothers
First Church
Unitarian
Dana
Herbert Parker
Parker
Filene Gifts Toys to Winthrop School Pupils
Mr. V Filene of William Filene's Sons brightened 62 Winthrop School pupils by supplying toys after Miss Dorothy O'Reilly collected letters to Santa. The gesture, from a busy merchant, brings Christmas happiness to the city's poor children and to the teacher.
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V Filene
William Filene
Winthrop School
Dorothy O'Reilly
Santa
First formal Roosevelt dinner hosts Cabinet and guests
President and Mrs. Roosevelt held their first formal dinner for the Cabinet and their wives along with a few invited guests in Washington.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Cabinet
Cure by Cuticura at Expense of $3.75
Mrs Abbie A Saultes of West Danville Vermont reports severe eczema on her hands improved after using Cuticura Soap Ointment and Resolvent in May 1905 after failing to find relief from a physician. Three bottles of Resolvent and the Soap with Ointment cured her before cold weather.
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Cuthura
Abbie A. Saultes
West Danville, Vt
Complete Cuticura Treatment For All Skin Conditions
Complete external and internal treatment for every humor from pimples to eczema may be had for one dollar. A single set often cures torturing, disfiguring itching and rashes when all else fails. Cuticura Soap Ointment and Pills sold worldwide by Potter Drug & Chem Corp Boston sole props Merlet Pree How to Cure Itching Scaly Humors.
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Potter Drug & Chem. Corp
Boston
M. J. T. Sophs Win Dual Meet at Tech Gym
M. J. T. Sophs defeated the freshmen in a Tech gym dual meet by 55 1 2 to 1 2. It was the first such meet at Tech and aimed to test new men for the varsity team. Events included 600 yard run won by Blackburn, high jump by Rapelye, 30 yard dash by Whittaker, shot put by Freedman, pole vault by Orr, weight event by Ginson, high hurdles by Godfrey, Keeney, and a relay won by the 1909 class.
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Ine Tech Sonhs
Tech Gymnasium
Tech
Blackburn
Godfrey
Rapelye
Dickerman
Whittaker
Todd
Freedman
Edmunds
Orr
Very
Gimson
Allen
Keeney
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Buildings Department
Mr. Nichols
Ward 10
City Hall
Whelton
Charlestown Library
Mr. Noyes
Ward 11
Police Commission
Sughrue
Watts
Dugan
Touraine
Police
Everybody's Magazine
Shaw
Tokio
Rumanna
Mr. Ryan
Green
Pitts
McMann
Ryan
Cambridge City
Harvard University
Law School
Lancaster
Daly
Pittsfield
Giles
Alexander McKenzie
Thomas Shepard
England
Harvard
John Dunster
Jonathan Mitchel
C. W. Elidt
College
Higginson
W. R. Thayer
T. W. Higginson
Somerville
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Henry W. Longfellow
Longfellow
Hanus
M. J. T. Sophs
Christ
Claus
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