Praise for Wilson Attitude at Home Market Club Luncheon
The Home Market Club, a GOP aligned group, congratulated President Wilson on his awareness of threats to American business and praised the administration for heeding business signals. It urged immediate changes to inadequately protective customs duties to shield manufacturers and workers from competition domestically and abroad. President Dowse hosted the luncheon at the University Club with remarks from Paige Bigney Smith MacColl Draper Bent Hopewell and others.
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Wilson
University Club
William B. H. Dowse
Home Market Club
President Dowse
Calvin D. Paige
S. O. Bigney
C. B. Smith
Fitchburg
Channing Smith
Board of Industries and Labor
James R. MacColl
Providence
George A. Draper
Hopedale
William H. Bent
Taunton
John Hopewell
Wabash Man to Head Monon Line
Frederic A. Delano, former Wabash president and receiver, was elected president of the Chicago Indianapolis Louisville Railway known as the Monon to succeed Fairfax Harrison who recently became president of Southern Railway Company.
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New York
Frederic A. Delano
Wabash Railroad
Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville Railway Company
The
Monon
Fairfax Harrison
Southern Railway Company
Maryland Priest Promoted by Pope Monsignor Bradley Named
Emmittsburg Md Dec 23 The Very Rev Bernard J Bradley president of St Marys College has been appointed by Pope Pius X to a domestic prelate title of monsignor Cardinal Gibbons sent the papal brief today confirming the promotion.
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Emmittsburg, Md
Bernard J. Bradley
St. Mary’s College
Pope Pius X
Bradley
Cardinal Gibbons
Navy to Make Every Ship a School This New Year
Washington December 23 Every American warship will be a school ship with the new year. Secretary Daniels issues an order effective January 1 creating an education program in the navy. For 114 hours each afternoon enlisted men will study under commanding officers with commissioned, warrant and petty officers serving as teachers.
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Washington
Daniels
Navy
Navy to offer study courses for enlisted men and leaders
Enlisting men taking correspondence courses with outside institutions will receive assistance and encouragement. Chief petty officers seeking promotion to warrant rank and warrant officers pursuing commissions will be formed into classes for special instruction. The program aims to improve overall military efficiency and address every detail in enlisted training.
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Navy
Big Doll House Awarded to Miss Swayze at Bazaar
The eight room steam heated electric doll house, sold as shares at the Boston University Medical School Bazaar in Copley Plaza in November, has been awarded to Miss Margaret Earl Swayze of Reading Pennsylvania. The doll house was donated by Dr. Alice S. Woodman head of the histological department of the medical school.
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Boston University Medical School
Copley Plaza
Margaret Earl Swayze
Reading
Penn
Alice S. Woodman
Medical School
Despondent Maine Man Ends His Life
Despondent Andrew Walsh ended his life by leaping from the bridge into Millinocket stream in Millinocket Maine. He was despondent over ill health, and the tragedy occurred today.
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Maine
Millinocket
Andrew Walsh
Little Italy
Railroad Yard at South Boston Piers Planned
Port Directors advertise bids for a new railroad yard near Commonwealth and fish piers in South Boston at an estimated cost of 100000 dollars. The facility will host about six and a third miles of track, serve 400 to 500 cars, and include a viaduct to Summer Street extension. Foundations for the viaduct are set, with the first girder completed at East Cambridge. Bids open at noon January 14.
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Commonwealth and Fish Piers
South
Boston
Summer Street
Boston Bridge
East Cambridge
South Boston
Commonwealth Pier
Rep Sullivan's Funeral Today
The funeral of Representative Benjamin F Sullivan of East Boston, who died Sunday, will be held at his Bayswater Street home in East Boston this morning at 9 o'clock.
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Benjamin F. Sullivan
East Boston
Bayswater Street
Russian worker killed by hot girder at GE plant
Tony Matzick a 45 year old Russian resident of 18 Heath Street Everett was fatally injured at the General Electric Company plant in West Everett when a 400 pound hot girder toppled onto him. He was pinned for about half an hour before colleagues could secure tongs and free him.
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Tony Matzick
Heath Street
Everett
General Electric Company
West
Massachusetts Bar Admits First Woman Member Mary Mahan
The Massachusetts Bar Association elected its first woman member at its annual meeting. Mrs. Mary A. Mahan, known in Boston as a former clerk in the street commissioners’ office for 17 years, now practices law and has ties to the Women's City Club. She lives at 154 Willow Street, West Roxbury, with an office on Beacon Street.
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Massachusetts Bar Association
Mary A. Mahan
Boston
Street Commissioners
State Supreme Court sessions moved to Boston in bill plan
The State Supreme Court would hear all sittings in Boston unless the court deems otherwise, under a bill discussed by the legislative committee. A proposal to discontinue jury sittings was tabled. Debate covered judiciary reform, larger court size, and keeping original jurisdiction, with postponement of key measures to a future meeting.
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State Supreme Court
David A. Ellis
Legislative Committee
Boston
Supreme Court
John E. Hannigan
B. U. Law School Association
Moorfield Storey
Samuel K. Hamilton
Bar Association
Mr. Hamilton
Bar
Sidney R. Wrightington
State House
Hollis R. Bailey
Keep Up Big Tim's Christmas Custom
New York on December 23. Although Big Tim Sullivan is dead, his heirs announced that Bowery families will receive the usual Christmas dinner baskets and lodging house inmates will be remembered as before.
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New York
Tim” Sullivan
Bowery District
Bowery
Stolen Silver Found Buried on New Hampshire Farm
A bundle of silver spoons and knives stolen over a year ago from M. D. Brackett of St. Johnsbury Vermont was found buried beneath a foot of turf on the Luton farm in Nashua New Hampshire. Farmhand Benjamin Osgood uncovered the cache, with nearly all property recovered.
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Nashua
N. H
M. D. Brackett
St. Johnsbury
Luton
Benjamin Osgood
Bride Abduction Charge Targeting Westfield Couple
Westfield man Matthew J. Legas faces a forthcoming abduction charge after marrying 15 year old Beulah M. Burke of Westfield in Hartford on Thursday. Police arrested him on perjury claims over age misrepresentation on the license. he was released and will appear in District Court tomorrow.
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Westfield
Matthew J. Legas
Hartford
Conn
Beulah M. Burke
Alice M. Burke
Legas
Castle Square Theatre Stages Miss Pocahontas Gems
Castle Square Theatre opens Miss Pocahontas with John Craig’s stock cast delivering music dance and comedy through a lively mix of English Virginia frontier and present day scenes. Donald Meek Olsson and Francis Wilson shine with Carleton and a 30 member chorus, Pocahontas as lead thrills audiences and the run continues through this week and next.
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John Craig
Virginia
James River
John Smith
Craig
Carleton
Francis Wilson
Dory
Donald Meek
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