Rea Urges Road Funding and Higher Rates
President Samuel Rea of the Pennsylvania Railroad urges a private return for rails with higher Interstate Commerce Commission rates. He backs a congressional railroad bill requiring continuing standard compensation and funding for additions, improvements, and equipment. The plan would issue ten year debt with interest to finance 1920 needs.
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Philadelphia
Samuel Rea
Pennsylvania Railroad
Interstate Commerce Commission
Rea
Congress
United States Railroad Administration
Rates and returns key to rail regulation postwar finance
The article argues for fixed rate rules or minimum returns to guide railroad commissions, ensuring wages and rates prevent a postwar scramble. It urges funding war debt and restoring railways with working capital after government control, noting railroads provided capital and materials at the start of Federal control.
Ice in Maine forms fast signaling strong harvest ahead
Ice 13 inches thick on Otter ponds near Portland suggests a bountiful crop. Experts expect harvesting to start three to six weeks early and continue into late January for the 1920 season, with enough ice cut to last.
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Portland
Otter Ponds
Sugar Steamer Lake Jessup Delayed Arrival in Boston
The Lake Jessup is now not expected until Thursday with 5,120,000 pounds of raw cane sugar from Nuevitas Cuba. It left Cuba on Christmas Day, not December 20 as reported. Two more shipments from Cuba are due: the Lake Se bago with about 5,000,000 pounds from Cardenas and the Ocmulgee with 7,360,000 pounds from Jucaro, the latter 1,000,000 pounds larger than booked.
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Jucaro
Miss Susan Pierce Weds A. E. Parks in Belmont
Mrs. A. Emerson Parks of Nautilus and Sunshine Clubs married yesterday at her parents home in Belmont. The couple will reside in Vermont.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nautilus and
Sunshine Clubs
Belmont
Vermont
Belmont Couple Wed in Family Home Ceremony
Susan T. Pierce and A Emerson Parks married yesterday at the Pierce home in Belmont. Arthur Parks was best man and Florence Parks maid of honor. After a wedding trip to Montreal the couple will reside in Burlington Vermont.
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Susan T. Pierce
Charles W. Pierce
Lexington Street
Belmont
A. Emerson Parks
F. E. Parks
School Street
Arthur Parks
Florence Parks
Montreal
Prospective Brides Find Men Waiting in Boston
Prospective brides arriving from Italy on the Canopicc were greeted by suitors from across the Union in Boston. Five yesterday filed intentions to marry revealing groom origins including Tacoma Washington Framingham West Virginia Watertown and New York City.
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Italy
Canopicc
Union
Boston
Tacoma
Washington
Frammingram
West Virginia
Watertown
New York City
Vaccination for liquor seekers stirs Detroit cross border talk
Detroit readers face Jan 1 shifts as Ontario resumes liquor sales and U S authorities demand vaccination on entry. The piece contrasts dry laws, cross border thirst, and the risk of smuggling while urging camaraderie with Canadian neighbors and noting potential vaccine hospital schemes.
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Detroit
Michigan
Ontario
Canada
Britain
Quebec
Marriage Intentions List Reflects Boston Couples
A long list of marriage intentions shows pairs from Roxbury, East Boston, Dorchester, Charlestown, and other areas. Names include Alexander Burns and Fannie Robinson, Louis Greenberg and Alice Scofield, Joseph Naiman and Sylvia Komisaruk, among many others, with ages, occupations, and addresses noted.
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Alexander Burns
Hubert St
Roxbury
Fannie Robinson
Sterling St
Louis Greenberg
Mt. Pleasant Ave
Alice Scofield
Briggs St
Salem
Joseph Naiman
Harold
Damon
Pittsburg
Penn
Frances
Hall
Acorn St
Julius F. Sawicki
Charles Street
Charlestown
Stella Arshuk
Medford St
Salvatore Comiglione
North Bennet St
Filippa Oddo
Luigi Gillio
Cook
New York
N. Y
Maria Tirassa
Luigi Naccarato
Tacoma
Wash
Rosina Pirillo
Matthew J. Leary
Henrietta M. Reardon
Emilio Lombardini
Framingham
Rosa Montinari
Michele Benedetto
Keystone
W. Va
Nunziata Ripa
Max Lakin
Browning Ave
Cor
Rose Bluestein
Pietro A. D’urso
Watertown
Ersilia Palatino
William A. Kimbel
New York City
Laura M. Windler
Bay State Rd
Abraham D. Kaplan
Bella Callman
Wallingford Rd
Spec
Qugge Bennett
James J. Moriarty
Hancock Sr
Gertrude H. Hackett
George J. Boucher
Hemenway St
Ruth B. Goldsmith
Nicola Coviello
Moulton St
Ches
Mary C
Ridgewood
N. J
Eleanor C. Elliott
Mary Elion
Groton
Liverpool St
East Boston
Maria Emma
Charlies St
John M. Breen
Trenton St
Mary Doyle
Somerville
Raymond McKenzie
Walter
Myrtle St
Vesta Collins
Columbus Ave
Edward J. Donahue
Loring St
Boston
Lillian Cantello
Max Levy
Harvard Sr
Dlyvorced
Gertrude Pearlman
Attorney General Upholds Mayor on Appointment to Appeals Board
John S. Stevens, a Boston Elevated trustee from Mt. Pleasant avenue Roxbury, is named to the Board of Appeals of the building department. Mayor Peters will forward the appointment to the Civil Service Commission for confirmation after the AG rules the commission has jurisdiction over such confirmations.
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John S. Stevens
Boston
Mt. Pleasant Avenue
Roxbury
Board of Appeals
Building Department
Civil Service Commission
Peters
Attorney-General
Weds Gompers Grandchild in Christmas Wedding
Dr. William H. MacKay son of Mrs. William H. MacKay and Florence M. Gompers granddaughter of Samuel Gompers Jr. wed Christmas Day. The couple began their romance in Neufchateau France in 1917 while Mrs. MacKay was a Red Cross nurse. They live in Atlantic City and will winter in Philadelphia where Dr. MacKay works with the Red Cross. Dr. MacKay is a Tufts Medical School graduate and known in local medical circles.
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William H. MacKay
Francis Street
Waltham
Florence M. Gompers
Samuel Gompers
Washington
Neufchateau
France
Red Cross
MacKay
Florence Gompers
Atlantic City
Philadelphia
American Red Cross
Tufts Medical School
Fay Chief Speaker at Forum Meeting in West End
Charles Fay former president of the Common Cause Society will deliver the chief address at the St. Joseph's T. A. S. Forum in the club house 9 Cambridge street West End at 3 o clock tomorrow afternoon The talk continues the winter series with John I Fitzgerald presiding and will cover a topic of international interest.
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Charles FE. Fay
The
Common Cause Society
St. Joseph’s T. A. S
Cambridge Street
West End
Fay
John I. Fitzgerald
Two Men Held in Banknote Counterfeit Case in Pittsfield
Joseph Selko witz reported being targeted by two alleged con artists in a money mill scam. Elias Gross and Sam Steinert, both said to be from New York, were arrested on charges of attempt to commit larceny and jailed on $2590 bail each. The US secret service was alerted after a faint $5 impression surfaced. Their operation allegedly involved passing counterfeit ten dollar notes and luring Selkowitz into a bank plan.
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Pittsfifild
Joseph Selkowitz
Selkowitz
American House
Sefkowitz
Austria
Italian loan may reach 15 billion lire
Rome December 26 Premier Nitti expressed the opinion that 12 to 15 billion lire would be subscribed to the victory loan whose sale begins January 5. On returning from his Paris and London visit he will tour to promote the loan.
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Rome
Premier Nitti
Paris
London
Nitt
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Gene Byrnes
Alwans
Faves
Ceorzgie
Pennsylvania
Maine
Susan Pierce
A. E. Parks
Mrs. A. Emerson Parks
Torily
Shreve, Crump and Low Company
Tremont Street
Massachusetts
Isle
Charles E. Young
Sahara
Windsor
Incle Fam
Michigan Sleuths
United States
He Knox
Derby
Knox Hat Company, Inc
Gompers
Baker
ST. Louis
Hansas City
Cincinnati
Indianapolis
Washington St
Winter St
Temple Place
Dexter
Wallington
Winter Street
Co Place
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