Peace Man's Plea on War and Slavery Debate
President David Starr Jordan of Leland Stanford University urged war avoidance at the 20th Century Club discussing The Human Harvest. He argued that avoiding conflict would have spared descendants of Revolutionary and Civil War era heroes and warned that teaching loyalty and military ardor to children is essential. He claimed war cost us the bloodline of key early battles and questioned the value of the Sons of the Revolution.
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Leland Stanford, Jr
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American Peace Society
Jordan
England
Devonshire
Will of Thomas Murdoch discloses 4 million estate
Chicago, Dec 30. The will of Thomas Murdoch former president of Reid Murdoch Co. wholesale grocers was made public today. The estate is estimated at about 4 million with between 2 million and 2.5 million left to religious educational and charitable institutions.
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Thomas Murdoch
Reid, Murdoch & Co
Bull Gores Him to Death on Richardson Road Farm
Joseph Gramo, 73, a Richardson road farmer, was gored to death by a bull on his Fitchburg farm yesterday. He entered the bull’s stall to water the animal and was believed to have attempted to chain the nose ring when the attack occurred. His body was found under the bull’s feet shortly after he went to the barn.
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Fitchburg
Joseph Gramo
Richardson Road
Gramo
Cran dall asphyxiation at Winn Street lodging
Edward M. Crandall was found asphyxiated at his lodgings on 18 Winn Street in Woburn early this morning. Authorities provided no immediate details on the cause or contributing factors.
Oxygen Keeps Satolli Alive
Rome December 30 Cardinal Satolli ill with nephritis is failing rapidly as life is prolonged only by artificial oxygen. During brief periods of consciousness he has insisted that abstracts from the history of the United States be read to him.
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Rome
Cardinal Satolli
United States
Granite men reject union offer in Barre strike
Barre Granite Manufacturers Association committee rejects the proposal from the International union committees in Quincy after two hours of talks. The action comes as 4500 granite workers in Barre remain on strike or locked out.
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Barre Granite Manufacturers’ Association
International Union
Quincy
Mass
Woman Hired to Clear Snow at Charlestown School
Miss Margaret Walsh, longtime Charlestown school janitor, hired out snow shoveling for 10 hours on a half acre sidewalk for 4 from her 6 73 weekly salary. The sidewalk job was previously done by the schoolhouse department with a $40 seasonal paid employee.
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Margaret Walsh
Adams and
Chestnut Streets
Charlestown
Mulvey
Burns On The Run In Tremont Killing Mystery
Bennie Burns the veggman sought in the killing of John W Hurley on Tremont street alley Monday night wandered the South End for 24 hours. He boasted he would not leave the city until he killed two men he planned to get. Burns showed an automatic gun to acquaintances and the two men he hunted said they would fire if he appeared.
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Bennie” Burns
John W. Hurley
Tremont Street
South End
Desperate Safe Blower Burns Evades South End Police
South End police and headquarters inspectors hunt Burns a dangerous safe blower who may shoot any officer. Despite knowing Burns personally, Special Officers Irwin and Clifford and many uniformed cops watch him as he loiters near the South End, with Burns a consumptive man who believes he has months to live.
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Burns
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Clifford
South End
Dartmouth Street
Candidates Placed On Good Government Carpet
The Good Government Association has held a preliminary “course of sprouts” with mayoral and council candidates ahead of the city election. Ex mayor Fitzgerald and Taylor spoke, Mayor Hibbard was invited, Storrow sent a representative, and officials say the aim is to reveal mistakes and press for changes in the association’s statements.
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Hibbard
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Boston
Bottomley
James C. White
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