Cambridge Subway Extension Proposal to Codman Square
The United Improvement Association transportation committee urges extending the Cambridge subway from Park Street through Winter and Summer streets to a South Station stop and Dorchester Avenue to Andrew Square. The plan, adopted unanimously, also recommends eventually reaching Upham's Corner and Codman Square.
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Cambridge
Park Street
Summer Streets
Dorchester Avenue
Andrew Square
Transportation Committee
United Improvement Association
Upham’s Corner
Codman Square
Dorchester Subway Plan Aims Ten Minute Reach For Most Residents
A Dorchester federation sub committee report outlines a proposed city subway connecting Neponset to Andrew Square and beyond. It envisions limited initial tunneling to Andrew Square with future extensions to Upham's Corner and Codman Square, providing rapid riverbank access and cross-city transfers.
Fire Ends Horse Life in East Boston Store
A blaze at 208 Bremen Street East Boston owned by John Schlosberge and Son killed a horse by smoke suffocation and damaged burlap and bagging inventory valued at about 1000 dollars in a two story wooden building last evening.
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Bremen Street
Boston
John Schlosberge & Son
Bust Enhancement Claim Promises Quick Curves for Women
Advertises Catherine Kelly's Form Devenny bust development claiming to add two to seven inches without pads. Promises fuller, firmer figures and improved health via a tissue-building formula from a New York physician. Includes an offer of a free 50 cent package and a coupon.
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New York State
Catherine Kelly
Kelly
Admiral Sperry Dead After Pneumonia at Naval Hospital
Rear Admiral Charles Stillman Sperry U.S. Navy retired who led the Atlantic fleet on its final leg of the world cruise died suddenly this morning at the Naval Hospital Washington of pneumonia.
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Washington
Charles Stillman Sperry
U.S. N
Naval Hospital
Rear Admiral Sperry Dies After Illness at 63
Rear Admiral Charles H. Sperry, born in Brooklyn September 3, 1847, died at Naval Hospital in Washington after pneumonia. A veteran of 1862 academy appointment, he led the Atlantic battleship fleet to Hampton Roads in 1908 09 and aided the London declaration translation for the State Department.
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Spery
Brooklyn
N. Y
Navy
Admiral Sperry
Washington
Newport
R. I
State Department
United States
London
Naval Hospital
Sperry
Charles H. Sperry
San Francisco
Hampton Roads
Australia
Japan
China
Manila
Colombo
Alexandria
Egypt
Corydon S. Sperry
Waterbury
Conn
Naval Academy
Sacramento
Mrs Sperry Arrives in Washington for Arlington Burial
Newport R I Feb 1 Mrs Sperry left Newport for Washington and will arrive about 10 o clock tomorrow morning The burial will be in Arlington Cemetery Mrs Sperry stated before her departure
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Newport
R. I
Hatpin Wins Longer Lease in Comedy of Legislation
The committee heard Representative Newton of South Boston speak against the hatpin and chose not to legislate this year. Newton and others had urged fines if the hatpin protruded more than half an inch from the hat.
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Newton
South Boston
French flier covers 360 miles to Bordeaux in cross country flight
Captain Bellanger of the French army aviation corps began a cross country flight from Paris to Pau about 500 miles. He departed Vincennes at 8 45 and landed at Bordeaux at 4 56 after two gas stops. The first leg of 260 miles was completed without incident and he planned to proceed to Pau the next morning.
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Paris
Bellanger
Aviation Corps
Pau
Vincennes
Girl Mother Pleads Guilty of Theft
Irene Denning an 18 year old mother admitted theft of gold from the dental offices of Dr. J. Cu nard at 168 Huntington Avenue. She pleaded guilty after initially entering a not guilty plea and is held in $200 for sentence on Thursday.
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Irene Denning
Fire Prevention Board Prepares Boston High Pressure Report
The National Board of Fire Underwriters committee on fire prevention studies two Boston reports. A special feasibility study on high pressure water systems for firefighting, urged by ex City Engineer Jackson and Mayor Fitzgerald, is due around Legislature hearings. A broader fire hazards and protection report will follow.
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National Board of Fire Underwriters
Boston
Jackson
Fitzgerald
Boston Fire Safety Debate Focuses on Roofing and High Pressure Water
A special report discusses Boston fire hazards in crowded districts with narrow streets and many buildings. Mayor Fitzgerald backs a building law commission meeting at his office where Gorman Dana urged banning shingle roofs. City officials and Dorchester concerns target three family homes as fire traps while the board favors high pressure water systems and opposes immediate building law changes.
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Boston
Fitzgerald
Building Law Commission
Gorham Dana
Brand
Worcester
Dorchester
National Board
New York
Philadelphia
Jackson
Charles River
Fort Hill Square
City Board of Appeals
New Maine Rail Line Granted to Bangor & Aroostook
The Maine State board of railroad commissioners granted rights for a 157 mile line through the Allagash Valley from West Sebois to St. Francis plantation. The Bangor & Aroostook railroad plans the route at a cost near 3.06 million dollars, extending toward the Canadian boundary to open a hard to reach region.
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Augusta
Allogash Valley
West Sebois
Piscataquis County
St. Francis Plantation
Aroostook County
Bangor
Mayor Favors Arcade Plan for Arlington Street Extension
Mayor Fitzgerald announced support for extending Arlington Street to Columbus Avenue and proposed an arcade through two Boylston Street buildings instead of their destruction. He told Laurence Minot of the Park Square Trust to hold off building on acquired sites and waits on a constitutional amendment to allow greater property takings for public improvements.
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Fitzgerald
Arlington Street
Columbus Avenue
Park Square Trust
Boylston Street
Laurence Minot
Trust
What Workers Cost Boston
An order to require the Civil Service Commission to list how many laborers and mechanics were certified in Boston last year and the cost per appointment passed the House after initial rejection. Rep Mecknerney noted the commission withholds data without an order and claimed high average costs under the present system.
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Civil Service Commission
House
Boston
James H. Mecknerney
Ward 19
Martin M. Lomasney
McInerney
Post Renewed Greetings Sent To Poetic Reader
The Boston Post again sent Christmas greetings to New York poet William J. Lampton after a prior card failed to reach him. Staff mailed two more ecards in registered envelopes and added a Santa Claus card and additional holiday messages. An investigation into the missing Christmas card continues as postmasters vow mail checks.
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William +. Lampton
New York
Boston Post
Boston
Lampton
Unclear OCR Item on Illness and Remedies
Fragmentary text mentions colds causing headache and references medicines or laxatives. The item is garbled with unreadable names and terms, offering no coherent event, date, person, or organization to anchor a summary.
Among the Churches of Greater Boston
The Rev Edmund S Rousmaniere and Mrs Rousmaniere will be there for a reception at St Pauls Church Tremont street this afternoon from 4 to 6 and Thursday evening February 9 from 8 to 10 The Eve of the Purification was observed with a festival service last night at the Church of the Advent under the Anglican and Eastern Orthodox Church Union with Bishop Parker of New Hampshire as president The union work was discussed after services Rev Arthur J Smith will begin a three week evangelical campaign at Malden next Sunday Churches taking part include First Congregational Centre Methodist and First Baptist Rev Charles H Daniels resigned as pastor of Grace Congregational South Framingham on January 1 after a paralytic shock Feb 9 losing use of his right arm Rev Henry Hallam Saunderson of the Austin Street Unitarian Church Cambridge is convalescent after an appendicitis operation The operation was done in a private hospital Rev Henry C Risner of Kentucky known in Boston is drawing notice as he travels West He came to Boston for Dudley Street Baptist pastorate and fell ill while supplying He later preached at First Baptist Back Bay and other churches now in Knoxville Tennessee An innocheon will be given February 11 by the Isles of Shoals Summer Meetings Association in the vestry of South Congregational Church Speakers include Rev Dr Samuel A Eliot Rev Frank N Phalen and others with Albert S Parsons of Lexington as toastmaster
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Church of the Advent
Anglican and
Eastern Orthodox Church Union
Parker
New Hampshire
Arthur J. Smith
D. D
New York
Malden
First Congregational
Centre Methodist
First Baptist
Charles H. Daniels
Ddds
Grace Congregational Church
South Framingham
Daniels
Henry C. Risner
Kentucky
Boston
West
Risner
Dudley Street Baptist Church
First Baptist Church
Back Bay
Knoxville
Tenn
Isles of Shoals
South Congregational Church
Samuel A. Eliot
Frank N. Phalen
Albert 8. Parsons
Lexington
Five Pass Bar Examinations in Massachusetts
Seventy five applicants for admission to the Massachusetts bar passed the recent bar exam, announced by Frederick L. Greene. Notable names include Edward F. Loughlin of Concord and Vittorio Orlandini, brother-in-law of ex Governor Curtis Guild Jr, with many Boston and Cambridge residents on the list. Admittance to practice is planned for February 15. motions to practise in the Supreme Judicial Court will be heard February 24.
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Massachusetts
Frederick L. Greene
Board of
Bar Examiners
Edward F. Loughlin
Concord
Harvard
Vittorio Orlandini
Curtis Guild, Jr
Israel M. Allian
Supreme Judicial Court
J. Alfred Anderson
Boston
John W. Bailey
Topsfield
James T. Bergen
John A. Bergen
J. Bernard Boland
Charles H. Brigham
Lyman W. Brooks
Watertown
James T. Carter
Bennie Cianciarulo
Providence
Martin F. Connelly
Amesbury
James A. Connors
Morgan L. Cooley
Newton Centre
Daniel B. Curnane
Malden
Dominic P. Curran
Haverhill
John H. Dunn
Edward T. Feeley
Arlington
J. Lewiston Flanagan
Easthampton
Umberto T. Garfield
Ernest Gingras
Lynn
John L. G. Glynn
Cambridge
Sidneyh. Goldinger
Ernest F. Hodgdon
Sybil H. Holmes
Chelsea
Jesse A. Holton
William KE. Howe
Quincy
John J. Kelly
Hyde Park
Bernard J. Killion
Edward A. Kimball
Russell D. Kittredge
Westfield
Isadore Kronstein
Philip L. McMahon
Roxbury
Benjamin J. Moloney
Lowell
Leo F. Monahan
John M. Morrison
Nathaniel CG
Nash, Jr
Alexander §. Neal
James W. Nugent
Fall River
James F. O’brien
Daniel F. O'Grady
Everett
Herbert A. Palmer
Charles L. Baysor
Henry C. Rowland
Somerville
Howard A. Ryan
Worcester
Morris 8. Sadowitz
Carlton L. Shaw
Leon L. Silbert
Abraham H. Slavin
Springfield
Eugene G. Smith
Thomas J. Smith
Maynard
Ralph W. Stearns
John V. Sullivan
Middleboro
Earl A. Sweeney
Readville
John T. Swift
Francis N. Thompson
Greenfield
Harold EH. Thurston
Frederick J. Turner
Charles G. Willard
Pittsfield
Alexander B. Wilson
Stoneham
William M. Ziff
William G. Todd
True Secret of Beautiful Hair Promoted in World Magazine
An interview with a famous French actress notes that dry shampooing improves hair and scalp care unlike arms root alone. She approves a mix of four ounces thorax and four ounces orris root sprinkled and brushed through the hair for even distribution and a light, lustrous result.
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America
William E Hill to be first Civil War veteran pardoned
William E Hill a colored Civil War veteran with 41 years of service in Charlestown on a murder conviction was to be pardoned by Governor Foss. The pardon committee of the Council held a hearing on Hill’s petition for clemency.
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William E. Hill
Charlestown
Foss
Hill
Pardon Possible for Hill in Murder Case
Council hears that Hill may be released within a week after a pardon is considered. Lieutenant Governor Frothingham presided as the petition cites sympathy for Hill, whose 1870 hanging sentence was commuted to life imprisonment amid testimony by his wife Maria and co-defendant John Phillips. William Jacobs, a clockmaker, was killed in a robbery plot. Governor Claflin commuted the sentence, citing equity with Phillips, who served four years. Hill, born in Ohio, served in the Fifty-fifth Massachusetts. signers include Henry B. Lovering and ex-Warden S B Chamberlain.
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Hill
Frothingham
Maria
John Phillips
William Jacobs
Claflin
Phillips
Ohio
Massachusetts
Henry B. Lovering
S. B. Chamberlain
American prelates confer with Pope in private audience
The Pope received Bishop Daniel F. Feehan of Fall River and Bishop J. J. Rice of Burlington in Rome. He expressed interest in reports from their dioceses and in the overall progress of Catholicism in America.
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Rome
Daniel F. Feehan
Fall River
J. J. Rice
Burlington, Vt
Tis Holiness
America
Seven Years of Misery Relieved by Vegetable Compound
Sikeston Missouri resident Mrs Dema Bethune reports seven years of illness ended after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She describes relief from bed days, backache, cramps, headaches, and nervous weakness enabling housework, gardening, milking, hosting, and social visits. The ad touts the remedy for female complaints and urges others to try it.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Sikeston
Dema Bethune
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Handy Andy
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Rousmaniere
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Tremont Street
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Austin Street Unitarian Church
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World Magazine
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Thomas Jefferson King
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