Jail Observers Spend Day in Gate House Prison
A group of newspaper observers spent a day at Gate House Boston documenting jail life under Sheriff Honest John Quinn. They describe stolen comforts and rough bunks, tour both male and female cells, sample the food, and note the sheriff's interactions with inmates and the mayor.
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Murderers’ Row
John” Quinn
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Tony
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Hotel de Quinn
Bineeth
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Norman
Bessie
House of the Good Shepherd
Lenox
Sheriff Quinn and the two man cell plan remembered in prison day
The account details finger printing of reporters and a famed two man cell system. Prison life unfolds with hens in the yard and a gallows model shown by Sheriff Quinn. A pardon chance looms as the day closes with grim reminders and distant echoes of 1896 execution.
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Quinn
Angus Gilbert
Hotel workers seek one day off weekly
Hotel employees told a legislative labor panel yesterday that a law should require hotels to grant one day off each week. Hotel owners warned the rule would create hardship and be impractical.
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Legislative Committee On Labor
Asquith Addresses Entente Victory Confidence
Former Premier Asquith told constituents in Ladybank that naval military and economic strength of the entente ensures inevitable victory. He dismissed talk of a stalemate and said the war odds tilt increasingly in the allies' favor each month.
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London
Ladybank
Asquith
Asquith on U-Boat Campaign and Wilson Peace Vision
The former British prime minister cautions that the German U-boat drive requires stronger measures from allies including armed merchant ships and extra tonnage. He rejects peace overtures as insincere and backs a victorious peace with safeguards, aligning with President Wilson's world league concept but opposing any idea of redrawing Europe’s map.
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Asquith
Wilson
Dublin
Europe
Garden course for schools in Malden to cut living costs
Miss Mabel EB Turner, expert in agriculture trained at the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens and Massachusetts Agricultural College, will lead a new school garden course starting Monday. She argues that teaching children to garden can cut expenses by using every square foot of home land and by growing better vegetables than those seen in market windows.
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Malden
Mabel EB. Turner
Brooklyn Botanical Gardens
Massachusetts Agricultural College
Prssersby
Nine Vessels Sunk Overnight Across Shipping Losses
Lloyds reported nine vessels sunk with eight dead and one wounded. The British steamer Trevean and Belgian steamer Wuphretes were lost, Dundee of Hamilton Ontario was submarine sunk with one dead and one injured. Tug Ida was sunk likely by a mine with five missing and five others lost from two trawlers and three smacks.
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London
Lloyds
Wuphretes
Dundee
Hamitten
Ontario
Ida
British Ship Offices Booking as Usual
London Feb 1 All steamship offices American and British with ships billed to sail for America are booking passengers and freight today as usual. The American lines have received no intimations of any change in sailing programme on account of the newly announced German naval policy.
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London
America
Dutch Ministry Considers Submarine War Situation
In The Hague a ministry of marine meeting with Foreign Minister naval authorities and Holland America officials discussed Germanys latest submarine orders. Attendees pledged secrecy. The Handelsblad questioned links between German fortifications on the eastern frontier and the submarine threat. US stance may influence Hollands next move.
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Hague
London
Ministry of Marine
Holland- America
Germany
Handelselad
Re- Holland
United States
Sanborn Runs for Constitutional Convention in Seventh District
James A. Sanborn, 79, editor of the Union Trades Label and veteran of the Civil War, files for candidacy in the seventh district for the constitutional convention. He has served as Representative Senator and Congressman and holds memberships in Mason, Odd Fellow, and other bodies.
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James A. Sanborn
Union Trades Label
Amphion Club Concert At Boston City Club
The Amphion Club of Melrose in its second year presented a concert at the Boston City Club last night. Arthur B. Keene conducted as a large audience attended.
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Amphion Club of
Melrose
Boston City Club
Arthur B. Keene
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