Elevated Head Urges Service at Cost Plan
Matthew C. Brush, president of the Boston Elevated Railway, calls for a service at cost plan to stabilize finances and improve service. He argues current conditions are unfair and propose a uniform fare, reduced rentals and taxes, and public oversight with graded fares and reserve funds to guard against deficits.
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Matthew C. Brush
Boston Elevated Railway Company
Boston Elevated
Brush
Brookline
Boston
Cleveland
Post
Mr. Brush
Arlington Heights
Liberty
Squantum
Tee
Public Service Commission
Boston H Elevated
Elevated
Street Railway Report Urges Cost-Based Service Plan
The Street Railway Investigation Commission filed its majority report urging a service-at-cost plan with a sliding fare scale to adjust prices to revenue. Three minority reports oppose parts of the plan and one suggests immediate state ownership.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Street Railway Investigation Commission
Brush
Boston Elevated
Tragic Coking Plant Collapse Buries Two Workers
At the coke works on 7 Arlington Avenue Charlestown a cave in buried two diggers. James Galvin 24 of Somerville died instantly while John Alpheus 32 of Somerville was rescued after suffering injuries.
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Arlington Avenue
Charlestown
James Galvin
Florence Street
Somerville
John Alpheus
Perkins Street
Groundhog Sees Shadow Forecasts Six Weeks More Winter
Weather prognosticator predicts Boston and nearby towns will endure about six more weeks of winter with snow ice and Arctic winds. Today and Sunday forecast fair and warmer with rising temperatures as the groundhog emerges to check for a shadow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Newton High Beats Medford on Track Meet
Newton High's track team defeated Medford High in Newton Gymnasium with a score of 49 2 3 to 181 3. Newton swept the 30 300 and 600 events by taking all three positions in each.
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Newton High
Medford
Medford High
Newton Gymnasium
Newton
This Girl at 15 Has Hair 41 Inches Long
Miss Marion Allen of Charlestown has hair 41 inches long at age 15. Her thick light brown locks, once thinned by a physician due to weight, drew attention after the Post’s Come on, Girls plea. She asserts Boston girls have the longest, most beautiful hair and entered the contest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marion Allen
Elim Street
Charlestown
Miss Allen
Post
Boston
Pelletier Names Fielding and Sheenan to DA Office
District Attorney Pelletier announced two key appointments. Henry P. Fielding becomes assistant district attorney succeeding Daniel V. McIsaac, and Frederick M. J. Sheenan is named deputy assistant district attorney filling the Fielding vacancy. Fielding joined the office in 1909 after earlier service. Sheenan, a Boston University Law School graduate admitted in 1904, long served as Globe courthouse reporter.
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Pelletier
Henry P. Fielding
Daniel V. McIsaac
Frederick M. J. Sheenan
Fielding
Wielding
Michael J. Dwyer
Rome
Mr. Pelletier
Boston University Law School
Court House
The
Boston Globe
Veteran Hyde Park business man Samuel Albee dies
Samuel Albee aged 59 longtime Hyde Park fish merchant died last night at his daughter’s home Mrs. George Sanborn 900 Metropolitan avenue. Born in Gloucester in 1859 he ran a retail fish business for 30 years and belonged to Gloucester Lodge of Odd Fellows Hyde Park Lodge of Masons and the Hyde Park Business Men's Association.
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Samuel Albee
Hyde Park
George Sanborn
Metropolitan Avenue
Albee
Gloucester
Gloucester Lodge of Odd Fellows
Corcoran Named Sinking Fund Commissioner in Boston
Mayor Curley announces William J. Corcoran former Middlesex County district attorney as sinking fund commissioner succeeding Joseph P. O Connell who declined The mayor also reappoints Clarence W Rowley as Boston director in the Collateral Loan Company
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Curley
William J. Corcoran
Middlesex County
Joseph P. O’connell
Clarence W. Rowley
City of Boston
Collateral
Shipyard riveters strike at Texas Steamship plant
In Bath Maine on February 1 125 riveters from 35 to 40 gangs walked out at the Texas Steamship Company shipbuilding plant over pay and rating disputes. The plant works on government contracts for ships.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Texas Steamship Company
Hanson Woman Betsey Bowker Dies at 92
Mrs Betsey Bowker of Hanson dies at 92 after a lingering illness. She was the town’s oldest resident and the last of the Barker family that came from England on the Mayflower. She was a cousin of the late Amiral A L Barker of the U S Navy.
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Hanson
Betsey Bowker
Thrift and War Stamp Sale Plans
More than 300 business men met at the Exchange Club after noon and formulated plans for speeding up the sale of war savings and thrift stamps. The aim is to have Massachusetts not only raise the government target but lead all states in stamp receipts.
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Exchange Club
Massachusetts
War stamps drive planned with thousands of sales stations
Boston figures highlight stamp sales as the drive expands to nearly 200 stations in the city. State director Herrick says January was slow but expects a strong push the rest of the year with carriers like William Reed leading by example. He urges universal thrift appeals to all and notes banks and merchants should back the effort to support the Liberty Loan.
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Robert F. Herrick
Murray
Boston
William T. Reed
Central Post Offce
C. H. McCarthy
Joseph Hatchett
Patrick J. Sweeney
Reed
Herrick
Will of Florence A. Sanborn lists vast charitable bequests
Florence A. Sanborn's will, probated in Suffolk County, leaves one half of the estate to a wide network of Boston and national charities including Home for Aged Couples, M S P C C, Farm and Trades School, Boston Floating Hospital, New England Hospital, American societies, and various welfare groups. The remaining half, in equal shares, goes to the same set of organizations. Albert C. Blaze of Seattle receives 20000 dollars, and the income of 225000 dollars goes to the three children of her sister C Josephine Wilkins of Brookline and 125000 dollars to that sister. The will is dated Dec 21, 1910, with Charles T. Gallagher as executor.
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Florence A. Sanborn
Chase & Sanborn
Suffolk County
Farm and Trades School
Industrial School
Perkins Institution For the Blind
Woman’s Charity Club Hospital
International School For Girls
Spain
Wea
Boston Floating Hospital
New England
New England Hospital For Women and Children
Associated Charities of
Boston
New England Peabody Home
St. Luke's Home
Salvation Army
Volunteers of America
Frances E. Willard
Franklin Square House
Hillside School
Greenwich Village
A. L. Harwood
Albert C. Blaze
Seattle
C. Josephine Wilkins
Brookline
Sanborn
Commonwealth Avenue
Charles T. Gallagher
Mayor-Elect Peters Prepares Inaugural Staff Amidracрам
The incoming Boston mayor Andrew J. Peters will be sworn in Monday at Faneuil Hall with Monsignor Moriarty as chaplain. Most staff positions filled. one left to decide. Eddie Moore named to a post. Malcolm Nichols may be executive secretary. US Appraiser Lyons declines official city role. Curley and ex-mayors invited to platform. William C. Redfield accepts.
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Edward J. Moriarty
St. Thomas’ Roman Catholic Church
Jamaica Plain
Andrew J. Peters
Boston
Faneuil Hall
Eddie’ Moore
Fitzgerald
Malcolm Nichols
United States
Joseph T. Lyons
Peters
Curley
Daniel A. Whelton
Secretary of Commerce
William C. Redfield
Night service restored for Boston Elevated Railway
Officials from the Boston Elevated Railway and newspaper nightworkers committee reached a deal to abolish the new night service. The former night schedule was restored and took effect this morning.
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Boston Elevated Railway
Night workers secure restoration of late transit service
A committee led by P. J. Lynch and others met Transportation Manager Edward Dana to protest a new night service. Officials agreed to resume the former schedule with Hyde Park avenue line via Jamaica Plain, Adams Square service from 2 30, Lenox street line to Adams Square, and Sullivan square line to Adams Square after rapid transit closes. The group praised the cooperative stance of President Brush and public-focused resolution.
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P. J. Lynch
W. R. McCarthy
Malcolm A. Knock
J. S. Howard
J. J. Slattery
IF. M. Way
Daniel T. O'Connell
Edward Dana
Brush
Dana
Smith
Hyde Park Avenue
Jamaica Plain
Adams Square
Lenox Street
Sullivan Square
Campbell Denied in Bid to Withhold Budget Approval
The Senate refused to suspend the rules to allow a petition by Francis A. Campbell clerk of the Suffolk County Superior Court. The petition sought that his annual appropriation be approved by the chief justice before it reached the Mayor of Boston. The clash stemmed from last year over a segregated budget and itemization of Campbell’s estimate. By denying the bill the Senate blocked Campbell from taking the matter to Chief Justice Aiken.
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Senate
Francis A. Campbell
Suffolk County Superior Court
Boston
Campbell
Aiken
Cullen Goes West Upon Food Mission
Frederick Cullen vice-president and general manager of Johnson Educator Food Company and aide to Federal Food Administrator Hoover is delegated to visit state and municipal food administrators in Oklahoma New Mexico Arizona California Nevada Utah and Colorado. He aims to raise awareness of the national food situation and urges support for President Wilson's food proclamation while introducing new food ecards detailing regulations.
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Frederick Cullen
Johnson Educator Food Company
Hoover
Oklahoma
New Mexico
Arizona
California
Nevada
Utah
Colorado
Cullen
Wilson
Wilson presses Democrats against war cabinet plan
President Wilson urged Democratic Senators at the White House to avoid agitation in Congress that could aid the enemy and appear to create discord while opposing the Senate military committee bill for a war cabinet and a munitions director.
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Washington
Senate Military Committee
Wilson
White House
Congress
President opposes bills as unnecessary and harmful to war efforts
Attendees at the conference report the President forcefully reiterating objections to the proposed legislation. He says both bills are unnecessary and would embolden opponents and strip him of authority in prosecuting the war. Senators Hitchcock and Wadsworth plan speeches in the Senate next week in support, while administration leaders seek to stall or defeat the measures.
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Hitchcock
Wadsworth
Senate
Hitchcock and
Strikes and Civil Unrest Across Europe and Russia
Reports describe intensified Bolshevik and counter revolution turmoil in Russia, with Berlin under martial law and violent suppression of strikers. In Finland the White Guard advances while Red forces fail, and Hungary seeks peace. Bolsheviks seize Odessa and Orenburg, Helsingfors remains under rebel control.
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Russia
Finland
White Guard
Red Guard
Hungary
Germany
Hamburg
Brandenburg
Berlin
Black Sea
Odessa
Orenburg
Helsingfors
Editor M Farland to Speak to Y M H A
Grenville S. McFarland editor of the Boston American will lecture tomorrow evening on The Brew Responsibility for Democracy before the Boston Young Men's Hebrew Association in the assembly hall of the association's new building at 108 Seaver Street Roxbury.
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Grenville S. McFarland
The
Boston American
Gom
Itebrew
Responsibility For Democracy
Boston Young Men's Hebrew Association
Association
Seaver Street
Roxbury
Kidney and Bladder Ailment Relief via Jad Salts
Uric acid irritates kidneys and bladder causing burning and frequent night trips. A simple remedy from a pharmacist, four ounces of Rad Salts daily for two to three days neutralizes urine acids and restores normal function. Jad Salts, an inexpensive effervescent lithia-water drink, claims safe relief.
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Aecess Commission
Nority Reports
Sheenan
Peter Thompson
Norfolk
Filene
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Gude
Pepto ‘Mangan
Gudes
M. J. Breitenbach CO
New York
Hint Nichols
M’farland
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