City Council Votes Symphony Square Name for Public Square
The City Council committee on public lands voted to name the junction of Massachusetts and Huntington avenues Symphony square. Councillors McDonald and Hagan supported Higginson square due to Major Higginson's interest in the Symphony Orchestra. Ballantyne and Attridge preferred Symphony square, and Councillor Watson cast the deciding vote.
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City Council Committee On Public Lands
Massachusetts and
Huntington Avenues
Symphony Square
McDonald
Hagan
Henry L. Higginson
Higginson
Symphony Orchestra
Ballantyne
Attridge
Watson
Taft Stresses Obedience as Citizen Duty at Maine Talk
Former President William H. Taft told University of Maine Orono students that obedience to law is the first duty of the citizen. He spoke on The Duties of Good Citizenship to faculty and students and then addressed Orono high school pupils.
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Bangor
William H. Taft
University of Maine At
Amherst man David Grayson revealed as muckraker Ray Stannard Baker
Amherst February 4. The Postman interview uncovers that David Grayson author of Adventures in Contentment The Friendly Road and Hempfield is actually Ray Stannard Baker noted muckraking writer for McClure's Century and other magazines. Baker explains his switch from muckraking to fiction and his life as a farming country gentleman in Amherst.
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Amherst
David Grayson
Hempfield
Ray Stannard Baker
McClure’s
the Century
the American
Grayson
America
Mr. Baker
Michigan
Michigan Agricultural College
Post
Ida Tarbell
Johns. Phillips
McClure
Peter Finley Dunne
William Allen White
Kansas
American Magazine
Baker
Walter H. Page
Europe
Germany
Architecture To Be Plainer In City Convenience Station
The Art Commission and Park and Recreation Commission settled the station’s design in Mayor Curley’s office. Plans will resume with plainer architecture, eliminating ornamental effects and reducing height from 22 to 15 feet. Councillors Coleman Ballantyne McDonald Hagan and Watson supported shelving art review and approving the revised plan.
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Art Commision
Park and Recreation Commission
Curley
Park Commission
Colemen
Ballantyne
McDonald
Hagan
Watson
Art Commission
Injured Man Struck by Auto in Quincy Square
Albert G. Hitchcock aged 25 of 44 Cummings Avenue Quincy was hit by a car owned by Harry W. Tabb 25 of 200 Beale Street Wollaston in Quincy square. Hitchcock was taken to Quincy City Hospital with severe scalp wounds and a fracture of the base of the brain. Doctors fear he may not recover.
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Quincy SQ
Albert G. Hitchcock
Cummings Avenue
Quincy
Quincy Square
Harry W. Tabb
Beale Street
Wollaston
Quincy City Hospital
Pere Marquette Council to Reopen Forum in South Boston
The public forum by Pere Marquette Council K of C will reopen next Sunday in the South Boston Municipal Building. Edward W. Joyce will speak on labor problems.
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Boston Municipal Bldg
Public Forum
Pere Marquette Council
K. of C
South Boston
Edward W. Joyce
Delanson Man Kills fiancée Then Shoots Self
John H. Pierce of Delanson New York shot and killed Miss Lena B Keyser of Schenectady as wedding plans collapsed when her mother urged against the marriage. Pierce then shot himself and died later in hospital.
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Douglas
John H. Pierce
Delanson
N. Y
Lena B. Keyser
Schenectady
Pierce and fiancée tragedy ends in double tragedy
A 26 year old construction worker Pierce shot Miss Keyser after learning of a prior marriage and then killed himself. Pierce died soon after in hospital despite attempts to save him. Police note the couple had obtained a marriage license in the city after returning from Schenectady.
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Pierce
Southern New England Railroad
Schenectady
Keyser
Miners Terms Not Rejected Says Industry Leaders
Philadelphia February 4 coal operators denied final rejection of workers demands. S. D. Warriner president Lehigh Coal & Navigation Co and other executives said a misinterpretation arose from yesterday's dispatches. The statement was meant as an outline, not a final dismissal of all mine workers' demands.
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Philadelphia
New York
S. D. Warriner
Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company
Sorrow and Survival From Brindisi Sinking Survivors
In Athens a 22 year old Red Cross nurse Marie Lemos recalls the Brindisi disaster after a mine strike. She describes the rapid sinking, dead on decks, and Montenegrin soldiers’ desperate acts while fleeing toward safety through Albania.
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Brindisi
Red Cross
Athens
London
Marie Lemos
Chicago
Adriatic
San Giovanni de Medua
Durazzo
Albania
Lemos
New York
Italia
Alaska
Serb retreat crowded town under fire and heavy casualties
Survivors recount the Serb army's crowded withdrawal, missiles striking the town, many killed and wounded, with dire shortages of medical supplies. The narrative notes journeys from Durazzo to Aviona and Corfu and finally to Athens.
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Durazzo
Aviona
Corfu
Athens
Severy Sent to Matteawan for Criminal Insanity
Harold L. Severy the Boston youth who shot four in Albany last Friday one mortally was committed to Matteawan State Hospital for criminal insanity The county court acted after a commission of alienists found him insane He had been confined in Massachusetts and Vermont institutions and escaped from the Montpelier Vermont asylum four years ago
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Albany
N. Y
Harold L. Severy
Boston
Matteawan State Hospital
Award for death of child in Cambridge court
A Middlesex Superior Court jury awarded Michael J. Conroy of Cambridge $2800 for the death of his daughter who was killed by an automobile while en route to school last October. The machine’s owner Elmer F. Butler of Cambridge was found liable. In Bridget Conroy’s suit, she was awarded $200 for injuries accompanying the case.
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Michael J. Conroy
Cambridge
Elmer F. Butler
Middlesex
Bridget Conroy
Anna
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