Senate immigration plan tightens curbs to five percent rule
Washington February 10 The Senate immigration committee approved an emergency measure as a substitute for the House bill. It would take effect April 1 and run until June 30 1922, limiting annual admissions from any one country to five percent of that country’s nationals in the U S as of 1910. The measure preserves existing laws and treaties with China and Japan.
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Washington
House
Senate Immigration Committee
Senate
Senate Committee
United States
China
Japan
Belgian German Fight in Aix La Chapelle
A Belgian patrol fired on a crowd in Aix La Chapelle after residents refused police orders during carnival celebrations. Several inhabitants were wounded in the clashes between Belgian forces and Germans in the occupied town.
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Aix-La-Chapelle
London
Amsterdam
Girl Confesses to Fire Near Monmouth Centre
Faylen Cousins a 14 year old girl of Auburn Maine confessed this afternoon to setting fire to the John H Litchfield stand of farm buildings two miles from Monmouth Centre causing a 25000 dollar loss She is held in Augusta on an arson charge awaiting state action.
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Lewiston
Faylen Cousins
Auburn
John H. Litchfield
Monmouth Centre
Augusta
Burglars and Officer Confronted in City Break-in
Raymond Atkinson a special officer for the American Telegraph Company was knocked unconscious by a burglar’s blackjack. A crowd of thousands from nearby theatres surged with excitement as police pursued burglars through the Dill building at 19 Eliot Street where the Davis Costume Company store was entered. Atkinson was taken to Relief Hospital with a concussion of the brain.
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Raymond Atkinson
American District Telegraph Company
Dill
Eliot Street
Davis Costume Company
Atkinson
Relief Hospital
Burglar raid leads to firefight and escape in city block
Police rushed to Washington and Eliot streets after an automatic alarm at the Dill building. Atkinson and Special Officer Steele confronted intruders in the Davis office where a blow with a blackjack floored Atkinson. Despite a full building sweep, criminals vanished into the crowd.
Cleveland Symphony Impresses Boston with Debut
The Cleveland Orchestra under Nicolai Sokoloff opened in Symphony Hall Boston to strong interest. Sokoloff, a former Boston Symphony member, earned praise in prior engagements and featured Loeffler’s Pagan Poem on the program alongside other works.
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Cleveland Symphony Orchestra
Nicolai Sokoloff
Boston
Symphony Hall
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Wilhelm Gericke
Boston Concert Showcases Cleveland Orchestra Talent
The assistant conductor Arthur Sheperd, a former New England Conservatory counterpoint teacher, leads a Boston program with Sokoloff greeting friends. Mishel Piastro debuts in Boston on violin performing Rachmaninoff second symphony and Lalo’s Symphonie Espagnole movement trio, joined by Loeffler and pianist Heinrich Gebbard. The Cleveland Symphony Orchestra impresses with strong material and disciplined drill though scoring leans on strings.
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Arthur Sheperd
New England Conservatory
Sokoloff
Rachmaninoff
Lalo
Mishel Piastro
Boston
Mr. Loeffler
Heinrich Gebbard
Cleveland Symphony Orchestra
la Tschaikowsky
Offence to Defame Bank Debates on a Bill to Punish Defamatory Banking Statements
A hearing before the banks and banking committee featured Simon Swig defending a bill that makes defamatory remarks about any banking institution a punishable offense. Support came from ex governor Bates and several legislators. opposition from Globe Newspaper Company representative Fred Fernald and various bank groups. Swig also urged interest on savings from the day of deposit to curb wildcat schemes, arguing it would boost savings deposits. The debate included several bankers and officials opposing the bill and Swig’s savings interest proposal.
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Simon Swig
Tremont Trust Company
Committee On Banks and Banking
Swig
John Ll. Bates
Lyman W. Griswold
Greenfield
Matthew A. Higgins
Taunton
Fred A. Fernald
Globe Newspaper Company
Mr. Swig
Witz Henry Smith
Massachusetts Bankers’ Association
Association of Savings Banks and Trust Companies
Joseph H. Soliday
Massachusetts Savings Bank Association
F. BE. Nickerson
Stoneham Savings Bank
William L. Adam
Berkshire County Savings Bank
Carl M. Spencer
The
Home Savings Bank
G. W. Tibbetts
Peterson's Ointment Ad Promises Cure For Eczema
An advertisement urges readers to buy a 60 cent box of Peterson's Ointment for eczema and skin ailments. It features a Buffalo, New York user testimonial about long running sores and a money back guarantee via druggists. Mail orders are available from Peterson's Ointment Co., Inc. in Buffalo.
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Peterson
Buffalo
Root
Michigan Avenue
N. Y
Two men sought for daily hour work at 50 weekly pay
Notice advertises two men aged 25 to 40 willing to devote one hour daily for seven days to qualify for a position paying fifty dollars per week. Requirements include neat appearance. Address 220 Devonshire St Room 215 after 10. Death notices report Minnie Lund and Catherine H McCarthy death details with funeral plans and services in Roxbury and Charlestown.
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Hne
Devonshire St
Fight Against Calder Bill Draws Massachusetts Manufacturers
The Associated Industries of Massachusetts and about 1600 manufacturers oppose the Calder bill now before Congress. They warn the measure would control and regulate the coal industry, worsen past coal problems, and risk broader government control of industries. A statewide letter urges reconsideration by Washington interests connected to the movement for government control of coal.
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Associated Industries
Massachusetts
Thia
Congress
New England
Washington
Fees to Counsel for Committees Criticised
In Washington on February 10 the House debated payments to counsel hired by war expenditure probes. Chairman Ireland of the accounts committee voiced doubts over concrete results and said many contracts might have been disapproved if known. Representative Byrnes cited a $20,000 yearly fee for former Acting JAG Ansell and suggested a conflict with Bergdoll affair links.
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Washington
House
Ireland
Accounts Committee
Byrnes
South Carolina
Ansell
Fire in freight shop shocks Concord rail yard
Fire broke out in freight shop No 2 at the B and M railroad shops in Concord New Hampshire causing an estimated loss of 28000 dollars.
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Concord
N. H
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Wethern’s
Paris
Immigration Law Reported
Lagrange Street
Washington and
Eliot Streets
Davis Store
Telegraph Company
William Steele
Davis Office
Steele
Grange Street
Gro
Cleveland Orchestra
Fine Band
BY Olin Downes
Sheperd
Bill
Shepard Store
Nary
Tremont Street
the Shepard Stores
Calder Bill
Licoart & Myers Tosacco Co
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