Fire Walls Braced to Let L Trains Run
Emergency lines ran from Dudley street to downtown as 60 laborers shored the Grace building to resume Elevated traffic. The Grace wall bracing and demolition plan, with Loew interests approving, aimed to safe-guard 65,000 riders while fire crews battled remaining flames and debris.
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O’hearn
Grace
Storrow
Brush
The
Elevated
Mr. O’hearn
Columbia Theatre
Grace Building
Cat Rescued From Graze Building Ruins By Foreman
Ambrose Kennedy, foreman for a contracting firm, found a black cat clinging to a board in the flooded basement of the Graze building barber shop. Firemen rescued it. the cat leaped away and hid under a fire engine before vanishing into an alley.
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Ambrose Kennedy
Grace
Kennedy
Smokers to Foil U Boats by British Smoke Apparatus
In Philadelphia on February 22 a new device seen on British steamships emits phosphorus smoke to cloak the vessel and mislead submarines. Two drums on the after deck release heavy black smoke, enveloping the ship and obscuring its course. Five British vessels in port are equipped with the system.
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Philadelphia
Proposal to delay dry bill to Oct 1 1917
A concurrent resolution by Representative Moon of Tennessee proposes delaying the dry postoffice bill's effective date to October 1 1917. Moon said he would push the measure after the postoffice bill is disposed of. During House debate liquor dealers urged more time to sell stock in dry areas. Prohibition leaders resisted but some favored postponement after sending the bill to the President.
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Jaynes
Columbia Theatre
Grace
Dover Street
Lovering Street
United States Quartermaster’s
United States
Farnsworth, Hoyt & Company
Belle Waist Company
Baron
Anderson Company
Peter E. Walsh
Dwight
Representative Moon
Tennessee
Postoffice Committee
Moon
House
Senate
750 000 Prisoners Put to Farm Labor in Germany
Berlin dispatch quotes General Groener head of the army feeding department stating Germany employs 750,000 war prisoners as farm laborers. The remark was made before the Reichstag committee aiding the national civil service law and reported by Rheinische Westfaelische Zeitung.
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Germany
Amsterdam
London
Berlin
Rheinische Westfaelische Zeitung
General Groener
Groener
Reichstag Committee
Prohibition Rule Advance In House As District Referendum Planned
House rules committees agreed to consider tomorrow a special rule to bring up in the House and Senate a prohibition bill for the District of Columbia. A hearing and executive session will precede action with an 8 to 3 forecast in favor. Representative Gallivan of Massachusetts introduced a referendum bill identical to the rejected Underwood amendment.
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House Rules Committees
House
Senate
District of Columbia
Gallivan
Massachusetts
Father Lockney Dies at Norfolk Downs
The Rev. John F. Lockney former assistant pastor of St. Patrick's Watertown died yesterday at his sisters’ home 46 Lunt street Norfolk Downs from pneumonia. He was ordained in 1884 and spent 31 years in Illinois.
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John F. Lockney
St. Patrick’s Church
Watertown
Margaret and
Hannah Lockney
Lunt Street
Norfolk Downs
Father Lockney
Illi
Clergy Associate Served under Noted Catholic Pastors
The passage notes a cleric’s health decline three years ago and his move east. He served as assistant to Rev. John P. Cuffe at the Church of the Sacred Heart in Atlantic Quincy and later assisted Rev. Ambrose Roche at Saint Patrick's Church in Watertown.
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Peoria
Rock Island
John P. Cuffe
Church of the Sacred Heart
Atlantic
Quincy
Mer. Ambrose Roche
S J. Fatrick
Watertown
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