Boston Bills in Committee on Urban Affairs
Boston bills before the Metropolitan Affairs Committee Monday include two petitions seeking Mayor Boston's ineligibility for re election and a plan to reorganize the Boston assessing department. The measure would name three principal assessors and five deputy assessors with terms of three years, and set salaries for the board, deputies, and assistants.
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Boston
Committee On Metropolitan Affairs
Senator Lawler
Representative Atwood
City of
Funeral tomorrow for B Wesley Brown former Boston Masonic Temple official
Funeral services for R R Wesley Brown former assistant superintendent of the Boston Masonic Temple will be held tomorrow at 3 p m in Mt Auburn Cemetery Chapel. He died after a illness from pneumonia at his Brookline home aged 61. The Pequossette Mason ic Lodge of Watertown will attend with full charge of the services led by Rev George J Prescott of Columbian Lodge.
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R&r
Wesley Brown
Boston
Brown
George J. Prescott
Columbian Lodge
Death rate among Army aviation students praised as low
Secretary Baker said 51 fatalities have occurred at Army aviation training camps in the United States but the record is remarkably low after more than 100000 miles flown since June. He noted 10 officers and 29 cadets killed on training flights and 12 more in unauthorized flights or ground accidents.
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Washington
Baker
War Department
Provincetown Pageant The Spirit of Liberty Tomorrow
Provincetown will stage a pageant titled The Spirit of Liberty or The Allied Nations in Town Hall on Feb 24 from 2 to 4 pm under Mrs Cora G W Fuller. Admission is free with collections taken. The event features a large cast of speakers and singers.
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Provincetown
Cora G. W. Fuller
Store Damaged by Break in Water Main
A four inch water main burst in the Winter street building occupied by S. Vo renberg & Co. flooded Gilchrist Company’s supply room at 11 last night causing several thousand dollars in merchandise and machinery damage.
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S. Vorenberg & Co
Winter Street
Gilchrist Company
Plot to shoot officers shocks Camp Lewis soldiers
Germany linked plot as four National Army troops held at Camp Lewis face presidential warrant. Officials said mutinous plan aimed to kill officers in Europe and hand over soldiers to German forces. Military court trial possible with death penalty if convicted.
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Judge Advocate General's
National Army
Camp Lewis
Judge Advocate-General
Tacoma
Wash
Washington
Europe
Cleanup of enemy aliens at Camp Lewis under way
The judge advocate withheld names of arrestees pending Washington advices. Camp Lewis conducts a general cleanup of enemy aliens with 34 discharged today. About 200 men have been weeded out from the 91st Division. internment or prosecution rests with federal authorities.
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Judge Advocate
Washington
Camp Lewis
91St
Services Held for Abraham Hoffman
Funeral services for Abraham Hoffman 22 formerly of the old Ninth Regiment were held at his father Louis Hoffman’s Roxbury home. He died after lingering illness following a lightning injury while on duty at Framingham last summer. Hoff man, once in the Boston Post office business office, joined the war effort and served in the Ninth medical detail. The Ninth merged into the 101st Overseas Regiment and Hoffman, though hospital bound, did not go to France and was later discharged as disabled. Burial was in Pride of Jacob Cemetery Dedham.
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Abraham Hoffman
Ninth
101St Overseas Regiment
Hoffman
France
Pride of Jacob
Dedham
Prison Movie Show Delights Inmates for Two Hours
A moving picture show entertained State prison inmates for two hours yesterday before they returned to the yard until dinner. No work was conducted.
Mary Garden Triumphs in Thais at Boston Opera House
Mary Garden earned a second triumph this season as Thais in Mass senet's opera at the Boston Opera House. The audience roared with applause as her warm vocal tone and refined acting carried the performance, supported by Dufranne as Athanael and Dalmore as Nicias.
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Miss Garden
Athanael
Mr. Dufranne
Nicias
Mr. Dalmores
Thais
Mary Garden
Galli Curci Shines as Gilda in Rigoletto at Boston Opera House
Mme Galli Curci delighted audiences in a matinee of Rigoletto at the Boston Opera House. As Gilda she showed stronger voice than the prior night, encore of Caro Nome drew wild applause, and her final high E prompted repeated ovations as she vanished with the candle.
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Boston Opera House
Mme. Galli-Curci
Gilda
Verdi Tribute Shines as Galli-Curci Stracciari Dominate Stage
Mme Galli Curci renders Verdi with beauty and meaning in sustained vocal lines. Stracciari proves a dramatic interpreter with a repeated vendetta duet and strong curtain calls. Nadal and Claessens add solid support while Arimondi gives Sparafucila. conductor earns high praise.
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Verdi
Mme. Galli-Curci
Gilda
Stracciari
Boston
Metropolitan Opera Company
Mr. Nadal
Billings Narrowly Escapes Pneumonia
Collector of the Port Edmund Billings is ill with a severe cold at his Jamaica Plain home. He narrowly escaped pneumonia after aiding Halifax relief and assisting New England coal efforts, making trips to Washington. Last Sunday he collapsed with a high fever. doctors say danger has passed.
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Edmund Billings
Jamaica Plain
Mr. Billings
Halifax
New England
Washington
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