Give Rights to Italians
Washington reports a treaty draft submitted by President Taft to the Senate amends the Italian American treaty to grant aliens of Italian nationality in the United States the same rights as native citizens. It extends to relatives or heirs a right of action in injury cases, addressing previous Supreme Court limitations and matching privileges Americans enjoy in Italy.
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Washington
United States
Senate
Taft
America
Supreme Court
Italy
Subway Work Forces Change of Routings
Beginning tonight and continuing each night until further notice there will be no street car service on Boylston street from 9 p m to 6 a m between Berkeley street and Dartmouth street. The Boylston street subway construction requires this temporary diversion. Newton and Brighton lines Ipswich street line South Huntington avenue Jamaica Plain line Allston cross town and Longwood avenue via Huntington avenue will be diverted through Massachusetts avenue and Columbus avenue Berkeley and Boylston streets to the subway. All other cars in Huntington avenue and Boylston street will be diverted through Dartmouth street Columbus avenue and Berkeley street to Boylston street.
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Boylston Street
Berkeley Street
Dartmouth Street
Newton
Brighton
Ipswich Street
Huntington Avenue
Jamaica Plain
Allston Cross Town
Allston-l Longwood Avenue
Massachusetts Avenue
Columbus Avenue
Berkeley and
Boylston Streets
Brownie Receives Medal for Saving Life at Winthrop Beach
James J. W Kennedy a prominent Brownie of the L street bath brigade and a well known athlete living on West Canton street has received a medal of honor from the Massachusetts Humane Society for saving the life of a New York travelling salesman at Winthrop beach last autumn.
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James J. W Kennedy
L Street Bath Brigade
Canton Street
Massachusetts Humane Society
New York
Winthrop Beach
Poolroom Confesses illuminate police graft links
New York reportsDistrict Attorney Whitman received a confession from Ashley Shea a former pool room keeper indicted for bribery He said he paid protection of 50 weekly and became a graft agent in the district commanded by Dennis Sweeney the former police inspector now demoted and indicted for graft.
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New York
Whitman
Ashley Shea
Shea
Dennis Sweeney
Sweeney
Shea's Alleged Spying Ties to Harlem Graft Network
Shea testified he watched pool rooms and gambling houses for 18 months and reported to Sergeant Peter Duffy. He named 30 Harlem sites from which he gathered illegal activity details and graft sums, turning the money over to Duffy. The disclosures are set to underpin new indictments against Sweeney to replace the current ones deemed defective.
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Shea
Peter Duffy
Sweeney
Harlem
Duffy
Soldiers on border demand troops for El Paso
Washington February 25 A demand to secure adequate troops for El Paso and other border points will be made in the Senate tomorrow either through the foreign affairs committee or on the Senate floor by Senators from Texas and New Mexico. Telegrams from city and state officials to Senators Sheppard Fall and Catron prompted the move to seek an explanation from the War Department for recent border troop withdrawals.
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Washington
el Paso
Senate Foreign Affairs Committee
Senate
Texas
New Mexico
Sheppard
Fall
Catron
War Department
Protests Storm over Galveston Border Troop Concentration
Protesters accuse the concentration of border troops at Galveston of leaving a long stretch of country unprotected against strong Mexican forces. Senator Sheppard plans to urge foreign relations action with the War Department. Senator Fall vows a Senate resolution if no action is taken. The El Paso artillery withdrawal draws sharp protest from Mayor C. E. Kelley, warning of unnecessary hazard to residents.
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Galveston
Sheppard
Foreign Relations Committee
War Department
Fall
Senate
Secretary of War
el Paso
C. E. Kelley
Former Boston Six Master Abandoned at Sea
The six masted schooner William S. Douglas converted to the oil barge Delaware Sun recently broke free from the steamer Yosemite bound for England and is drifting helplessly in mid Atlantic with no crew aboard. Several steamers sighted the barge in high seas, now likely abandoned after weeks of Atlantic turmoil.
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William S. Douglas
Delaware Sun
Yosmite
Philadelphia
England
Boston
William L. Douglas
Automobiles Alter Church Attendance Says Emmanuel Rector
Rev Dr Elwood Worcester notes cars have changed social customs affecting churchgoing in Boston and suburbs. He warns future of major city churches is perilous without new endowment funds and concerted action to expand financial foundations. He says congregations shrink in winter and larger churches draw away members.
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Elwood Worcester
Emmanuel Church
Worcester
Plea for New Playground in East Boston Fourth Section
Thomas A. Niland of Byron Street seeks help from Joseph A. Lee, school committee member and Playground Association president, in a campaign to secure a playground for East Boston's Fourth section.
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East Boston
Thomas A. Niland
Byron Street
Joseph A. Lee
Playground Association
Engagement Report Denied In Nice France
Mrs. James Clinch Smith of New York denies the reported engagement published in U S papers. Formerly Miss Bertha Barnes of Chicago she is seriously ill in Nice but slowly improving. her husband was a Titanic disaster victim.
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Nice
France
James Clinch Smith
New York
United States
Smith
Bertha Barnes
Chicago
Harvard Club of Newton Holds Second Annual Meeting
The second annual meeting and dinner of the Harvard Club of Newton was held last evening at Brae Burn Country Club with a large attendance of college men. Dean Byron Thurlbut of Harvard delivered the principal address.
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Harvard Club of
Newton
Brae Burn Country Club
Dean Byron& Thurlbut
Harvard
Pujo Board May Reach Vote Today
Washington Feb 25 The House money trust committee likely will vote tomorrow on its report to be submitted to the House on Thursday or Friday. The committee today finished reading the analysis of the testimony from hearings prepared by Samuel Untermyer, its counsel. The report will be based almost entirely on Untermyer's recommendations.
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Washington
Itouse Money Trust Committee
House
Samuel Untermyer
Untermyer
Italians Lead New Arrivals at Boston Port in 1912
A Boston immigration office report shows 60,500 aliens entered in 1912, up from 51,076. Italians were the largest group with 15,862 newcomers, followed by the English at 9,094 and the Irish at 7,923.
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Boston
Immigration Office
Remedial finance bill talks under committee scan
Tonight no formal session was held as members studied Untermyer's proposals and plan to vote by tomorrow night. Today the committee heard statistician Lawrence Q. Scudder present two charts outlining J. P. Morgan & Co. and other major financiers' interlocks and affiliations.
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J. P. Morgan & Co
New York
Boston
Chicago
Scudder
Arkansas heads for New York to repair
The battleship Arkansas, damaged by reef contact off Cuba, reached Hampton Roads for examination by a Board of Survey and then proceeded to New York for repairs.
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Arkansas
New York
Norfolk
Cuba
Hampton Roads
Board of
Garrett Crotty Dies Suddenly at Work in Somerville
Garrett Crotty longtime employee of Middlesex Bleachery and Dye Works on Somerville Avenue Somerville died suddenly at his job shortly before 6 o clock last night.
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Garrett Crotty
Middlesex
Somerville Avenue
Somerville
Immigration diversity among prospective American citizens figures
The list shows large numbers of European and other nationalities among prospective citizens, with Scots, Scandinavians, Portuguese, Hebrew, Polish, German, Russian, Lithuanian, Croatian, Dutch, French, Welsh, African, Armenian, Hungarian, Spanish, Greek, Syrian, Romanian, Bohemian, Slovak, East Indian, Japanese, Turkish, West Indian and others. Only 355 were refused admission. Most newcomers settled in Massachusetts and several other states while about 3527 were in transit for other countries.
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Massachusetts
Rhode Island
New York
Illinois
Pennsylvania
California
Connecticut
New Hampshire
Minnesota
Ohio
Michigan
Maine
Hollis Narrowly Falls Short in New Hampshire Senate Race
Concord New Hampshire February 25 Henry F Hollis Democrat fell three votes short of election as United States Senator after final ballot tally showing Hollis 202 Pearson 173 Britton 22 and 11 scattered votes four absentees and 14 paired.
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Concord
N. H
Henry F. Hollis
United States
New Hampshire
Edward N. Pearson
William J. Britton
Endorsed Remedy Promises Cure for Digestive Ailments
An advertisement touts Dr Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery as curing indigestion dyspepsia and weak stomach with sour risings heartburn foul breath and coated tongue. It claims relief for bronchial throat and lung coughs excluding consumption and warns it is not best for acute coughs from sudden colds.
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American
Oregon
R. W. Pierce
Dr. Pierce
Golden Medical Discovery
Discovery
Warrant Issued for Reverend in Child Kidnap Plot
A warrant was issued yesterday for the arrest of the Rev. John Eills after he kidnapped his 5-year-old daughter Olga from Mrs Harriet Cox Bills of Revere. Bills filed the complaint in court. the pair were last seen hand in hand leaving the mother’s Revere Street home at 9:30 Saturday morning.
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John Eills
Olga
Revere
Harriet Cox Bills
John Bilis
Revere Street
Believed to Have Left Boston After Letters Surface
Residents search for Till believe he departed Boston Saturday. Letters purporting to bear his signature were found yesterday, one typewritten on Copley Plaza Hotel stationery. The documents appeared to be a copy of a child guardianship bill tied to his domestic relations, with claims it was intended for legislative action.
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Boston
Copley-Plaza Hotel
Musterole Recommended by Doctors and Nurses
Musterole, the white ointment replacing mustard plaster, is praised by doctors and nurses in large hospitals. It relieves sore throat, bronchitis, croup, and chest congestion without blistering skin, with a hospital size option and mail order available. Testimonials from Mary A. Fisher and FE. Brewster support its use for pleurisy and chest colds.
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Musterole Company
Cleveland
Mary A. Fisher
Martinsville
Clinton Co. i
James Musterole
FE. Brewster
Conneaut General Hospital
Conneaut
Musterole
Huron Street Hospital
Cough Cure Claimed: Home Formula Promises Quick Relief
A medical man touts a simple home remedy for sleepless nights from deep coughs. The plan uses wild cherry bark, compound essence cardiol, and White Pine syrup to create a laxative tonic cough syrup. Instructions: 20 drops every half hour for four hours, then 1/2 to 1 teaspoonful several times daily.
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Jand
Thear & Mouse
Uit
Funny van Loon
Reo
Maude Adams
Post Tavern
Postum Co
Postum Cereal Co., Ltd
Battle Creek, Mich
Harvard Club
PUJO
Ireland
Hollis
Invalids’ Hotel
Buffalo
N. Y
R. V. Pierce
M.D
Buffalo, N. Y
People’s Schoolmaster In
Dr. Williams
Dr. Williams Medicine Company
Schenectady, N. Y
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