Literacy test vote shapes immigration debate in Senate
Senate action on the literacy test triggers heated discussion over exclusion tactics and race. Reed pushes amendments targeting Africans and Japanese while Smoot and Sutherland oppose tests based on religion and polygamy. The chamber divides 47 to 3 on key points as debates continue through roll call.
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Brandegee
Clark
Wyoming
A Follette
Reed
Smoot
Utah
Mormon Church
Smith
Sutherland
Works
California
Borah
Idaho
Hughes
New Jersey
Boston Welcomes the New Year 1915
Boston hosts celebratory New Year's Eve scenes across hotels. Revelers toast 1915 as electric displays, heralds, and allegorical performances mark the stroke of midnight. At Quincy House over 180 guests dine as a white charger herald proclaims the arrival of the new year.
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Copley-Plaza
Walsh
Curley
Copley Plaza
College of the Spoken
America
Boston
Quincy House
Salvation Army Hosts Annual Watch Service
Nearly 140 attended the Salvation Army event at its headquarters on Washington and East Brookline streets. A 4 to 6 p.m. concert followed by a 10:30 p.m. to midnight watch service featured music hymn singing and personal testimonies.
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The
Salvation Army
Washington and
East Brookline Streets
Michailoff Triumphs at Grand Opera House
Ivan Michailoff the Cossack won over Mort Henderson at the Grand Opera House last night. He claimed both falls in 48 minutes with the first fall in 24 minutes 30 seconds and the second in 24 minutes.
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Grand Opera House
Ivan Michailoff
Mort Henderson
Mrs Sarah Hayes Dies at Homeopathic Hospital
Mrs Sarah Hayes 64 wife of Charles Hayes of Norfolk Downs died yesterday at the Homeopathic Hospital after a 28 year resident of Quincy.
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Sarah Hayes
Charles Hayes
Norfolk Downs
Homeopathic Hospital
Quincy
Kaiser’s Son Won’t Be King
Berlin dispatch summary lists claims from the Official Press Bureau denying reports that Emperor William’s son would be king of Hungary. It cites notes on British trade pressure, neutral shipping, German wartime substitutes, and Soviet and Dutch naval reports, with assorted international reactions and treason charges.
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Berlin
Sayville
Morning Post
London
William
Hitel Friedrich
Hungary
Christiania
Herr Lehmann
Bremen
Rotterdamsche Courant
Tijd
Ypres
Stockholm
St. Petersburg
Duma
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By C. M. Payne
Presa Publishing Co
John F. Fitzgerald
New England
OAK Hall Outfitters
Adams
Square
Washington Street
Senate
Revere House
Healy’s
Maxim’s
Copley Square
Castle Square
Omar Khayam
Cupid
Michailoff
Kaiser
Vorenberg
Zufd
Washington, Hanover and Elm Sts
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