Air travel gains pace across Atlantic amid public interest
A Boston reader recalls London to Paris by air, noting a new timetable service from Hounslow airdrome and passengers’ routines. The piece praises pilots, engineers, and multilingual travel notices, and highlights physicians using planes to reach emergencies, including a case on Duffy Island where a doctor saved two lives.
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Paris
Hounslow
English Channel
France
New England
Boston
Hounslow Airdrome
Middle West
F. A. Brewster
Beaver City
Neb
New York
Fred Bose
Tulsa
Okla
Pennsylvania
Duffy’s Island
Susquehanna
Airships Carry Large Loads With Long Nonstop Range
Airships or dirigibles can bear the greatest loads and travel thousands of miles non stop. Their speed remains far below that of heavier than air machines.
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H. WV. C
Boston Public Works Teamsters Deny Rainy Day Pay Claim
In a statement from the Public Works Department Teamsters Union Boston Local, members dispute Frederick O Woodruff’s claim that city workers are paid for rainy days and sick time. They state all city laborers are paid only for actual work and the two weeks' annual vacation.
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Public Works Department Teamsters’ Union
City Men’s Local
Frederick O. Woodruff
Doll House Showcases Luxurious Miniature Home
Charles Grandison of 558 Washington Street Brighton built a fully furnished four foot high doll house for his 11 year old daughter Dorothy. The model includes seven rooms, bath, electric lights, tiger rug floors, movable furniture, playable pianos, a veranda, grass mat display, and a miniature aquarium with gold fish.
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Charles Grandison
Boston
Washington Street
Brighton
Grandison
Dorothy Grandison
Maine Women on Committee in State Republican Drive
Mrs Guy P Gannett named chair of the Maine Republican State committee's women advisory board. The Augusta born wife of State Senator Guy P Gannett is a longtime suffrage supporter and will convene the group once other members are appointed. County and town reps include Anna Dingley Auburn Miss Eva Mason Bath Essie Carll Belfast and others with Cumberland Hancock Oxford Penobscot Somerset and York to be announced.
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Augusta
Frank J. Ham
Republican State Committee
Gannett
Guy P. Gannett
State Committee
George E. Macomber
Alice Madeline
Anna Dingley
Auburn
Aroostook
Seth S. Thornton
Houston
Franklin
George H. Bass
Wilton
Knox
Mary Perry Rich
Glen Cove
Lincoln
Maud Gay
Waldoboro
Piscataquis
Eva Mason
Dover
Sagadahoc
Leonice B. Morse
Bath
Waldo
Essie Carll
Belfast
Washington
FE. E. Talbot
Machias
Cumberland
Hancock
Oxford
Penobscot
Somerset
York
Montreal Station Becomes Dance Hall for CPR Employees
In Montreal Quebec on January 1 the Windsor street CP station hosted 10 000 employees for a farewell ball as the last train departed at 10 30 pm. The vast concourse floor was waxed and cleared for dances with waltzes and a two week prep program. The dining room counters and reception halls were repurposed to serve the workers in this unique farewell event, the only railroad station ever used as a ballroom.
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Montreal
Que
Canadian Pacific
Windsor Street
Great Concourse
House Fire Forces Families From 6 Phillips Street
A stove overheated in Max Rubin’s fourth floor apartment sparked a blaze in a four story brick tenement at 6 Phillips Street. The fire drove several families from their New Year’s dinners before the blaze was controlled. Damage ran about 190 dollars. The building is owned by Simon Meiler.
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Max Rubin
Phillips Street
Simon Meiler
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