Sidelights Upon Roosevelts Life
Retold memories recount Theodore Roosevelt as civil service commissioner in 1891, his early New York Governor bid, and Platt’s reluctant support. It notes his Ten Commandments moment, love of books stained by camp life, and a welfare act rescuing vaudeville performers headed for Rio.
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Roosevelt
Jeremiah Curtin
Washington
Curtin
White House
Congressman Greenhalge
Harrison
Greenhalge
Theodore Roosevelt
Civil Service Commission
New York State
Montauk Point
New York
Platt
Fifth Avenue
Mark Twain
Tom Sawyer
Mrs. Roosevelt
Vandyck
Rio Janeiro
Roosevelts
Rio
Roosevelt’s pursuit of thieves becomes moral test of justice
Riis recounts a 1908 Danish parson tale about Theodore Roosevelt chasing three river thieves. Roosevelt refused to abandon justice, dragging the raiders to a jail despite winter hardships, showing the frontier duty to uphold law.
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Jacob A. Riis
New York
Colonel Roosevelt
Denmark
Roosevelt
Missouri
Artillery unit to remain at Camp Mills overnight
The 301st Field Artillery will not depart until at least tomorrow night and likely Thursday. The New England artillery unit has completed delousing and awaits orders to move toward Camp Devens for demobilization. Men spent the day loafing at camp with a brief drill at sunset. The regiment will not parade Boston before leaving for Camp Devens.
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Camp Mills
301St Field Artillery
New England
Camp Devens
Boston
Eagle steam gunboat not motor boat built by Ford
Detroit Jan 7 The Eagle is a long 204 foot steel steam turbine driven vessel with a concrete nose, designed to crush submarines. It carries about 80 crew, is not torpedo equipped, and will serve as a coast patrol gun boat for the U S and possibly for France with a planned 100 for the United States and 12 for France.
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Detroit
Henry Ford
Navy Department
Eagle
United States
Lord Cecil Arrives in Paris for League Talks
Lord Robert Cecil, the British expert on the league of nations, arrived in Paris today. Exchanges on preliminary details of the league have begun as he surveys the situation.
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Paris
Lord Robert Cecil
League of Nations
Soldiers Worried About Jobs on Return Home
From Brest in December 1910 American soldiers express anxiety over U S business conditions and job prospects upon return. Many fear plant shutdowns and layoffs amid reports of reduced production.
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Brest
America
Returning soldiers ready to work after discharge
Soldiers expect to hunt for jobs as soon as they leave the army. Employers promise to rehire most old staff, easing fears. Rumors about clothing shortages spread while New England merchants insist stocks are ample and reasonably priced.
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America
New England
Boston
Food Economy Kitchen Opens on North Street
A new Food Economy Kitchen under the National Civic Federation opens this week at 24 North Street. Portia, Boston’s renowned soup maker, presides daily as she stirs large kettles of soup. Prices include eight cents a quart broth, forty cents thick soup, and twenty two and a half cents per pound for fat.
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National Civic Federation
North Street
Portia
Boston
The
Nathaniel Thayer
Susan Baker
Portia Smiley
National League of Commission Merchants Opens Convention
The 27th annual convention began at the Copley Plaza Boston with delegates from across the states. Topics include transportation and marketing of fruits vegetables butter eggs and poultry, plus government control of communications and transport facilities. Governor Coolidge and Mayor Peters welcomed attendees as sessions run through Friday.
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America
National League of Commission Merchants of the
United States
Copley Plaza
League
Coolidge
Peters
Destroyers Due Today Reach Charles Town Navy Yard
Six destroyers from overseas arrive to a grand harbor welcome at Charles Town navy yard amid whistle blasts. The U S S Sigourney Stringham and Bell report docking times around morning with U S S Kimberly arriving at 10 and destroyers Porter and Wainwright signaling later arrivals.
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Navy Yard
Charlestown Navy Yard
Jackies
Sigourney
Stringham
Spencer
Wood
First Naval District
U. S. S. Kimberly
Admiral Wood
Porter
Wainwright
The Flying Poilu by Marcel Na daud serialized tale
A real story of flying lives in the French Flying Corps titled The Flying Poilu by Marcel Na daud. The tale, thrice wounded and retired, debuts in the Boston Post Sunday Magazine next week as a periodical first time here or abroad.
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Marcel Nadaud
Boston Post
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Wakefield
Mass
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Lord Cecil
Clifton B. Carberry
the Post
Food Economy
Red Cross Motor Corps
Morgan Memorial
South Boston
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Roland Baker
George Agassiz
Fred Mead
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National League of Commission Merchants
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E. W. Barron
Arthur Clifford
Stanley Kingman
George York
Everett W. J.lord
United States Employment Service
Society of Civil Engineers
Chipman Hall
Federal Service
A. Shuman &Co
Newt
H. F. West
Talbot Ave
Dorchester
Huntington Ave
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Mechanics’ Building
Helidaya
Destroyers
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