May Seize Big Coal Supply in Houses
Boston faces a coal shortage with Fuel Administrator Storrow warning the city may run out by Tuesday. Edgar N. Wrightington of Boston Consolidated Gas warns supplies will not last long and the gas company may shut down without coal and other materials. Theaters may open at 7 45 p m and close by 10 p m with 10 15 p m possible. movie houses to close at 10 p m. Grocers propose 7 a m to 6 p m hours, with Saturday close at 10 p m. Hotel bars to close at 10 p m though dining rooms may serve later. Coal cars moving from Maybrook and arrivals by water total thousands of tons today.
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Boston Consolidated Gas Company
Edgar N. Wrightington
Boston
Storrow
Moving Picture Houses
New York
Massachusetts Retail Grocers’ and
Maybrook Gateway
Boston & Albany
New York, New Haven & Hartford
Maybrook
90 Boston Schools Closed Ahead of Monday Reopening
Boston plans to reopen most of its 266 schools while 90 day schools stay shut due to coal shortages. Elementary sessions will run half days at 9 to 10 am Monday and 8 45 am to 12 15 pm thereafter. Only a few high schools can open as fuel and frozen pipes hinder others.
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Boston
Franklin B. Dyer
Dyer
School buildings delayed reopening after frozen pipe damage
Three district schools will not reopen Monday due to damage to apparatus from frozen pipes. The Skinner School, Oliver Wendell Holmes School in Dorchester, and the North Harvard Street School in Brighton are affected, with repairs needed before students return.
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Oe Choo
Aaron Davis
Asa Gray
Bilis Mendell
George Patoam
Lowell
W. Mason
Sherwin
Winthrop Street
Normal Group
Rex High
Abby W. May
Dillaway
Arragut
Hugh O’brien
Ff Martin
Sarah J. Baker
William Ee
Sree Inrchester
Dorchester High
Benjaming Harbor View Street
John G. Whittier
Winthrop
Marshall, Mather
Old Gibson
Phillips Brooks
Chestnut Avenue
Longfellow
Agassiz
Ee Sumner
Germantown
Robert G. Ww
Hyde Park
Hyde Park High
Trescott
Elibu Greenwood
Skinner
City Propert
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Dorchester
North Harvard Street
Brighton
Cuts munitions plants fuel use in 60 day curtailment
Washington reports that munitions and war supply plants may cut fuel consumption for the next 60 days. Fuel Administrator Garfield says coal distribution will favor areas of greatest need and no section will receive preferential treatment. Despite some 38 million tons of shortages already made up, a large deficiency remains. No general relief is expected for at least 60 days, with the situation possibly worsening.
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Washington
Garfield
Lynn Schools to Stay Closed Until Jan 21
Lynn schools will remain closed until January 21 extending the Christmas vacation two weeks. When opening resumes, only half the schools will be opened at first. the morning and afternoon sessions will be split among Lynn students depending on coal supply.
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Lynn
No Coal Forces 7000 Workers Out at Fall River
Nearly seven thousand employees will lose work as the Fall River Iron Works closes tonight due to coal shortages. The plant part of the American Printing Company, makers of print cloth, with word other factories may suspend without immediate coal.
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Fall River
Readville Horsemen Back Readville Grand Circuit Plan
About 50 horsemen met at Readville hosted by Charles Leonard of the Boston Fair Association. They signaled strong financial backing for a Grand Circuit meeting at Readville next season. Optimists include W. D. Hunt C. W. Lasell Walter Cox R. B Forbes James Young W. J. McDonald C. C. Mayberry John Linnehan A. M. Newbert C. A. Traiser and George Leavitt.
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Readville
Charles Leonard
Boston Fair Association
W. D. Hunt
C.W. Lasell
Walter Cox
R. B E. Forbes
James Young
W. J. McDonald
C. C. Mayberry
John Linnehan
A. M. Newbert
C. A. Traiser
George Leavitt
Back Bay bandit suspects held in Boston raid case
Dorothy Brennan linked to the Back Bay gang after police captured eight men at 394 Massachusetts Avenue and a Tremont Street rooming house. Jeremiah Galvin pleaded guilty to robbing William B. Parent of 40 dollars. others pleaded not guilty or faced idle and disorderly charges with various bonds.
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Back Bay
John Coughlin
Patrick J. A. Barrett
Sachem Street
Roxbury
Jeremiah Galvin
Logan's Restaurant
Hayes’ Cafe
John G. Hayden
Binney Street
J. F. Delaney
Massachusetts Avenue
Tremont Street
Dorothy Brennan
William B. Parent
Patrick J. A. Berrett
John C. Hayden
Horace Glidden
Thomas Sullivan
Robert I. Kelley
Arthur McDonald
Constantine Murphy
Herbert Keene
Thomas A. Barry
Parent
Hayes
Brookline Avenue
Germany relies on U boats to win the war
A German newspaper argues the U boat campaign could deny American entry and starve Britain into peace. It cites submarine tonnage goals and critics of Allied shipping, noting German leaders claim England cannot sustain war without U.S. aid while new shipbuilding rises even as U boats expand.
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Junkers
United States
France
Berlin
England
No Need for Rationing in America Hoover Says
President Hoover asserts no rationing is required in the United States and that with supplementary regulations there will be no shortages. He notes allies need 75 to 90 million additional bushels of wheat and urges Americans to further cut wheat use while conserving meat and other foods for allied needs.
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Berlin
United States
Germany
Uthless
Tageblatt
Entente
America
Food Administration
Lever
Pomerone
Congress
British Downed Four Planes on Italian Front
British air planes on the Italian front attacked a squadron of seven hostile machines yesterday and brought down four of them. Two crashed to earth and two were driven down out of control. The British came out of the fight with all machines intact.
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London
War Office
Russian Legion Leaves for French Front in Champagne
Paris dispatch reports the first battalion of the Russian Legion, drawn from the Russian expeditionary force on the Champagne sector, has departed for trenches. General Lokhvitzky aims to recruit more Russians, noting many from the original brigades remain eager to join. A women’s battalion request was denied as impractical.
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Paris
Russian Legion
Champagne
Lokhvitzky
France
Germany
Red Cross to Spend 40 Million Francs for French Aid
Paris report shows the American Red Cross will spend 40 million francs in five months to aid French civilians. Major Murphy’s incoming report notes 30,000 refugees per month, 15,000 homeless, 13,000 refugee children cared for at Evian, and 2,800 housed in Paris at times.
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Paris
Red Cross
Grayson M. P Murphy
The
Washington
Switzerland
France
Evian Les Baint
Pari
Brigade of 100 Women to Aid British Recruiting
A unit of 100 women will be organized tomorrow at the British and Canadian recruiting headquarters 44 Bromfield Street to help locate British subjects not yet enlisted. They are expected to begin recruiting work on Monday.
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Bromfield Street
Laxative Bromo Quinine Price Increase Announced
The well known cold remedy Laxative Bromo Quinine now costs 3 per box due to higher wholesale costs of its six medicinal ingredients. The product has served customers for a quarter century and is used worldwide.
German Press Attacks Wilson on Entente Peace Plan
The Weser Zeitung mocks Wilson’s speech as words and questions Brest-Litovsk talks while warning Germany’s safety hinges on a strong fleet. Berlin’s Lokal Anzeiger calls it a hypocritical peace plan and urges Irish and colonial removals to free oppressed nations. Count Reventlow sees value in enlightening German public opinion.
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Jan. l
Weser Zeitung
Wilson
Germany
Brest-Litovsk
Berlin
Ireland
India
Egypt
Malta
Cyprus
Gibraltar
Morocco
Tripoli
Ernst von Reventlow
Tages Zeitung
Count von Reventlow
von Kuehlman
Count Czernin
Reventlow
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Mayhew
Prince
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Capen
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