Rumor of Bancroft quitting Haverhill Gazette claims
The Haverhill Gazette reports rumors that within ten days after arbitration the president of the Boston Elevated Railroad William A Bancroft will resign with P F Sullivan of Bay State Street Railway slated to take his place. Other names include Robert Goff Thomas Lees Franklin Woodman and Frank A Belden as possible successors and changes in management across Bay State Massachusetts Northeastern and related lines.
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Haverhill
Haverhill Gazette Today
Arbitration Board
William A. Bancroft
Boston Elevated Railroad
P. F. Sullivan
Bay State Street Railway Company
New England
Robert Goff
Thomas Lees
Lowell
Goff
Franklin Woodman
Massachusetts Northeastern
Woodman
Bay State Road
Old Boston & Northern
Union Leaders Read Long Delayed Carmen Arbitration Report
Tremont Temple crowd of 3000 Elevated employees heard the 136 page arbitration report read after midnight. James H. Vahey and Fred Fay presented the document as guards kept outsiders out and union officials announced a general wage increase for carmen across the board. The meeting lingered past 1:30 AM as the crowd cheered the gains for years of service and hailed the outcome as a triumph.
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Tremont Temple
James H. Vahey
Arbitration Board
Fred Fay
Copley Plaza
Color World Photos Highlight Next Sunday Post
Two full pages of handsome photographs culled from all the world appear in the color supplement of the next Sunday Post. Don’t miss them.
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Next Sunday Post
Gas heater dangers shown by fatal gas poisoning
Harry Scollay aged 35 of 1 Decatur street died from gas poisoning after lighting a gas heater. Two of four jets failed to ignite and the gas overwhelmed him as he dressed. He was found with one sock half on and the other in his hand as occupants searched for the source.
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Harry Scollay
Decatur Street
President Outlines Problems and Fed Board Selection
President Wilson outlined the pending issues and said he would use the full 60 days before finalizing Federal Reserve Board picks. He compares the task to forming a Supreme Court and will canvass the field thoroughly with attention to geographical considerations.
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Washington
Wilson
Federal Reserve Board
Supreme Court of the United States
President shifts on pending measures and foreign ties
The President plans to leave anti trust and rural credit to Congress procedures and hopes both pass this session or December, with a possible primary law. He may adjourn by June if trust and rural credits are settled. He expects talks on the canal zone civil government and Mexico's bond default. He will confer with Kern and Bryan and others before printing his message.
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Committee On Privileges and Elections
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Stanley
Steel Investigating Committee
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Germany
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Mayor Fitzgerald Receives Faint Support in City Election
In a tight city election the majority went to Curley over Kenny with Curley leading by 5740 votes. Fitzgerald drew under 2 percent due to stickers against him. Ernst BE Smith and others appeared on scattered ballots while official tallies adjusted several precinct results and hinted at a possible recount by Hagan.
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Kenny
Tearnest BE
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Ward
Hagan
Fire Claims 15 Horses in Manchester Stable Blaze
In Manchester New Hampshire early today a fire at Edward H Holmes 83 Myrtle Street killed fifteen horses. Only an old mule named Tommy survived after being dragged from his straw bed and is now ill from exposure and illness during rescue.
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Edward H. Holmes
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Harvard Divinity School Names Henry Wilder Foote Assistant Professor
The Rev. Henry Wilder Foote of Cambridge is named assistant professor of preaching and parish administration at Harvard Divinity School and secretary of the faculty. He will teach courses similar to those of retired Prof. F. G. Peabody and will work with Dean Fenn. Appointment begins April 1.
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Henry Wilder Foote
Cambridge
Harvard Divinity School
Faculty of Divinity
Divinity School
F. G. Peabody
Fenn
Record crowds attend third day of poultry and pet show
Thousands fill the event as prize cats captivate upper floor spectators. Tiny Wonder Boy, a six month old cat owned by Mrs. Dunn of Providence, wins blue and boosts its value from 50 to 200 dollars. The Boston bred Silvers and Mrs. Kelley’s Boston Boodles also collect awards. About 230 cats compete with 300 dollars in prizes and scores of cups and medals to be awarded. Poultry displays continue with chicks and ducklings in an artificial pond. Sales are expected to total many thousands of dollars as show entries wind down with two final days of crowds and late hours.
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Fred Dunn
Providence
R. I
Don Dai
George Brayton
Boston
Hilda Kelley
Three City Engineers Seek Salary Reduction in New York
John R. Freeman William H Burr and Alfred H Noble consulting engineers to the Board of Water Supply ask Mayor Mitchell to cut their salaries from $6000 to $3000 a year each. They say Catskill aqueduct completion means they will be needed half as much. The Mayor referred the request to the Board of Estimate for action.
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Mitchel
John R. Freeman
William H. Burr
Alfred H. Noble
Board of Water Supply
Catskill
Board of Estimate
Gasolene Gus and Dolly Dimp Ride Laughing Adventure
Gasolene Gus and Dolly Dimp headline a lighthearted Sunday Post feature. The piece sketches a comic duo in a playful, risqué style that plays on vaudeville era humor and party-book humor without graphic detail.
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Gasolene
Gus and
Dolly Dimp
Next Sunday Post
Saw Trunk Victim Slain In Poles Case In New York
The murder of Ivan Martysewicz, body found in a street trunk December 29, was described by Stefania Kmviatkowska, a Polish inmate under arrest. She said two imprisoned men killed him with poisoned beer after luring him to a house with a work offer. Robbery motive. only a cheap watch and $2 obtained.
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New York
Ivan Martysewicz
Stefania Kmviatkowska
Martysewicz
Proclamation of New Sermons and Church Plans Across Boston Area
The week’s church notices reveal Rev. Austen T. Kempton of Broadway Baptist Cambridge will stage a one act scene The Night the Captain Saved the Ship inspired by the Titanic to depict a shipboard captain and wireless operator. East Boston hosts sermons with views orchestra and speakers including DuBois Williams and Woodberry January to February. Wollaston Church Quincy votes to build a $60 000 church and relocate the current structure as a parish house. College Hill Church Wichita Kansas welcomes Rev A E Kirk from Boston University School of Theology. Dr F W Padelford to address Baptist ministers conference at Chipman Hall Monday on Religion and Education. Rev A H Bissell of Fast Brookfield moves to Hingham replacing Rev George Bullen.
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Kev. Austen T. Kempton
Broadway Baptist Church
Cambridge
A. R. Willams
Maverick
Central Square
East Boston
W. E. B. DuBlois
America
A. R. Williams
Ida Vose Woodberry
Alex Irvine
Wollaston Congregational Church of
Quincy
F. W. Padelford
Baptist Ministers’ Conference
Chipman Hall
Wealthy Chinese Merchant Guilty of Slavery in Seattle
Harry Toy, a wealthy Chinese merchant, was found guilty by a federal court jury on six counts of violating the Mann White Slave Law. The case held that he lured Goldie Goodell from Portland to Seattle. she was the daughter of a Portland clergyman and sister of Toy's deceased wife. The defense offered no evidence, arguing the act did not apply.
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Harry Toy
Goldie Goodell
Portland, Ore
Miss Goodell
Portland
Toy
Judge Nathan D. Pratt Dies in Lowell at 59
Judge Nathan D. Pratt, 59, a 1911 Superior Court appointee, was found dead in his Lowell home after a brief illness. Born in Reading, he studied at Kimball Academy and MIT before practicing law in Taunton and Lowell, later partnering with Edward B. Quinn.
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Reading
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Chicago & Northwestern Railroad Company
Milwaukee Division
Cambridge
Taunton
Edward B. Quinn
Curley and Boston Officials Clash Over Public Garden Plan
Boston leaders spar over selling the Public Garden and adjacent probate property. Mayor-elect Curley opposes the measure while Fitzgerald defends the garden as a world famous asset and rebukes the plan. The piece notes legal limits on selling the garden and outlines debt, transit, and civic needs facing Boston.
Old Depot Now Used by B. and M.
Officials of the Boston and Maine railroad after 36 hours of effort could not promise normal service earlier than six weeks to two months. About 57 percent of trains using the North station were handled, with some improvement but few additions. Local trains arrived five to 20 minutes late. through trains from Portland and farther away were often nearly an hour late.
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Boston & Maine Railroad
North Station
Portland
How Trains Are Now Being Operated Out of North Station
The Boston and Maine railroad updates service patterns at North Station and the Old Fitchburg Depot detailing current operations and changes in train schedules and routes.
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North Station
Boston Schedule Lists Trains to Many Points in New England
The list shows outgoing trains from Boston to Ayer, Peabody Falls, Pittsfield, Greenfield, Marlboro, Roberts Watertown, Rotterdam, South Acton, Troy, Bedford, Concord Mass and N H, Lawrence, Lexington, Lowell, Nashua, Stoneham, Woburn, Amesbury Beverly Danvers Dover Georgetown Haverhill Intervale Manchester Middleton Newburyport North Berwick Portland Portmouth Reading Rockport Somersworth Wolfboro with Gloucester branch service and a cab train between Lynn and East Somerville on the East Saugus branch adding four daily trains each way.
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Troy
Amesbury
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City Approves Three Land Takings For Public Projects
Mayor approves eminent domain actions for a new municipal building site at West Brookline Street and Shawmut Avenue, a Roxbury trades school parcel on Parker and Halleck streets, and a Dorchester playground at Tenean Beach. Awards total 78,700 dollars to private owners.
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John P. Webber
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George P. Hamlin
City Club Hears Opera at Boston Opera House
Edoardo Ferrari-Fontana Elizabeth Amsden Margarita d'Alvarez and Ramon Blanchart led a special performance of The Jewels of the Madonna before a large Boston City Club audience. The praised cast and staging drew curtain calls as Puccini's La Boheme was announced for the evening with Constantino and Lucrezia Bori in principal roles.
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Elizabeth Amsden
Margarita d’Alvarez
Ramon Blanchart
Boston Opera House
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City Club
Miss Amsden
Matheia
Darkness Falls as Transformer Explodes in North Cambridge
A transformer on an electric light pole at Massachusetts avenue and Chauncy street exploded last night plunging Cambridge north of M Harvard square into darkness. The blaze lit the pole briefly and cut off power for a large city quarter, with the blaze visible along the Arlington and Belmont lines until street lights resumed.
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Madame Nordica Improves After Sinking Near Thursday Island
New York Jan 1 Further improvement was reported today in the condition of Madame Lillian Nordica the operatic star stricken with pneumonia after escaping shipwreck near Thursday Island off the coast of Australia Three telegrams from the island relay her husband George Young saying she was better on Tuesday and had a fairly comfortable night with more improvement noted today
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New York
Lillian Nordica
Thursday Island
Australia
George Young
Brookline Catholics Plan $5000 Push for St Elizabeth's Hospital
Brookline Catholics met at St Mary's Parish hall to raise at least 5000 toward a 200000 endowment for the new St Elizabeth's Hospital now under construction in Brighton. Attendees from St Mary's St Aidan's and St Lawrence's participated in the mass meeting.
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St. Elizabeth's Hospital
Brighton
St. Mary’s Church of the Assumption
St. Aidan’s
St. Lawrence's
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