Move Toward Unified Ireland Seen in Municipal Votes
London officials analyze Irish municipal results amid Sinn Fein gains and mixed seats. Proposals for home rule look likelier as no single party dominates strongholds. Labour and Nationalists gain votes, signaling possible cross party cooperation for self government without violence.
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London
Sinn F¢in
Ireland
Southern Ireland
Sinn Fein
Northern Ireland
Labor
The
Daily News
Apeal
Don’t Drag Kidneys Rub Backache Away
Claim that kidneys cause backache is false and nerves do not transmit pain. The ad promotes St. Jacobs Liniment as a quick, harmless relief for backache sciatica lumbago neuralgia rheumatism and strains with promises of instant disappearance of pain. A trial bottle from a druggist is recommended.
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St. Jacobs
Court Enjoins Fish Handlers in Cape Cod Fishing Areas
The Fish Handlers Union and the Fishermen's Union were barred from enforcing a closed shop on Cape Cod fishing craft owners and captains in Edgartown Provincetown New Bedford and nearby towns. They cannot compel union membership fund or boycott owners or fish, call strikes, or publish a blacklist. Hearing to proceed after pleadings with former Judge Robert O Harris.
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Fish Handlers’ Union
Fishermen's Union of the Atlantic
Edgartown
Provincetown
New Bedford
Cape
Crosby
Supreme Judicial Court
Robert O. Harris
Crusade Against Lottery Promoters
Promoters of lotteries are targeted by police and other gambling operators. Officers from the City Hall Avenue station raided a basement at 7 Hanover Street and arrested Frank Reeves, 32, of 101 Appleton Street on a charge of running a lottery. Two manifold winnings lists four books with names and 350 numbered slips were seized.
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City Fiall Avenue
Hanover Street
Frank Reeves
Appleton Street
Accidentally Shot by Own Revolver Injures Officer
Patrolman Neil L. McArthur attached to Roxbury Crossing Station was accidentally shot in the right elbow by a bullet from his own revolver in the Brookline avenue garage. He received treatment at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital and sustained a non serious wound.
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Neil L. McArthur
Roxbury Crossing
Roxbury
Brookline Avenue
Peter Bent Brigham Hospital
Hart at 91 Celebrates Birthday in Quiet Home Greeting
Boston’s ex Mayor Thomas N. Hart, aged 91, marked his birthday at 298 Commonwealth Avenue with friends, baskets of fruit, and countless cards. He said he felt well, eats and sleeps well, and remains serene. he did not issue invitations but enjoyed the day. He is a member of the Merchants’ Club and attended their dinner last night.
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Thomas N. Hart
Mr. Hart
Treme
Boston
Commonwealth Avenue
Post Letters to the Editor on language birth dates and fricassee
Readers ask about Havana speech Spanish versus English and immigration patterns. They note three Barrymore siblings on stage Ethel Lionel and John. Leap day birth superstition discussed. Fricassee cooking explained as sautéed then served with sauce. sometimes meat simmered before frying.
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Sir
Havana
Cuba
United States
Barrymores
Maurice Barrymore
Ethel Barrymore-Colt
Lionel Barrymore
Doris Tankin
John Barrymore
Katherine Harris
Beal oration on Parkman bequest and language note
Questions about President Wilson's age and Parkman bequest in Beacon Hill are answered with details. The Parkman gift totals about five million dollars earmarked for Common maintenance and existing parks as of 1887, not for new land, plus a language clarification on phrases so far as versus as far as.
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George F. Parkman
Beacon Hill
Boston Common
Leviathan’s 1918 Europe Run Fifteen Round Trips
The great transport Leviathan formerly Waterland completed roughly fifteen round trips between New York and Europe in spring and summer 1918. She averaged one round trip every 27 days, or slightly less, during that period, carrying troops across the Atlantic.
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Post
Leviathan
the Waterland
Europe
New York
From Castles in the Air to Cunarders Franconia and Laconia
Notes trace the phrase building castles in the air to Cervantes Don Quixote and Burton Anatomy of Melancholy, then discuss Mayflower era usage. Also ask about prohibition allowing aquor transport in autos with permits, and explain Franconia and Laconia names origins and laconic etymology.
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Cervantes
Robert Burton
Franconia
Laconia
German Empire
Greece
Laconica
Origin of the midnight expression in Hamlet
The line is often misquoted. In Hamlet Act 3 scene 2 the passage reads “Mea now the very witching time of night When churchyards yaw n hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world now could I drink hot blood nd do such bitter business as the day would quake to look on.”
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Shakspere
Hamlet
Company Fined for Adulterated Cider Sale
The Champagne Vineyard Brew Company Inc of 1 Washington Street was fined 50 dollars for adulterated cider and 50 dollars more for offering the product for sale. Officer George McCaffery testified in Central Court that the cider was made from water glucose saccharine and benzoit of soda and passed off as apple cider.
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Champagne Vineyard Brew Company, Inc
Washington Street
George MceCaffery
Mailing of income tax blanks to high earners begins
Income tax blanks for individuals earning over $4000 a year started yesterday at the Internal Revenue Office. The department expects full mailing within nine days, with six machines operating and overtime to prevent last minute crowds. A marriage exemption applies to those married before Dec 31, 1919.
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Internal Revenue Office
Leary
Income Tax Department
Office of Internal Revenue
Canadian Embargo on Newsprint Paper Shocks U S Papers
The State Department announced an embargo by Canada on all newsprint shipments to the United States from Fort Francis Company in western Ontario. American newspapers in the Midwest face about a 40 percent paper shortage due to the measure.
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Washington
Middle West
State Department
United States
Fort Francis Company
Ontario
Sheriff seeks opinion on day laws and whiskey sale
Sheriff King Graham of Portland requests Governor Milliken to seek an Attorney General opinion on whether federal law supersedes Maine prohibition. If affirmative, pharmacists could sell whiskey as medicine under federal rules, despite the state ban on beverage alcohol.
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Portland
King Graham
Milliken
Maine
Princeton Endowment Receives 30000 Gift for Memorial Fund
Edmund B. Seymour reports William L. McLean publisher of the Philadelphia Bulletin donated 30000 to Princeton University to establish the Warden McLean memorial scholarship fund. McLean, class of 1912, was killed on duty at Fort Oglethorpe Georgia on June 29 1917.
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Philadelphia
Edmund B. Seymour
Princeton Endowment Fund
William Ll. McLean
Philadelphia Bulletin
Princeton University
Warden McLean
Fort Oglethorpe
Child teeth risk and safe dental cream promotion
An advertisement warns that young children's teeth are soft and easily injured. It promotes Alhodon Dental Cream made from Albotroit calcium carbonate with antiseptic oils, claimed by experts and users to be superior and safe for women and children. a five week tube is available at drug stores.
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Sinn
Sir
Gies
Columbia College
Henry R. Kreider
Toledo University
Rochester Orphan Asylum
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National
Internal Revenue
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