Widener Gift to Harvard Funds Stevenson Library
Announcement reports the Widener family of Philadelphia will donate their Stevenson works to Harvard upon completion of the $2,000,000 Widener Memorial Library now under construction in Harvard Yard. The donation honors Harry Elkins Widener and expands Harvard’s literary collection through the Widener heirs.
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Widener
Philadelphia
Harvard University
Robert Louis Stevenson
Harry Elkins Widener
Harvard
Widener Gifts Bring Two Harvard Collections to Campus
The Widener family dedicates the Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library and the Stevenson collection to Harvard in memory of Harry Widener. The library, started last year in Harvard Yard, will be finished and dedicated during Commencement Week in June, with an expenditure of 5 300 000. The Stevenson letters include Pacific Letters from 1890 to 1894 and other correspondence, totaling 228 items.
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Memorial
Stevenson
Harvard
Widener
Harry Elkins Widener
Harvard Yard
P. A. B. Widener
George D. Widener
Sidney Colvin
University of Pennsylvania Student Shoots Self Near Merion Club
Wardwell Thornton Towneley a 22 year old architecture student at the University of Pennsylvania was found dead with a bullet wound near the Merion Cricket Club golf links. A revolver lay beside him and authorities ruled the death a self inflicted act. Towneley belonged to Psi Upsilon and participated in Mask and Wig. Earlier a Wharton sophomore Addison Hartley McCullough drowned in the Delaware River. coroner's jury returned an open verdict.
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Philadelphia
University of Pennsylvania
Wardwell
Thornton Towneley
Department of Architecture
Merion Cricket Club
Towneley
Delaware County
Psi Upsilon
Addison Hartley McCullough
Wharton School
Pittsburg
Delaware River
Goddard Cafeteria Company Faces Bankruptcy Filing
Creditors filed for bankruptcy in U S District Court alleging the Goddard Cafeteria Company violated the bankruptcy act by an alleged preference on or about October 29 to George T Cruft while insolvent.
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Goddard Cafeteria Company
United States District Court
George T. Cruft
Races 3000 Miles to Brookline
H G Nutt starts a transcontinental 3000 mile car race from Salt Lake City to Brookline while his car is attached to express trains. He aims to set a new cross country record and has arranged fast connections as he travels to be at his aged mother’s bedside.
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H. G. Nutt
Salt Lake Railroad
Brookline
Mr. Nutt
Nutt matriarch seeks son as health worsens in Brookline
Mrs Eva S Nutt of 86 Babcock street Brookline suffered a hip fracture after a fall and her age makes her condition seem critical. Her son, in Los Angeles, was asked to travel and railroad officials have aided the journey. The family and Dr Herbert J Moore deny imminent danger, saying the mother only wished to see her son.
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Eva S. Nutt
Babcock Street
Brookline
Los Angeles
California
Weld Park man hurled from sleigh near Jamaica Pond
John Doyle of Weld Park Jamaica Plain was thrown from his sleigh when the horse he drove bolted along the Parkway by Jamaica Pond. The frightened horse swerved onto the sidewalk near Pond Street, nearly trampling bystanders before a grocer in a passing cart stopped the runaway near Hyde Square.
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John Doyle
Weld Park
Jamaica Plain
Parkway
Jamaica Pond
Pond Street
Hyde Square
Funeral for Dorchester Matron Harriet McIntyre Tomorrow
The funeral for Harriet C. McIntyre former matron of the Dorchester police station will be held tomorrow afternoon from her home at 14 Charles Street Dorchester with services at Central Congregational Church at 2 o'clock. She devoted her life to the district, active in women's groups including the Rebekahs and the Women's Relief Corps. Survived by two sisters and husband James F. McIntyre past commander of Post 68.
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Harriet C. McIintyre
Dorchester
Charles Street
Central Congregational Church
McIntyre
Rebekahs
Women's Relief Corps
James F. McIntyre
Cas Eee
New Child Labor Law Attack Split in Massachusetts
The State Board of Labor and Industries report shows dissenter Channing Smith of Leicester argues the new child labor law overreaches while urging moderation in prosecutions. It cites 17 000 discharged children aged 14 to 16 since Sept 1 and notes reforms proposed on employer responsibility and workplace conditions.
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New State Board of Labor and Industries
Channing Smith
Leicester
Massachusetts
Natick House Seat Case Divides Committee
The committee reports on the Natick seat contest with William J. Naphen favored by four to three. Three Republicans and Representative Chandler vote to seat the Republican contestant. Democrats promise to press the case in the House.
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William J. Naphen
Natick
Committee On Elections
Representative Chandler
East Bridgewater
Naphen
Brennan
House
Three Gloucester Boys Admit Cottage Breaks
Three boys aged 45, 16 and 11 confessed to breaking into 40 or more summer cottages in Gloucester during autumn. They identified locations at River View, Pearce's Island, Annisquam, Winniahdin and Fernwood, including Governor Bates’s Annisquam cottage. Damage totaled about $2000. they face arraignment tomorrow.
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Gloucester
Riverview
Pearce’s Island
Annisquam
Winniahdin
Fernwood
John J. Bates
Charles F. McNeil
Thomas A. Warner
Thomas J. Walsh
McNeil
Miss Sacco Wins $150 On Second Trial
Miss Letteria Sacco of Billerica street was awarded $150 by a Suffolk jury before Judge Hitchcock in her suit for $2000 against Augustino D Arrigo of Genesse street for his failure to wed her. This was the second trial after a jury disagreed last October. Sacco said D Arrigo promised marriage in February 1912 and then disappeared when the time neared. D Arrigo admitted asking her to marry but said he could not provide a honeymoon trip to Italy.
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Letteria Sacco
Billerica Street
Suffolk
Hitchcock
Augustino D’arrigo
Genesse Street
Miss Sacco
D' Arrigo
D'Arrigo
Italy
Fire Department Promotes Two Engineers to Lieu tenant
Fire Commissioner Cole announced Rufus W. Clark from Engine 47 is promoted to lieutenant. Isaac B. Noble of Engine 11 is promoted to engineer under the veterans preference act. Noble, a Civil War veteran, was once a Libby prisoner. Clark begins duties at Engine 5 today, filling the vacancy from D W Towle who moves to Chemical 5 and J J Hartigan to Engine 2.
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Cole
Rufus W. Clark
Isaac B. Noble
Engineer Noble
Libby
Clark
Engine 5
D. W. Towle
Chemical
J. J. Hartigan
Hold Dance Hall Man For Barring Sailor
Frederick C. Woelfflen proprietor of a restaurant and dance hall was held in 500 bail for trial on charges of discrimination for refusing to allow Albert Mal on, a sailor from the battleship North Dakota, to dance in the establishment. Naval authorities back the prosecution.
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New York
Frederick C. Woelfflen
Iunece Hall
Albert Malin
North Dakota
Nitrogen from Air Considered for Labrador Fertilizer Project
Capitalists secure concession from the colonial government to use Grand Falls Labrador to extract atmospheric nitrogen for fertilizer. Plans envision 1,000,000 horsepower hydropower to drive the process and generate electricity for production.
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ST. Johns
N. F
Grand Falls
Labrador
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