British Women in the Dance Celebrates First Annual Concert
The Woman's Auxiliary to the British Charitable Society held its first annual concert and dance in Howe Hall on Huntington Avenue. Nearly 200 couples attended as guests included British officials. The event featured the Star Spangled Banner, an address on charitable work, and the auxiliary reported $141 given to aid immigrants in eight months with additional funds spent since.
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Woman's Auxiliary
British Charitable Society
British Isles
Howe Wfall
Huntington Avenue
Naval and Military Veterans’ Association
Boston
William Wyndam
W. A. W. Woodhouse
J. T. Masters
A.W. Jones
J. A. Smith
British Veterans
Edward €. Thompson
Auxiliary
James Humphrey
lWenry Buckle
J. W. Smith
Evelyn Stark
E. C. Thompson
F. C. de Sumichrast
Henry Buckle
A. TD. Perrin
T. Townsend Stokes
John W. Smith
Alfred Algar
G. Duthie Strachan
Alfred
Tech merger plan ended at Harvard alliance collapse
President Pritchett reports the alliance with Harvard has been dismissed and Technology will develop on its own property. After votes by the corporation, faculty, and graduates against the plan, a Supreme Court ruling barred disposing of Boylston street land, forcing occupancy of the present site for 25 years and prompting a need for nearby land. He notes enrollment falls from higher tuition, with distant students rising, and calls the athletic situation sane and normal.
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Chinese Imperial Commission Greets Roosevelt on New Year
The Chinese Imperial Commission visiting Washington was formally received by President Roosevelt at the White House on Chinese New Year. Lead figures Tai Wang Chi and Tuan Tang, governor of Hunan, came with their suite, along with Chentung Liang Cheng the Chinese minister, Charles Denby, and Professor Jeremiah W. Jenks representing the State Department. The party wore figured silks.
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Washington
China
Imperial Commission
Roosevelt
White House
Tai Wang Chi
Tuan Tang
Hunan
Chentung Liang Cheng
Charles Denby
Jeremiah W. Jenks
Cornell University
State Department
Mrs Spooner Urges Abolition of Death Penalty in Massachusetts
Mrs Elizabeth Spooner president of the Anti Death Penalty League testified before a legislative judiciary committee urging bills to abolish the death penalty in Massachusetts The Mitchell bill seeks abolition in cases based on circumstantial evidence and adds a referendum for total abolition Support comes from many speakers while Eben Bumstead cites Mosaic law and biblical arguments as opposition William F Mitchell argues Mosaic penalties were narrowed to murder and treason with many doubting the Tucker case and urging removal of that doubt Mary Rogers case is cited as a risk without abolition William R Henry warns Massachusetts faces similar risks if the penalty remains
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Elizabeth Spooner
Legislative Committee On the Judiciary
Massachusetts
Spooner
Beacon Hill
Mitchell
Eben Bumstead
Civic Committee
Mrs. Spooner
William F. Mitchell
Navy yard cuts 280 men at Charles Town
Washington reports a Navy Department order reducing yard forces will reduce 280 workers at Charles Town. The move follows broader staff cuts announced yesterday affecting several yards and facilities nationwide.
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Navy Yard
Washington
Navy Department
Charlestown
Senate panel backs 50,000 Auburn Me appropriation
The Senate committee on public buildings and grounds today agreed to report favorably no bill making an appropriation of 50,000 for Auburn Maine.
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Washington
Senate Committee On Public Buildings and Grounds
Auburn
Think Heiress Lured Away by Kidnappers in New York
Sybil Frances Koeller an 18 year old who recently became an heiress is missing after leaving her home for a walk. Parents and police fear kidnapping. She worked as a saleswoman on Sixth Avenue and had been notified by cable from Germany that she inherited a valuable estate.
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New York
Sybil Frances Koeller
Sixth Avenue
Cable
Germany
Sybil
Would Evict Her Mother From Holmes Avenue Home
In Brighton court Mrs Abbie S Ames sues her daughter, wife of Dr Michael Chirurg, over eviction from a Holmes avenue house sold to Frank Raymond. Ames seeks life use rights while daughter asserts only one room for storage. Judge Barnard reserved decision amid tense, unresolved confrontation.
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Brighton
Abbie Ss. Ames
Holmes Avenue
Michael Chirurg
Ames
Frank Raymond
Barnard
Exodus Begins From Melrose Amid Fare Hikes
Melrose reports rising Boston Northern rail fares cut commute and push families from the city. Merchants complain of dull business as Ex-Representative John G. Robinson recalls a laborer who overpaid for a house by $150 over assessed value and now struggles with increased travel costs.
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Melrose
Boston & Northern Railroad
Boston
John G. Robinson
Boston Daily
Chamber of Commerce Favors Against Municipal Lighting Plant
The Boston Chamber of Commerce directors adopted a resolution declaring that establishing a municipal lighting plant would be most inexpedient and risky for the city's citizens and taxpayers under present conditions.
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Chamber OF Commerce
Boston Chamber of Commerce
Taunton Mayor-elect Tracy rose from bootblack to lawyer
Taunton Mass. mayor-elect Tracy began life as a bootblack and built a self-educated legal practice earning about $12 000 annually. Yonkers Statesman notes the unlikely ascent with a wry aside about starting at the foot.
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Tracy
Taunton
Mass
Sybert
Yonkers Statesman
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