Coal Ration Rules Tighten Boston Retail Dealers
Boston coal rules limit deliveries to government use water and sewer works utilities ship bunkers hospitals food plants homes and certain essential needs for 48 hours or a week for domestic customers. The order warns against over supply, urges department A approval for exceptions, and notes grave shortages threaten public services.
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Boston
United States
Department A
Bo&Ston Fuel Committee
Tremont Street
Boston Offices Face Shutdown as Coal Runs Low
Practically all large Boston office buildings are short of coal this morning with many nearing closure within one to three days. Cotting controls over 30 buildings including Kimball Beacon Tremont Old South Exchange and Paddock. supplies range from under two days to four days with several already at risk. Fuel oil may replace coal as a last resort.
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Boston
Charles E. Cotting
Kimball
Beacon
Tremont
Old South
The
Exchange
Paddock
Lawrence
Evans
Park
Bradlee
Publicity
Board of Trade
Ballard
Bromfield Street
Jewellers
Tremont Temple
Ricer
High Street
Crosby
Open Two Hours Branch Library Hours Reduced to Save Coal
City libraries cut hours to conserve coal with fourteen branches open only 6 to 7 p m and Codman Square Upham's Corner 3 to 5 p m. Reading and returning only, no in-library study allowed. Remaining sites stay at regular hours in non city-owned buildings.
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William F. Kenney
Kenney
F. Belden
Ellis
Brightons
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North End
South End
West End
Dorchester Lower Mills
Mattapan
Neponset
Boylston Station
Faneuil
Charlestown
Hyde Park
Roslindale
Codman Square
Upham’s Corner
South Boston
Mt. Bowdoin
Allston
Warren Street
Roxbury
Roxbury Crossing
Parker Hill
Orient Heights
Boston coal on hand falls short of reserve estimates
Boston officials report 43 459 tons of coal in the city with 23 615 tons anthracite and 7 438 tons screenings as of yesterday. They say a 150 000 to 200 000 ton reserve is needed to keep supply moving and note daily consumption of 8 000 to 10 000 tons.
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New England
Boston
James B. Noyes
Boston Fuel Committee
Noyes
City Library Hours Adjust To Conserve Coal
Library system keeps Dorchester and Curtis Hall branches open to provide light and heat. Main Copley Square library will stay open 9 am to 10 pm with extended Sunday hours and no service curtailment. Several branches including Andrews Square West Roxbury Mt. Pleasant Tyler Street and City Point remain closed indefinitely after coal shortage talks.
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Andrews Square
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Mt. Pleasant
Tyler Street
City Point
Ellis
Kenney
New England Faces Two Weeks Shutdown Amid Coal Shortage
The article reports dire New England coal shortages threatening two weeks of idle production as storms halt rail shipments. It cites government actions, misaligned priorities, and efforts by Secretary Wilson to forge a joint labor board to curb strikes and stabilize war production.
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New England
Bed Rock
May Draft to Call 1,000,000 Men Under New Classification
Provost Marshal General Crowder told a committee that the next draft may call one million men under a revised Class 1 basis. The bill would empower the President to draft men for special industrial or other work and authorize a new drawing to set the order of liability for new registrants. After assigning serial numbers, names would be placed into the appropriate classes under an evolving plan.
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Crowder
Labor Department to Be Reorganized Under Wilson Plan
A war labor administration was proposed in the Council of National Defence and approved by President Wilson. He put under Secretary Wilson's direction all government activities relating to labor problems.
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Wilson
Washington
War Labor Administration
Reorganized and Enlarged
Labor Department
Gramme
Council of National Defence
Five Boston Public Schools Closed Over Coal Shortage
Five Boston public schools were closed yesterday with 100 more expected to follow within a week if coal cannot be obtained. Relief from the clubs requested by the school committee appears futile as many clubs threaten closures without increased coal supplies.
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Boston
Keough
Coal appeals, Boston schools improvise amid shortages
The Thomas G. Plant Company offered coal to keep Lucretia Cracker and Lowell schools in Jamaica Plain open as 20 schools faced one day of supply. Authorities proposed three daily sessions in some buildings and moved students to alternative sites. Five schools were ordered closed including Dorchester High and Agassiz districts due to the deficit.
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Lucretia
Lowell
Jamaica Plain
Keough
Ellis
Boston Fuel Commission
Chestnut Avenue
Bowditch
Chestnut Avenue Yard
Dillaway
Dudley
Abby W. May
Nathan Hale
William Bacon
Louis Prang
Dorchester High
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Old Agassiz
Edward Everett
Savin Hill
Russian Peace Parleys Resume Amid Civil Strife
Reports say peace talks resume as Ukrainians vow continued struggle until victory. Proposals call for liquidating the bourgeois Ukrainian rule and forming a Socialist Rada from Kharkov. German forces pull back on the Russian front while Sweden may aid Finland amid civil war, and Petrograd faces typhus and smallpox outbreaks due to famine and unsanitary conditions.
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Ukraine
Rada
Kharkov
Nashy Vedomosty
Petrograd
London Times
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Sweden
Tornea
Stockholm
Norway
Denmark
Times
Bolsheviks Sever Ties With Romania Over Dispute
Soviet foreign minister Leon Trotsky announced due reprisals against Romania amid the revolution. The government will break diplomatic relations seize Romanian gold in Moscow and outlaw former commander General Stcherbatcheff. Trotsky cited a Romanian gold reserve of 1,200,000 roubles and said the fund custodian is under arrest. General Stcherbatcheff allegedly aided Romanians in disarming Russians in Romania and Bessarabia.
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Leon Trotzky
Congress of Workmen's and Soldiers’ Deputies
Petrograd
Rumania
Moscow
Stcherbatcheff
Trotzky
Bessarabia
Clubs May Close as Schools Shut Downover Fuel Shortage
The school committee warned that many Boston clubs could be forced to close in a few days if fuel remains unavailable, jeopardizing after school programs and community activities.
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Boston
Clubs Report Short Coal Stocks Amid Fuel Shortage
Members say larger clubs hold at most a week of coal and none have space for more than two weeks of supply. They dispute the idea that clubs have large inventories and note similar procurement difficulties as the public.
Storrow May Return to Boston if Mission Nears End
New England Fuel Administrator Storrow plans to return to Boston this afternoon if his Washington mission completes. He reported in a late night call to the Post that he will discuss the New England situation with Director McAdoo this morning.
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Washington
New England
Storrow
Boston
The
Post
McAdoo
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