Endurance wrecked at Yarmouth. Shackleton crew lost
The exploration ship Endurance, once the Nimrod, dashed to pieces on the sands off Yarmouth. Ten of the twelve crew perished. The Nimrod was purchased by Lt. Shackleton in 1907, renamed Endurance, and sailed to the southern seas reaching near the South Pole.
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Yarmouth
England
Endurance
Ernest Shackleton
Antarctic
France
Shackleton
London
New Zealand
Shackle
South Pole
Aliens Seek Home Permits After War End
After armistice, the Custom House issued over 4000 permits for aliens to visit their homelands. Italians face arrests for evading military service, Germans and Finns await Washington decisions, and unsettled conditions delay some returns.
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Custom House
Italy
Austria
Germany
Washington
Finland
Caproni Biplane Flies 300 Miles in Four and a Half Hours
A Caproni biplane carrying 10 passengers flew from Milan to Rome today, covering about 300 miles in four and one half hours.
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Rome
Caproni
Milan
Holy Cross Scout Becomes Senior Chaplain of Third Army Corps
The Rev. George A. Connor of Holy Cross College aged 24 has been promoted to senior chaplain of the Third Army Corps overseas. He served with the Second Massachusetts during the Mexican expedition and joined WWI service when it began. The role covers about 80 000 men across the corps including three divisions. Connor is from Holyoke and part of Bishop Beaven's Springfield diocese, having graduated from Holyoke High School in 1908 and Holy Cross College in 1907.
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Holy Cross College
George A. Connor
Third Army Corps
Mt. St. James
Worcester
Father Connor
Second Massachusetts Regiment
Colonel Hayes
Holyoke
Bishop Beaven
Springfield
Holoke High School
George 8. L. Connor
Well known banker for state treasurer candidate
Brigadier General Frederick E. Pierce, a former Massachusetts state guard commander and veteran, seeks the Republican nomination for state treasurer to succeed Charles L. Burrill. He has served four years in the House on Ways and Means, chairs the military committee, sits on banks and banking, and is linked to Greenfield banks. He is viewed as a statewide asset due to broad acquaintance and prior banking ties.
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Frederick E. Pierce Greenfield
Massachusetts State Guard
Massachuts
House of Repesentatives
State Venturer
Charles L. Burrill
Pierce
House
Committee On Ways and
Senate
Franklin County
Dana Malone
Jousey
First National Bank of
Greenfield
War Risk Insurance Bureau clears back checks
Washington January 30 All allotment and allowance checks due in January covering December and completing November allotments have been mailed by the War Risk Insurance Bureau Director Lindsley announced. By night shifts and stamping checks two months of delay were cleared and January saw 2 909 000 checks totaling 52 190 000 dollars distributed along with 40 000 applications for soldiers or sailors insurance aggregating 356 000 000 dollars received in January.
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Washington
War Risk Insurance Bureau
Lindsley
Bureau
City Car Theft Claims Dr Arthur White Demands Reimbursement
Finance Commission urges Boston Mayor Peters to have Dr Arthur J White superintendent of the Consumptives Hospital repay the city for a Buick touring car stolen from Exeter street in front of the Boston Athletic Association on the night of December 12. The commission notes White parked the car at 730 pm and claims it was unattended until 1230 am and that use of the car at those hours was outside hospital business.
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Peters
Finance Commission
Arthur J. White
Consumptives’ Hospital
Boston Athletic Association
White
Back Bay
Exeter Street
City of Boston Consumptives’ Hospital
Mulligan
City Car Theft Report Targets Dr White and Auto Elimination
The finance commission faults Dr White for a stolen city car valued at 1887 after he drove Trustee Kearns home from a board meeting. It says White should reimburse the city and urges removing the superintendent’s car from equipment, noting purchases now come through the municipal supply department and the hospital-convalescent home setup in Dorchester.
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White
Finance Commission
Nance Commission
Boston Athletic Association
Thomas A. Kearns
Board of Trustees
Dr. White
City Hospital
Dorchester
Night workers to have smoking car on early trains
Boston night workers including many newspaper men from Winthrop will get a smoking car on the early morning Boston Revere Beach and Lynn trains. Melvin O Adams, president of the road, authorized the addition after a winter season with only one car on the Winthrop branch boat trains. A petition to President Adams led to the change.
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Boston
Winthrop
Boston, Revere Beach & Lynn
Melvin O. Adams
Adams
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Hawley Streets
Manhattan
Rice & Hutchins
Goodyear
3D Army Corps
Fr. Connor
Holy Cross
Insurance Bureau
Fin. Com
Golden Ri
Pine
Wim. Elliott
John Alden
Campbell's
Sheban Delivery
United Stores Food Act
Union St. Serer Eimst
Canal St. “Siare
Summer St
Washington 4A
Tremont St
Bromfield St
Tremont
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