Pershing on Maine Tour Ends Day One at City Hall
General Pershing wrapped up the first day of a three day auto tour of Maine with a City Hall address in Lewiston. Governor Milliken and Mayor Lemaire extended welcomes. He spoke at Bowdoin College in Brunswick and at Lisbon Falls Lisbon Centre and Lisbon. He addressed Bates College students in Auburn and attended a Chamber of Commerce banquet before heading to Augusta.
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General Pershing
Bates College
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Chamber of Commerce
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Bates
Pershing
Augusta
Housing shortage in Hyde Park hampers plant staff
Two plant superintendents told the City Planning Board yesterday that acute housing shortage in Hyde Park creates difficulties in securing employees as workers cannot find homes.
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Hiyde Park
City Planning Board
Gompers Denounces Mexico War Threat in Senate Report
Samuel Gompers, AFL president, denounces the Fall committee report on Mexico as a pro war document. He warns it would push the United States to intervene militarily unless Mexico rewrites its constitution to suit American oil and mining interests. The statement asserts the plan would police the country and likely trigger war, opposing the Senate recommendation.
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Samuel Gompers
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Mexico
Senate
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Gompers
Fall
Republic of Mexico
City of
Senator Fall
Republic
Falls
Mexico Aid Report Sparks Public Opposition
The report urges American aid to Mexico and acceptance of terms, but critics call it a Prussian proposition and insist it be rejected by popular opinion and fair judgment of the people. They state the plan is not an American initiative.
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Mexico
Supreme Court backs Legislature in bridge cost shift
The Supreme Court in an opinion to the Senate held the Legislature may alter the 1915 apportionment of the Connecticut River bridge cost. The split previously charged Hampden County Springfield Holyoke West Springfield Westfield and Agawam may be changed to relieve Holyoke and Westfield shifting shares to Springfield and West Springfield.
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Supreme Court
Connecticut River
Springfield
West Springfield
Hampden
Holyoke
Westfield
Agawam
Millet Bust Presented to Harvard at Widener Library
A bronze bust honoring Francisco Davis Millet, 67, muralist and newspaper writer who died in the Titanic disaster, was presented yesterday afternoon to Harvard University by his family, to stand in the Widener Library in Cambridge.
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Francis David Millet
Harvard University
Peabody Unveils Bronze Bust of University Figure
8S. G. Peabody, 61, presented the piece and President Lowell accepted it for the university. The bronze bust by Albert Polsek of Chicago was completed recently in Rome and will be placed at the Widener Memorial Library near the main reading room entrance.
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Lowell
Albert Polsek
Chicago
Rome
Italy
Widener Memorial Library
Massachusetts Advances Coal Administrator Bill
The bill to appoint a coal administrator for Massachusetts with power to seize and distribute coal in emergencies passed all stages under suspension of rules and was sent to the Governor.
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Massachusetts
Today’s City Events Schedule Highlights
At 10 a m a business session of the National Editorial Association meets at the Public Library and Republican women hold a Tremont Temple conference in Chipman Hall. Also at 2 p m the President's Club meets at Hotel Vendome and harbor delegates attend the National Editorial convention while Huntington School holds commencement. Dr Edgar J Helms reception at Church of All Nations at 3 p m with Mas sachusetts Electric Medical Society meeting at Quincy House, and a 6 30 p m lecture The Man Who Wins at the Y M C A lobby. Evening observances mark Dr Myers birthday at Tremont Converse Hall.
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Huntington Avenue
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Church of All Nations
Massachusetts Electric Medical Society
Quincy House
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Converse
Lecture by Eunice Avery at Business Women's Club
At 7:30 p.m. Eunice Avery will give a lecture for the Business Women's Club located at 144 Bowdoin Street.
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Business Women’s Club
Bowdoin Street
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