Direct Vote Defeated in Senate Amid Direct Elections Debate
The Senate defeated a resolution to amend the Constitution to have Senators elected by direct popular vote. Supporters fought hard but the tally was 54 in favor and 33 against. Named proponents included Frye of Maine and Brandegee of Connecticut. Opponents included Lodge of Massachusetts and Aldrich of Rhode Island was absent.
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Washington
Senate
Gallinger
New Hampshire
Yeas
Baileys
Beveridge
Borah
Bourne
Bradley
Briggs
Bristow
Brown
Burkett
Burton
Carter
Chamberlain
Clapp
Clark
Wyo
Clarke
Ark
Culberson
Cullom
Cummins
Curtis
Davis
Dixon
Dupont
Frye
Gamble
Gore
Grenna
Gugsenheim
Jones
Lafollette
McCumber
Martin
Nelson
Newlands
Nixon
Overman
Owen
Paynter
Perkins
Piles
Rayner
Shively
Simmons
Smith
Mich
S. D
Stephenson
Stone
Sutherland
Swanson
Taylor
Thornton
Warner
Watson
Young
Nays
Bacon
Bankhead
Brandegee
Bulkeley
Burnham
Burrows
Crane
Depew
Dillingham
Fletcher
Funt
Foster
Hale
Heyburn
Johnston
Kean
Lodge
Lorimer
Money
Oliver
Page
Penrose
Percy
Richardson
Root
Scott
Smoot
Taliaferro
Tillman
Warren
Wetmore
Aldrich
Crawford
Frazier
Terrell
Georgia
Senate Divisions on Popular Elections Narrow Vote
The division showed broad Senate support for popular elections but fell short by four votes of the two thirds needed, leaving the measure short of success.
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Senate
Senate rolls against federal election supervision measure
The Senate rejected a Bacon amendment to limit federal election supervision to states where legislatures failed to set rules. Gallinger briefly switched to aye causing surprise before voting nay. Borah, despite disappointment, praised the result and predicted reintroduction in the next Congress with likely passage.
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Bacon
Congress
Georgia
Sherman
Fire Captain Seeks Divorce in Cambridge Case
Captain William F. Newman of the Cambridge fire department seeks a divorce from Anna B. Newman in East Cambridge Court. He accuses her of continual infidelity with a man named Mike Daly at a hotel in Boston and Portland. The suit is a second libel. a previous hearing was dismissed.
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William F. Newman
Cambridge Fire Department
Anna B. Newman
Quinn
East Cambridge
Mike Daly
Portland
Newman
Bond
Captain Newman
Conan Doyle returns with The Iconoclast in Sunday issue
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle has another fine story in next Sunday's Sunday Post Magazine. The Iconoclast appears following The Contest and continues the author’s proven fiction quality.
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Arthur Conan Doyle
Sunday Post
New Surveyor of the Port of Boston Named
Edward G. Graves was named by the President as successor to Jeremiah J. McCarthy as surveyor of the port. The first individual portrait was taken yesterday by the Post photographer after Graves agreed to sit for the image.
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Edward G. Graves
Jeremiah J. McCarthy
Graves
Post
Busoni Night Stuns Chickering Hall With Masterful Fraud of Virtuosity
Ferruccio Busoni, famed pianist, delivered a monumental concert in Chickering Hall playing Chopin and Liszt. Critics praised his authority and technique but found his Chopin interpretations lacking the flowers of the music. Four Liszt etudes were performed with towering but hollow display as the audience roared with awe.
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Ferruccio Busoni
Chickering Hall
Chopin
Liszt
Schumann
Busoni
Mazeppa
Busonis
Teacher Bride of Ex Mayor Weds in Somerville Church
Miss Mabel E. White longtime New York High School teacher married Enos K. Sawyer former mayor of Franklin New Hampshire at Winter Hill Universalist Church Somerville Rev Francis A Gray officiated Bride a graduate of Edgerly School English High School Boston Normal Art School. Sawyer mayor in 1909 1910 and now in grocery business The couple met at Lake Webster bridesmaid Ruby S White best man George B Sawyer ushers Herbert H Howard Robert Leach Edward J McMahon Augustus N Parry.
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Mabel E. White
New York
Winter Hill Universalist
Somerville
Enos K. Sawyer
Franklin
N. H
Francis A. Gray
Edgerly School
Boston Normal Art School
New York High School
Sawyer
Lake Webster
Ruby S. White
George B. Sawyer
Herbert H. Howard
Robert Leach
Taunton
Edward J.mcmahon
Nashua
Augustus N. Parry
Amesbury
Arbitration panel named to settle taxi strike
Edmund Billings of the Paul Revere Trust Company was chosen as chairman of the three member arbitration committee. He and Howland Twombley for the Boston Taxi Service Company plus Frank H. McCarthy of the American Federation of Labor will hear the dispute. The drivers pledge to accept the panel’s decision.
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Edmund Billings
Paul Revere Trust Company
Billings
Boston Taxi Service Company
Howland Twombley
Frank H. McCarthy
New Enggland
American Fedration of Labor
Boston Central Labor Union
Robbers hold up express car on mountain railway
In St. Louis on February 28 two armed men halted an express train car on the Ir Mountain line within city limits. They bound and gagged messenger M. M. McRobbins and escaped with several packages and the money box after removing it from the safe. Authorities pursue leads.
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M. M. McRobbins
ST. Louis
Tiwo Ann
Monis Poised to Form Cabinet as France’s Premier
Paris Feb 28 Antoine Emmanuel Ernést Monis appears ready to succeed Briand as premier though he delays a formal answer to President Falfiere. Monis will consult trusted friends before confirming, and the talks suggest he will accept the challenging duty.
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Paris
Antoine Emmanuel Ernést Monis
M. Briand
Falfiere
M. Monis
Monis to Form New French Ministry Amid Political Deals
Monis works to assemble a broad republican and radical socialist backed cabinet. He meets Briand and Delcasse and announces Delcasse as marine minister and Berteaux as war minister. He plans to offer Quillaux finance and Cruppi justice, with Ribot or Poincare as foreign minister options.
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Delcasse
Marine
M. Berteaux
M. Monis
M. Quillaux
Senate
M. Cruppi
M. Pichon
M. Ribot
Foreign Office
Ribot
M. Poincare
Robert Bacon
M. Briand
Fire Totals Unoccupied South Boston Tenement
A mysterious origin fire gutted the two story vacant tenement at 2 Coolidge Place South Boston last evening. The structure owned by Harrison and Cohen had been recently renovated and workers were seen there. Damage estimated at $800. Additionally the Sunday Post previews its new comics Hairbreadth Harry and Mrs Rummage for next Sunday.
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Coolidge Place
Boston
Harrison & Cohen
Harry
Connor Gives $15000 to Boston Employees in Profit Share
John T. Connor grocer distributed $15000 in bank deposits to 176 of his 450 workers across 96 Boston stores at Corinthian Hall. The profit sharing, devised by Louis Brandeis, boosted profits and urged employees to save. Brandeis assistants spoke as executives announced the year’s gains and charitable fund contributions.
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John T. Connor
Greater Boston
Corinthian Hall
Louis D. Brandeis
Boston
Connor
Ele
John T. Connor Associates
John T. Connor Company
William Filene Sons Company
South Boston
Connor Company
Louis Brandeis
Alice Brady
H. H. Kimball
John E. Galligan
John M. O'Connell
John Robinson
Nicholas Molloy
Cornelius Salmon
Edwin Higgins
Leonard Williard
John J. McCathy
George Maloney
Joseph Bernard
Remington Sentenced for Murder in Harrison Avenue Shop
William R. Remington, convicted of killing Max Sorokien in a Harrison avenue shop last July, was sentenced to 12 to 15 years at hard labor in the State Prison. He showed little emotion as Judge Jenney imposed the term.
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William R. Remington
Max Sorokien
Harrison Avenue
Remington
Jenney
Roberts to Succeed Corey on Steel Board
Percival Roberts, director of United States Steel, is elected to the finance committee, replacing William E. Corey whose term as director ends in April. Roberts has been a long-time associate of the company, previously serving as director and executive committee member since 1902 with ties to the American Bridge Company.
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New York
Percival Roberts
United States Steel Corporation
William E. Corey
Corey
Roberts
American Bridge Company
Steel Corporation
Ships Start 7000 Mile Race From Boston Harbor
Two Norwegian square riggers, the Lofte and the Kylemore, set sail from Boston for Buenos Ayres in a 7000 mile race watched for rare sail power. Both crews wager heavy sums on victory as Captain Holton and Captain Magnusdal plan to outmaneuver each other. Voyage is expected to take at least two months.
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South America
Buenos Ayres
Boston Harbor
Here
River Plate
Kylemore
Sofie
Holton
Magnusdal
Bernhardt Tablet Donor Gift For Suzanna Ringer
Saran Bernhardt ordered a memorial silver tablet to honor Suzanna Ringer of the Sarah Bernhardt American Tour who died Feb 9 in Boston after arriving recently from Pittsburg. The 9 by 12 inch plate features a palm leaf design and inscriptions noting the tour date.
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Pittsburg
Saran Bernhardt
Suzanna Ringer
Boston
Sarah Bernhardt
Portrait of Dr Arthur I Fiske Hangs at Boston Latin School
A portrait of the late Arthur I. Fiske, longtime headmaster and former classical department head at Boston Latin School, is hung in the school hall without ceremony. The portrait, by Harry Lockwood, was presented by the Boston Latin School Association just before Fiske's death.
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Arthur I. Fiské
Boston Latin School
Harry Lockwood
Dr. Fiske
America
Washington
Moses Merrill
Boston Latin School Association
Mr. Lockwood
Mr. Fiske
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