Arsenal of dormitory to hold Harvard rifles
The basement of Smith Hall at Harvard will be turned into a depot for 1050 rifles for the Harvard Regiment this week. A rule bans members from keeping rifles in rooms, so a central storage area is established. A shipment arrival prompts the basement conversion in Cambridge. Burton J. Hendrick discusses income tax in the upcoming Sunday Post Magazine.
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Harvard
Cambridge
Smith Hall
Burton J. Hendrick
Next Sunday Post
Firemen Burn Up Old Contagious Hospital
Groups of Cambridge schoolboys watched the city burn the old contagious hospital on Reservoir street near Huron avenue yesterday noon. The 70 year old building, moved from Weaver street 30 years ago, had housed contagious patients until last July and was abandoned for the Homeopathic Hospital in Brighton before it was ordered burned by the City Council last month.
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Reservoir Street
Huron Avenue
Cambridge
Weaverweather Street
Homeopathic Hospital
Brighton
Mrs Curley Real Angler Returns From Miami Fishing Trip
Mrs James M. Curley photographed as she returns from a Miami fishing trip with two prize kingfish. Despatches to Boston report heavy catches and Mayor Curley later showed photographs of a 11 pound and a 9 pound kingfish to illustrate the feat.
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James M. Curley
Miami
Fla
Mayor Curley
College clubs unite for mutual booking plan
Destructive competition among college musical and dramatic groups nationwide will end through a mutual booking arrangement. Leading East Coast associations will form a conference with delegates from Harvard Club of New York Harvard Cornell Yale musical clubs Yale Dramatic Association and Princeton Triangle Club to meet March 11.
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United States
East
Harvard Club
New York
Harvard
Cornell
Yale
Yale Dramatic Association
Princeton Triangle Club
Progressives of Maine set April 25 convention in Bangor
Maine Progressives announce a state convention will be held in Bangor on April 25 to select delegates to the national Chicago convention on June 7 and presidential electors. Nomination papers for state officials are expected to be filed later.
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Portland
Maine
Bangor
Chicago
Banks Shifted From Hub Reserve District
Washington February 2 The Federal Reserve Board granted Fairfield county Connecticut banks to move from the Boston to the New York reserve district. Four other counties in the same area had appeals denied as the board aims to finish the clearing system development before ruling.
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Washington
Federal Reserve Board
Fairfield County
Conn
Boston
New York
Hood Attacks Massachusetts Dairies as Unsanitary
Charles H. Hood of Hood & Sons testified before Interstate Commerce Commission examiner George N. Brown that Massachusetts dairies are dirty and milk is substandard. He cited rotten barns and proposed reforms while blaming the Saunders act for higher costs and reduced Massachusetts milk supply in Boston.
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Boston
Charles H. Hood
H. P. Hood & Sons
George N. Brown
Interstate Commerce Commission
Federal Building
Hood
New England
John C. Orcutt
Boston Chamber of Commerce
Orcutt
Mr. Hood
State House
Maine
New Hampshire
Vermont
Mr. Orcutt
East Boston Doctor Weds in Worcester
Dr. James J. McDevitt, a leading East Boston physician, married Augusta Hanff Sargent of Worcester at the Church of the Most Blessed Sacrament. A large out‑of‑town turnout attended the nuptials with a Boston organist, a notable wedding party, and a post ceremony breakfast at the bride’s Lenox Street home.
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James J. McDevitt
Boston
Augusta Hanff Sargent
New York
Lenox Street
McDevitt
William W. Sanderson
Frank C. Wood
James A. Clark
James J. M'Devill
Church of the Blessed Sacrament
Boston Woman Charged as Accessory in Auburndale Burglary
Bertha Bonney, 32, of Roxbury, arrested for allegedly supplying the key and home plan for the Crane residence burglary at Auburndale. Albert Saunders and Frank Sidney pleaded guilty to burglary in Newton District Court and were held on 26,000 bonds. Miss Helen Crane and Miss Anna Farrington remain hospitalized with injuries described as not serious.
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Helen M. Crane
Anna M. Farrington
Bertha Bonney
Crane
Bonney
Albert Saunbers
Frank Sidney
Fromm Roxbury
Saunders
Sidney
Newton
Kennedy
East Cambridge
Farrington
Ratcliffe Burial Held in Elmira
The burial of William S. Ratcliffe president of the Thomas G. Plant Company Boston and president of the Boston Shoe Club took place here this forenoon in the presence of his family staff and many former associates from Elmira Rochester and nearby areas.
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Elmira
William S. Ratcliffe
Thomas G. Plant Company
Boston
Boston 360T and Shoe Club
Ratcliffe
Rochester
Advertising Men's Wear and Newspapers as a Prime Medium
W. Eb Weld argues newspapers are the best advertising medium for goods, especially menswear, citing four buyer stages attention interest desire and resolve to buy. He explains ad design must attract and hold attention across pages to reach men and women differently and lists four core appeals style quality price and service.
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W. Eb. Weld
Kennedy's
Vilgrim Publicity Association
Mr. Welch
United Irish League to Honor Emmett at Friday Meeting
The United Irish League of America Central Council plans a meeting at the New American House on Friday March 3 at 8 o clock. Dr I J McLaughlin president will preside and a large attendance is expected to honor the birth anniversary of Irish patriot Robert Emmett with a fine musical program and speeches by prominent speakers.
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Bostor
Central Council
United Irish League of America
New American House
I. J. McLaughlin
Brookline
Farge
Trish
Robert Mampett
Connecticut River Road Directors Meet in Springfield
A meeting of the Connecticut River railroad directors was held in Springfield to discuss the Boston and Maine reorganization plan. George R. Verrall and Richard J. Olney offered no details beyond noting that the plans were discussed.
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Springfield
Connecticut River Railroad
Boston & Maine
George R. Verrall
Richard J. Olney
Father John’s Medicine origin in Lowell apothecary
An old Merrimack Street drug store dating to 1827 preserves prescription books. The 1855 entry records Father John O’Brien receiving a medicine that later lent its name to the remedy. The account notes the medicine’s non opiate formula and its use for colds throat trouble and as a tonic.
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Lowell
Mass
Merrimack Street
Father John
John O’brien
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