Freight car bottlenecks suspend New England shipments
Manufacturers warn New England faces a grave economic squeeze as rail freight car unloading delays waste time and block thousands of tons of finished goods from moving to markets. They cannot secure enough empty cars to forward products to destinations.
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Pennsylvania
Philadelphia & Reading
Boston & Maine Road
Maine Central Railroad
Boston & Maine
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Boston
Maine
Aroostook County
Hudson River
New Brunswick
Rail car backlog prompts plea to speed unloading
Industries statewide face stoppages as snow storms and damaged rails curb freight flow. Cars must be unloaded 50 percent faster to free space, ease shortages of raw materials and prevent factory shutdowns risking breadwinners’ jobs.
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New Haven Railroad
Boston & Maine
Bay State Democrats Propose Women’s Alternate Delegates
Springfield March 12 The Democratic State committee chaired by Michael A. O Leary announced a slate of four women for alternate delegates at large to the national convention in San Francisco. The women named are Susan W FitzGerald Mary Keegan Shuman Mary A Carson and John M Thayer. The committee will back those chosen, though it said women will select among themselves.
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Michael A. O’leary
Democratic State Committee
San Francisco
Susan W. FitzGerald
Mary Keegan Shuman
Mary A. Carson
Pittsfield
John M. Thayer
Worcester
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Money Market and Exchange Rates Overview
Inside brokers quote 8 percent on quick call loans and 8 percent on customers loans. Individual collateral loans run 6 percent, commercial loans 6 to 7 percent. Commercial paper yields 6 3 to 7 percent. Year money 6 to 7 percent. Foreign exchange rates are listed.
Legislature Faces Possible Deadlock Over Beer Wine Laws
A potential clash between Senate and House rules committees over asking the Massachusetts Supreme Court for an opinion risks delaying bills to permit sale of 2.75 and 4 percent beer and light wines. The impasse could complicate timely consideration of the liquor measures by the Legislature.
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Scituate
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Deep dyed plot alleged in Nickerson divorce case
Mrs Mary Nickerson testifies in East Cambridge court that her husband Herbert Nickerson orchestrated a deception to secure a decree nisi. She recounts prior marriages, contested witnesses, and her alleged coercion to testify, with details of meetings and joint disclosures surrounding the 1919 decree.
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Somerville
Herbert P. Nickerson
Raymond
East Cambridge
Nickerson
William Hird
Hird
Christian Science Editors Resign Over Publication Controversy
Editors William P. McKenzie and Mrs. Hoag resign amid a dispute with the Christian Science Publishing Society trustees over printing two letters tied to a court controversy. Secretary Elisha B. Seely also resigns, after a clash that led to mass subscription cancellations nationwide.
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Cambridge Subway Cost Reported At 7 868 000
Public utilities department released figures showing the Cambridge subway and bridge costs totaling 7 868 000 dollars. The Cambridge subway purchase act limits the state price to not exceed 8 000 000 dollars as certified by the department.
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Cambridge
Cambridge Bridge
Public Utilities Department
Fuller Urges Separate Construction Corps In Army Bill
Congressman Fuller urged keeping a distinct construction corps separate from the quartermaster general in the army bill. He argued wartime lessons show a dedicated War Department field should be under a distinct organization to avoid past consolidation.
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Washington
House of Representatives
Congressman Fuller
Fuller
War Department
Colleges to Send Men to Artillery Officers' School
Harvard, Technology, Dartmouth and other New England colleges will send students to the artillery reserve officers training school for a six weeks course at Camp Knox Kentucky beginning June 17. The Northeastern Department yesterday announced to all New England universities the student candidates eligible for the entrance examination.
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New England
Artillery Reserve Officers’ Training School
Camp Knox
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Northeastern
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Senators pressed to restore commercial agent service funds
Representatives from several business groups urged the Senate appropriations committee to restore the $1,650,000 line item for the Commerce Department commercial agent service. They argued the service aids American exporters and would curb export volumes and manufacturing if curtailed.
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Washington
Senate Appropriations Committee
Department of Commerce
House
Miss Yvonne Gall in Central Park Taxi Crash
French soprano Miss Yvonne Gall of the Chicago Opera Company suffered a possible skull fracture after a collision of two taxicabs in Central Park. She was taken to Flower Hospital in serious condition. Otto Vieler, driver of the other cab, was arrested on reckless driving charges.
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New York
Yvonne Gall
Chicago Opera Company
Central Park
Flower Hospital
Otto Vieler
Prohibition Drives Emigration From United States
New York March 12 Prohibition is causing many foreign born to leave the United States with emigration exceeding immigration. Congressman Isaac Siegel says records show 56 000 immigrants since January 1 and 61 000 people departed, many returning to Poland and Czecho Slova kia to stay.
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New York
United States
Isaac Siegel
House Immigration Committee
Fills Island
Poland
Czecho-Slovakia
Weymouth Street Car Service to End in Seven Days
Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway Company announces cessation of all street car service in Weymouth within seven days. Notices will be posted today on two operating lines from East Weymouth to Brain Tree depot and Lincoln Square to Stetson Shoe Factory.
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Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway Company
East Weymouth
Braintree
Lincoln Square
Stetson Shoe Factory
Quincy to East Weymouth Railroad Plans Car Service Cut
The line from Quincy to East Weymouth will operate only from Quincy, with the East Weymouth car barn to close. Over 100 motormen and conductors will lose their jobs as warehouse officials consider shut down. Weymouth officials tied financial support to sustaining Weymouth lines and jitney regulations were revoked by Weymouth town leaders after the request.
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Quincy
East Weymouth
Musicians Strike Affects Boston Symphony Orchestra
Joseph N. Webber arrives from New York to lead the strike by 32 Boston Symphony players who were discharged last Tuesday. Union pressure aims to unite 40 strikebreakers and form a rival ensemble with support from the stage employees and local patrons, as a benefit concert planned for March 21 at the Colonial Theatre and a potential concert tour in New England emerge.
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American Federation of Musicians
New York
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Webber
Symphony Players
Colonial Theatre
Back Bay
New England
Tufts Ends Paddle used on Freshmen at East Hall
Tufts Acting President Cousens orders honorary societies to drop paddling and use gentler discipline for freshmen. The move follows Maine students pouring molasses and feathers on rulebreakers, and calls for public acts like freshmen singing ballads outside Ballou Hall.
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Tufts College
Cousens
Tufts
University of Maine
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Jackson College
Boston Pencil Pointer Company Loses Suit
A jury in United States District Court awarded Automatic Pencil Sharpener Company of Chicago and New York $16,670 in a $100,000 infringement suit against Boston Pencil Pointer Company of Waltham. The trial lasted a month with many exceptions and the case will go to the Court of Appeals on the law.
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Automatic
Chicago
New York
Boston
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Seaver’s Double Life Exposed by Death
Two sons at the Seaver home in Newton Highlands. Seaver, instead of having just met the Crocker woman recently, it developed, had known her for several years.
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Newton Highlands
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Massachusetts Avenue
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Boston
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Miss Crocker
Miss Allen
Alexander
Double life tragedy shocks Boston wife and friends
A Boston wife of about 43 refuses to believe her husband Seaver deceived her despite investigations showing a long affair with Mary Crocker. Seaver and Crocker died in Miami after a secret life, while his sister Mrs Bean accompanied the body home.
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Brookline
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Copeland Street
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Protest Sparks Citywide Action Over Mayors Tax Plan
Boston residents from all sectors protested yesterday after Mayor Andrew J. Peters announced new tax measures. Demonstrations surged across key neighborhoods and city districts as tensions rose over fiscal policy and public services funding.
Boston Real Estate Groups Fight Tax Levy Plan
After Mayor Peters announced a strict tax collection push the United Improvement Association and many real estate groups pledged to oppose the plan. Raymond P. Delano urged court challenges to the $5 poll tax while the mayor warned all taxes must be paid by May 1, 1920 or properties will be sold to settle the 1919 liabilities. Delano called Peters a tax lien shark but pledged broad citizen protest as Deland noted state tax transfers will bring about $600,000 for the city in October.
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United Improvement Association
Raymond P. Delano
Upham's Corner
Boston
Delano
Deland
Foch Denies Opposition to League of Nations
Marshal Foch, through the French embassy, today denied reports published in this country claiming he opposed the League of Nations. The denial comes via a special Paris dispatch circulated in Washington on March 12.
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Marshal Foch
Paris
Marshal Opposed League of Nations Dispatches Say
Dispatches report the marshal expressed opposition to the League of Nations policy. The note highlights friction between military leadership and international cooperation as tensions rise.
McAdoo Seeks Open Combat in Michigan Primary
William G McAdoo asks Michigan Democratic electors to endorse him for president and promises to release delegates from bound obligations if endorsed He notes Michigan law prevents withdrawal from the April 6 1920 primary and urges uninstructed delegates to enter the national convention in San Francisco without bound commitments.
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New York
William G. McAdoo
Coleman
Vaughn
Michigan
McAdoo
San Francisco
Countess in De Valera’s House Raid Fails
Police raid the residence of Mrs. Eamon De Valera seeking Countess Markievicz the Sinn Fein MP for St Patrick's Dublin. They miss the target after mistaking a London cousin for the countess in disguise.
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Publin
Eamon de Valera
Sinn Fein
Markievicz
St. Patrick’s
Dublin
Countess Markievicz Sentenced Over Cork May Disorders
Countess Markievicz received a four month imprisonment in June last year on charges linked to Cork disorders in May inciting tradesmen to boycott police and taking part in an unlawful assembly. She was released in October and has not taken her seat in Parliament. No new charges have appeared in late Irish situation advices.
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Countess Markievicz
Cork
Sinn Fein
Ireland
Father John’s Medicine Ad Promises Cure for Coughs
An advertisement urges readers with long lasting coughs or colds to try Father John’s Medicine. It claims the tonic strengthens resistance, soothes breathing passages, and rebuilds strength, noting it is alcohol and drug free and safe for all family members.
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