Had Jewelry Before Death in Hotel Inquest
Testifying at a coroner inquest into the murder of Mrs. Elsie Lee Hilair in a New York hotel, a bell boy said her hands were ringed when he escorted her to her room under the name Florence Gray Boston, but the jewelry later disappeared. He reported seeing no one with her as the body was found and wine glasses were upset on a tray. the inquest was adjourned to Wednesday.
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New York
Elsie Lee Hilair
Weday
Harvard doubles private police force and closes four museums
Harvard's private police force was doubled with eight new officers under Captain John Connolly. The additional guards will protect entrances to four university museums, restricting access to Harvard students only as a precaution yesterday.
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Harvard
John Connolly
Harvard Museum Closures and Security Tightening
Harvard officials tightened security as Boston authorities advised safeguards for public buildings. Several museums including University Museum and Agassiz, Fogg Art, Semitic, and Peabody are closed to the public. Plainclothes guards check entrants and two Harvard police patrol President Lowell’s vicinity. Extra dormitory watch, border bridge surveillance, and training drills moved outdoors. Officials deny plans to drop German courses even if war with Germany occurs.
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University
Boston
Harvard
University Museum
Agassiz Museum
Fogg Art Museum
Semitic
Peabody Museum
Lowell
College Yard
Charles River
Cambridge
New Bedford Church Damaged by Fire
A smouldering candle caused a fire at the Church of the Immaculate Conception in New Bedford. The blaze occurred near the shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes. church curates reported the statue was unharmed.
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New Bedford
Our Lady of Lourdes
Whittier Old Home to Be Sold Sparks Effort to Save Relics
Amesbury March 26 John Greenleaf Whittier's old Amesbury home, famed as a shrine of Whittier land, is to be sold. The Whittier Home Association plans to buy the house to preserve manuscripts and relics, while New York collectors have offered for the items. A meeting will be held to decide on keeping the relics in a proper home and prevent dispersion among collectors.
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Amesbury
John Greenleaf
Whittier
Whittier-land
New England
New York
Post
Greenleaf Whittier Pickard
Whittier Home Association
John
Greenleaf
Women Likely as Delegates in Massachusetts Episcopal Convention
A Massachusetts Episcopal committee of five clergymen and six laymen recommends changing church canons to admit women as lay delegates to the diocese conventions in Boston on April 25. The report, after last year’s heated diocesan debate, would grant lay representation to congregations previously denied the privilege, though some members including Dr Mann and others do not concur.
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Episcopal Church In
Massachusetts
Boston
Episcopal Diocese
Frederick B. Allen
H. K. Bartow
William Grainger
Alexander Mann
William Harman van Allen
Joseph Beale
William W. Kellen
Ralph R. Nauffis
Philip S. Parker
George
Selfridge
John S. Wakefield
Mann
Messrs Nauffis
Parker
Samuel G. Babcock
New Plan for Street Work by Boston Finance Commission
The Boston Finance Commission sent a communication to Mayor Curley with many suggestions to aid public works officials in preparing annual contracts and avoiding prior errors. It argues that thorough preliminary engineering studies save time and money, noting past contract deficiencies caused by inadequate investigations and proposing systematic study of traffic, occupants’ needs, building prospects, foundations, excavation materials, and the roles of public service or water and sewer departments before bidding.
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Boston Finance Commission
Curley
Carrie
Public Works
Public Works Department
Mann refuses to withdraw from speakership bid
Washington March 26 Republicans protest as Leader Mann returns from Haiti and again offers to withdraw from the speakership race in favor of Speaker Clark if Democrats and Republicans can agree to a bi partisan or non partisan organization of the new House. The plan had been informally discussed but was believed dead before today.
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Washington
Mann
Haiti
Clark
New House
Wisconsin Progressive Lenroot opposes Mann plan for speaker
Representative Lenroot of Wisconsin, a progressives leader, said he is unqualifiedly opposed to the Mann speaker suggestion and will issue a position statement later. Democrats including Clark Kitchin Flood Glass Harrison and Garner insist they will not back the Mann plan unless needed to end a deadlock. Mann may meet other Republican leaders to present views and would run if a majority of Republicans favor it, though he believes it would harm the country. Both sides expect quick House organization with committee nominations and a reshaped Ways and Means, while Republicans refine plans before Saturday. The aim is unity to speed public business and avoid partisan fights, with a two month session anticipated.
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Lenroot
Wisconsin
House
Mann
Clark
Kitchin
Flood
Glass
Virginia
Harrison
Mississippi
Garner
Texas
Representatives Mann
Ways and Means Committee
Congress
Rules Winsloe Must Pay Wife in Suffolk Divorce
Judge Raymond upheld a Probate Court decree awarding Mrs. Blanche Winsloe separate maintenance. Temple A. Winsloe, formerly a Ward 21 Roxbury legislator, testified persistent in law and blamed his mother-in-law for marital strife, recounting that her mother moved in the night they married in 1896 and that issues continued, including threats he felt endangered him.
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Raymond
Suffolk
Temple A. Winsloe
Blanche Winsloe
Roxbury
Winsloe
Mia
Lansing Aids France Topic Frames Fresh Congress Talks
Washington March 26 Representatives Flood Harrison and Ragsdale of the House foreign affairs committee met with Secretary Lansing to discuss the international situation. Espionage and censorship measures were among the potential legislation considered by the new Congress.
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Washington
Flood
Harrison and
Ragsdale
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Lansing
Congress
U S Officials Debate France War Aids and Europe Force
Secretary Lansing outlined plans to aid France with a large bond issue to be approved by Congress and possibly finance a Franco alliance. A prospective expeditionary force to Europe was discussed but not decided. The program includes declaring war and an espionage bill, plus a $200,000 secret service appropriation.
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Lansing
France
Congress
McAdoo
Europe
Senate
House
State Department
Black Shot At Own Door in Plymouth
Plymouth March 2. Mystery surrounds the shooting of Glenn C. Black by a single deliberate shot as he reached his door on Middle street. The bullet struck above the heart. Black, after an evening with a Spring street resident, heard a muffled shot and felt a chest wound. He did not report it until morning. A threatening note later appeared on the stairs.
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Fulton Street
Plymouth
Glenn C. Black
Middle Street
Black
Spring Street
Sage and Sulphur Compound for Darker Hair
An old time remedy Wyeths Sage and Sulphur Compound is advertised to darken gray hair naturally. The home or drugstore product claims to restore natural color after one or two applications and leave hair thick and lustrous. It notes the preparation is not a disease cure.
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Wyeth
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