Car stalls on incline disrupts Boylston Street subway traffic
An Ashmont and Milton articulated car left the Public Garden incline tracks in the Boylston Street subway last evening. Its rear motor casing dropped causing forward wheels to jump the track, stalling the outbound car for about two hours. Outbound trains were diverted to Tremont Street subway while crews freed the vehicle. Inbound traffic remained unaffected.
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Tremont Street Subway
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Milton
Arlington Relief Fund Benefit Opens Week of Shows
The first of four Arlington benefit events for the American Red Cross starts tonight at 8 in Crescent Hall Arlington Heights. The Arlington Heights Singers' Club presents the operetta Sylvia. Tomorrow the Arlington Historical Society stages The Old Peabody Pew at Arlington First Parish Unitarian Church vestry.
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Arlington
American Red Cross
Crescent Hall
Arlington Heights
War Dept. Fulfills Training Camp Quota Ahead of Schedule
The full 40,000 men requested for officers training camps was recruited within 20 days of the call. Captain Arthur F. Cosby of the Military Training Camps Association announced the accomplishment tonight in New York.
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New York
War Department
Arthur F. Cosby
The
Military Training Camps Association
Army camps to hold second session after first rounds
Captain Cosby said after the first camps begin Tuesday another series of camps is expected in August. Eligible men not chosen for the first camp may apply for the new camp. The War Department will be urged to announce dates early to allow recruiting and exams with three months notice for orderly selection and preparation before active service.
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Cosby
War Department
Barnum Was Right musical ends with war and recalls triumphs
Harvard students Robert T. Sherwood and Samuel P. Sears won the Hasty Pudding Club prize for Barnum Was Right a musical comedy that cost 3000 in production but was shelved when military training began. Sherwood later failed Plattsburg due to height and the pair penned a hit song The Battle Cry of Peace that faced wartime fate.
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Robert T. Sherwood
New York
Samuel P. Sears
Quincy
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Sears
Plattsburg
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Tech Men Break Camp in Mass Institute of Technology
The 65 members of the engineering corps of Massachusetts Institute of Technology under Captain W B Downing US A broke camp at 1 30 this afternoon and returned to Cambridge in a special electric car.
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Bedford
Engineering Corps
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
W. B. Downing
Cambridge
Miss Margaret Garvin Dies at 99 in Pittsfield
Miss Margaret Garvin aged 99 years and 7 months died at 40 Abbot Street Pittsfield from pneumonia contracted a week earlier after her first spring walk. She remained active until shortly before death, walking stairs daily and caring for her room with full faculties intact.
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Pittsfield
Margaret Garvin
Abbot Street
Garvin
Policeman Cleared After Cambridge Shooting Incident
Edward Kelley 15, of 114 Foster Street Cambridge, was shot Saturday afternoon by Patrolman William J. Curtin while stopping a suspected auto theft. Curtin fired to halt the boy. a ricochet or stone fragment reportedly struck the leg. City officials declare Curtin blameless and Kelley rested in Cambridge Hospital.
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Edward Kelley
Foster Street
Cambridge
William J. Curtin
Cambridge Police
Cambridge Hospital
Curtin
Malden Church Pledges Funds for France Ambulance Car
Malden Congregational Church pledged 1200 toward an automobile ambulance to serve in France. William Laird Orr sails on the 19th to pilot the vehicle. A church committee aims to raise 400 more to reach the 1600 total price.
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Malden
France
Frances
William Laird Orr
Rothwell Blames Wheat Speculation For National Instability
Bernard J. Rothwell, former president of the Chamber of Commerce, declared last night that speculation in wheat is a menace to domestic tranquility and national security.
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Bernard J. Rothwell
Chamber of Commerce
Grain markets spark President Wilson urged action
The text notes speculation in Chicago and other grain markets driving flour prices to about $18 per barrel and outlines actions demanded by the people. It mentions a telegram sent last night to President Wilson and to Attorney General Gregory and Secretary Houston calling for prompt, effective action.
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Chicago
Wilson
Thomas W. Gregory
David F. Houston
Rothwell
Women farmers to meet at Lexington parish vestry
Lexington women farmers numbering several hundred plan a third meeting in the vestry of the Lexington First Parish Unitarian Church this afternoon at 2 30 o clock.
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Lexington
Lexington First Parish Unitarian Church
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