Cambridge Alderman Seeks Subway Comfort Reforms
Alderman Robert J. O Neill introduced a resolution at the Cambridge Board of Aldermen meeting criticizing Park Street station passenger accommodations as inadequate. He urged the Mayor to confer with the Boston Transit Commission to remedy conditions, and the measure was sent to the street railways committee.
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Robert J. O'Neill
Cambridge Board of Aldermen
Cambridge
Park Street
Boston Rapid Transit Commission
Committee On
Cambridge station crowding prompts transit remedy order
The Park Street station conditions are deemed inadequate for the growing number of passengers and a Mayor and Boston Rapid Transit Commission meeting is urged to remedy them. Cambridge hospital trustees request legislative permission to use 200000 square feet near Magazine Beach on the Charles River Parkway for hospital use.
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Park Street
Cambridge
Boston Rapid Transit Commission
Municipal Hospital
Barry
Magazine Beach
Charles River Parkway
Michigan Is Honor Ship of the Navy
Washington May 14 The battleship Michigan is named the honor ship for all gun practice and day and night work over the last three months with a score of 59 807. The Utah is second 56 878 with the Delaware 59 381 and the Virginia 50 178. The other Atlantic fleet battleships mostly scored below 50 per cent. End of quarter standings list North Dakota New Hampshire New Jersey Ohio Rhode Island Maryland Connecticut Louisiana North Carolina Mississippi Kansas South Carolina Minnesota Nebraska Georgia. Individual scoring excluding divisional firing places Utah first 91 plus Virginia second 82 Michigan third 79 Ohio fourth 76.
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Utah
Delaware
Virginia
North Dakota
New Hampshire
New Jersey
Ohio
Rhode Island
Maryland
Connecticut
Louisiana
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Mississippi
Kansas
South Carolina
Minnesota
Nebraska
Georgia
Adeline Fitz Urges Patriotism at Daughters of the Revolution
Mrs. Adeline Frances Fitz, president general, urged loyalty by respect for the flag during a Vendome farewell speech. New president general-elect is Mrs. Cara Rogers Bleakley of New York, with a slate of officers named from several states. The convention opened with a banquet at the Algonquin Club featuring talks on Dutch Freemen, English American ties, French allies and American advantages.
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Adeline Frances Fitz
Daughters of the Revolution
Vendome
Ella T. Tucker
New York
Clara Bradley
Fanny L. Onion
Maryland
Emma J. Rue
Washington
Frances J. Jordan
West Virginia
Eleanor T. Bonchur
Pennsylvania
Florence Beech
Kirby
Colorado
Helene E. Jackson
Malden
Algonquin Club
W. H. van AtTlen
E. S. Crandon
Massachusetts Sons of the American Revolution
W. F. Garcellon
Joseph Santosuosso
America
Popular Spa Girl Elizabeth Burdett Dies at 31
Miss Elizabeth Burdett, longtime waitress at Thompson's Spa, died suddenly from heart trouble and hemorrhages at her lodging on 9 Concord Square. A Vermont native, she came to Boston in 1902 to work at the spa and was 31. Her sisters in Auburn and Sterling arrived to arrange the body’s removal to Pittsfield, Vermont, for funeral.
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Elizabeth Burdett
Thompson's Spa
Concord Square
Cabot Street
Miss Burdett
Spa
Pittsfield
Boston
Frank Allen
Auburn
Miner Allen
Sterling
Capitol Darkness Shuts Capitol in Brief Power Outage
In Washington on May 14, members faced a total Capitol power outage after Speaker Clark adjourned. Elevators stalled and galleries emptied as belts failed in the power house. Lights returned about a half hour later. Former Speaker Cannon called it a sign to the Democrats as Clayton’s anti injunction bill passed over GOP opposition.
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Clark
House
Capitol Building
Capitol
Senate
Cannon
Clayton
Boston to Open Cabaret Show House at National Theatre
Boston plans a cabaret theatre by month end at the National Theatre on Tremont Street. The venue will become National Theatre Gardens with orchestra seating removed for tables and refreshments during performances. Opening date is May 27 with B A Rolfe's Band as a permanent feature.
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Boston
National Theatre
Tremont Street
National Theatre Gardens
New York
B.A. Rolfe
Young’s Pier
Atlantic City
Europe
Lasell Girls Faced Discipline Over Dormitory Smoking
Six Lasell Seminary students at Auburndale were severely disciplined by the faculty for smoking cigarettes in their dorm rooms. Expulsions or probation followed in what is described as a highly exclusive preparatory school.
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Lasell Seminary
Auburndale
Girls Sent Home Over Smoking at Southern School
Chaperons accompany students at all times with strict rules and severe discipline for violations. Three girls, natives of a Southern state, met to smoke in a room and were found by an instructor. The faculty ordered their return home pending further investigation, and Dr Winslow declined to comment, calling it not a matter for newspapers.
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Winslow
Programme for Tonight at the Pops
The programme at Symphony Hall includes Merry Soldiers Overture Bronze Horse Rain of Gold Mikado Pagliacci Carmen selections Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody in F Die Walkure Orpheus Offenbach The Enchanted Hour The Siren and more Tomorrow opens College Night at Amherst with expected high attendance due to famed Amherst singing.
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Mouton
Maron
Amherst
Burroughs Defends Report on Meat Plant Inspections
J W Burroughs, former government meat inspector, testifies before the House expenditures committee on agricultural department spending. He alleges that shifting Bureau of Animal Industry regulations misled inspectors and cites Roesch and Pfunds plants receiving government inspection before sanitary fixes. McCabe and Nelson clash as witnesses are questioned.
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Washington
J. W. Burroughs
Government Service
House Committee On
Agricultural Department
Bureau of Animal Industry
Roesch & Company
Philadelphia
Pfunds
Germantown
Witnesses, packers accused of shipping uninspected meat interstate
The testimony alleges uninspected meat moved across state lines under regulations. Nelson presses meat inspection inquiry as Burroughs shows invitation to an Washington entertainments by the American Meat Packers Association while an inspector in Cumberland, Md. The committee restricts public disclosure and the session ends amid sharp exchanges between Nelson and Solicitor McCabe.
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Nelson
McCabe
Meat Inspection Service
Washington
American Meat Packers’ Association
Cumberland
Moss
Sloan
Department of Agriculture
Carroll to chair new state industrial commission
James B. Carroll of Springfield is slated as chairman of the new industrial commission. Dudley M. Holman, secretary to the Governor, is to have a place on the board. Five total appointments are to be made with possible picks including ex Mayor Dickinson of Cambridge Philip Mansfield and William N. Osgood of Lowell. The appointments may go to the executive council today.
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James B. Carroll
Springfield
Industrial Commission
Dudley M. Holman
Foss
Dickinson
Cambridge
Philip Mansfield
William N. Osgood
Lowell
Executive Council
Rescued From Fiery Cradle in East Cambridge
Mrs. Timothy O Leary of 56 Bridge Street East Cambridge saved her 18 month old child from a cradle ablaze sparked by a stove brand. She carried the child downstairs as neighbors aided and firemen extinguished the fire. Neither was hurt.
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Timothy’ O’leary
Bridge Street
East Cambridge
Defeat insurgent plan in redistricting effort report
A local briefing outlines the defeat of an insurgent redistricting plan. Officials assess the setback, noting opposition groups, proposed district changes, and the political implications for upcoming elections.
Congressional district plan defeated in House vote
The plan failed 121 to 110 after debate, leaving the committee bill before the House. Insurgents aim to defeat it, criticizing the bill for removing five Democratic districts including the prominent shoe district.
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House
Syrup of Figs advertisement promises safe bowel relief for children
A dated promotional piece touts Syrup of Figs as a gentle, thorough cleanser for children’s stomachs livers and bowels. It links a list of symptoms to a single teaspoonful dose and claims the product is non harming and tasty. The copy urges mothers to keep the remedy and to ask for the California Fig Syrup Co version.
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Senna
California Fig Syrup Co
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