Beacon Hill Houses to Be Razed for State House Wing
The State House extension commission announced more Beacon Hill buildings will be torn down to clear space for the new west wing. Owners along Hancock Avenue up to the Eldredge apartment house will be given immediate notice to vacate, with the commission set to seize property bounded by Hancock Avenue Mt. Vernon Street Joy Place and the Forbes and Paine estates.
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Beacon Hill
State House
State House Extension Commission
Hancock Avenue
E. T. Eldredge
Mt. Vernon Street
Joy Place
Memorial to Governor Guild Committee Formed in 1915
Citizens meet on April 23 1915 to form Curtis Guild memorial committee naming Henry Cabot Lodge as permanent chairman John T Wheelwright as vice chairman Allan Forbes as treasurer and Herman A MacDonald as secretary An extensive honorary list includes Holker Abbott Leon Abbott Joseph Adamowski Charles Adams Major Aldrich Butler Ames Edith Andrew Luther Atwood Charles Ayer Edwin Bailey John Bates Charles Baxter and many other notable Massachusetts figures Individuals and locations across the state are cited in the call for contributions to the memorial fund through Allan Forbes at 33 State Street Boston Massachusetts
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Curtis Guild
Commonwealth
Allan Forbes
State Street Trust Company
State Street
Boston
Mass
Henry Cabot Lodge
Nahant
John T. Wheelwright
Care State Street Trust Company
Herman A. MacDonald
Beverly
Louis A. Frothingham
Robert W. Lovett
Lincoln
Charles K. Boston
Shirley
Holker Abbott
Leon M. Abbott
Brookline
Joseph Adamowski
Cambridge
Charles H. Adams
Melrose
Talbot Aldrich
Canton
Butler Ames
Lowell
Edith Andrew
Hingham
Luther Atwood
Lynn
Charles F. Ayer
Hamilton
Edwin E. M. Bailey
Amesbury
John J. Bates
Charles S. Baxter
Medford
A. A. Berle
J. Bapst Blake
Bostor
J. Q. A. Brackett
Arlington
Channing Cox
I. Tucker Burr
Milton
Metropolitan fire panel to study common fire signal plan
A hearing before the metropolitan fire prevention commissioner led to the appointment of a 10 member committee from schools stores theatres offices and factories to consider adopting a universal fire signal. The current school signal faced opposition for limiting department store systems and floor numbering amid crowd safety concerns from theatre reps.
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Metropolitan Fire Prevention Commissioner
Friedman and Whiteside Named Receivers for Boston Opera
Lee M. Friedman and Alexander Whiteside have been appointed receivers for the Boston Opera Company by the United States bankruptcy court, a move aimed at stabilizing operations and safeguarding assets during insolvency proceedings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lee M. Friedman
Alexander Whiteside
Boston Opera Company
United States Bankruptcy Court
Navy to Form First Dirigible For Pensacola Use
Secretary Daniels authorized the construction of the navy's first dirigible with a $45 636 contract to Connecticut Aircraft Company New Haven. The 175 foot long airship will carry four observers and a crew of four and reach Pensacola by next autumn.
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Washington
Navy
Daniels
Connecticut Aircraft Company
New Haven
Naval Aeronautic Station
Pensacola
Widen Park Street to Two-Way Despite Elm Removals
A group before the street commissioners urged widening Park Street even if it requires removing several elms from Boston Common to create a two-way major thoroughfare. They also pressed widening the State House approach, branding it an imposing highway to the capitol. Supporting voices included L J Brackett, Frank D Somers, Julius A Zinn, Henry L Cormley, Carl H Skinner, William F Bullard, D B Norman R Townsend spoke against.
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State House
L. J. Brackett
T. F. Galvin, Inc
Frank D. Somers
Julius A. Zinn
Henry L. Cormley
Carl H. Skinner
William F. Bullard
D. B. Norman R. L. Townsend
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Brownstone Company
J. C. Brownstone and Company
Broadway
Fifth Avenue
Iimporter
Milan
RUE DE Victoire
Paris
Aurel Aus
Mark
Wolf
New England
Legal Stamp Company
I. P. S. Shoes
Hanover and
Portland Streets
Raze Beacon Hill Houses
Free Legal Stamps
Alaska
Weste. Brand
Tah van Camp
Daffee
Mi. O
Keeffe
Tne
Charles I.burrill
Arthur B. Chapin
Joseph A. Conry
J. Randolph Coolidge, Jr
W. Murray Crane
Dalton
Alvah Crocker
Fitchburg
James M. Curley
Edwin A. Curtis
Joan A. Curtin
Thomas J. Cusick
James DeNormandie
William H. Devine
South Boston
Joseph N. Pinand
Worcester
Robert G. Dodge
Newburyport
George H. Doty
Waltham
William B. Edgar
Fall River
William Endicott
William 8. Felton
Salem
John F. Fitzgerald
J. C. Joseph Flamand
Paul Revere Frothingham
Dwight Fullerton
Dedham
A. P. Gardner
Charles F. Gettemy
Frederick H. Gillett
Springfield
Walter S. Glidden
Somerville
Edward Glines
Augustus H. Goetting
George A. Gordon
Edwin A. Grazier
Charles S. Groves
Charles S. Hamlin
Mattapoisett
Charles Hayden
George Hodges
Herbert M. Leland
Frank Severoni
Jamaica Plain
William H. Lewis
Edward L. Logan
James Logan
John D. Long
Arthur Lord
Plymouth
Arthur H. Lowe
Robert Luce
George H. Lyman
Dana Malone
Greenfield
George S. Mandell
Guy Murchie
Michael J. Murray
Gertrude O’brien
Robert L. O’brien
William H. O’connell
Herbert Parker
Lancaster
James P. Parker
Philip S. Sears
Franklin FE. Smith
Newton
William D. Sohier
Frederic J. Stimson
Charles H. Taylor
Thomas C. Thacher
Yarmouth
Charles Irving Thayer
Ira Vaughan
George R. Wallace
David I. Walsh
Charles BE. Ware
John W. Weeks
West Newton
Barrett Wendell
Addison L. Winship
Roger Walcott
Mary E. Woolley
South Hadley
Ieee
E.W. Burt &Co
Washington Street
Cherub
Receivers For Opera CO
Palm Beach
Posner
Washington, Cor. Avery
Boylston DQ
Park Street
Boston Common
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