Condensed Novels Bring Dr Jekyll to New Readership
The Post previews its One Hundred Condensed Novels including Stevenson's Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Readers are urged to try the series to prove classics are engaging and accessible, with examples like Pilgrim's Progress inspiring youthful readers to seek full texts and more condensations to follow May outputs.
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Dr. Jekyll and
Mr. Hyde
Richard Mansfield
Jekyll
Hyde
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Stevenson
Have Not Agreed to Carpenters Demands in Boston Strike
The Building Trades Employers Association states it and allied contractors oppose a 33 1/3 percent wage increase for carpenters and fathers in Boston and vicinity. The association, which controls most local building work, says no member has agreed to higher wages under current conditions and that nonmember contractors share the stance. May 16, 1919.
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Sir
Boston
Building Trades Feimployers’ Association
Building Trades Employers Association
Building Trades Employers’ Association
Beacon Street
Salesman Held on Fugitive Warrant
Ernest N. Barter a salesman with prior trouble was arrested by Inspectors Muliy and Mitchell and held for Claremont New Hampshire police charged with cashing a worthless $40 check. He was taken on a fugitive warrant and will go back for trial today.
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Ernest N. Barter
Muliy and
Mitchell
Claremont
N. H
Edge Resigns Post as Governor of Jersey
Walter C. Kaye resigned today as Governor of New Jersey to take his seat in the United States Senate Monday. William N. Runyon, president of the Senate, was sworn in as acting Governor.
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Trenton
N. J
Walter C. Kaye
New Jersey
United States Senate
William N. Runyon
Senate
West Pointers to View Battlefields
About 200 members of the present first class at West Point will be given an opportunity to round out their military study by personal observation of the battlefields in Europe. Secretary Baker announced today that officers would be sent overseas immediately after their graduation in June and would be assigned to units of the expeditionary forces.
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Washington
West Point
Europe
Baker
Britain Gets New Credit From Treasury
Washington May 16 The Treasury announced credits for Great Britain totaling 1 316 000 000 after a new 30 000 000 credit was established lifting Britain’s total to 1 316 000 000 Belgium received a new 1 390 000 credit bringing its total to 340 500 000 Total credits to all allies rise to 9 370 219 000
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Washington
The
Treasury Today
Great Britain
Belgium
Actors Fund Benefit Draws Big Crowd at Colonial Theatre
A large capacity audience attended the annual Actors’ Fund benefit at the Colonial Theatre yesterday afternoon. The program featured Keith’s Theatre acts, Gerards equilibrist act, Phina and company, Ivan Bankoff, Nettie in a George Ade sketch, Hawaiian Singers, Laurette Taylor, Irving Fisher, Nora Bayes, Al Jolson, Sarsaparilla, and La La Lucile. Daniel Frohman spoke for the fund, plus a Salvation Army note. Nellie Butler sold programs and flowers while W. C. Masson ran the stage. Receipts totaled about $5200, surpassing last year.
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Gerards
Equilibrists
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Phina
Ivan Bankoff
Nettie
George Ade
The
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Laurette Taylor
Irving Fisher
Nora Bayes
al Roberts
al Jolson
Dubuque
John H. Hazzard
Josephine Drake
Ww. CC
Masson
Many More Want to Wed in City Hall Registration Day
Thirty couples filed marriage intentions at City Hall, eight more than the previous day. Names include Modesta Riva and Antonietta Franzi both of Dorchester. Joseph Leonard and Eva O’Connell of South Boston. Iris Aldana and Enriqueta Bonilla of Boston. and many others across Roxbury, Dorchester, Jamaica Plain, and Somerville.
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Norfolk Ave
Dorchester
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Tremont St
Eva M. O'Connell
Boston
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New American House
Enriqueta Bon
Ricketson
Sta
West Cottage St
Roxbury
Gertrude Jenkins
Lonsdale
Leslie BE. Freeman
Baker
Dalrymple St
Jamaica Plain
Ruth B. Pickering
Temple St
West Roxbury
Daniel W. Christopher
Bellman
Braddock PLC
Willow St
Barbara B. Henderson
Massachusetts Ave
Cambridge
George A. Cahill
Cambridge Woman Complains of Short Measure Food
Mrs. W. K. Kendall of 381 Harvard Street, Cambridge, told a Housekeepers' League meeting she ordered molasses, cabbage, and potatoes by phone and found they were under weight. She praised inspector Joseph F. Johnson, saying the food was pure but the weight was short.
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W. K. Kendall
Harvard Street
Cambridge
Housekeepers’ League
More Strike in Winnipeg Paralyzes City
Winnipeg, May 16. A general strike by 60 unions involving 2,000 workers shows no signs of settlement as employers refuse to recognize the unions. Postal service is tied up and several railroad departments are idle. Ottawa debates the crisis as government officials seek arbitration. Brigadier General Keehan postpones the Decoration Day parade as troops are deployed for duty.
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Man
House of Commons
Ottawa
A. K. McLean
H. D. B. Keehan
Winnipeg Military District
Farnham Receives Four to Ten Years for Manslaughter
Daniel Farnham, 19, pleaded guilty to manslaughter in Vermont County Court for the April 25 Essex Junction killing of Charles Clifford. He was sentenced to not less than four nor more than 10 years in the state prison after admitting he shot Clifford in response to a threat against his mother.
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Daniel Farnham
Charles Clifford
Essex Junction
Farnham
Clifford
Vincent Club Girls Present Lets Go Performance at Jordan Hall
Vincent Club Girls from Emerson College presented a varied program titled Lets Go at Jordan Hall under Trinity Church Young Men’s Club for Episcopal City Mission. The show featured a clog dance with Mary Sigoursey as soloist and numbers by debutants led by Mrs Amory Carhart with several Misses, plus a Florist Shop piece by Winifred Hawkridge and three solos by Alfred R DeJonge in his Boston debut. The finale A Study in Black and White included Gladys Samaras Ethel Walton Harold Beaumont Ina Bentley and George Neal in costumed dance numbers.
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Jordan Hall
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Episcopal City Mission
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Amory Carhart
M. Edith
Eleanor Bremer
Katherine Abbott
Catherine Royce
Virginia Baker
Corina Higginson
Winifred Hawkridge
Alfred R. DeJonge
Boston
F. Harold Norris
Gladys Samaras
Ethel Walton
Harold Beaumont
Ina Bentley
George Neal
Mayor and Aldermen Both Right in City Mail Rule
Mayor Haines and the Medford Board of Aldermen clashed over when communications to the board must be delivered. City Solicitor A C York ruled that both sides were correct, siding with the mayor on sending notices as needed and with the aldermen on following the charter's timing requirement.
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Medford
York
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