Massachusetts Opposition to National Highway Plan
Congressman John W. Weeks at the Massachusetts Highway Association meeting opposed national road construction policy and urged that the Commonwealth be reimbursed if the federal government undertakes highways. Brown University engineer H Blanchard spoke on European road construction. Louis K Rourke criticized graft in city projects and urged businesslike conduct of street work.
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John W. Weeks
Newton
Massachusetts Highway Association
City Club
Congress
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
H. Blanchard
Brown University
Louis K. Rourke
Panama Canal
Cave Life to City Life Pageant Opens at Arena
The opening performance of Cave Life to City Life a Boston 1915 Civic Pageant staged in the Boston Arena drew praise. Father Time invited Labor Progress Success Prosperity Peace and Happiness to aid man while a cave-dweller emerged from rock homes and the curtain rose on the Futura City scene free from dust clouds disease germs flames slavery war and strife.
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Boston
Father Time
Futura
Boston 1915 Civic Pageant Dazzles City Audience
Miss Lotta A Clark directed the Boston 1915 civic pageant at the Boston Arena with Virginia Tanner's water dance and the dancing of Iroquois Indians. The program featured episodes from cave dwellers to future Boston and included a quilting party by Roxbury High School girls. An orchestra and chorus of 400 plus a thousand marchers closed the performance, with notable attendees from Boston society.
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Misses Montgomery
Helen Angell
Genevieve Conroy
Virginia Tanner
Radcliffe
Lotta A. Clark
Charlestown High School
Miss Tanner
Lila Wiles Wyman
Miriam Harris
Boston
Boston Teachers’ Club
Roxbury
Charlestown
Jamaica Rain
East Boston
Dorchester
South Boston
Brighton
Watertown
Pallas
Weymouth
Hingham
Dedham
Lexington
Liberty
Canton
Paul Revere
Roxbury High School
Montgomery
Thomas Crosby
Earle Cairns
Walter Todd
Francis West
Belle Fay
Margaret Franklin
Mary Franklin
Boston ‘Teachers’ Club
Canterbury
York
England
Frederick A. Tupper
James P. Monroe
John W. de Bruyn
Frank C. Brown
Frank T. Merrill
John A. O’shea
James Gilbert
Albert M. Kanrich
David Bispham
Bohemian Club
San Francisco
Mary S. Ames
Walter C. Baylies
W. A. L. Bazeley
T. J. Bowlker
Edward Brandegee
Arthur Astor Carey
Caleb Loring Cunningham
Robert Grant
John (. Gray
Curtis Guild, Jr
Augustus Hemenway
Rose Lamb
William Lawrence
D. L. Pickman
William L. Putnam
William B. Rogers
R. M. Saltonstall
James J. Storrow
Bayard Thayer
Paul Thorndike
Barrett Wendell
Henry M. Whitney
Erving Winslow
Charles Francis Withington
Goodyear
Prisoners Set Jail Ablaze and Escape in Rowan County
Six inmates started a fire at the Rowan county jail in Morehead Kentucky and escaped amid the destruction. The jail was destroyed, marking the third jailbreak in the county within a year.
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Morehea
Rowan County
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P. H. Magrane
Pres
P. B. Magrane
Treas
Lymansville
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Little Wonder
Comfort House
Quilting
Ttton Co
Great Gasit House
Great School
Knichker
Astrachan
Hubbard
Orr
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