Plan To Widen Tremont Boylston And Park Streets
Boston street commissioners urge taking strips from the Common to widen Tremont Boylston and Park streets. They request land from three sides of the Common, six to ten feet on Tremont, 15 feet on Boylston, and 15 feet on Park, to solve city traffic issues.
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Boston Ballot Fight Over Common Land Draws Battle Lines
City government backs a land take from the Boston Common under revised statutes. If 10 citizens petition the Mayor the issue goes to the ballot on the next city election. Street commissioners face strong opposition from Common caretakers planning to block the scheme. The referendum promises a bitter contest among voters.
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End to Boston and Albany Freight Handlers Strike
The Boston & Albany freight handlers strike ended with a deal to return strikers under seniority rules this morning. No agreement yet on New Haven or Boston & Maine, but talks continue and Mayor Curley forecast a settlement by tonight with arbitration to follow.
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Boston & Maine
Cretic Passengers Pray As Liner Reaches Mediterrean Zone
Deep interest in the city follows the White Star liner Cretic which left Oct 31 and now nears the submarine zone of the Mediterranean. The ship carries 880 passengers with more than 700 having embarked here.
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Passengers Listed On The Cretic Outbound From Boston
The Cretic carried 30 saloon passengers including Mr and Mrs A C King H L Blackman Nora Jones Rev Alexis LEpicier Dr Teodorica Morra and Baccio Procacci from Boston. From New York Mrs Ralph W Hills and her two children. About half the passengers head for the Azores and Spain while the rest stay aboard for the voyage through submarine zones. Heavy convoying expected from Gibraltar due to Teutonic submarine raids. The ship was due at Gibraltar yesterday but no report reached port.
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College football games scheduled across many campuses today
Army faces Maine at West Point while Bowdoin visits Tufts in Portland. Other games include Harvard at Cambridge and Yale at New Haven. Nationwide matchups feature Penn State at Lafayette and Syracuse hosting Colgate with several regional contests.
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Yale and Princeton clash with big stakes at Yale Bowl
New Haven November 12 A Yale Princeton showdown looms at the Yale Bowl with both teams carrying different pressures. A Yale win would cast doubt on the Harvard Yale clash next week while Princeton victory would set up a Harvard final appearance.
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French Capture Schooner Off Crete With Turks
Paris report says a small French war vessel surprised off Crete a schooner carrying arms and munitions and 48 Turks including 11 officers. The French crew of 10 captured all men and material aboard.
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Ministry of Marine
Crete
Love Story Aided by Baltimore Doctor Named Hensley
Three years ago Miss Julia Choate Crumley of Atlanta, daughter of Rev. Howard Crumley, went to Johns Hopkins for surgery. After three months in Baltimore she returned praising the physician who tended her, naming Dr Alleyne Hensley, a widower with one child living in Quebec, Canada.
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Howard Lee Crumley
Baptist Orphans’ Home
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Baltimore
Alleyne Hensley
Quebec
Canada
Engagement Saga Unfolds Amid Canadian Letters and Seattle Promises
Miss Crumley received postmarked letters from Quebec claiming a romance with The Doctor. Engagement announced, later alleged illness in Baltimore, then deceit about marriage. She prepared for a Nov 1 wedding with bridesmaids and showers, traveled to New York for a trousseau, then resumed correspondence from Canada.
Mrs Evans gifts $50,000 memorial fund to museum
The Museum of Fine Arts announces a $50,000 gift from Mrs. Rob ert Dawson Evans in memory of her mother Mrs. David Hunt. The fund supports sculpture and modeling, offers two $250 scholarships annually, a $1,200 traveling scholarship every three years, and funds the modeling instructor's salary.
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Robert Dawson Evans
David Hunt
Europe
Divorce Granted to Hartford Doctor from Nurse Wife
Dr. William H. Van Strander of Hartford was granted a divorce from Maude FE Fuller Van Strander a nurse at Robert B Brigham Hospital Boston on grounds of desertion He gained custody of their six year old son The pair wed in Georgetown Massachusetts on June 12 1903 The record notes failed reconciliation talks and the wife’s stated intention not to return home.
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Ainsworth Undergoes Surgery to Remove Neck Button
Dorothy V. Ainsworth of Assinippi had a collar button embedded in her nasal passage for years. Surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital removed the button in a recent operation, boosting her chances of becoming a famous singer.
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Dorothy W. Ainsworth
Flynn Named to Lead U S Spy Hunt
In New York on November 12 William J Flynn head of the United States secret service was asked by Washington to take complete charge of the investigation into Teuton agents and sympathizers. He may call on any law enforcement bodies across government divisions to aid him to speed results.
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Teuton
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United States Secret Service
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Secret Service Traces Three Central Powers Officials
Tonight it emerged that three high ranking diplomats of the central powers have been tailed by secret service men for weeks. No serious evidence has been found yet against them, but sensational information has been lodged chiefly by Slavonic subjects of Austria Hungary.
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Nearing Jolts Harvard Men at Socialist Club Meeting
Professor Scott Nearing of Harvard economics shocked about 800 students in Emerson Hall by saying half attend college for their fathers’ money rather than aptitude. He noted one in eight earns $1500 yearly and forecast three quarters of Harvard students have fathers in that income class. He leaves Harvard to join the University of Toledo as dean after this year.
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University of Pennsylvania
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Button Found in Miss Ainsworth Nose After Years of Mystery
Doctors say a corroded button likely remained in Miss Ainsworth for many years. She suspects childhood insertion, though she has no memory of it. The Eaton murder trial figure denies hip operation reports, aims to continue singing, and remains inactive on that claim.
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Gas causes death of Lynn man reading paper
George H. Granger 65, a widower and Charlestown navy yard employee, died by accidental gas asphyxiation last evening at his lodging house 73 Central avenue Lynn. His body was found around 10 by lodger Richard Taylor after he turned on gas while turning on the electric light to read the evening paper. Granger carried $25 in bills and a gold watch.
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Allies Press Balkans as Greek protests rise
London dispatches report the Allied offensive in the Balkans expanding with British and French troops landing at Saloniki. Turkey and Bulgaria protest the landings while Greece notes the move, as Bulgarian forces retreat near Veles and Strumitsa and Serbian lines seek a new mountain defence.
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Churchill resigns from cabinet to join front lines
Winston S Churchill quits the cabinet stating lack of duties under the new five member war council. He will join the army in France as a major in the Oxford Yeomanry to go to the front.
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War Council of Five
Moon’s Changes For Rest Of Year And Notable Dates
The notice lists lunar phases from November 18 to December 29 along with wartime day counts, Christmas countdown, and a 55 minute day length. It mentions light signals for auto and other vehicles and marks today’s anniversaries including Robert Louis Stevenson born 1850 and John Drew born 1854, plus a UK parliament manpower request from a year prior.
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France
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