Automobiles face fight over Commonwealth Avenue access
Boston Park Commission weighs excluding cars from Commonwealth Avenue between Arlington Street and Massachusetts Avenue amid protests from residents and auto clubs. Officials cited road wear and safety, while physicians and other residents urged enforcing speed laws instead of car exclusion.
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Arlington Street
Massachusetts Avenue
Boston Park Commissioners
I. J. Cutting
A. C. Potter
No. 82
Bay State Auto Association
Midnight Marriage Shocks Brookline Society
In Brookline last Saturday night at Rev Fred A Wiggin's house Harry S Ferris a leading young figure wed Edna R Clapp a noted Brookline beauty. The ceremony happened at midnight with only the Wiggin family present and the couple then left town. The town clerk briefly granted a license after hours prompting local astonishment.
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Brookline Society
Edna R. Clapp
Brookline
Fred A. Wiggin
Brook Street
Gretna Green
Massachusetts
Wiggin
Providence
Yankee Girls Send Mottoed Postals Over Boni Divorce
Atlantic City on November 20 reports two maids buying mottoed postal cards in a window display about Count Boni and the Anna Gould divorce. They mail messages declaring him “dead” and mocking him with phrases about his finances, with hundreds of cards passing through postal routes.
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N. J
de Castellane
Boni
Anna Gould
Ecard
Skiddoo
Bonn
Panama
Uncle Sam
Count Boni
Roosevelt Warns Europe Monroe Doctrine Not Dead
President Roosevelt through Secretary of State Root declares in Kansas City that the Monroe Doctrine remains a wise and living guide, as effective now as it was on December 2, 1823, asserting its continuing force in American policy.
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Root
Kansas City
Man named poisoner sought in Amesbury case
Private detectives and the State police search for a tall dark well dressed stranger linked to the Pickard family poisoning in Amesbury. Arsenic was found in meat eaten by the family and their cat, with investigators tracing the suspect to Oct 18 and a duplicate market order.
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Pickard
Pickards
White Market
Greenleaf Whittier Pickard
Samuel Pickard
Post
President Roosevelt to Hear New Facts on Colored Troops
A cablegram released in New York states President Roosevelt will not suspend his order discharging the Twenty fifth Regiment's colored troops unless contrary facts are proven. He adds he is willing to hear new facts relevant to the case.
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Roosevelt
Gilchrist Stewart
The
Constitutional League
Roosevelt Confirms No Suspension of Colored Soldiers Order
Mr Stewart cabled President Roosevelt at Ancon Panama urging suspension of the discharge of colored soldiers. Roosevelt replied that no order will be revoked unless new facts are proven and urged informants to present new facts promptly for consideration.
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Panama
Republican County Committee
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Theodore Roosevelt
Boston Area Weather Outlook Turns Gray With Light Rain Possible
Forecast for Boston and vicinity shows generally cloudy skies with possible light rain Wednesday and Thursday. Washington notes New England will see rain Wednesday with fair conditions in northern and eastern Maine Thursday.
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Boston
Washington
New England
Maine
Pennsylvania Cuts Athletic Ties With Harvard
The University of Pennsylvania athletic committee announced that all athletic relations with Harvard are severed. They refused to ratify two intercollegiate basketball games and will not meet Harvard in any dual events, following Harvard's decision not to play Penn in football this fall.
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University of Pennsylvania Athletic Committee
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Pennsylvania
Edgar I. Smith
Aylward and Willard Win In Tight Massachusetts Nominations
In Cambridge James F. Aylward defeated Mayor Charles H. Thurston for the Democratic nomination by 83 votes. Chelsea Mayor Willard won a sixth term in a tight race with Senator Beck. Medford GOP nominated James C. D. Clark by 2 votes. Lynn ex Mayor Eastham lost to Mayor Barney by 1007, while Malden Mayor Warren and Melrose Moore ran unopposed. Somerville renominated Mayor Grimmons. Abraham A. Elston was Democratic nominee.
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James F. Aylward
D. Chelsea
Willard
William A. O’brien
D. Lynn
C. Neal Barney
R. Somerville
Charles A. Grimmons
A. A. Elston
D. Malden
Charles G. Warren
R. Medford
James C. D. Clark
M. F. Dwyer
Cir
Melrose
Eugene Moore
R. Lowell
Casey
Frank Farnham
R. Worcester
M. G. Overlook
R. Salem
Thomas G. Pinnock
Massachusetts
Charles H. Thurston
Chelsea
Beck
Medford
Myron G. Curtis
Lynn
Eastham
Barney
Malden
Charles G. Moore
Somerville
Grimmons
Abraham A. Elston
Aylward wins Cambridge Democratic mayor nomination after long fight
After nine hours of bitter campaigning in Cambridge, ex-Representative James F. Aylward defeated Mayor Charles F. Thurston for the Democratic nomination by 83 votes in about 5600 ballots. Walter Wardwell ran unopposed for nonpartisan. Andrew J. Rady gathered 400 votes, drawing more from Thurston than Aylward.
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Charles F. Thurston
Cambridge
Walter (. Wardwell
Aylward
John H. H. McNamee
Thurston
McNamee
Henry J. Cunningham
William P. Nickerson
J. Frank Facey
Walter C. Wardwell
Andrew J. Conlin
Andrew J. Rady
Barney Renominated in Lynn Municipal Caucus
Mayor Charles N. Barney won renomination at the Lynn Republican caucus. Challenger Henry W. Eastham, previously defeated by Barney, trailed with 2143 votes to Barneys 3150. William A. Willey received 428 votes as third candidate.
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Lynn
Charles N. Barney
Henry W. Eastham
Barney
William A. Willey
Gray's Overcoat Sale in Washington and Hanover
F Gray Co announces coat sale in Washington and Hanover with discounts on winter outerwear. The advertisement highlights limited stock and seasonal bargains available at the two locations.
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F. Gray Co
Washington and Hanover
I. Gray Co
Washington and Tranover
KF. Gray Co
Gray S Overcoat Sales Co
Somerville Primaries Show Competitive Ward 2 Races
Somerville voters highlighted ward level battles with four Democratic candidates for ward alderman and four for alderman at large on the Republican ticket in Ward 2. Incumbent Henrietta Attwood lost nomination in Ward 7 while Everett W. Boyd defeated her. Grimmons won Republican renomination. Elston backed by Democrats.
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Ward
Henrietta H. B. Attwood
Everett W. Boyd
Grimmons
Abraham A. Elston
William F. Remick
John H. Concannon
Clay Hunt
Thomas W. Sutherland
William T. McCarthy
William A. Flaherty
Joseph A. Haley
Philip Keen
Thomas M. Clancy
Frederick J. White
Edward W. Doyle
Louis ©. Doyle
Boston Weather Breeds Cold Cure Col...
Boston weather drives a chilly health trend as doctors warn of colds and coughs. The Lung Kuro remedy is gaining attention among residents seeking relief amid cold snaps.
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