Free Transfer Figures Misleading Says West End President
In a stockholders report President Little questions the 23 77726 free transfer total for last year. He notes East Boston population growth and routes that inflate the figure and argues for a universal single fare free transfer system on West End lines. He warns market players to watch Congress and sugar duties debates before acting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little
West End Company
East Boston
Boston
West End
Roxbury Crossing
Dudley Street
Harvard Football Outlook Needs Merit Over Privilege
A Harvard column argues the team underperforms due to selection bias favoring prep school background and social status. It urges merit based cuts and unbiased coaching to field a stronger eleven and reclaim athletic prestige.
Democratic Platform Urges Transit Reforms for Boston
The speaker argues a broad platform for Boston includes free transfers on street railways, lower lease rates on the West End road, and a franchise tax on public utilities. He asserts over nine tenths of Boston Democrats support these measures and calls the party to pledge support in the municipal election. Local questions and material exist to shape a strong Democratic platform.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
West End
Boston Democracy
Financial Situation of Stock Market Faces Thanksgiving Break
A historical assessment notes a cautious stock market with short-term traders pushing for steadiness, then selling off as week closes dull. It warns that Congress and December could bring anti trust pressures, Cuba tensions, and enlarged deficits via Sugar Trust influenced appropriations affecting financial and industrial interests.
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New York
Congress
Cuba
Wall Street
State Street
Treasury Department
Sugar Trust
City bonds yield fall as leases spark value debate
The piece notes Boston and Worcester loan rates near 3.2 percent and Cambridge bids at 3.22 percent while an 8 percent West End lease promises high returns to public franchise investors. It questions whether railroad commissioners can approve such a scheme given investors’ lower guaranteed return rates.
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Boston
City of Worcester
City of
West End
Subways scare man in Boston and love woes from Texas
A Huntington avenue car teetered into the Public Garden tunnel as a frightened man in a high hat urged the conductor to stop. Elsewhere a Texas youth aged sixteen shot himself over an attempted marriage, his fiancée then attempting suicide. The piece also satirizes Brit ish views on barmaids amid mixed drink controversy and anti American sentiment, ending with a question about English pride and global perceptions.
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Huntington Avenue
Public Garden
Boylston Street Station
Texas
Observant Citizen Reflects On Fire News And Local Tales
A columnist folds social quirks into a fire news era, noting ostrich feathers priced, typewriter terms, and a beach car rescue. He recalls Commodore Roberts, a shrimp mishap on Paddock's Island, and a Boston patrol critique while praising Princeton sportsmanship and campus spirit.
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Nantasket Beach
Commodore Roberts
Casey
Paddock’s
Commodore
William H. Jeffrey
Ode to Love and Memory by Quy Wetdors Carryl
A reflective poem explores love’s lasting imprint, memory versus forgetfulness, and the toll of parting. The speaker recalls enduring beauty, shared joys, and vows to treasure past tenderness while facing future sorrow.
Gossip and Quips Across Papers in Witty Snippets
A collage of lighthearted quotes from Chicago Record, Tit-Bits, Washington Star, Free Press, and Chicago News reveals social foibles. Topics range from romance and divorce mishaps to fashion costs and parental concern, each framed as witty dialogue or quick observation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Josephine
Chicago
Bristol
Guard
Mabel
Thanksgiving at the East St. Louis freight yards tale
A veteran switchman recalls a perilous run on a night shift with Engine 18 and Train 13 toward Terre Haute. The crew nearly collides with No. 36 as a yard master shouts orders. Thanksgiving humor fades into a brawl, ending a switcher’s party.
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East St. Louis
St. Louis
Ed Armstrong
Terre Haute
Indianapolis
Jim Chandler
Stumpy
Simpson
Bill Dillon
King George of Greece Plays Handbells in Odd Ties
King George of Greece can play handbells and glass tones and performs on the cymballum, a Hungarian Tziganee instrument. Miss Nellie Salome Thomas of Boston toured England, decorated Jenny Lind’s grave, and started a memorial fund for a window in the abbey. Police Superintendent Roberts of Torquay fined five shillings after lamp failure led to a self summons before the magistrate. A local preacher sought to meet Rev C H Spurgeon but was told the preacher was engaged.
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George
Greece
Hungary
Nellie Salome Thomas
Boston
England
Malvern
Jenny Lind
Abbey
Roberts
Torquay
Eng
C. H. Spurgeon
Vatican wine and theater figures noted in brief items
Pope Leo made eight hogsheads of wine from his Vatican vineyard with portions for personal use church use and sale. Countess Herrmann Zichy plans a tobacconist shop at Budapest as her husband resigns from parliament over debts and once edited a New York paper. Mme Ysaye assists and handles money for her famed violinist husband. Rev Frank De Witt Talmage remarks that luxury spoils and sons often fail. text then cuts off mid sentence mentioning Lawson Tait.
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Leo
Vatican Gardens
Herrmann Zichy
Buda-Pesth
New York
Frank de Witt Talmage
Washington
Seventieth anniversary of Clarendon Street Baptist Church
The Clarendon Street Baptist Church marked its 70th anniversary with a three service program. Deacon Charles W. Perkins recounted the church history from 1827 founding on Federal Street to the 1869 Chauncy Street site, noting 1181 current members and a long line of pastors and missionaries. The day featured sermons, historical addresses, and reports on the church’s mission work including the Chinese Sunday school and the Gordon Mission Training School.
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Clarendon Street
J. A. McElwain
James M., Gray
D. D
William Howe
Federal Street Church
Charles W. Perkins
Federal Street
Eliza Brown
Mathew Bolles
Boston Stock Exchange
Joshua Lincoln
Sarah L. Haven
Mr. Howe
James R. Hill
Chauncy Street
Bedford
Rowe Street
Howard Malcom
George B. Ide
Albany
N. Y
Clarendon Street Baptist Society
Perkins
Gordon
John Putnam
Amos Bridges
William Manning
R. Fletcher
William D. Ticknor
Charles D. Gould
Samuel H. Loring
G. S. Blanchard
Ebenezer Shute
E. S. Blanchard
George W. Coleman
Banner Society
America
Gordon Mission Training School
Ottawa Place
Ebenezer Baptist Church
Merrimac Street
Union Church
Broad Street
Watchword
L. S. Blanchard
Dr. Gray
Coleman
W. Frederick McDougall
McHiwain
I. O. Whiting
H. BE. Washburn
H. N. Lathrop
Gertrude Blewitt
E. L. Prescott
Helen Perkins
Florence Crosby
Miss Mary Wooly Wins Post Menu Prize
Miss Mary Wooly of 11 Webster Avenue Allston wins the Post Menu prize of $5 for her menu published Friday November 19 last week.
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Mary Wooly
Allston
Webster Avenue
Post
Daily Table Hints Breakfast Menu and Recipes
This item lists a breakfast menu with grape fruit propped eggs on toast baked potatoes and popovers plus a dinner and supper plan including consommé with macaroni roast turkey cranberry sauce and amber pudding. It provides detailed recipe steps for popovers amber pudding Welsh rarebit and broiled sardines with ingredient amounts and cooking times. Nellie G Burke address noted in Roxbury Massachusetts.
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Nellie G. Burke
Dalmatia Street
Roxbury
Mass
How to Walk Fashionably This Season
The article explains the correct walking posture for fashionable women, emphasizing a rigid stance with weight on the ball of the foot, hips drawn back, chest forward, and shoulders back. It notes the use of a bustle and bloused bodice to enhance curves, plus sewing flounces or padded belts to achieve the desired silhouette. skirts lengthen and back grooming matters as much as the front.
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Fashion
Love to Prevail Sermon on Life and Progress in Mu sic Hall
The Rev. B Fay Mills preached last evening on Love the Vital Principle of Life and Progress. He argued that humanity has moved from the era of war to a new age of love and creative power, contrasting past views of God as warlike with a view of divine love guiding progress.
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B. Fay Mills
Music Hall
Mastery in Man and the Case for Universal Arbitration
A speaker argues humanity outgrows war and cites a British Commons petition signed by 7000 labor leaders and 2,500,000 workers urging the United States to pursue a renewed treaty with Great Britain. The piece notes the U S record of about eighty arbitrated disputes this century previously resolved without war.
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House of Commons
Cremer
Great Britain
United States
Athalie to Be Performed by Harvard Radcliffe Company
The department of French at Harvard will present Athalie in Sanders Theatre Cambridge on December 6 8 and 10 at 8 oclock A.D. Racine's tragedy will be staged by Harvard and Radcliffe students graduates and instructors with Miss M Louise Cushing and Miss Mary Coolidge in lead roles directed by B J Lang Mendelssohn music Cecelia singers and Boston Symphony Orchestra players will form the chorus The program includes the first edition text and a parallel translation reserved seats are $2 and may be secured in advance by students alumni and instructors before November 25. Instructors from other schools may also apply.
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Department of French
Harvard University
Sanders Theatre
Memorial Hall
Cambridge
Athalie
France
Radcliffe College
M. Louise Cushing
Mary Coolidge
Boston
Joas
B. J. Lang
Mendelssohn
Cecelia
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Incliffe College
Radcliffe University
Senator Quinn Improves After Illness
Senator John Quinn, bedridden for a week with pneumonia and high fever, shows marked improvement since Saturday and sat up briefly on Sunday. A large crowd has visited his Wendell street home, and he hopes to attend and possibly preside at the Ward 7 Democratic rally Thursday night.
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John Quinn
Wendell Street
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Mme. Ysaye
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Germania Orchestra
Etta Kaileski Bradbury
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M. J. Dwyer
Lon F. Brine
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