Boston City Club Marks New Year With 600 to 4500 Growth
The Boston City Club gathered 600 members to welcome the new year as Hon. Samuel J. Elder spoke amid a Philharmonic Orchestra program and tenor Albert H. Houghton. He noted eight years of growth to 4500 members with a waiting list, $225,000 raised for a new clubhouse, and the cornerstone to be laid next week at the Hotel Somerset, with 3500 members expected.
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Beacon Hill
Samuel J. Elder
Philharmonic Orchestra
Albert H. Houghton
Governor Foss
Mr. Elder
Hotel Somerset
Unguarded Phrase Describes German Student Social Evening
A fragment describes a celebration labeled Kom-8 with Civic Secretary Addison S hip repeatedly addressed. The text notes it was explained to newcomers as a social evening etiquette and records a president being honored on entering the room.
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Addison Ship
Meielies
Man Charged With Selling Transfer Checks
John Buckley aged 56 of 105 Washington Street was arrested by Patrolman Roland P. Greene at Dover and Washington Streets and booked at East Dedham Street station for illegally securing and selling elevated transfer checks.
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Washington Street
Roland P. Greene
Dover
Washington Streets
East Dedham Street
Poiret: American women lack time for feeling in dress
Paris designer Paul Poiret said American women have no time for feeling when judging styles and manners of dress. He spoke yesterday, calling out the perceived lack of style among U.S. women.
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Mr. Poiret
America
Paris
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Poiret Critiques American Fashion in His Parisian Lens
Paris fashion designer Poiret criticizes American women for lacking personal style and copying Paris trends. He urges individual dress, prefers bold color contrasts, to discard corsets, and notes Boston and New York talks on style. Mrs Poiret accompanies him in subdued blue attire with painted flowers.
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Boston
New York
Copley Plaza
Canada May Admit U S Grain Free
Canadian Cabinet expected to decide on admitting grain from the United States free of duty at the January Parliament session. Justice Minister CC J Doherty announced this in Lethbridge Alberta as Western boards of trade and grain growers urged immediate action.
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United States
CC. J. Doherty
Lethbridge
Alberta
Boards of Trade and Grain Growers’ Associations
Canada
Wireless Link Between Norway and Massachusetts Planned
The Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of America secures a contract with the Norwegian government to build a wireless station in Norway that will connect with a station planned on the Massachusetts coast, creating a transatlantic link.
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Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of America
Massachusetts
McGregor backs biennial sessions plank for Massachusetts
Alexander McGregor president of the Republican Club of Massachusetts urges a biennial Legislature and governor elections in the party platform. He argues annual sessions waste time and money and that two year terms would raise legislative quality. He mails his plea to Guy Ham and cites rising primary costs and partisan discord as reasons.
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