Morgenthau proposes American share of Gibraltar control
Henry Morgenthau on his return from abroad urged Britain to grant the United States equal control of the Strait of Gibraltar as a step toward Mediterranean partnership. He said the idea came to him independently and noted English leaders would accept such mandates in exchange for U S involvement in the region.
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New York
Great Britain
Gibraltar
United States
Henry Morgenthau
Wilson
Poland
Constantinople
Armenia
Anatolia
Adriatic
Somerville Man Samuel Eaton Dies in Tremont Collapse
Samuel Eaton aged 55 of 345 Summer Street Somerville collapsed late yesterday in Tremont and died of natural causes before relief hospital arrival.
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Samuel Eaton
Summer Street
Somerville
Tremont
Apple Tree Revived By Stoughton Man
J E Leavitt of 88 Park Street Stoughton reports a remarkable apple from a tree over a century old that five years ago would not bear and now yielded a one pound fruit after scientific spraying with arsenate of lead and pyrox. The owner says the tree looked near death when he acquired it.
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J. E. Leavitt
Park Street
Stoughton
Bartlett Quits GOP At North Attleboro
A reader explains he changed his party enrolment from Republican to Independent after noting a newspaper item about Bartlett leaving the GOP. He states he has always been an Independent and simply updated his voter registration accordingly.
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Sir
Bartlett
North Attleboro
Bartlett Urges End to Party Enrolment for Fair Primaries
William A. Bartlett of North Attleboro argues against party enrollment in primaries. He notes 13 percent of voters in North Attleboro and thousands in Attleboro and Taunton would be disenfranchised. Bartlett supports Richard H. Long for governor, praising his five cent car fare aim, $360 for veterans, and abolition of the poll tax alongside a graduated income tax.
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North Attleboro
Attleboro
Taunton
Richard H. Long
Lange
William A. Bartlett
Will of Charles Gallagher Written On a Moving Train
Judge White allowed the will of Charles T. Gallagher yesterday. The document was penned aboard a railway train at speed, described humorously as written with a new fountain pen in poor light with Gallagher balancing the pad on his knee.
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Charles T. Gallagher
Will of Gallagher covers seven pages dated January 6 1913
The will leaves substantial sums to Mrs. Gallagher and the children, with $2500 each to Miss Alice M White and Miss Harriet Weiler. Nephews Oscar Charles and Theodore receive $500 apiece as a consolation prize, and others share the same if connected to the name. The testator urges thrift and steady investment over speculation, invoking Micawber’s rule.
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Micawber
Few Seek Police Jobs in New Bedford Exam
The Boston police department recruitment exam in New Bedford drew only a handful of applicants at the State Armory. Board head William H. Pierce refused to release numbers joining Captain Skillings Captain Reardon Lieutenant Sheehan and Lieutenant ONeill on site with three former Boston officers acting as pickets. In two hours only two men entered to take the exam, a figure not later clarified by officials.
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New Bedford
Boston Police Department
State Armory
William H. Pierce
Boston Force
Pierce
Perley Skillings
Reardon
Sheehan
O'Neill
Boston
Jeremiah O'Keefe
Clarence W. Frost
Edwin S. Lovequist
Barney
Deininger
Doctor Horace Makechnie Dies at Somerville Home
Dr. Horace P. Makechnie a longtime Somerville resident and former schoolmaster turned physician died suddenly at his home 238 Elm Street. Born 1841 in Ripley Maine he graduated Tufts in 186 and Bellevue Medical 1879. He led Green Mountain Academy and Lincoln School in Somerville and served as Somerville Medical Society president and hospital trustee since founding.
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Horace P. Makechnie
Somerville
Elm Street
Ripley
Tufts College
Green Mountain Academy
Vermont
Lincoln School
Bellevue Medical School
Canada
The
Somerville Medical Society
Somerville Hospital
Daily Events Schedule Highlights Various Naval Civil War and Society Gatherings
Today features exams for Naval Academy at Annapolis and West Point for district residents, a Fine Arts Museum lecture on observing pictures by Miss Alicia Keyes, the 55th Sheridan ride anniversary, the 88th Massachusetts Regiment reunion at Parker House, Ireland talks by Mahoney and Fitzgerald, Civil War Massachusetts Cavalry reunion at Memorial Hall, and a tablet unveiling for Mrs Helen Lincoln Green at Royal House Medford. Cardinal O Connell opens Notre Dame lecture series, Sigma Tau Alpha reunion at Tufts, and a reception for ex Internal Revenue Collector John F Malley at Hotel Somerset.
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Naval Academy
Annapolis
Eighth Congressional District
Custom House
West Point Military Academy
Fourteenth Congressonal
Seth Naval and Military Academies
West Point
Ninth Congressional District
Museum of Fine Arts
Alicia M. Keyes
General Sheridan
88Th Massachusetts Regiment Association
Parker House
Mosely Taylor
Aviation Service
Twentieth Century Club
Ireland
Thomas H. Mahoney
W. T. A. Fitzgerald
Fenway
Sigma Tau Alpha Alumni Association of New England
Tufts College
Internal Revenue
John F. Malley
Hotel Somerset
Ground Floor Opportunity in Moving Picture Company
Investors are urged to buy stock as production company American Cinema has already produced three five reel dramas and two more are near completion. Net assets exceed four hundred twenty five thousand dollars with a foreign sales contract guaranteeing cash advances and a large share of foreign receipts. Projects slated total seventeen by year end with expected profits in American rights of at least eight hundred thousand dollars and substantial foreign earnings.
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Moving Picture Company
Mollie King
Louise Huff
World Film Company
Famous Players Lasky
B. K. Lincoln
American Cinema
New York
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Morgenthau
Stoughton Man
Raynster
U. S. Pat
U.S. Pat
Browning King & Company
the Continental
Wm. Filene’s Sons Company
Kennedy’s
Ted
DR. Makechnie
J. H. Carpenter
Park Square
Going Moving Picture Company
American Cinema Corporation
Niebuhr
Johnson & Hopkins CO
Fifth Avenue
New York City
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