Wells Searing War Novel Sees It Through in Britling
H G Wells delivers a powerful war era novel centered on Mr Britling and his awakening to global conflict. The work blends personal romance with sharp social insight as war reshapes Essex village life and its inhabitants.
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Mr. Wells
Mr. Britling
MacMillan
Germany
Essex
Flanders
Herr Heinrich
Pomerania
Carpathians
Wilshire
Harrowdean
Mr. Direck
Mr. Kreck
England
Massachusetts
Mr.Wells
Britling
Wells
Trolley Fire Threatens City Point Car in South Boston
A short circuit caused a fire on an outbound City Point street car near Broadway and Dorchester Street in South Boston at about 6 15. A score or more of passengers narrowly escaped burns as the blaze swept the car. Engine 1 quickly extinguished the flames and traffic was halted for about thirty minutes.
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City Point
Broadway
Dorchester Street
Boston
Mayor Curley Speaks at Tammany Club Rally
Mayor Curley was the principal speaker at a rally held by the Tammany Club at its headquarters last night. More than 500 members attended the gathering.
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Curley
The
Tammany Club
Club
Trial reveals letters from Whitney Lyon to Margaret Connell
In New York on October 27, Whitney Lyon millionaire tooth powder maker faced a $100000 breach of promise suit from Miss Margaret Connell. Read letters show playful notations ending with Your big fat fool. Lyon and his children testified they saw no romantic history.
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New York
Whitney Lyon
Margaret Connell
Royal Palm Hotel
Miami
Morida
Lyon
Doll
Getty
Fifth Avenue
Miss Connell
O. K
Dorothy
Wellesley College
Irving
Yale
Dorothy Lyon
Irving Lyon
Catawamteak Strands Yet Refloats Off Shovelful Shoals
The schooner Catawamteak, known as the cat of the coastwise fleet, ran aground at Shovelful Shoals near Chatham Massachusetts but was helped off by Monomoy Point coast guards. Skipper praised the vessel as a charmed boat, continuing its voyage from Stonington Maine to New York without damage. In 64 years afloat she has repeatedly struck coastlines and survived.
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Chatham
Mass
New England
Davy Jones
Ellis
Monomoy Point
Stonington
New York
Arraignment of Italian held as accessory in Di Nuccio murder
Antonio Mauro aged 25 of Middleton New York was arraigned in Chelsea Court for accessory after the fact in the Cosmo Di Nuccio murder case in Providence Rhode Island. The hearing was postponed to November 3 due to the disappearance of government witness Miss May Alley, a lodger on Shewmut Street Chelsea.
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Cottaze Street
Middleton
N. Y
Cosmo di Nuccio
Providence
R. I
Chelsea
May Alley
Shewmut Street
Hoar Challenges Rogers to Debates Across Fifth District
Former Senator Roger Sherman Hoar asks Congressman Rogers to a series of joint debates in Lowell and Woburn and other parts of the fifth district. He proposes discussing the eight hour work law the federal reserve act and the claim that the South is in the saddle.
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Roger Sherman Hoar
Congressman Rogers
Lowell
Woburn
Fifth Congressional District
Hoar
Cornell Team Threatened Abduction of Mascot at Lenox
Ithacans warn that bold Harvard youths may try to abduct Touchdown II, the Cornell mascot, after the team arrived at the Hotel Lenox yesterday. The incident recalls last year’s bear mascot theft from its cage in the Lenox lobby in the early morning hours.
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Harvard
Cornell
Hotel Lenox
Ithacans
Bear
Orono Pigskin Cub Climbs Roof in Gym Crowd Prank
The 1917 football team’s new black cub Touchdown II from Orono Maine was showcased by Dutch Schmidt and manager Walton Lally. They took him to a hotel roof where he ascended a large iron pipe but fled back after peering into the bore, declining to shelter there.
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Orono
Maine
Schmidt
Walton Lally
First Boston Public Walk to Boost City Health
The first in a new series of Boston Public Walks will be held today at 2 30 pm. Participants meet at the Common band stand and follow a route through the Public Garden Charles River esplanade Back Bay Fens Jamaica Pond and end at the YMCA building Huntington Avenue.
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The
Fens
Art Museum
Huntington Avenue
Mrs Sircom Dies in Melrose in 83d Year
Mrs Elizabeth Sircom died yesterday in Melrose in her 83d year after a prolonged illness at 314 Main Street. Funeral will be Monday morning. She is survived by three sons Richard SH Sircom a Boston skirt manufacturer Gerald A Sircom and Frank R Sircom and a daughter Miss Elizabeth H Sircom who lived with her.
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Main Street
Melrose
Richard SH. Sircom
Boston
Gerald A. Sircom
Frank R. Sircom
Elizabeth H. Sircom
Maritime disasters increase in war zone report
Sinking of the British steamer Huntsfall by a submarine and the burning of the Norwegian steamer Severn are added to the wartime losses in the Lloyds report forwarded to the State Department from London.
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Washington
Lloyds
State Department
London
Six Arrested After Beacon Street Crash In Boston
A collision between a car owned by Frederick M. Libby Jr of Marblehead and a buggy driven by William Colvin of Brookline led to six arrests. The auto operator and five companions including Robert D. McFarlan, Arthur J. Crosby, Rufus A. Shory, John J. Smith, and Ashton J. Smith were detained. A man and a woman fled the scene.
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Washington Street
Marblehead
William Colvin
Beacon Street
Brookline
Commonwealth Avenue
Robert D. McFarlan
Commonwealth Hotel
Arthur J. Crosby
Fuller Street
Rufus A. Shory
Myrtle Street
John J. Smith
Beacon Chambers
Ashton J. Smith
Warren Street
Brighton
Five charged after accident before officer arrives
Libby faces a charge of operating an auto while under the influence of liquor. The other five individuals are charged with intoxication as details of the scene of the accident emerge before Patrolman Sorway of the Back Bay station arrive.
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Back Bay
Libby
South Boston High Player Injured in Practice Fractured Leg
Thomas F. Kennedy, 19, halfback for South Boston High, was hospitalized at City Hospital with a left leg fracture below the knee after a practice session ahead of the game with Boston College High at Fenway Park. He lives with his parents at 45 G Street South Boston.
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South Boston
City Hospital
Boston College High School
Fenway Park
G Street
South Goston
Man Who Beat Woman Held for Murder
Andrew Nelson, a colored sailor, was committed to Charles Street jail without bail for the murder of Carrie Dellaotch of Camden Street. She died at City Hospital Thursday night from a beating suffered at her Camden Street home following a quarrel over a $1.25 room rent debt.
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Charles Street
Carrie Dellaotch
Camden Street
City Hospital
Nelson
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