New York Opens Plans for Hotel Linnard Project
Ground was broken on the $10,000,000 Hotel Linnard on Park Avenue as D. M. Linnard and E. M. Statler lead the venture. The 18 story white stone tower aims to be the world’s finest hotel run to American standards. J. M. Statler already controls the Hotel Pennsylvania and several other properties while Linnard holds interests in eight California hotels and the Ambassador in Atlantic City.
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New York
Linnard
D. M. Linnard
E. M. Statler
Park Avenue
Fifty-first
Fifty-second Street
J. M. Statler
Pennsylvania
New York City
Newton Boy Killed by Car at City Corner
Daniel Levie, 12, of 11A Middle Street Newton, was struck by an automobile owned and driven by Frederick Reed of 8 Brooks Street Newton yesterday afternoon. He died after being taken to Newton City Hospital from internal injuries. The accident happened at the corner of Washington Street and Adams Avenue. Reed transported the boy to the hospital and reported the incident to police. Witnesses said the boy ran in front of the car.
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Daniel Levie
Middle Street
Newton
Frederick Reed
Brooks Street
Newton City Hospital
Washington Street
Adams Avenue
Reed
Watertown Raises Tax Rate to 23.80 Per Thousand
Watertown announces a tax rate of 23.80 per thousand, up 3.80 from 1918, the highest in town history. The Boston Elevated deficit share of 56,997.18 and annual town meeting appropriations drive the increase. Total valuation rises to 25,321,005, up 1,540,228 from 1918.
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Watertown
Boston
Bolsheviki Massacres in Yekaterinoslav Reported
London reports say Bolsheviki executed more than 1000 people in Yekaterinoslav before evacuation. A physician at the pits said victims were bludgeoned and mutilated, with bodies found bearing broken legs and ribs from blows.
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Constantinople
Via
London
Yekaterinoslav
Russia
Robbin
Grand Lodge Officer Honored in Somerville
Twenty five hundred Odd Fellows and Rebekah Lodge members attended a reception and banquet in the Somerville high school hall for George L. Dolloff who was yesterday elected grand master of the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts. A city procession from Davis Square to City Hall was reviewed by Mayor Charles W. Eldridge and grand lodge officers.
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Rebekah Lodge
Somerville
George L. Dolloff
Grand Lodge of
Massachusetts
Davis Square
Highland Avenue
City Hall
Charles W. Eldridge
Grand Lodge
Eight Men Arrested in NYC Drug Ring Seizures Over $100000
Internal Revenue agents arrested eight men in New York and seized habit forming drugs valued at more than $100,000. The gang, aided by an express clerk, allegedly moved drugs nationwide via the American Express as export goods. Authorities name no suspects and say the clique served a larger figure. The operation extended across the country.
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New York
Internal Revenue
Daniel L. Porter
American Railway Express Company
Express
American Express
Porter
Newton Nurse Returns from France Aids Shell Shock Recovery
Miss Susan W Hills returns to Newton after a year with the Reconstruction Aid Department in France. The group, part of the United States Medical Corps, trained men with shell shock in vocational methods to regain limb use at Newton High Lands.
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Reconstruction Aid Department
France
Susan W. Hills
Centre Street
Newton Highlands
United States Medical Corpa
Miss Hills
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Oxford
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Goodyear West
Georgette Crepe
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Newton Boy
Bolsheviki
the Christ
Amon Garcia
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Rewaks Stores
Maine
Auerbach
D. Auerbach & Sons
Eleventh Avenue
47Th Street
Cambridge
Mass
Mein Street
Kornfelds
Summer Street
Boston Post
Rome
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