Mayor vetoes renaming of Roxbury public squares
The Mayor vetoed council orders renaming Roxbury squares to honor fallen Boston soldiers. Vetoes affected Tremont Station junction, Roxbury to Thomas Connelly square. Linwood to William E. Anderson. Dearborn to John Charles Peterson. Basex and Harrison to Thomas Karen. Tremont Clinton Montgomery to Jeremiah W. Sullivan. Cedar Ford and Centre to James M. Hines square.
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Peters
Boston
Tremont
Station Streets
Roxbury
Thomas
Connelly
William Pynchon
Linwood
William E. Anderson
Dearborn Square
John Charles Peterson
Basex Street
Harrison Avenue
Thomas Karen
Phillips Square
Clarendon
Montgomery Streets
Jeremiah W. Sullivan
Montgomery Square
Cedar Street
Ford, Avenue
Centre Streets
James M. Hines
Amundsen Polar Ship Maud Stuck in Arctic Ice
Captain Roald Amundsen’s Maud is wedged in polar ice off Kolyuchin Bay west of Wrangel Island and near the Siberian coast. Fur traders reaching Nome report the ship remains immobilized as the expedition continues in the Arctic.
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Alaska
Roald Amundsen
Maud
Polar
Kolyuchin Bay
Siberia
Wrangell Island
Siberian
Nome
M C Brush Sold by US Shipping Board to North Atlantic Line
The North Atlantic and Western Steamship Company announced the purchase of the M C Brush from the US Shipping Board. The 401 foot freight steamer, named for a living public figure Matthew C Brush, is to be delivered around Oct 23 and sail to Los Angeles and San Francisco by Nov 1.
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North Atlantic and Western Steamship Company
United States Shipping Board
M. C. Brush
Matthew C. Brush
Boston Elevated Railway
Boston
Hog Island
American International Corporation
Penn
General Electric Curtis Marine
Babcock and Wilcox
M. G Brush
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Nansco Line
West Togus
Artigas
Lehigh
Springfield
Stanley Dollar
Yosemite
Nansco Company
Army Supply Base Pier
South
Nansco
Portland
Liverpool
Glasgow
West Isleta
Girls in Newton Stage Masquerade Pranks
Four Newton young women in disguises paraded through Newton last night causing mischief. They dressed as an old maid and as leisured ladies, played tag with a Newton policeman, and disrupted a local bowling tournament at the Newton Highlands square alley.
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Newton
Boston & Worcester Electric
Newton Highlands Square
Old maid row on Boston car ends in chase and prank
A Boston and Worcester line car at Parker street Newton sees four youths insult a married woman described in 1880s attire. After taunts and gibes the conductor ejects them. police intercede as they flee toward Newton Centre.
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Boston and Worcester
Parker Street
Newton
Joseph Cummings
Newton Force
Newton Highlands
Odd Fellows
Newton Centre
League Aids U S Farmers via League of Nations
Grand Island Neb Sept 27 Interest of American farmers in European markets for surplus through the League of Nations was the basis of league arguments offered by Governor Cox today across Nebraska corn belt.
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Grand Island
Neb
League of Nations
Cox
Nebraska
Boston Evening Schools See Attendance Rise
The Boston evening schools opened with higher expected turnout than last year. Officials noted a Jewish holiday yesterday may delay exact totals, with estimates suggesting as many as 25 000 pupils. Night schools include nine high schools and 12 elementary programs plus trade and extension classes.
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Boston
Trade School
Frank V. Thompson
Michael J. Downey
Thompson
City halts oil tank permits after unanimous injunction
South Boston residents including two Catholic pastors secured an injunction against the street commissioners to stop permits for inflammable fluid tanks at West First D streets and East First P streets. The order, backed by an ancient ordinance, requires mayoral approval and blocks Jenney Manufacturing tanks of 1,300,000 gallons and Michigan Tanning Company tanks of 750,000 gallons for Tidewater Oil Sales.
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West First
D Streets
East First
P Streets
South Boston
Ford
Jenney Manufacturing Company
Michigan Tanning Company
Tidewater Oil Sales Company
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Amundsen
Stewart
Burnell- Faulkner Company
For M. C. Brush
League
New Order
North Platte
Gothenburg
Lexington
Kearney
York
Seward
State Capitol
Lincoln
Omaha
Europe
America
R.h.white Co
New England
Wilton and
Axminster
Brussels
Orlick
Kennedy’s
Laive
Kennedy
Hawley Streets
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