New Year Echoes and City Hall Inaugural Hopes
A column wishes readers a happy new year and notes early turnout for the inaugural exercises at City Hall. Councillor-elect Bill Hogan Jr observations from the 1939 closing session hint he may be heard from next week. Park Rd meeting is expected to be lively after a postponement to after Inauguration Day. Major Bill Bowie from the Water Department suffered a subway accident in Central Sq Boston bound while descending stairs. Dr. William Moran is holidaying in New York. whispers suggest no city council president for 1940 if the initial meeting runs long.
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City Hall
Bill Hogan, Jr
Park Rd
Bill Bowie
Water Dept
Tim Good
Central Sq
Boston
Bill
Wm. H
Bill) Moran
Maurice Corkery to Host Yuletide Show at Square Theatre
Maurice Corkery will host a Christmas event at Square Theatre today at 1 P M. The Cambridge Post Junior Band of the American Legion, forty seven children, led by Charles Titcomb, will perform. Gaetanni Fratianni will sing. Virginia Winn will recite. the Swyers sisters will play bugle and trumpet. Abe Cohen, vice commander of the Cambridge Post, arranged the program with help from the chair.
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Gaetanni Fratianni
Virginia Winn
Swyers Sisters
Abe Cohen
Cambridge Post
City Council Adopts Humane Order To Censor Names
Unanimous council vote approves a broad order led by Councillor M A oa to remove Lenin and Lenin grad from books and maps in the city and to substitute St. Petersburg in public materials. Legal questions arise over enforcement and naming of responsible party.
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John T. Shea
M A. Oa
Lenin
Leningrad
St. Petersburg
Mike
Cambridge Elks Plan Elaborate New Year Gala Event
Arrangements are complete for the annual New Year’s Eve party sponsored by the Cambridge Lodge of Elks. The entire building will be open to members and guests for a diversified entertainment program meant to please everyone.
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Cambridge Lodge of Elks
Cambridge City Council Passes Unenforceable Lenin Memorial
The Boston Post notes Cambridge voters passed a unanimous ordinance ordering the words or now in, but it has no enforcement provision. The piece argues Lenin’s memory is dangerous while Stalin’s policy differs, calling the resolution a curious Cambridge political gesture with a wry, smiling tone.
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Cambridge
Lenin
Gas Electric Light Co Employees Hold Annual Christmas Festival
One hundred eight Cambridge families received Christmas baskets through the Gas-Electric Light Co employees Christmas Turkey Basket Fund chaired by Leslie J. Kewer with $485.56 raised toward a $450 goal. The event featured carols, special musical numbers, and deliveries by volunteer workers to families in need, highlighting corporate employee generosity and community spirit.
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Cambridge
H. Coleman Moore, Jr
Treas
N. E. and
Electric Ass'n
Richard E. Rolls
Floyd D. Campbell
N. E. Ass'n
Frank W. Randall
Hall Henry
C. A. Powers
Leonard Francoeur
Cambridge Electric Light Co
Sania Sumner
Porter
Cambridge , Gas Light Company
Cambridge Electric Light Company
New England Gas and Electric Association
Lively Boston food distributor built Central Sq empire
A veteran market founder who created a bustling Central Square over 40 years ago with Manhattan Market and expanded the Upper City trade reach with the Big Bear on Mt. Auburn Street near the Watertown line.
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Greater
Boston
Greater Central Sq
Manhattan
Upper City
Mt. Auburn St
Watertown
Java Island Claims Highest Population Density
The island of Java in the East Indies is the most densely populated land mass in the world, reaching a high population per square mile.
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Java
East Indies
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Sentinel
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Stuart Erwin
Warjorie Weaver
Zxorros Fighting Legion
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Claire Trevor
John Wayne
Brian Donlevy
Geo. Sanders
Allegheny Uprising
Dus Kane
The
Maurice Corkery
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Providence
Cambridge Trust Company
E. J. McNeil
M.D
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Grean St
Cop
Central St
Green St
Police
Cambridge Savings Bank
Cambridgeport East
Cambridge North Avenue
Cambridge Street
Chas. F. Burlep
Commonwealth Avenue
Boston Post
Leslie J. Kewer
F. Smith
Agnes O'Donnell
D. J. MacGillivary
D. N. Squiers
M. Scannell
Wiliam E
Ikine
E. P. Johnson
John Logue
W. Cheseborough
John Gray
Emmett Smith
James Rainey
Margaret Sugrue
George McCusker
R. Trebino
R. Barry
Charles O'Connor
A. Batehelder
Arthur Landry
George Gowdy
George Hahn
George Hannon
Richard Gibbs
James Allen
James Corrigan
E. E. Eolls
J. H. Sumner
R. B. Shelton
John A, Butler
St. Mary’s Church
Hamilton
Boylston ST
Harvard
George E. Squires
Notary Public
Mass
FOX & Tishman
Main St
Near
Kendall Sq
Cooperative Bank
Columbian Cooperative Bank
Kirkland
Massachusetts Ave
Arthur Smith
TISIT
Sgee
Electric Supply CO. and
Camera Exchange
Cambridge, Mass
Green Street
Galely Hersum & Co, Inc
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