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Newspaper

Cambridge Sentinel

Location

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Jun 27, 1931

Page

4

Cambridge Mayoral Race Rumblings and City Hall Hot Air

Local chatter centers on Cambridge mayoral contenders including Russell and Delaney with commentary on City Hall figures. Rumors touch on recall, planning board schemes, non residents funding campaigns and upcoming debates among Foley Mahoney and Glennon as the fight for the council seat heats up.

Webster company opens new Kendall Square building

The F B Webster Co opens a four story Kendall Square plant in a ceremony with open house from 1 to 6 pm. Miss Mabel T. Eager and G Malcolm welcome visitors as guides describe machinery amid a lunch buffet. Local boxing notes and Braves Field audience details conclude the piece.

Webster Kendall Square Mabel T. Eager G. Malcolm

Fuller Faces Halaiko in Braves Field Open Air Fight

Sammy Fuller the tornado of North Square meets Steve Halaiko at Eddie Mack's Monday night firefest in Braves Field. Fuller seeks another rich test after recent scraps against Mussolini governed style.

Sammy Fuller North Square Mussolini Eddie Mack Braves Field Steve Halaiko

New England Tel and Tel undertake submarine work in Cambridge

At its latest monthly meeting the executive committee of the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company authorized nineteen thousand eight hundred fifty dollars for underground conduit cable serial cable and poles in Cambridge. The project covers 6440 feet of underground cable 6816 feet of aerial cable and 51 poles on Hampshire Prospect Magazine Mount Auburn and Beach streets.

New England Telephone and Telegraph Company Cambridge Hampshire, Prospect Magazine Mount Auburn Beach Streets

Word Spite as a Fragment of Dickensian Feeling

A fragmented observation compares Significance and Word Spite to Dickens style, noting a jumble of feelings and a discordant compound. The quote frames language as multi syllabic and expressive, reflecting literary tone and tension.

RKO Keith Boston Theatre Vaudeville Week Lineup

Four Roxy Gang favorites John Griffin Adelaide De Luca Harold Clyde Wright and Dorothy Githens lead the vaudeville bill. Roscoe Ails and Thelma White perform Steps and Riddles. Five Jewels juggle in A Setting of Feminine Charm. The Briants present The Dream of a Moving Man. Lytell and Fant in Two Chocolate Cake Haters. Three Who Loved a Betty Compson Conrad Nagel Robert Ames screens. Jean Green and his RKO Lions supply special orchestration. Short subjects complete the week.

Roxy Gang John Griffin Adelaide de Luca Harold Clyde Wright Dorothy Githens Roscoe Ails Thelma White Briants Lytell Fant Betty Compson Conrad Nagel Robert Ames Jean Green Rko-Lions

Sweepstakes at REO Keith’s Theatre Romance on Turf Backdrop

REO Keith’s Theatre presents the Pathe release Sweepstakes a Eddie Quillan stars as a jockey with Marion Nixon as the heroine. James Gleason Lew Cody Frederic Burton and Paul Hurst appear in support. Pathe Sound News a travelogue an RBO comedy and an organlogue by Louis Weir complete the program.

REO Pathe Eddie Quillan Marion Nixon James Gleason Lew Cody Frederic Burton Paul Hurst Pathe Sound News RBO Louis Weir Wurlitzer

Stokes Protests Over City Budget and Incinerator Order

city council debated a 1991 tax levy plan favoring a multi year loan to ease current burden. Leahy claimed the year end change aimed to give a clean slate for the incoming mayor. Crowley supported contract labor, and an incinerator halt near Corran’s pit was approved.

Leahy Messrs Crowley Shea Corran’s Pit Lexington Avenue Sid Murphy Western Avenue Memorial Drive

Unlicensed peddler denied license after prior penalties

Max Cohen of 616 Green Street sought a newspaper peddler license but was refused. He admitted ten years of unlicensed selling and recent arrest for lottery tickets, paying a $50 fine. A Sunday store license was granted to another man on condition he obey laws and not sell without a license. Captain Welch urged Cohen to obtain a license.

Max Cohen Green Street Welch Station 1

Water Board Sightseeing Tour on Proposed Improvements

With an $800000 appropriation pending in the City Council, the Water Board toured the system last Wednesday visiting Stony Brook basin Fresh Pond Waltham and other points. The plan would expand Fresh Pond filtration capacity from 13000000 to 24000000 gallons daily and add a new pipeline to raise pressure in the manufacturing district. The group included Superintendent Tim Good Chairman Feeley Jim Scully Henry Shelley Howard Turner Dr George McInnes Jay O Connor and others. A Finance Committee review will follow and the project could employ several hundred local men.

Water Board City Hall Stony Brook Basin Fresh Pond Waltham Riverbank Court Tim Good Feeley Jim Scully Henry Shelley Howard Turner George McInnes The Jay O'Connor Sennett Hughes Gibson Leahy T. FP. Murphy Carmay Stokes Mohr Hastings Council Finance Committee

Silk cocoons drive Japan's home industry surge

Work for Manly Japs The production of silk cocoon. In Japan is largely no household industry, furnishing partial employment to more than 2,000,000 families.

Japan

Atonement in Narrow Width for Spiritual Need

A quotation discusses whether atonement would be too wide for intellect or too narrow for spiritual need. The author remarks that if ill-suited, it would fail both rational and devotional requirements.

Balfour, K. G

Fourth of July festivities planned by Cambridge officials

The Cambridge Fourth of July program directed by the Council Committee on Public Celebrations lists events from 10 A.M. including children's prize races at multiple playgrounds and schools, ice cream stations, senior baseball at several fields, a special Cambridge Common game, and various morning athletic events, with block parties in several wards and widespread ice cream distribution.

Council Committee On Daniel J. Murphy Joseph L. Crowley N. Russell Cazmay Thomas F. Gibson Harry G. Mohr Edward A. Hughes Francis D. Coady John J. Ahern Cambridge Field Blake's Field Boardman Street Engine 7 Main Street Fletcher School Washington Street Portland Street Merrill School Broadway Common Fort Washington Russell E. Hoyt Corporal Raymond Burns Engine 4 Mass. Avenue Blake Street Rindge Eustis Street Oxford Street Baldwin Street Parkway Willard Street Ward 10 Fresh Pond Taylor School Engine 2 Third Street Sleeper School Dudley Street Felton School Summer Street City Yard Hampshire Street Willard School Magazine Street J. B. Johnson Bushway Ice Cream Co Cambridge Common Technology Field Russell BE. Hoyt Rindge Field Raymond Street Magazine Beach Joseph J. Smith Stephen H. Mahoney Blake’s Field Corporal Burns

Father of the silhouette and his lasting legacy

The silhouette named for Etienne de Silhouette, a French finance minister famed for strict economy, inspired a term for something imperfect. The art form began around 1750 and is still made by cutting black paper to reveal profiles.

Etienne de Silhouette

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