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...City Council was about to approve the measure, one Councilor Jack Salmon, "a breezy fish salesman," arose and denounced Character Barkis as "a silly old pup . . . a drunken rascal with a red nose." Forthwith one Alderman Goode vouched for Barkis' honesty and did not admit his habitual drunkenness; and the deliberations of the Council became audible in the next room...
...effort to relieve Harvard Square's acute parking problem. Councilor Cazmay has introduced a petition into the Cambridge City Council to have the corner of Mt. Auburn and Boylston Streets, in front of the Pi Eta Club, rounded off. Aesthetic reasons also underly the petition, for it is felt that the rounded curve will add to the appearance of the city and minimize the traffic dangers of sharp corners...
There arrived in the U. S. a Japanese Commission, established to examine the trial-by-jury system of the Occident. Among the members Were M. Minagawa, Attorney General of Japan; M. Toyomizu, Justice of the Court of Appeals of Tokio, and M. Iwamura, Councilor and Secretary to the Minister of Justice. After leaving the U. S., the Commission will proceed to Britain, France, Germany and Italy, to conduct further investigations into the application of trial-by-jury in the courts of those countries...
...Fiquet, brisk pater familias and councilor of the Folie-Méricourt precinct of the Department of the Seine, suddenly became alarmed lest Parisian schoolchildren had not enough time to consume the formidable French mid-day meal. So he appealed to the Prefect of the Seine, M. Juillard, grizzled repository of safety and welfare...
...Marquis Agostino Ferrante di Ruffano, of the Royal Italian Consulate at Boston, has consented to serve as concillor together with the Faculty and alumni advisors. Signer Isadore Bracgiotti of Boston also was elected councilor...