Word: district
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...University Register, shows Massachusetts leading all other states by more than 500 per cent. New York is second, Ohio third and Pennsylvania fourth. Every state in the Union, with the exception of Mississippi and Wyoming, is represented in the list, as well as Alaska, the Canal Zone, the District of Columbia, the Territory of Hawaii and Porto Rico. The total for the University is 2,998, as opposed to 4,451 last year...
...order was received yesterday at the Charlestown Navy Yard to enroll 5,000 more men in the Naval. Reserve of the First Naval District. It is expected that a campaign will be started at once to recruit men up to the required number. An order also came to call into active service nearly all of the reservists who are at present on the rolls but unassigned to regular duty, except those in schools and colleges...
...latest results on the collection of the Metropolitan District of Boston show that the allotment of $1,800,000 sought in the district will easily be reached when the separate collections have been turned in and the totals compiled. The latest returns published gave a figure of $1,539,785 early yesterday afternoon, only $260,215 short of the whole allotment. Assurances which came from trades committees and other sources at noon indicated that not more than $150,000 remained to be secured during the afternoon and evening...
...city of Boston, proper, had already passed its maximum of $1,000,000, on unofficial reports, at noon. When the figure of $1,539,785 was made out, 41 cities and towns of the district remained still to be heard from, although many of the local committees in the district had sent in approximately accurate reports by telephone. The largest collection reported by any committee outside of Boston was $89,331, from Brookline...
...give this tradition defiance. How the bulk of the mails has been affected is not yet announced. What has been observed, however, is the surprising fact that a great many people have been placing three-cents worth of postage both on the letters for delivery outside the Boston district, which require it, and on those for delivery within the district, which do not require it. Apparently the printed lists of the liberal number of stations among which letters can be exchanged at the old rate of two cents an ounce have not been widely enough read by the public, although...