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...Mayor-elect Nichols has been in politics for many years. The political success that has attended him almost since he graduated from Harvard was in the forefront of the Boston mayoralty fight Tuesday. Mr. Nichols, one of a field of ten struggling candidates, emerged an easy victor. His plurality of 21,790 votes is the largest received by any candidate for the office in many years...
...England sea captain, Edwin T. Nichols. He entered Harvard in 1895, and steered clear of most extra-curriculum activities while in college. He did win note as a boxer of merit, and to this day boxing has been the means of the Mayor-elect receiving his daily exercise...
...Lord Mayor's show was incepted in 1215 when King John suggested that the Mayors should present themselves to him or to his Justices for the royal approval. On the annual pilgrimage to Westminster for this purpose, crowds followed the Mayor-elect who generally rode on horseback; gradually the crowd became more ordered, and a procession was formed. For some years, the Mayors-elect used to make the journey by water in a magnificent state barge; but, in the 17th Century, the practice of riding was re-introduced and continued until 1711, when Sir Gilbert Heathcote was distinguished...
...leave it to those airy children of light-winged fancy who live around the corner to disport themselves upon the breath of words; and to play the role of merry-hearted Puck. Readily will we wish Lampoon editors (nor will we, in a spirit of mean reprisal, add "and Mayor-elect Curley") a very merry Christmas and a New Year in which there will be innumerable candidates blest with the divine fire. And if our good wishes seem not to bubble spontaneously from an overflowing heart we beg forbearance. Even the infectious spirit of this jovial season will not permit...
...Mayor-elect Quinn is directing a system of speeches in the leading theatres of Boston and Cambridge. Between acts, members of the Halifax Committee will address the audience in behalf of the relief...