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...Halifax disaster has ever occurred. Plenty of munition depots and munition ships as large as the Mont Blanc have doubtless been blown up in this war, and scores of costly collisions between vessels have occurred. But never has an explosion on board ship had the disastrous effect of this one. It is supposed that the Mont Blanc carried a huge amount of the new explosive, trinitrotuluol, T.N.T., a glistening pale-yellow powder, as potent as nitroglycerine, though safer to handle. Moreover, the situation of the ship in the half-mile-wide Narrows, between two rising shores, seems to have caused...
...Boston from the South Station around to the North Station, and across Charlestown to beyond the Navy Yard; only in Halifax the property was less valuable, and the wharves and buildings more scattered; two-fifths of it was railway frontage, two-fifths Imperial docks and barracks, and only one-fifth private property. In size and sort, the residential area destroyed would almost correspond to East Boston. And beyond the area of practical destruction enormous damage has been caused by the peculiar vicious swiftness of the explosion. Thirteen hundred persons have been killed and a great many more wounded. Nothing like...
...will be given tomorrow afternoon and evening at 3 and at 8 o'clock in Agassiz Theatre, Radcliffe. The entire proceeds of both performances will be devoted to a fund for the benefit of the sufferers in the recent Halifax disaster. It was at first planned to give only one performance, but the tickets sold so quickly that the management decided to give two of them. At present, all the tickets for the evening performance have been sold, but several matinee tickets are still on sale at the Co-operative Branch Store, at Amee Brothers and at Herrick...
...opening performance of "Her Flesh and Blood," the 47 Workshop's newest drama, will take place in Agassiz House, Radcliffe, at 8 o'clock tonight. A second performance will be given at the same place next Monday evening, December 17, at 8 o'clock. On both evenings no one will be admitted except by invitation...
...production of "Her Flesh and Blood follows that of a series of three one-act plays which were presented privately some time ago, and which met with such success that two public performances were given on December 1. Since that time the members of English 47 have been rehearsing daily for the production of the four-act piece to be given tomorrow night. "Her Flesh and Blood." is a drama dealing with the problems of New England life. Cast Announced. The cast of the follows: Timothy Atwood, W. Butterfield uC Sadie Carver, Fredericka Gilbert Aunt Carver, Doris Halman...