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...plot of the comedy centres about the receipt by the village chief of police of a warrant--"Steckbrief"--calling for the arrest of a spy who is supposed to be hiding in the village. The description of the spy is given in the most general terms, and the ambitious chief of police mistakes every new arrival for the man he is to arrest. Two travelling salesmen and a doctor are held as suspects pending the arrival of the police commissioner, who is summoned from a neighboring town. All three succeed, finally, in proving their innocence, much to the discomfiture...
...under Cambridge street to the new Charles River Dam. The legislation last year provided for a four-track subway from Harvard square under Massachusetts avenue and Main street to the new Cambridge Bridge, but the Railroad Company declined to build this system because prospective travel was not sufficient to warrant such an expense...
...necessary before the plan can be put into effect. The legislation last year provided for a four-track subway from Harvard square under Massachusetts avenue and Main street to the new Cambridge bridge, but the Railroad Company declined to build this system because prospective travel was not sufficient to warrant such an expense. Under the new plan the company will build the Massachusetts avenue subway as soon as legislative sanction is obtained, but it may postpone building the Cambridge street route for 10 years. At the expiration of that period the city will have the right to build this subway...
...position to judge as to the expediency of increasing the price of the tickets. If, as you say, the debt is being extinguished at the rate of $20,000 a year, it seems to me that the conditions would hardly warrant raising the price of the tickets. ELIOT SPALDING...
...sufficient interest is shown to warrant the undertaking an association football club will be formed at once and the matter of joining the Massachusetts league discussed...