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...Boston Elevated Railway Company announced yesterday that motor busses will take the place of the street cars on Broadway beginning tomorrow. The busses will be operated from Harvard Square to Kendall square. This is part of the plan proposed by the Metropolitan Planning Division to make a new traffic artery from Boston through Cambridge to Porter square...
...Motor vehicles...
...settled into a file, he jogged into the lead. Higgins, onetime Columbia University star, passed him at the 600-yard post; Nurmi paid no attention. He ran very erect, pulled his legs up in front of him like levers operated by a machine, as efficient as an airplane motor. Ray was now running third; three and a half laps from the finish, he jumped the field, passed Nurmi, Higgins, opened up a lead of ten yards. The crowd roared. Nurmi plodded on. One lap, two laps. His levers began to pump a little faster. Ray was tired. Suddenly Ray, suddenly...
...done, unit costs in a closed car can be kept even with an open model, despite the greater material and workmanship called for by the former. Enthusiasts now prophesy that in a few years open cars will be built only on special order-as closed cars were when the motor industry first started...
Divorced. Allan A. Ryan, Manhattan stocktrader, famed for having "cornered" the stock of the Stutz Motor Car Co. in 1919-20, by Mrs. Sarah Tuck Ryan; last October...