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Play this Boston Globe crossword puzzle from 1917

Can you complete this 104-year-old crossword?

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The New York World ran the first-ever “Word-Cross Puzzle” in 1913, sending other papers, including the Globe, scrambling to introduce their own. This puzzle below was published in The Boston Globe on Aug. 19, 1917, one of the first puzzles that ever appeared in the paper. Can you solve it?