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Mother Roper Seamen Helper Marks Fifty Years
Janet Lord, later Mother Roper, rose from a Boston youth to house mother of the Seamen's Church Institute in New York. She published missing sailors lists, reuniting families and recovering 5327 sailors from oblivion. In Boston she married a Congregational minister. after his 1915 death she moved to New York. Also noted: Judge Manley O Hudson, international law authority, arrived to speak on world peace and law.
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New York
Janet Lord
Hanover Street
Boston
The
Boston Seamen’s
Friends
Janet
Roper
Seamen's
Church Institute
South ‘Street
Cape of Good ‘Hope
Cairo
John O’groats
Ambrose
Gloucester
Canada
Oregon
Seamen’s Institute
Brooklyn
Manley O. Hudson
United States
League of Nations
St. Peters
Commonwealth
Audson
League of Nationa Secretariat
State Department
Paris
Committee To
World’ Court Bench
League Assembly
William Sewell College
Liberty
Hig
Harvard
Consolidated Features
WNU Service
Angela C. Kaufman
Joseph Kaufman
Newport, R. I
Kaufmann
Divine
Kaufman