Armenian Deportation Hearings Describe Turkish Atrocity Claims
An American student testified that Armenian women and children were killed after mass outrages by Turks and reported 28 women and 60 children at Ellis Island and East Boston awaiting deportation. He offered to post bonds, and officials sought labor department help to intervene before deportees reach Turkish soil.
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Knightly
Amer
Robetts Coleas
Constantinople
Boaton
Ighone
Alster
Mur
Ellis Island
East Boston
Johnson
Department of Labor
Weeks Confers on Muscle Shoals Bid
Secretary Weeks was ready to confer Monday with Henry Ford engineers Mayo and Washington on the Detroit firm’s offer to purchase and lease the Muscle Shoals nitrate and waterpower projects. The talks follow Weeks’s inspection of the works with Thomas A. Edison.
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Washington
Henry Ford
Muscle Shoals
Ala
le W. Tl. Mayo
Detroit
Muscle Shoala
Thomas A. Fdison
Relief effort planned by Athens churches on campus
Representatives from Athens churches and relief groups will meet at Madame Lustrat's University campus home Tuesday afternoon to organize spring aid. Miss Inez Fuller of the Red Cross says a confidential exchange style organization may be created to avoid duplicate relief work. A Joan fund and two clothes chests for the needy are being planned to be discussed at the meeting.
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Athens
Madame Lustrat
Inez Fuller
The
Red Cross
Joan
Students Strike For Two Weeks Xmas Holiday
Ocala Florida. Ocala high school students walk out in a strike demanding a two week holiday rather than one. They march to the county superintendent asking for an extra week off. The superintendent says the law limits school breaks to one week and cannot grant more. Faculty idle while students remain out.
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Ocala
Fla
Public Secnatan
Newspapers Sold By Rotary For Xmas Finds
Peters burg Va a Rotary campaign raised nearly $7 000 for charities by distributing a Sunday newspaper through the city. Businessmen delivered papers to subscribers who paid from a dollar to 50 for a Christmas tree. Sixteen other groups joined the Rotary in the drive which ended Sunday.
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Petersburg
Rotary Club
Wis
Monument to Dogs That Served In World War
New York reports a monument to dogs that served in France and Belgium will be erected at the Hartsdale canine cemetery near White Plains. It will cost 2500, designed by a noted sculptor, featuring a bronze war dog with helmet and canteen atop a boulder overlooking a busy highway. A bronze tablet will note the dogs aided in defeating the Germans at rest in the United States’ only animal cemetery with Paris’ rival.
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New York
Messerg
Battefield
France
Belgium
Hartsdale
White Plaine
N. Y
United States
Parla
Inez
Peta
Vigorous Chicago raids target 750 booze offenders
Chicago officials led by Mayor Thompson and State's Attorney Crowe vow relentless enforcement after two nights of raids. Over 750 suspects, including 150 saloon keepers, were to be arraigned, with raids spanning from Lake Shore drive casinos to South Side clubs. Harry W. Mager, former US revenue collector, was among those detained as police recovered a large liquor cache. The police press a hard line under Prohibition law, and Crowe says the crackdown will continue to prove authorities are not lenient.
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Chicago
Mquor
Thompson
Robert B. Crowe
Tith
Lake Shore
Southside
Harry W. Mager
Unite States
Stanton
Brownie Dickson Heads Red Cross in Athens
Miss Brownie Dickson was elected executive secretary of the Athens Red Cross succeeding Miss Inez Fuller who resigned. Dickson will begin duties Monday and Miss Lois Threadgill was elected assistant secretary, to begin January 2. Fuller plans to return to Detroit with her father after her mother’s recent death.
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Brownie Dickson
Athens Red Cross
Inez Fuller
Miss Dickson
Lois Threadgill
Toney
Athens Red Grass
Miss Fuller
Red Cross
Athens
Detroit
Michigan
Miss, Fuller
Get-It Corn Remover Claims Millions Use It
Advert says millions use Gets-It for painless corns and warns wear proper shoes. Claims quick relief with first application and urges insistence on genuine BE Lawrence & Co. Chicago product sold in Athens by W. J. Smith & Bros.
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Bi Mao
BE. Lawrence & Co
Chicago
Athens
W. J. Smith & Bros
Secretarial Appointment Hinted at Local Org Change
A longtime member who has served the organization in various capacities is thought to make an excellent secretary after over a year with the group. The note suggests forthcoming leadership adjustments and formal recognition of her potential role.
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Red Grass
France Can Employ 1.6 Million Foreign Workers Says Official Count
Government figures indicate 1,128,000 out of work in France have disappeared from the labor rolls and the country can now employ about 1.6 million foreign workers, mainly for farms and building trades, with a new import regulation to ease native labor hardship while a ministerial bureau handles foreign labor intake.
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France
Uni
Minists of Foreign Affairs
Comrade Term Becomes Opprobrious in Russia
Riga Latvia reports that the word tovarish meaning comrade once greeted Russian Communists in early Bolshevik years is now almost an opprobrious salutation in Russia as authorities and public opinion shift on the term.
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Riga
Latvia
Russia
RubMy-Tism Advertises Pain Relief
A fragment advertises RubMy-Tism for tics sores sprains neuralgia rheumatism and general pain relief. The clipped wording hints at a period newspaper advertisement emphasizing quick topical relief.
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