British Recruiting Brisk All Week At Mission
The British and Canadian recruiting mission at 44 Bromfield Street reported 111 men accepted by Saturday night with expectations to top 200 as returns are tallied. Lt Col F Jamieson, commanding eastern division, will arrive from New York and may speak from the Britannia in Scollay Square tonight.
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Bromfield Sttreet
Britannia
F. ©. Jamieson
Boston
New York
Scollay Square
Fr Corrigan Urges Support of President at Boston Hall
The Rev. Jones I. J. Corrigan stirred over 1000 attendees, mostly women, in Boston College Hall yesterday urging unwavering support for the President after denouncing socialism as a grave threat to government. The event complemented a patriotic concert for St. Catherine's Guild war relief fund, drawing long applause.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jones I. J. Corrigan
Boston College Hall
War Relief Fund
St. Catherine's Guild
Loan Drive Opens Full Blast Boston Bond Plan Headlines Rally
The notice details a Boston bond sale plan of up to 25 million dollars, organized by a Trades Committee across 75 industries with many named chairs. It also lists a lengthy roster of business and professional groups to mobilize support and mentions Liberty rallies at Boston Common with multiple evening showings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston ‘Trades Committee
Greater
Boston
Intensive Canvass for Liberty Loan Starts After Gala Opening
Intensive canvass for third Liberty Loan subscriptions will begin tomorrow after the gala opening. Officials expect to raise a big part of the 3 000 000 000 loan total within four weeks, with early unofficial estimates over 50 million, and about 60 communities already exceeding quotas on day one. Secretary McAdoo heads a Southern tour starting in Richmond, Virginia, to boost public backing.
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Washington
Liberty Loan Organization
McAdoo
Philadelphia
Richmond
Liberty Loan
Pershing Urges Liberty Loan Support From Home Front
From Washington and the American Expeditionary Force in France comes a Liberty Loan appeal by General Pershing. He says every subscribed dollar is an investment in American manhood and a sign of partnership in trench hardships. He calls for an overwhelming third Liberty Loan to express confidence in national civilization and victory.
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Washington
France
General Pershing
Liberty Loan drive promotes posters and slides
The publicity committee prints 850000 copies of Ralph E. McMillan's poem What Is the Liberty Loan in poster form. McMillan, a Boston newspaper reporter, is praised for the poem. Two lantern slides are sent to every moving picture theatre in New Fingland and shown at every performance. Dashboard posters for the third loan will decorate about 100000 street cars in New England.
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Ralph E. McMillan
McMillan
Boston
Moving Picture
New Fingland
New England
Norwegians Hold Liberty Loan Rally in Roxbury
Senator Charles E. Townsend urged faster war effort at a mass meeting of Norwegian born and descended citizens in Intercolonial Hall Roxbury called by Ghert Sletten of the New England Liberty Loan Committee. Sletten said the Norwegian Charitable Society gave 1000 dollars to the new issue and the Viking Club will replace its 17 May celebration with a Liberty bond contribution. Cosmopolitan Trust Company reps accepted subscriptions after the meeting.
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United States
Charles E. Townsend
Michigan
Roxbury
Ghert Sletten
New England Liberty Loan Committee
Sletten
Viking Club
Cosmopolitan Trust Company
Liberty Loan
Evangelist Greenwood Ends Somerville Campaign Week
Lawrence B. Greenwood the singing evangelist closes his Somerville campaign with a week of services at Winter Hill Baptist Church starting tonight. A grand gospel parade leads to a series of daily addresses by Greenwood and other speakers including Irene Goldie and Rev Joseph Evans. The program features Conv en tion Week with multiple special topics and ends next Sunday night with a final address by Greenwood.
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Lawrence B. Greenwood
Somerville
Winter Hill Baptist Church
Somerville City Hall
Palace
Salvation Army
Winter Hill
Greenwood
Irene Goldie
Goldie
Joseph Evans
George R. Stair
Dudley Street Baptist Church
William Allen
Clarendon Street Baptist Church
Isaac Ward
Lexington Brush Fire Reaches Woburn, Burns Acreage
About 250 acres of brush and woodland burned in Lexington yesterday as the fire department answered eight alarms. The blaze began off Lowell and Fast Streets on Lexington’s north edge and spread into Woburn, continuing into the night through Woburn woods.
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Lexington
Lowell
Fast Streets
Woburn
First Solemn High Mass Held in East Boston Church
The Rev. James Maurice Daley of East Boston celebrated his first solemn high mass yesterday at the Church of the Most Holy Redeemer in the Second Section of East Boston. About twelve hundred parishioners attended the service.
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James Maurice Daley
East Boston
Church of the Most Holy Redeemer
Hundres
Maas
Farewell Address Tour To Run Through New England
He will deliver a farewell address then proceed to Jaffrey New Hampshire and continue a tour across New England before holding open air meetings in New York City as part of the schedule.
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Jaffrey, N. H
New England
New York City
Drug Gists Aiding Merchant Marine Recruiting Nationwide
National Shipping Board Recruiting Service extends enlistment to all 48 states. Over 6000 druggists aged 21 to 30 will open enrollment stations in stores to aid recruiting for merchant ships serving overseas. Boston headquarters directs the drive, after weeks of 626 New England druggists assisting with sailor cook and crew enrollments.
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Boston
United States Shipping Board Recruiting Service
New England
The
Shipping Board
Brookline Choral Concert Features Local Leaders
In Brookline Town Hall yesterday afternoon the Brookline Choral Society presented a varied program led by conductor Emil Mollenhauer with pianist Frank H. Luker. The nearly 100 voice chorus performed with the Boston Festival Orchestra and soloists Mrs. S. W. Wilder, Paul M. Hubbard, and E. Lindsey Cummings. Speakers included Mrs. Henry Howard, Philip Parker, and Ernest B. Dane.
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Brookline Choral Society
Town Hall
Henry Howard
Philip §. Parker
Board of Selectmen
Public Safety Committee
Ernest B. Dane
Emil Mollenhauer
Frank H. Luker
Boston Festival Orchestra
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FR. Corrigan
Liberty Bonds
ITE Co
American Can Company
Laurence Purtell
James H. Foster
Charlestown Gas and Bloc, Co
Samuel J. Yowlett
Edison Elec, Ill, Co
J. W. Cowles
R. H. Hallowell
Fleetrical Supplies
W. C. Bruce Wetmore
Fnaineers
Ass'n of
W. G. Stark
W. R. Hedge
Fish
John Burns, Jr
G. W. Fady
Chas
FL Foeg Co
Fors
Alfred P. Tee
Alton E. Briggs
A. L. Lougee
Frank M. Sheldon
Gilman Bros
EF. Hope
Albert W. Finlay
W. I. Rich
FE. C. Fogg
Iea
Charles D. Russell
James Kingman
George Lawley & Sons
Roger Ernst
J. A. Barbey
Tumber——lf
W. McDonough
H. C. Dodge
Louis McCarthy
Massachusetts Real Estate Exchange
J. J. Martin
Mellena Food
Franklin W. Doliber
E. H. Fitzpatrick
Moxie
A. Burke
New England Tel. & Tel. Co
W. Longley
Henry Boone
W. R. Washburn
Briggs S. Palmer
George ©. Morton
W. Power
Edwin W. Cox
Postal Telegraph Co
B. Kimmey
Henry J. Nichols
A. HA
Widertakers
PJ. McArdle
Western Union Tel. Co
C. BP. Willett
Sears & Co
H. N. Bien Wool
William Ellery
Y. M
A. D. M. Claghorn
H. D. Heathfield
Liberty Barracks
Boston Common
War Service Unit
Boylston Street
American Sugar Refining Company
General Pershing Cables
Germany
Union Street
VanCamp
Albene
Food Administration
Vamaaggai
Brookline
R.H. Whi Co
Munter
U. S&s
Professor Munter
Madame Dupont
Victor Talking Machine Co
Camden, N. J
Victor Records
Victor
Victrola
Victor Talking Machine Company
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