Medals Struck From German Cannon For Victory Loan Workers
The government will award medals made from captured German cannon to volunteer workers in the Victory Liberty Loan. More than 100 000 medals will reach New England, each bearing the Treasury emblem and a certificate of participation. Medal distribution awaits completed loan results and certified worker lists from local committees.
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Victory Liberty Loan
Chateau Thierry
United States
New England
Treasury Department
Liberty Loan Committee
Grant Visited by Parents
Lincoln McKinley Grant, 18, awaiting trial for the murder of his employer Miles Hewitt, spent a quiet Sunday at the county jail in Pittsfield. He was visited by his parents Mr and Mrs Ira Grant and appeared calm, with a good appetite, insisting he remembers nothing of the crime.
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Pittsfield
Lincoln McKinley Grant
Miles Hewitt
Ira Grant
Electrc
Frayne Talks Dollar Policy in Bol Shevism Study
Hugh Frayne, general organizer of the American Federation of Labor, offers rare judgment on the present day problem in an unusual article about Bolshevism and Labor for the Boston Sunday Post. He urges a return to monetary stability in a tense economic climate.
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Hugh Frayne
Boston Sunday Post
American Federation of Labor
War minister killed at Dresden by mutinous soldiers
April 13 Herr Neuring, Saxony war minister, was killed in Dresden after soldiers, angered by denial of a hearing, dragged him from the war ministry, threw him into the Elbe, and shot him as he swam to shore.
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Copenhagen
Herr Neuring
Saxony
Dresden
War Ministry
Elbe
Dresden Protest Turns Deadly as War Minister Is Drowned
Wounded in Dresden hospitals protested an order by Herr Neuring granting peace time pay only. A 600 strong crowd marched to the war ministry, forced entry, and dragged the minister from the building. He was beaten, hurled from a bridge, and drowned after being shot as he disappeared underwater.
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Dresden
Herr Neuring
War Ministry
Harvard Students Collect Old Clothes For Charity Week
Harvard students will roam for old clothes this week and distribute items to city charities. The Phillips Brooks Association assigns a hall rep to collect unwanted items and books gathered will join the Phillips Brooks House Loan Library for needy students to borrow at five cents a year.
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Harvard
Phillips Brooks’ Association
Phillips Brooks House Loan Library
Hats Bring Easter Cheer in Boston by Gero Sisters
Three Gero sisters, noted for aquatic feats, showcased spring hats in Boston. Florence wore a light horsehair straw bonnet with glycerine ostrich trim. Pauline's miniature springtime used coarse straw and marine straw borders with buttercup and daisy chains. Anna wore a black georgette horsehair hat with a rosebud crown and Algerian grass border.
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Boston
Gero
Florence
Pauline
Miss Anna
Is the Osteopath By Education Qualified to Serve?
Letter protests War Department policies denying osteopathic physicians equal discharge privileges. The text cites Roosevelt quotes, state recognitions, and calls Congress to allow the same examinations and commissions as other doctors. It lists required subjects for medical commissions and argues for fair treatment of osteopathic practitioners.
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Army of
United States
Massachusetts
Gorgas
Red Cross
American Osteopathic Association
Congress
Secretary of War
Army
Osteopathic Physicians of America
United States of America
Commonwealths
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
War Department
America
Theodore Roosevelt
Navy
Medical Examining Board
France
First U S Flag Carried Over Somme by British Army Lance Corporal Jeffery
Lieutenant Francis H. Jeffery of Somerville told how as a corporal with the Scots Guards he fixed a small American flag to his bayonet during the Morval les Beufs advance on Sept 15 1916. The flag became the first U S emblem to be waved over German trenches in France. Jeffery later served with the Royal Warwickshire Regiment and the Third Scots Guards before the end of WWI.
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Boston
France
Francis H. Jeffery
Somerville
Morval Les Beufs
Somme
Jeffery
Dakota Dan' Russell
Russell Will Case
Russell
Liverpool
Scots Guards
Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Morvalles Beufs
Scotch Guards
Army of Occupation
Soldier's Letter From the Front Describes War Life
A correspondent describes nearly four years in service and the strain of army life on his nerves. He notes returning home hoping for discharge and recalls a tense moment when an automobile tire burst nearby.
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Nanen
Belgium
Medals for War Heroes in Somerville High School
Five hundred Somerville boys who fought in World War I received certificates and bronze medals in an afternoon ceremony at the high school auditorium. Former Mayors Burns Woods Perry and Cliff attended. Perry spoke as the orator, Woods presented certificates, and Eldridge pinned the medals. The medals bear the city seal and a citation of patriotic service 1917-1918, and the program closed with the Star Spangled Banner.
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Somerville
Board of Aldermen
Charles A. Burns
John M. Woods
Albion A. Perry
K E. Cliff
Perry
Woods
Charles W. Eldridge
Engineers May Be On The Vedic Return to Boston
Boston residents hope the 14th Engineers aboard the transport Vedic have sailed from Brest for Boston. The Vedic carries 60 officers and 220 men with no unit details given. A city reception committee plans a full welcome similar to prior 26th Division arrivals once the ship is in harbor.
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Boston
14Th Engineers
Amiens
Vedic
Brest
Naval Communication Office
Membrs
4Th Engineers
Winifredfon
Patricia
New Jersey
France
Baby Drowns in Salisbury Brook
Minnie Bornstein, three, daughter of Mr and Mrs Harry Bornstein of 25 Hunt Street Brockton, drowned tonight in Salisbury Brook near Court Street bridge. She fell into 18 inches of water while playing with her brother. a passing soldier found the body and police were notified. An effort with a pulmotor failed to save her.
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Brockton
Minnie Bornstein
Harry Bornstein
Hunt Street
Salisbury's Brook
Court Street Bridge
Methodists Send Cable to Wilson in Protest and Praise
The New Hampshire Methodist Episcopal Conference adopted war time prohibition protests and will cable President Wilson while endorsing the League of Nations. Rev. E S Tasker of Tilton was elected Wesleyan University trustee for five years. The Post will announce Welcome Home prize winners for the 26th Division in Sunday’s Boston Post souvenir section.
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Littleton
N. H
New Hampshire Methodist Episcopal Conference
Wilson
League of Nations
E. S. Tasker
Tilton
Wesleyan University
Post
Sunday Post
Boston Post
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Atx
Catonpathic
American School
Chicago College
College of Oetenpath
Physicians and Sursenns
Des Moines Still College
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Bertha KE. Carter
Philips, Cochrane
Howard T. Crawford
Harrie
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Mary ,Emery, George W. Goode
Aubrey W. Hart
Waldo Horton H. ©. Kennington
John A. MacDonald
A. F. McWilliams
Glenn F. Muntz
Earl Scamman
Helen G. Sureran
Mary A. Small
Geo, ER. Smith
R, Kendrick Smith
Christopher Davis
Thore George D. Wheeler
Frank M. Vaughan Myron
Barstow
Charles R. Wakeling
J. A. Zwicker Adamr
Kinsman
Muriel E. Lewis Charles G. Hatch
Mary A. Heard
J. Oliver Sartwell
Anna G. Tinkham
Herbert FE. Wright
Norman B. Atty
Emily G. Wilson
George M. Bishop
W. Arthur Smith
Spencer T. Williams Peter J. Wright
L. Curtis Turner
Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons of Greater Boston
U. S
Lieut
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White’s
Lace
Madras
Liggett Drug Stores
Liggett
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