Episcopal Church Aims to Replace Saloon with Social Centres
The Episcopal church in America adopts a $20 million program to expand home and foreign missions with a focus on immigrants, social services, and education. The plan seeks to create true social centres as substitutes for saloons, backed by over 60 bishops and led by Bishop Arthur S. Lloyd and a New York executive committee.
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New York
Episcopal Church In
Arthur S. Lloyd
Board of Missions
Ernest M. Slires
Stephen Baker
Alexander Mann
Boston
Mortimer Matthews
Cincinnati
Readers Query On Historic Guns At Bunker Hill Monument
Post readers discuss the provenance of the two brass cannon at Bunker Hill Monument linked to the Tea Party seizure in 1773. The letter and replies cover Park Street Common status, historical naming of Centry Street, raid vocabulary, congressional salaries, radium WWI use, army branch enrollments, and Newfoundland pronunciation with sources.
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Bunker Hill Monument
Drake
Boston
Samuel Gore
Hancock
Adams
Tremont Street
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Park Street
State House
Boston Common
Centry Street
Centry Hill
Beacon Hill
Hartford file notes $30 million Winchester Canan corporation
A certificate for a $30,000,000 corporation named Winchester Canan was filed with the Secretary of State in Hartford. Incorporators listed are R. Earl Anderson Clyde R. Yates and Bennett in New Haven, with the project described as starting in January.
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Hartford
Conn
Winchester
Infantry the hardest hit in casualties in war report
Washington April 16 The infantry suffered more than twice the casualties of any other army branch. Battle deaths among commissioned personnel were 173 per thousand and 139.7 per thousand for officers and men, compared with army averages of 61.2 and 61.6 per thousand.
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Washington
Infantry
War Department
DAY LAW TO BE ENFORCED
Louisville April 16 Daniel C Roper commissioner of internal revenue says Congress will likely pass an enabling act for wartime prohibition enforcement effective July 1 He notes an April 12 IRS bulletin stating the act had not yet passed and expects Congress to lodge enforcement with the bureau and provide funds and facilities.
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Louisville
Daniel C. Roper
Internal Revenue
Congress
Roper
Southern Wholesale Dry Goods Association
Secretary of the Treasury
Bureau
Weymouth Board Members Ballot Recount Blocked by Petition
A petition seeks a writ of mandamus to stop Weymouth Board of Selectmen members Bradford Hawes George L Newton Joseph A Fern and Alfred W Hastings from recounting ballots cast at the annual town meeting or election.
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Bradford Hawes
George L. Newton
Joseph A. Fern
Alfred W. Hastings
Board of Selectmen of
Weymouth
Town Meeting Ruling Filed in Supreme Court Over Selectman Result
John F. Dwyer, declared elected Selectman after a March town meeting, has filed suit in the Supreme Court. William Gowing, another candidate, seeks a recount and has been notified of the action, while Dwyer awaits the court’s decision.
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Supreme Court
John F. Dwyer
Selectman
William Gowing
Dwyer
Dwyer Challenges Authority Over Local Recount Plan
The recount is set for Friday as Dwyer asserts the Selectmen lack authority to recount ballots. He argues the process exceeds their legal power and seeks to curb the ballot review.
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Dwyer
Holy Thursday Services at Charlestown Navy Yard
Holy Thursday services are held in the chapel at the Charlestown navy yard. The Blessed Sacrament will be exposed for veneration from 11 30 to 1 30 p m. The altar is decorated with plants and flowers donated by yeomen of the yard and district. On Good Friday the stations of the cross will be held at 12 30 by Chaplain J B Burns.
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Charlestown
Navy Yard
J. B. Burns
W.l.douglas
W.L. Douglas
San Francisco
New York
America
Brockton
Mass
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