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17 Apr 1920

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Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Apr 17, 1920

Page

2

Rockefeller Jr Leads Boston Interchurch World Movement Meeting

Rockefeller Jr and crusaders of 36 Christianity groups rallied thousands in Boston to unite Protestant denominations under the Inter Church World Movement. Speakers including Governor Milliken and Roger Babson urged cooperation harnessing business methods, raising a $336 million budget, and spreading universal Christian charity and the Golden Rule.

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Rockefeller, Jr Boston Symphony Bates Hall Boston Y. M. C Ckefeller United Christian Church Rockefeller Symphony Hall Copley Plaza Earl Widener Mr. Rockefeller Carl Milliken Maine Roger W. Babson Ralph Ward United States Crusaders Fmiadelphia Copley-Vilaza Interchurch World Christian People of the Land Home Foreign Mission Education The Life Billy Sunday Tabernacle Interchurch World Movement Ark of Life Lyng Hill Greater Milliken Christian Church Roger W. S Acson A. W. Halsey New York Board of Foreign Missions William Hiram Foulkes Presbyterian New Era Movement J. Y. Aitchison New World Movement Northern Baptist Convention Abram E. Cory George Innes Philadelphia United Presbyterian Denomination J. Elwood Cox High Point N. C Society of Friends R. RE. Dpiffendorfer Home Mission Survey Movement R. 8. Emrich Congregationalists Turkey Henry W. Peabody Beverly E. C. Cronk James M. Speers Methodist Episcopal Church Baptist South
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Rockefeller Urges Efficiency in Boston Church Work Movement

Rockefeller addresses a Boston audience urging Christians to join a nationwide efficiency movement in church work. He cites 15,000,000 joining, notes Protestant unity and cooperation, and credits divine influence guiding supporters toward greater economy and enterprise in religious efforts.

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Laundry workers under fire as Miss Gillespie denounces Boston employers

Miss Mabel Gillespie addressed women at South End House in Boston criticizing laundry employers for exploiting women. She described organizing efforts aimed at improving conditions and said employers responded with wage raises and firing union activists.

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Mabel Gillespie South End West Brookline Street Boston Miss Gillespie
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Wood says no link between railway strike and I W W

General Leonard Wood returning from an Eastern tour says there is no evidence of connection between the rail workers walkout and Industrial Workers of the World plans. He notes improving traffic, will return to Nebraska, and may stay on leave.

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Chicago Leonard Wood Central Department Wood Palmer Nebraska Department
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Famous Russian families wiped out

Bodies identified as members of the noted Falzfein and Skadowsky families. The report confirms the casualties involve two prominent Russian lineages, with authorities stating a tragic incident resulted in multiple deaths. Further details about the event remain unavailable.

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Falzfein and Skadowski
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Mystery of Ocean Yacht Disaster Links to Wealthy Families

Soldiers found the helpless yacht Ostara with 11 dead bodies inside and 14,000,000 rubles in gold paper and jewels on board. Romanian authorities with Russian allies probe the incident after two families fled estates to Odessa and loaded belongings onto the vessel as Bolshevik forces arrived in February. The Ostara was towed toward Constanza but tow ropes repeatedly broke.

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Constanza Sulina Falzfeins Bessarabian Kherson Odessa
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Jellicoe Named Governor of New Zealand

Admiral Viscount Jellicoe of Seapa, former first sea lord, has been appointed governor of New Zealand. The announcement came from London on April 16.

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Jellicoe New Zealand London Viscount Jellicoe of Seapa
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Dr True's Elixir marketed for worm treatment

An advertisement claims thousands of children suffer from worms with symptoms such as constipation sour stomach and pale faces. A Flint Michigan mother touts Dr True's Elixir as curing her child and urges immediate use noting the product as a family laxative and worm expeller available in three sizes.

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H. N. Roberts Asylum Street Flint Mich Dr. True
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John D. Rockefeller, Jr Earl Taylor Taylor Mr. Taylor Nazareth Ormer John J. Bates Spirit of America America Christ Aie Gilchrist the Store OF Progress Far Saeer Connor Brookside Henfield Domino Golden John T. Connorco New England Encyclopedia Britannica Harvard da Peics Hamilton Metitute Witliams Williams Bookstore Old South Meeting Bouse Federal St Gen. Wood CF Hovey Co Georgette Orman
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