Interchurch World Movement Silent Intercession Drive
Protestants nationwide will observe a five minute silent intercession at 2 PM Sunday as the Interchurch World Movement and its campaign for 336,777,672 dollars aims to unify 30 denominations. The drive runs through Sunday May 2 and features a new Sewell Ford story in the Boston Sunday Post Magazine.
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Interchurch World Movement
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Sewell Ford
Boston Sunday Post
Newsprint Use Cut by American Publishers Pact
The American Newspaper Publishers Association pledges members to limit May 1 to Dec 31 newsprint use to the 1918 level with monthly consumption reports. A five member committee will create reporting forms for 1919 and 1920 comparisons. The plan permite waivers in extraordinary cases and favors linotype inventor Ottomar Mergenthaler’s admission.
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NYU Hall of Fame committee study on tax relief for papers
A committee report at New York University proposes relief for newspapers from the federal excess profits tax. It urges stock dividends and full rereads of business from 1915 to amend returns, plus a questionnaire on profits versus capital and taxes versus profits. A Waldorf dinner honors James I Corrigan for 50 years in journalism as the annual convention continues.
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Coffee Men Truck Service To New York To Boston
W M Gifford and Co Boston coffee merchants used twelve five ton trucks to move coffee from New York to Boston over six days. The service fed over 100 000 people during a threatened railroad strike, becoming a key supply line for food and beverages.
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British Labour delegation to Russia announced
London April 22. The Labour party delegation to Russia will include Mrs. Philip Snowden, Benjamin Turner, Robert Williams and Tom Shan. The group aims to study the general situation and plans to depart next Tuesday via Stockholm and Helsingfors.
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Russia
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Desmond Death Probe Under Way in Cambridge
Medical Examiner Magrath will investigate the death of William T. Desmond 28 of Fayette Street Cambridge a former City Council member who died in Central Court corridor while awaiting trial on a charge of assaulting Patrolman Charles Taylor Bowdoin Square. The death is thought to be due to heart trouble.
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Pittsfield Jury Awards 3000 to Carey in Medical Malpractice Suit
A Superior Court jury awarded James P. Carey three thousand dollars against Dr. W. J. Mercer for improper care of a fractured leg. Carey sought three hundred twenty five thousand dollars, claiming ongoing stiffness and loss from carelessness during treatment.
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Labor franchise bill blocked in Commons by committee vote
In London on April 22 the House of Commons committee tabled the Labor party franchise bill by 14 to 9. It sought to reduce the female voting age from 30 to 21, potentially adding 6 million voters, with Lady Astor supporting it in February. The note mentions a surplice and uncorseted figure editorially.
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London
House of Commons
Labor Party
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