Plan for War Upon Infantile Paralysis Fund Drive
A 52 member citizen committee led by Joseph Grafton Minot to raise 150000 for the Harvard Infantile Paralysis Commission and the State health department. Hospitals and clinics across Massachusetts engage in preparedness as cases rose from 2 in April to 701 in October last year. Leading figures Dr Robert W. Lovett Dr Milton J. Rosenan Dr Francis H. Peabody and Roger Pierce head the commission with access to Boston hospitals labs and free expert physician aid. Subscriptions should be sent to Kidder Peabody & Co. in Boston.
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Joseph Grafton Minot
Harvard Infantile Paralysis Commission
State Health Department
Harvard
Boston
Children’s Hospital
Massachusetts Hospital
Worcester
Springfield
Lowell
Lawrence
Newburyport
Lynn
Beverly
Malden
Melrose
Quincy
North Adams
Greenfield
Harvard Commission
Robert W. Lovett
Milton J. Rosenan
Francis H. Peabody
Roger Pierce
Harvard Infantile Paralysis Fund
Kidder, Peabody & Co
Bankers
Devonshire Street
Taft to Attend Red Cross Ball at Copley Plaza
Former President Taft will attend the Copley Plaza Hotel Red Cross benefit ball Friday evening and give a brief address. Box sales are strong with many sold to society members. Dolly Sisters will dance from their show, and patriotic features include the Spirit of 1776 and Spirit of 1917. Proceeds go to the local Red Cross chapter.
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Taft
Copley Plaza
The
Red Cross
S. Hooper Hooper
Tie
Dolly Sisters
Charlestown Navy Yard
Lawrence
Bay State Trust Company
Copley Square
Red Cross Society
Dorchester Red Cross to Hold Dorchester Meeting
A Dorchester branch meeting of the Metropolitan Chapter Red Cross Society will convene at Whiton Hall Codman Square this evening at 8 o'clock. The mass meeting aims to unite men of Dorchester and nearby areas with notable speakers, music, and an entertainment program.
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Dorchester
Metropolitan Chapter
Red Cross Society
Whiton Hall
Codman Square
Tyler Named Back Bay Post Office Superintendent
Postmaster Murray appoints Arthur B. Tyler as superintendent of the new Back Bay post office. Tyler, formerly assistant superintendent of the Fenway station, succeeds David M. Piggott who moves to station examiner duties.
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TYLER
New Back Bay P. D
Murray
Arthur B. Tyler
New Back Bay
Fenway Station
David M. Piggott
Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association shifts to war relief drive
The Ways and Means Committee led by Mrs. Benjamin F. Pitman announces a temporary pause in suffrage work to focus on scientific instruction for women in the state and to undertake broad war relief activities.
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Ways and
Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association
Benjamin F. Pitman
Labor Leaders Dine with Cabinet in Washington
Officials of the American Federation of Labor hosted members of President Wilson's Cabinet at a luncheon in Washington. A toast to the President was offered. AFL officers also conferred with the Shipping Board on plans to secure seamen to crew American merchant ships in transatlantic trade.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
American Federation of Labor
Wilson
Federation
Shipping Board
Harvard Man Killed in French Air Fight
Paris reports Corporal Ronald Hoskier of South Orange New Jersey a Harvard graduate and star of the American flying corps was killed in aerial combat. A German machine forced his plane down and he fell within enemy lines. his body was not recovered.
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Paris
Ronald Hoskier
South Orange
N. J
American Flying Corps
Hoskier
Harvard University
Heskler
Schronk Arrested Again as Undesirable in Waco
John Schronk, freed on bond after a US commissioner hearing on enlisting recruits to engage in hostilities against the United States, has been re detained in Waco as an undesirable awaiting transfer orders from Washington to San Antonio.
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Waco
Tex
John Schronk
United States
Washington
San Antonio
Maine Aggies Allow Students to Enter Food Production
At the University of Maine the agriculture college faculty voted to permit students to discontinue studies and enter employment as food producers. To cover missed work they must submit a written statement to the registrar detailing their employment up to September L.
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Crono
College of Agriculture
University of Maine Today
Mrs Sarah Hunnewell Dies In Beac on Street
Mrs Sarah Melville Hunnewell a known supporter of St Luke s Home for Convalescents and the Girls Friendly Society died yesterday at 259 Beacon Street in her 66th year Her funeral will be at her residence tomorrow at 2 pm Rev William Harmon van Allen to officiate Interment in Mt Auburn Cemetery
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Sarah Melville Hunnewell
St. Luke's Home
Girls’ Friendly Society
Episcopal
Beacon Street
William Harmon van Allen
Mt. Auburn
Law family officers wounded in wartime service
London April 4 Lieutenant C J Law of the Kings Own Scottish Borderers son of Andrew Bonar Law chancellor of the exchequer is reported wounded in Palestine. Bonar Law's eldest son Captain J I Law of the Royal Flying Corps was wounded in France last year.
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London
C. J. Law
The
King’s Own
Andrew Bonar Law
Exchequer
Pales
Bonar Law
J. I. Law
Royal Flying Corps
France
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Citizens’ Committee
Union Street
Schronk
Maine
Tine
Giechrists
Day
Grace
Delft
Rogers
Coats
Renaissance Bureau
New Norfolk
Norfolk
Oxford
Japan
Shantung
China
Poplin Epingle
Ois
Hae
Universal
Landers, Frary & Clark Co
Gilchrists
Copenhagen
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