Opera Star Fired Over Pro German Charge
Madame Margarete Arndt-Ober, an opera prima donna, is said to have pro German sympathies and public hostility to the United States, prompting Metropolitan Opera’s discharge amid a $4000 breach suit. The company asserts her views and behavior justified dismissal per public sentiment. Separately, McAdoo orders 20,000 box and coal cars costing $80 to $90 million from American Car & Foundry with steel bases to conserve steel for ships, to be finished within six months for fall and winter service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Margarete Arndt-Ober
Metropolitan Opera Company
Washington
McAdoo
American Car & Foundry Company
John Skelton Williams
Railroad Administration
Kidney and Bladder Trouble Relief Advertisement
Note cites uric acid as a cause of kidney and bladder irritation. Recommends four ounces of Rad Salts or Jad Salts as a daily remedy to neutralize urine acidity, relieve bladder irritation, and restore normal urinary function. Describes rapid relief with a pleasant effervescent lithia water drink used by many sufferers.
Triplets Born in Cambridge at Liberty Day Home
At 4 30 PM on Liberty Day in Cambridge, the McDonald home welcomed three girls named Rita Gertrude and Grace. Each weighs about five pounds and wears a color coded ribbon red white and blue. The father, Philip A McDonald, is a rubber cutter and one son serves in France. A sister also had a son born the same hour.
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Liberty Triplets
Cambridge
Philip A. McDonald
Saville Street
Rita
Gertrude
Grace
Scott
Pilip A. McDonald
14Th Infantry
8Th Regiment
France
McDonald
Hood Rubber Company
Charles Mulkern
Regent Street
North
Bond Drive Call Urges Every Citizen to Support Liberty Loan
The message urges all readers to back the Liberty Loan by promoting the cause within their communities. It compares each person to Paul Revere and stresses universal bond buying as essential to national defense.
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Paul Revere
Death Probe to Go Limit in Hampden Tragedy
Springfield April 26 autopsy on Bridget Perry and her 26 year old daughter Grace Lillian Perry found bodies in a shallow Hampden brook. Medical Examiner Mahoney says drowning probable but District Attorney Ely will widen the investigation片 with the daughter’s delicate health cited. A Springfield man is said to have been involved in the girl’s condition.
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Springfield
Tars
Bridget Perry
Grace Lillian Perry
Hampden
Mahoney
Ely
Paid Tribute To Hun Culture And Alimony Hearing
In Washington on April 27 Professor Arthur Gordon Webster of Clark University drew criticism for praising German kultur and the Kaiser at a Liberty Loan meeting. Hisses greeted him as lawmakers left briefly, and he later admitted the remarks were not tactful. Separately Mrs Lillian L Miller of Winthrop seeks alimony from her Brookyn ex husband Louis Miller. a hearing is set for next Tuesday in the Suffolk Superior Court.
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Washington
Arthur Gordon Webster
Clark University
Worcester
Mass
Naval Advisory Board
Liberty Loan
Raleigh
Capitol
Webster
United States
Sweden
Holland
Switzerland
Richard Olney
Calvin D. Paige
Massachusetts
Olney
Kaiserism
Lillian L. Miller
Winthrop
Louis Miller
Brooklyn
N. Y
Equity
Superior Court
Millers
Nisi
Miller
Fox
Suffolk
Lillian Ih Cowan
Bond buying to fight with the boys at the front
A remark questions whether purchasing another bond helps soldiers at the front, implying the eagerness to support war effort by buying more bonds. It frames fundraising as a direct means to aid troops and boost morale.
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Washington Street
Eocccoce
Boston
Boylston Street
Tremont Street
Hanover Street
Voile
SILK
Olf
Hanover
Portland Streets
Washington ST
Opera
Castoria
Aone
Prof. Webster
Corporal Henry Auger
Liberty Bonds
Filene
Liberty Bank, Filene’s
Liberty Bond and War Savings Stamps Headquarters
School Street
City Hall Ave
Cor
Avery
Aore
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