Style models strike over unpaid wages in Chicago
Fifty models from the Women's Apparel Association walked out in Chicago on August 8 over prepayment for parade costumes. Miss Isabelle Hartnett led the strike, demanding meals and wages, after an official was slapped when promising concessions. The models demanded cash, joking that they wanted baked beans on the fashion plate.
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Chicago
United News
Women’s Apparel Association Style Show
Isabelle Hartnett
Mile
Hartnett
War Veteran Sues for $300,000 for Libel Damages
William F Nickerson of Somerville files three civil suits in East Cambridge Court seeking a total of 300000 against Henry Lyman Boston the University Press of Cambridge and the Barta Press alleging slander of his World War I record. He claims defaming publications labeled him a deserter from Base Hospital No Five in France on January 21 1919 and cites his May 7 1917 enlistment and November 15 1919 discharge. He says false statements have harmed his ability to find work.
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East Cambridge
William F. Nicker
Son
Somerville
Henry Lyman
Boston
University Press of
Cambridge
Barta Press
Nickerson
Base Hosptal No. Five
France
Medical Department of
The
Army
Tenants Move In Without Notice Spark Housing Tangle
In Westfield a landlord recounts a housing shortage causing squatters to move into a vacated Mill Street house without telling the owner. Friends of the former occupants used the attic, storing furniture there, and later claimed the home as their own. Legal advice supported the owner's right to reclaim the property.
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Westfield
Mill Street
Pheasants Take Up Residence in Westfield Church
In Westfield on August 3, Chester Hill church members found a male pheasant and its mate inside during services. The birds perched near the pulpit and at the far end, cooing and squawking lightly while the sermon proceeded. The pair are seen as a good omen and were not evicted.
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Westfield
Chester Hill
Treasures at Harvard Library Honor Tercentenary
A Harvard Library display honors the tercentenary with gems from its collection. Milton annotated Pindar edition from 1620, John Bunyan’s 1637 Bible, Rubens autograph works, a chained 1390 monastic manuscript, autographs of Wordsworth Montesquieu Ben Jonson and a 1788 Federalist presented by John Adams to Thomas Brand Hollis.
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Harvard University Library
John Bunyan
University of Cambridge
England
Rubens
Wordsworth
Montesquieu
Ben Jonson
John Dry
John Milton
Milton
Cambridge University
Hallane
Americans Freed By Soviets Reported
Unofficial reports from the Bolshevik Legation Press Bureau in Riga say American prisoners in Russia have been released from confinement. No details on numbers dates delivery or border crossing were provided.
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Riga
Ochces
Russia
Bolshevik Legation
Policewoman Delaney makes her first arrests in Boston
Sabina J. Delaney, a new Boston policewoman, arrested two women in a downtown store for shoplifting goods valued at 45 dollars. Marion Martin, 2 years old? of 200 Bowdoin Street Dorchester, and Mary Burke, 38, of 114 Huntington Avenue, were released on 200 dollars bail each for Municipal Court.
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Sabina J. Delaney
Boston
Marion Martin
Bowdoin Street
Dorchester
Mary Burke
Huntington Avenue
Full House At Angell Memorial Animal Hospital
Angell Memorial Hospital for Animals on Longwood Avenue reports a full house with no beds left due to an unprecedented number of ill dogs and cats. Staff attribute the strain to recent extreme temperature fluctuations increasing animal health risks.
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Angell Memorial Hospital
Longwood Avenue
Destroyer Tillman Makes 33.9 Knots on Trial
The torpedo boat destroyer Tillman finished standardization trials at Rockland Maine with a top speed of 33.9 knots. Rear Admiral C P Plunkett said the result was very satisfactory and that Tillman would likely match 35 knot class destroyers at full power.
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Rockland
Tillman
Charleston
S. C
C. P. Plunkett
Board of Inspection and Survey
Mob Lynches Suspect In Virginia Postmaster Slaying
In Petersburg Virginia a mob seized one of two Black men held over the murder of Tingley Elmore postmaster and storekeeper at Tobacco Virginia. The mob took the man from Brunswick county jail at Lawrenceville early today and lynched him. The second suspect was left unharmed.
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Petersburg
Tingley Elmore
Tobacco
Brunswick County
Lawrenceville
Silk Dyeing Plant Disaster Kills Three In Paterson
In Paterson New Jersey three men died and three were seriously injured at the Standard Silk Dyeing Company when a centrifugal extractor or whiza machine used to dry silk exploded shattering the plant and causing casualties.
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Paterson, N. J
Aug
Standard Silk Dyeing Company
Pieeces
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