East Boston Woman Paints Own House Amid Broader Activism
Caroline Doyle a 23 year old East Boston resident paints her own house at 667 Saratoga Street mounting a scaffold each morning. She describes labor as hard but worthwhile while noting her varied interests from boxing to piano and her suffragist advocacy. Her father James Doyle is active in local politics.
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Caroline Doyle
Boston
Post
Doyle
James Doyle
Hood Rubber Company
Watertown
Saratoga Street
Italy will not have lottery says former Italian premier
Rome Aug 12 AP reports Professor Luigi Luzzatti former prime minister says he is in a terrible fix from many American letters offering money to him to sponsor an international lottery. He declines noting he is busy with the German peace treaty and cannot accept such role while acknowledging Americans’ interest and high postage costs.
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Rome
Associated Press
Luigi Luzzatti
Italy
Signor Luzzatti
United States
Signor Luzzatt
America
Allies Demand Name Change for Austria to Republic
Paris August 12 The Supreme Council at the peace conference told the Austrian delegation that allied powers require the new government to be called the Republic of Austria rather than German Austria. The notes from Austria proposing the name German Austria prompted the decision affecting the Austria peace treaty.
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Austria
Republic of Austria
Paris
Supreme Council of the Peace Conference
Plunder of Roads Charged Before House Committee
The Railroad Brotherhoods through counsel Glenn E. Plumb laid before the House interstate commerce committee charges of corruption in private railroad management. They allege systemic plunder by financial interests and illegal holding of millions of acres of public lands by major railway systems.
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Washington
Glenn E. Plumb
House Interstate Commerce Committee
Railroads Accused of Stock Bonuses and External Control
Attorney alleges eighteen major railroads including B M and N Y N H & H R R issued stock bonuses totaling 450 million dollars from 1900 to 1916 and paid large dividends on those bonuses. He accuses Morgan Rockefeller and Gould interests of control and calls for a thorough congressional probe into potential exploitation.
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N. Y
Brotherhood
Morgan
Rockefeller
Gould
House Committee
Organized Labor
Plumb
Congress
Esch
Railway plans debated by security holders and executives
Labor officials testified that proposed plans from security holders and railway executives are more radical than those framed by Plumib and approved by the brotherhoods. The committee likely needs about a month to finalize its report.
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Plumib
Brotherhoods
Viscount Grey Likely to Accept U S Ambassadorship
London reports Viscount Grey of Falloden, retired head of the foreign office since 1916, is likely to accept the British ambassadorship to the United States. Sir Edward Grey, aged 51, long served as secretary of state for foreign affairs and recently suffered eye trouble. He proposed that ambassadors discuss the crisis but the idea stalled amid German Emperor opposition.
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Viscount Grey
London
Associated Press
Viscount Grey of
Falloden
United States
Sir Edward Grey
Pershing Planned Visit to Italian Battlefields
General Pershing will visit the Italian battlefields next week with departure from Paris for Rome planned for Saturday. The trip, announced from Paris, follows ongoing Allied operations in Europe.
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Paris
Pershing
Rome
Missing Pair Sought After Simultaneous Disappearance
Portland police seek Pearl Perry and Irving White who vanished from Peaks Island with warrants for desertion. White ran a bowling alley. both families shared a cottage. The pair bought Boston tickets but trace has stalled. description sent to major cities to locate them for their four and five children.
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Portland
Pearl Perry
Irving White
New England
Peaks Island
White
Harry E. Perry
Peaks
Perry
Boston
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