Virginia Arrives Newport with 311 Civilians for Training Cruise
The battleship Virginia reached Newport from Boston with 263 Massachusetts civilians aboard and 48 Rhode Island passengers joining for the rendezvous with eight reserve fleet battleships at Montauk Point. Civilians endured a restless first night at sea due to sleep loss and cold while enjoying movies and shipboard routines. Captain R. H. Jackson supervised morale efforts, and early morning drills followed a full day of uniforms, hammocks, deck scrubbing, and inspections.
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Newport
R. I
Virginia
Boston
Massachusetts
Montauk Point
L. I
Rhode Island
R. H. Jackson
110 Year Old Woman Dies in Waltham
Mrs. Julia Boudrot of Waltham, regarded as possibly the oldest woman in New England, died yesterday at age 110. She lived with her granddaughter Mrs. James Craven at 100 Willow Street and was born in Descouse Nova Scotia on October 28, 1805. She remained active and helped with chores until a few months ago.
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Julia Boudrot
Waltham
New England
Print paper export embargo proposed in Congress
Proposals to authorize the President to lay an embargo on exports of print paper until the Federal Trade Commission reports on the paper situation were offered today by Representative Hastings of Oklahoma and referred to the foreign affairs committee.
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Washington
Wilson
Federal Trade Commission
Hastings
Oklahoma
Foreign Affairs Committee
Widow of Nova Scotia fisherman dies after long life
The widow of Charles B. Boudrot from Descouse, Nova Scotia, passed away after more than 50 years since his death. She left seven children, 18 grandchildren, and 21 great grandchildren, with one daughter living in Descouse aged 80. She kept her faculties to the end and helped with tea and housework, saying hard work and plenty of it built a long life. She claimed the record for the biggest mackerel caught in the harbor near Descouse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles B. Boudrot
Nova Scotia
Henri McDonald
Descouse
Post
Postal men to be reinstated after border service
The Boston postal district staff now in the National Guard on the Mexican border will be safely reinstated with an honorable discharge. Postmaster Murray explains that list removals were for simplifying department bookkeeping and not punishment.
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Boston
National Guard
Murray
Washington
Suffragists appoint 30 delegates to national convention
Thirty Massachusetts delegates were named to the National American Woman Suffrage Association convention to meet in Atlantic City on September 6. The list includes Alice Stone Blackwell, Maud Wood Park, Florence Luscomb, Susan Lewis Bail, Rachel Wolfson, and many others from Boston and nearby towns.
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Massachusetts
National American Woman Suffrage Association
Atlantic City
Alice Stone Blackwell
Quincy A. Shaw
M. Graeme Haughton
Mary Flutcheson Page
Maud Wood Park
Mabel C. Willard
Adelene Moffat
Susan Lewis Bail
Glendower Evans
Robert de Normandie
Florence Luscomb
Claude A. Gilson
Fan
Hallam Movius
Millis
Henry D. Sleeper
Northampton
Mary Porter
Mary Dewson
South Berlin
Robert Gould Shaw
John C. Les
Edward Stanwood, Jr
Wellesley
Meat packers facing probe over anti trust charges
Washington Aug 15 formal complaint charging Swift & Co Armour & Co Cudahy & Co Morris & Co and other meat packers with violating the anti trust laws and engaging in unfair business methods and monopolistic practices was filed today with the Federal Trade Commission by Representative Doolittle of Kansas He asked for a prompt and thorough investigation of the livestock industry and supplied testimony from the House judiciary committee on the Borland resolution proposing commission inquiry
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Washington
Swift & Co
Armour & Co
Cudahy & Co
Morris & Co
Federal Trade Commission
Doolittle
Kansas
House Judiciary Committee
Borland
Commission
Boston Girl Names New 572 Ton Schooner
The three masted schooner James M. W. Hall, built for Boston shippers, was launched at Phippsburg Maine. Miss Helen W. Hall of Boston christened the vessel which will have a gross tonnage of 572 and a carrying capacity of 900 tons.
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Boston
Phippsburg
James M. W. Hall
Boston Shippers
Helen W. Hall
Summer School Closes at Morgan Memorial
Handicraft exhibits, calisthenics drills, and chorus singing of patriotic selections marked the closing exercises of the summer vacation school at Morgan Memorial, 89 Shawmut Avenue, South End, yesterday afternoon with 100 pupils participating.
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Morgan Memorial
Shawmut Avenue
South End
Six Weeks Season Attracts 280 Children Of Diverse Nationalities
During the six weeks season 280 children registered with an average daily attendance of 100 mostly from foreign parentage and six nationalities represented. Miss Mabel Garrison and Miss Elsie Jennison directed the work. Boys learned basketry shoe repairing and hammock making while girls studied millinery lace making and domestic arts. Teaching staff included Misses Emma Higgins Helen Wilson Isabel Woodward and Hazel Barnard.
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Mabel Garrison
Elsie Jennison
Emma Higgins
Helen Wilson
Isabel Woodward
Hazel Barnard
Mansfield to Springfield for Western Mass Democrats Meet
Frederick W. Mansfield, Democratic gubernatorial candidate, will travel to Springfield Wednesday afternoon to attend a conference of western Massachusetts Democrats at the Hotel Worthy.
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Frederick W. Mansfield
Springfield
Massachusetts
Worthy
Birth Control Case Up Again in Suffolk Court
Van K. Allison, secretly indicted by the Suffolk grand jury on charges tied to the distribution of birth control literature, was held in $2000 bail in the Superior Criminal Court. He appealed a three year sentence from the municipal court. An indictment was recently returned but not made public until yesterday. No arrest occurred. Allison posted bail via the National Security Company of New York after arraignment and a not guilty plea.
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van K. Allison
Suffolk Grand Jury
Superior Criminal Court
Keating
Allison
House of Correction
Murray
District Attorney’s Office
Superior Criminal Court Room
National Security Company of New York
Infant Paralysis Versus Typhoid Fever Debate
Dr. Charles E. Page argues typhoid fever mortality outstrips infant paralysis, citing insurors and life statistics. He condemns spinal injections and advocates therapeutic fasting and hydrotherapy, urging rational public health measures over quarantines and sensational scare.
X-Ray Treatment Promises Cures for Chronic Ailments
The X-Ray Treatment and the Snow Pencil report marvellous cures in chronic diseases once deemed incurable. Lists numerous Boston area patients cured including deafness, ear disease, facial blemishes, stomach ulcers, intestinal indigestion, skin disease, paralysis, rheumatism, and others. Dr D J Walsh offers office hours at 18 Boylston Street Boston with set weekday times.
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Albert Walker
Albion St
Boston
George Davis
East Lenox St
Jack Shairo
Ocean Ave
Revere
E. Comeau
Hancock St
Stoneham
Miles B
E. M. Schofield
Irving St
Framingham
Mass
A. B. Litchfield
Assinippi
P. O
Norwell
J. W. Tripp
Sherbrooke Ave
Braintree
Foresters Maine Session Opens With 192 Delegates
The high court session of the Independent Order of Foresters of Maine opened in Bangor with 192 delegates from 103 courts. C. F. Mann of Lisbon Falls presided. speakers included M. L. Durgin, Dr. William McDavid, and H. E. Foster. George A. Mitchell of Toronto will address tomorrow.
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Bangor
Independent Order of Foresters of Maine
C. F. Mann
Lisbon Falls
Forester
M. L. Durgin
Milo
William McDavid
Augusta
H. E. Foster
Winthrop
George A. Mitchell
Toronto
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Congress
Federal Trade Board
Morgan Memorial Summer School
Ida Saxe
Marion Irwin
Mary Kiosky
Joseph Volshin
Nellie Gempker
Marion Moody
Phoebe Wilson
Walter Moran
Mansfield
Charles E. Page, M. D
Maine Foresters
Poultry Cae
Universal Poultry
Hales & Edwards. Co
Sever Edwards & Loomis Co
Dept. AA
S. la Salle Street
Chicago
Grant E. Laflin
Mgr
N. HE
Chamber of Commerce
Hua
Massachusetts Volunteer Aid Association
New York
1St Corps
SAN Francisco Expo Band
Walter Smith
Grace Hamlin
McCall
Curley
United Drug Co
Liggett-Riker-Jaynes
Massachusetts Volunhteer Aid Association
Red Cross
RCV
Ctrl Ee Ce
Herrick’s
Filene’s
Jordan Marsh Co
Liggett-Riker-Jaynes Drug Store
Rexall Drug Stores
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