Mother Sees Tragic Truck Accident Kill Dorchester Boy
Vincent Mason aged 4, son of Mr and Mrs James A Mason of Cottage Park Dorchester, died after being struck by an auto truck opposite his home. Blazi De Franco of Cottage Park was arrested on a manslaughter charge after the incident which occurred while the boy played near the truck and was crushed under a rear wheel. The child died at City Hospital about an hour after the crash.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vincent Mason
James A. Mason
Cottage Park
Dorchester
City Hospital
Blazi de Franco
Franco
Daily Vacation Bible School Ends Season
Fifty pupils from Roxbury district completed the season at Ruggles Street Baptist Church in an assembly hall program. They displayed handwork, sang patriotic songs, and performed the play The Good Samaritan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daily Vacation Bible School
Roxbury
Ruggles Street Baptist Church
New Fuel Administrator Named for New Hampshire
Hovey E. Slayton appointed federal fuel administrator for New Hampshire to succeed former governor Charles M. Floyd, effective August 16.
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Manchester
N. H
Aus
Hovey E. Slayton
State of
New Hampshire
Charles M. Floyd
Crawl Keys sets record freighter delivery and launch times
Detroit August 15. Great Lakes Engineering Works delivers to the Emergency Fleet Corp a 3500 ton steel freighter the Crawl Keys completing in 30 working days after keel laying at Ecorse Michigan. The vessel was launched 14 days after keel laying and delivery was achieved in 29 eight hour days with one day delay.
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Detroit
Great Lakes Engineering Works
Emergency Fleet Corporation
Ecorse
Mich
Canning Project Finishes 500 Jars at North Bennett School
A group of girls completed their first 500 jars of vegetables using rhubarb beets carrots beans and other garden produce at the North Bennett Street Industrial School kitchen. The effort is funded by the Women's League for Permanent Peace with Adele B Lewis directing assisted by Mary F Kelley Frances Rodgers D A Lyons and others. Sugar is conserved and future fruit liquors await next year when sugar may be added.
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North
Bennet Street Industrial School
Post
Women’s League For Permanent Peace
Adele B. Lewis
Mary F. Kelley
North End
Frances 38. Rodgers
Harold Guertin
D. A. Lyons
North Benndet Street
North Bennet Street
Frances Rogers
Adele
B. Lewis
Bake Shop Ordered Closed by Massachusetts Food Administration
The Flecher and Co bakery at 373 Sumner Street East Boston was ordered closed by state food authorities with federal approval until further notice. Suffolk County officials report lax adherence to federal sugar laws in East Boston. The firm reportedly used sugar certificates to obtain and sell excess sugar and baked bread with insufficient substitutes while filing false reports.
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Flecher & Co
Sumner Street
East
Boston
Massachusetts Food Administration
Washington
Suffolk County Food Administrator
The
Food Administration
Floccher
Floccher & Co
S D Warren & Co Now Incorporated
S D Warren Co of this city, a leading paper producer, has converted from partnership to a Massachusetts chartered corporation with authorized capital of 8 500 000. The firm transfers all assets and business to the S D Warren Company. Property includes wood lands paper mills and other valuable effects.
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S. D. Warren & Co
S. D. Warren Company
Massachusetts
Mrs Hormel Dead at Brighton Home
Mrs Albertina C Hormel died at 100 Washington Street Brighton after a short illness. She was 68 and wife of Ernest Hormel long based in South Boston. Surviving are her husband two sons and three daughters including Senator Herman Hormel and Alfred A Hormel. Funeral set Sunday at the Lutheran Church West Newton Street.
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Albertina C. Hormel
Washington Street
Brighton
Ernest Hormel
Boston
Lillian A. Normel
Lutheran Church
West Newton Street
Man Struck by Car Dies at Mass General Hospital
Roderick McDonald 74 of 49 Hane street Brighton died at Massachusetts General Hospital from injuries after a Boston bound Elevated electric car struck him in Medford as he stepped from behind a car near the Salem Street fire station.
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Roderick McDonald
Hane Street
Brighton
Massachusetts General Hospital
Medford
Salem Street
U. S. Engineers to Repair Roads for Czecho-Slovaks
Eighty four members of the Stevens railroad commission sent from the United States to Russia in 1917 have arrived in Vladivostok after eight months at Nagasaki. They will begin work on the Siberian railroad behind the Czecho Slovak lines between Vladivostok and Khabarovsk.
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Vladivostok
Associated Press
Stevens Railroad Commission
United States
Russia
Nagasaki
Siberian
Cit
Khabavorsk
Harden Warns Berlin Editor in Zukunft On War Storm
Washington reports Maximilian Harden, German editor, warns Berlin of a growing storm in Russia and lauds British and American soldiers fighting for ideals. France dispatch quotes extracts showing censors allowed the piece amid tense wartime rhetoric.
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Washington
Russia
Zukunft
Maximilian Harden
France
Harden
Vladivostok
Sebastopol
Murmansk
Fiume
Arras
Dormans
Protest on Oil Decree Halts Mexican Oil Assets
Washington and London file diplomatic protests against Mexico's oil land decrees as U S and British firms refuse to meet the new terms. Oil companies warn decrees confiscate properties and seek government protection. War needs push allies to rely on U S crude while Mexico's action strains wartime interests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States
Great Britain
Mexico
Germany
Fallin
Hamburg-American Line
Mexico oil decree could mark nationalization and affect exports
The excerpt notes 15 million barrels and 130 million barrels from Mexican fields, with oil owned by American and British groups. It claims Mexico aims to make oil national property, turning petroleum into contraband and blocking neutral sales to allies, a move allegedly tied to German propaganda in Mexico.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexico
Austrian Emperor With Kaiser at Headquarters
Amsterdam dispatch reports Emperor Charles of Austria at German main headquarters. Telegram cites Emperor William and advisers in a high level conference on political and military issues, with deliberations reaching their peak as the Austrian emperor and his staff join.
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Amsterdam
Charly
Austria
Lokal Anzeiger
Berlin
Karl Rosner
William
Delatone Cream Promises Hair Free Skin
Instructions claim Delatone removes hair by a simple paste mix with water. Apply to hair for 2 or 3 minutes then rub off and wash to vanish all traces. Warns to ensure real Delatone is used.
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