Mac Runs Harvard Student Laundry For Eight Years
The Cambridge based student laundry run by Walter T. McDermott known as Mac has served about 10 000 Harvard students in eight years with a 0 25 percent bad debt rate. He signs up freshmen and upperclassmen for annual contracts earning 75 cents each and says most contracts cover the four year course. The operation started in 1911 with Charley Brickley and Bill Bingham and now funds many students through college by keeping linens repaired and free mending.
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Mac
Harvard
Cambridge
Arthur
Eddie Quinn
Walter T. McDermott
Post
Charley Brickley
Bill Bingham
Bingham
Crimson
Charley
Johnny Overton
Yale
California
Texas
Saugus
Filover
Greek Americans Press Thrace Claims Before Wilson
One hundred fifty Greeks from across the United States gather in Washington urging Greek claims in Thrace before President Wilson. Notable Massachusetts Greeks participate with Dr. George Demoupoulous of Lowell serving as chairman of the organization committee.
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Greece
Thrace
Washington
Wilson
Massachusetts
George Demoupoulous
Lowell
Michael Latron
Pittsburg
S. H. Donnell
Peabody
William Felton
Salem
Constantine C. Moustakis
Edward O’brien
Lynn
S. Hadjiyanus
Boston
W. C. MacBrayne
A. D. Yeamokoupolos
Harry P. Gouzoulis
Dover
Sermon Denounces Lying as Threat to Community
Rev. RE. T. Sullivan at St. Paul’s Cathedral warned that many lies are acted not spoken and threaten social trust. He said public opinion can force feigned virtue, but deceit cornered by conscience harms the community and the upright man.
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RE. T. Sullivan
St. Paul's Cathedral
Missionary May Go Free After Supreme Court Review
The Korean supreme court reserved decision on Rev. Eli Miller Mowry of Mansfield Ohio a Presbyterian missionary convicted of sheltering Korean agitators. His lawyer M Osawa predicts acquittal or a new trial. Mowry was found guilty late April and sentenced.
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Seoul
Korea
Associated Press
Supreme Court
Eli Miller Mowry
Mansfield
M. Osawa
Mowry
Court of Appeals
Appeal Court Alters Sentence for Mr Lowry
The defendant was sentenced to six months' imprisonment at hard labor. The appeal court commuted to four months' penal servitude with two years' suspension. Mr. Lowry immediately appealed to the supreme court.
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Lowry
Supreme Court
Infant Found Dead in Floating Pasteboard Box
Henry Parker and Henry O'Brien seamen aboard the U S 8 at Easthampton tied to Pier L Charlestown navy yard observed a pasteboard box adrift yesterday afternoon. They pulled it aboard and recovered the decomposed body of an infant, the result of prolonged exposure in the water.
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Henry 8
Parker
Henry O'Brien
U. S
Easthampton
Charlestown Navy Yard
Tague Case to Hear Arguments in Next Week
Washington August 24 The contested election case between Peter F Tague and Congressman John F Fitzgerald will likely be heard within the next week by the House elections committee. Former Senator Arthur Harrington of Charlestown reviews Fitzgerald brief while Tague stays in close contact. Fitzgerald filed his brief last week and Tague will not rebut. The nine member committee includes Goodall Maine Lehlibach New Jersey Elston California Rhodes Missouri Luce Massachusetts Jefferies Nebraska Overstreet Georgia Johnston New York and McGlennon New Jersey.
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Washington
Peter F. Tague
John F. Fitzgerald
Committee On Elections of the House
Arthur Harrington
Charlestown
Fitzgerald
Tague
Congress
Goodall
Maine
Lehlibach
New Jersey
Elston
California
Rhodes
Missouri
Luce
Massachusetts
Jefferies
Nebraska
Overstreet
Georgia
Johnston
New York
McGlennon
The Strangest Battle of All The Battle of Songs
The article by naval historian Edgar Stanton Maclay in the Boston Sunday Post Magazine examines the strangest battle of all titled The Battle of Songs. The piece explores humorous contrasts and historical quirks surrounding musical rivalries in a maritime context.
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Edgar Stanton Maclay
Boston Sunday Post
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