August Month End Bargains Sweep Quiet Shop
One day sale features Norfolk and serge suits with trims and belts plus dressy coats and frocks. Collections include skirts coats dresses and ready to wear with reduced prices ranging from a few dollars to over a hundred, with many items in serge gabardine taffeta and voile fabrics. Numerous named items and price points highlight a broad clearance across women’s wear and accessories.
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Norfolk
Gros de Londres
Sue Fee
Bargain Frenzy at White's Thrift Store Event
Thrift store week offers deep cuts across all departments with odd lots and discontinued lines marked down. Items include gloves hosiery lace edgings ribbons books sewing machines and a wide range of housewares and clothing as shoppers are urged to visit Friday for quick disposal and stock cleanout.
Elite Manufacturing Co. Faces Bankruptcy Petition
Two creditor groups filed petitions in bankruptcy against Elite Manufacturing Company located at 694 Washington Street. The actions mark formal efforts to reorganize the company amid creditor concerns.
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Elite Manufacturing Co
Elite Manufacturing Company
Washington Street
How to Be Slim By Winifred Grace Forrest
Practical weight loss advice claims Korean capsules help reduce fat without starvation. The author urges readers to weigh weekly and promotes the capsules as inexpensive and harmless with a one week trial.
Clergy Prize Offered for 500 Word Essay on Experience
The Shubert Theatre offers Boston clergy a chance to win 100 in gold for a 500 word essay on the morality play Experience. An invitation performance Friday night will host about 980 clergy and notable guests including Mayor Curley and Governor Walsh.
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Shubert Theatre
Boston
Curley
Walsh
E. D. Smith
the Shubert
Smith
Roosevelt
Suffrage Meetings Planned For Tonight In Boston Areas
The Boston Equal Suffrage Association schedules two open air rallies in Roxbury at 7 30 and 8 30 with speakers Mrs Carrie F Sheehan Miss Freda Rogolsky and Stuart Chase. Additional rallies in Dorchester at Cod man Square 7 30 and Eaton Square 8 30 feature Miss Anne Cheney and William Paine Everett.
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Boston Equal Suffrage Association
Roxbury
Mt. Pleasant Avenue
Dudley Street
Fellows and
Northampton Streets
Carrie F. Sheehan
Freda Rogolsky
Stuart Chase
Zara duPont
Ohio
Massachusetts
Dorchester
Codman Square
Eaton Square
Anne Cheney
William Paine Everta
Italian Army Frees Boston Native From Italian Service
Washington Aug 25 Italian embassy told the State Department that Italy in response to a protest from the Washington government released Ugo da Patro of Boston from military service. The action follows similar cases and sets a possible precedent. Da Patro born in Boston in 189? son of a naturalized American, but with two years residence in Italy before the war he was pressed into service. Senator Lodge prompted the release arguing the father’s return to Italy as a business representative meant repatriation law did not apply.
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Washington
State Department
Italy
Ugo da Patro
Boston
United States
da Patro
Lodge
New York Suffrage Strike Called Off
The Empire State suffrage campaign committee cancelled the one day strike planned to prove women work outside the home. Employers urged postponement to avoid tying up utilities stores and shops and disrupting business.
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New York
Empire State Suffrage Campaign Committee
Labor Appeals to Financiers Over War Munition Wages
The Metal Trades Division of the AFL plans conferences with financiers supervising U S munition purchases for allies to push for eight hour workdays and better conditions for machinists and metal workers. Officials aim for New York meetings next week and seek changes without strikes. a Norfolk inquiry on shop management was promised.
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Washington
United States
Metal Trades Division
American Federation of Labor
New York
James O'Connell
Norfolk Navy Yard
Roosevelt
Charlestown Man Deliberately Wounds Family Then Sets House Fire
Lawrence Keenan of Main Street Charlestown beat his wife and daughter with a stick, set fire to the house, and then cut his own throat. He remained delirious at the relief hospital with serious blood loss while his wife Della improved and daughter Mary could go home. The lamp fire caused only minor damage to the bed. The report also notes the Edmund Rice Association reunion set for Marlboro at 11 o clock Saturday at Old Gates Inn.
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Lawrence Keenan
Main Street
Charlestown
Relief Hospital
Della
Mary
Keenan
Lexington
Edmund Rice Association
Old Gates Inn
Marlboro
Doings of the Van Loons teased for Sunday Post
The Van Loons are highlighted as the week’s humor feature with a note that their Doings will appear in the upcoming Sunday Post.
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van Loons
Fluid Enserol Advertisement for Deafness and Nasal Relief
An ad promotes Fluid Enserol from Riker Jaynes and drug stores as a remedy for hearing loss buzzing in the ears clogged nostrils and catarrh. Instructions advise mixing with warm water and using drops in the ear throat and nose nightly for weeks to improve hearing and clear head noises.
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Riker Jaynes
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