New $1 and $2 Federal Reserve notes issued wartime
Washington, Aug 27. Two new greenbacks are in circulation the first wartime currency. The $1 note features George Washington and an eagle on the reverse while the $2 note carries Thomas Jefferson and a battleship. Both replace withdrawn silver certificates as silver reserves are melted for export to the allies.
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Washington
Federal Reserve Bank
Treasury
George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
Heating Waste Flagged at State Tuberculosis Hospitals
Public Safety Committee at the State House heard concerns over wasteful heating of tuberculosis hospital facilities. The conference aimed to identify steps to curb unnecessary energy expenditures in the state institutions.
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Public Safety Committee
State House
High health rate in Merchant Marine training squadron
Washington Aug. 27 Reports by the Shipping Board show one death among 800 trainees in seven months and a daily sick rate of 1 percent for men on the Atlantic training squadron. Dr. William A. Brooks of Boston, former Harvard rowing coach, heads the medical department.
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Washington
Merchant Marine
Shipping Board
William A. Brooks
Boston
Harvard
Take Up Bone Dry Bill Today In Senate
Washington August 27 The Senate will resume debate on a nationwide bone dry prohibition plan beginning July 1 1919 and lasting through the war A compromise delays absolute prohibition from January 1 1919 to July 1 next with leaders predicting prompt passage though final vote may be delayed to Thursday Various wet and dry leaders express general support for the compromise and quicker action.
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Washington
Senate
Sheppard
Texas
Hingston and MacMahon to Be Dinner Guests
Friends of Major William H. Hingston, Canadian army chaplain and recruiter, and Captain Thomas F. MacMahon of the Irish Guards, who has been doing similar work, will host a dinner tonight at the Boston City Club.
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William H. Hingston
Thomas F. MacMahon
Trish Guards
Boston
Lieutenant Mills Missing in Action in France
Lieutenant Quincy Sharpe Mills a noted New York political writer and ally of Theodore Roosevelt and John Purroy Mitchel has been missing in action in France since July 26 according to a War Department report received by his parents.
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New York
Quincy Sharpe Mills
Theodore Roosevelt
John Purroy Mitchel
France
War Department
Navy Yard Declares Labor Day Holiday for Great Work
Commandant William R. Rush announces Labor Day as a legal holiday at the navy yard. All work will be suspended except emergencies. He praises workers for a year of high output in ship conversion repairs and destroyer completion amid wartime demands.
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Navy Yard
William R. Rush
Navy Department
Navy
W. R. Rush
Christopher Weld Dies at Home in Milton
Christopher Minot Weld a prominent business figure died yesterday at his Milton home by shock in his 60th year. Funeral arrangements will be made today after consulting family members away on war service.
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Christopher Minot Weld
Milton Street
Milton
Jersey Sport Coats and Lingerie Blouses in Mixed Prices
A catalog lists Jersey Sport Coats Rose Moongie Tricelette Silk Coat Satin Coat Pekin Duvet de Laine Coats Organdie and Linen Blous Crepe de Chine Blouses Georgette Crepe Panniers French Hand Made Linge Blouses and Lingerie Blouses with varied prices from 2.00 to 85.00. Items include Negligees Dotted Muslin Lace Coatee Lace and Satin Lacque Georgette Negligee Blue Dresden Georgette and Orchid blends.
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Jersey
Georgette
Rush of Boston Sunk by U Boat Off Nova Scotia
The auxiliary fishing schooner Rush of Boston was sunk Monday by a Hun U-boat off Nova Scotia. Built at Essex and fitted with diesel engines, she was one of the largest Boston fishing fleet vessels and valued around 45000 dollars. Captain Frank Quadros commanded a crew of about 23 men.
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Nova Scotia
Frank Quadros
Rush
Boston
Essex
Commonwealth Fisheries Company
Fish Pier
Wastern Bank
Fisher Gifts Attleboro Sanitarium to Church Drive
Mr and Mrs John M Fisher of Attleboro donate all holdings in the Attleboro Sanitarium valued about 250000 to the joint centenary committee of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The sanitarium remains under the same management and treatment.
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New England
Methodist Episcopal Church
John M. Fisher
Attleboro
Attleboro Sanitarium
One Uniform Only for Navy
Secretary Daniels issued a general order unifying navy uniforms by rank with corps devices as the sole distinguishing marks. Officers will be addressed by rank title, ending the tradition of referring to staff heads by their positions, such as Chief Constructor Taylor becoming Admiral Taylor.
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Washington
War Department
Daniels
Admiral Taylor
Bureau of Yards and Docks
Taylor
Admiral
Girls anxious to be Marines in Greater Boston
Captain Bernard J. Doherty at the Marine Corps recruiting station in Boston reports a mass of women seeking roles as typists stenographers bookkeepers and accountants to fill duties left by Marines called to active duty. He expects clear instructions soon and believes the quota can be met.
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Bernard J. Doherty
Marine Corps
Tremont Row
Department
Doherty
O Connell Named National Field Organizer for Employment Service
Daniel T. O Connell a former president of the Soldiers and Sailors Relief Society of Ward 18 Dorchester has accepted the post of national field organizer with the United States Employment Service and has gone to Washington for the appointment. The Boston attorney and Dorchester resident at 13 Bowdoin Street has long aided draftees families and pushed housing for workers at Squantum.
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Daniel T. O'Connell
Soldiers and Sailors’ Relief Society
Ward 18
Dorchester
United States Employment Service
Washington
O’connell
Dorchester Board of Trade
Squantum
Mr. O'Connell
Boston
Bowdoin Street
Welch Workingman Becomes a General
London reports Godfrey Jones of Wales, a working man, as the first Briton to reach general rank. He enlisted from the ranks and rose through promotions to colonel, now nominated brigadier general after a wartime record of steady advancement.
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London
Godfrey Jones
Wales
Poslam Skin Remedy Advertises Quick Relief
An ad touts Poslam as a highly concentrated healing aid for itching skin diseases and virulent eczema. It claims rapid results for acne pimples and surface afflictions and offers free samples from Emergency Laboratories in New York City.
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Emergency Laboratories
West 47Th St
New York City
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