Ex pastor held on disloyalty charges in Roxbury
The Rev. John Sheik former pastor of the Lettonian Lutheran Church Roxbury was arrested on Tremont street by Deputy U S Marshal Arthur Shinners and jailed for disloyalty. He allegedly advised people to enlist in the German army over the U S forces. He was born in Russia.
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John Sheik
Lettonian Lutheran Church
Parker and Alleghany Streets
Roxbury
Tremont Street
United States
Arthur Shinners
Roxbury Crossing
Russian minister arrested in Boston for alleged remarks
A Russian-born pastor long known in New England was arrested in Boston after dismissal by his Roxbury church. He faced a $1000 bail set by an assistant U S attorney and planned to be arraigned before Commissioner Hayes. Federal agents investigated his public remarks while parishioners complained to authorities.
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Sia
New England
East
Roxbury
Department of Justice
Marshal Shinners
Parker Street
United States
Howard
Hayes
Federal Building
Russia
Caucasus
Superior Court
Hall Held For The Grand Jury
He faced Judge Harold H. Bourne who remanded him without bail to York county jail at Alfred for action by the grand jury convening Sept 17. The defendant displayed a smile and a laugh as the ruling was issued.
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Harold H. Bourne
Kennebunk District Court
York County
Alfre
Court Hears Autopsy Details in Hall Murder Case
The court heard that Mrs. Hall suffered fractures to both wrists and a second rib with a pear shaped imprint near the neck and a ruptured vessel. Testimony related to motive, conflicting accounts, and a railroad worker’s statements about Mrs. Hall’s condition at the edge of a brook. Medical experts testified the injuries were not from a fall, suggesting an external agent.
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Franklin R. Chesley
Ernest Matthews
Boston & Maine Railroad Section
Halli
Hall
Chesley
Charles F. Traynor
Traynor
L. L. Willard
Biddeford
Model Cellar Storeroom for Vegetables Shown on Common
War gardeners with surplus vegetables will see a model cellar storeroom built by the Food Administration on the Common. The six by ten foot room stores six people’s winter supplies with bins shelves a sand or loam bin for moist vegetables a closet for preserves and a space for barrels. Extension Bulletin No. 26 gives plans costs and details and is available at the Food Administration Cottage or the State House.
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The
Food Administration
State House
Boston Common
Marion A. Driscoll
Women’s Municipal League
Noted preacher Hall in Wells faces murder inquest
The hearing described as dramatic and public centered on minister Hall accused of murdering Minnie Hall after a distant fall from a bridge. Witnesses claim Hall spoke little, mentioning rest and water. Prosecution links alleged affairs with Grace and Rest Katie Gerow to motive. Hall denies guilt.
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Chesley
Wells
Katie” Gerow
Grace
Hall
Grace Gerow
Portland
Frances
Rest
Traynor Case Close as Jury Hears Final Witnesses
In Wells the courtroom heard from Dr Traynor and witnesses including Mrs Stevens and Frances Hall daughter of the accused preacher. The defense offered no witnesses and Judge Bourne signaled the grand jury to convene in September. If indicted Hall faces trial in Alfred the following month.
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George L. Emery
Biddeford
Hall
Post
Traynor
Stevens
Harrington
Frances
Katie” Gerow
Wells
Katie Gerow
Emery
Willard
Bourne
Alfred
Treasury Grants $400 Million Credit to Great Britain
The Treasury Department established an additional $400,000,000 credit for Great Britain, raising total credits to Britain to $3,726,000,000 and credits to all allies to $7,092,040,000 as of August 29 in Washington.
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Washington
Great Britain
Treasury Department
Gas mask not needed, says Curley critic
P G Cahtll of Roxbury writes to the Post arguing Congressman Gallivan urged ladies to wear gas masks against Curley's oratory. He claims Curley has spoken thrice and questions reports of Gallivan’s votes, noting there would not be enough gas masks for soldiers overseas, let alone civilians here.
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Gallivan
Curley
Congress
P. G. Cahtll
Moreland Street
Roxbury
A Lifetime of Suffering Ends with Fruit-a-tives Cure
Donat Lalonde of Hull endorses Fruit-a-tives for indigestion and constipation after years of illness. He recounts finding immediate relief and recovery following use, praising the medicine as the best cure he tried. Boxes priced at 50 cents each, six for $2.50, trial size 25 cents, available from Fruit-a-tives Limited in Ogdensburg, New York.
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Maisonneuve St
Hull
Donat Lalonde
Fruit-a-tives, Limited
Ogdensburg
N. Y
Eckman Alter Ative Tonic Upbuilder Ad
Advertisement for Eckman Alterative sold as a tonic to aid throat and lung illness. Claims include soluble calcium content and easy assimilation. No alcohol or habit forming drugs. Twenty years’ use. 80c and 1.50 bottles at druggists or from Eckman Laboratory Philadelphia.
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Eckman
Eckman Laboratory
Philadelphia
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Rus
Ferdinand King
M.D
New York
John Steik
Boston, Lettish
Dr. Pitt
Matthews
Amoskeaggingham
Scotty
Frances Stevens
Opera House
Minnie Stevens
Pubnico
N.ss
Princeton
Webber Hospital
Grace Gero
B. A. Parker
Gracie
Gerow
Gomson
Bedford Street
Boston
America
Raccoon
Jordan Marsh Company
Will
Poplin
Batiste
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