First Woman Appointed Notary Public in Massachusetts
Clara Louise Power a Boston lawyer and assistant register of probate and insolvency in Suffolk County was named notary public by Governor McCall. She is the first woman in the state to receive the post after the Executive Council declared the amendment allowing women to hold such offices. She holds an LL B from Boston University Law School and is admitted to the Suffolk bar. She was the first Massachusetts woman admitted to the United States Supreme Court.
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Clara Louise Power
Boston
Suffolk County
Massachusetts
McCall
Executive Council
Miss Power
Boston University Law School
Suffolk Bar
United States Supreme Court
Open Nostrils End A Cold or Catarrh
A vintage remedy ad promises instant relief from head colds and catarrh by applying Ely's Cream Balm in the nostrils. It claims to open air passages, stop snuffling, and soothe inflamed mucous membranes with a fragrant antiseptic formula. Relief is marketed as instant and certain.
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Ely
Regulars oppose National Guard says Curtis
In St Paul at a Central States adjutant-generals conference Major W A Curtis, former chief of staff, charged that regular army officers oppose the National Guard and seek to abolish or drastically reduce it. He warned officers to fight hard or the Guard could disappear within six months. Curtis said Washington sentiment favored ending the Guard or reducing its role.
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ST. Paul
Minn
United States
Central States
Minnesota
W. A Curtis
W. F. Rhinow
Curtis
Adjutant-General
Washington
National Guard
Major Curtis
Soldiers Denounce War Dept Pay Failures in House
In Washington on December 11 Representative Mann of Illinois denounced the War Department for failing to pay soldiers calling it a scandal to the nation. Representative Walsh criticized no Navy funds for transporting discharged sailors home and a telegram from West Baden Ind noted hundreds arriving at a hospital without funds despite months of due pay. Representative Sherley stated coupons for back pay were recommended but not implemented. Horlicks Malted Milk advertised as digestible recuperative diet.
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Washington
Mann
Illinois
House
War Department
Walsh
Massachusetts
Navy Department
West Baden
Ind
Sherley
Kentucky
Department
Real Estate Boom Spotlighted by Governor-elect at Boston Luncheon
Governor-elect Coolidge and Frederick T. McGill spoke at a Massachusetts Real Estate Exchange luncheon at Crawford House. They noted the postwar real estate boom, urged more enterprise in New England industries, and called for a stronger shipping port and a “Made in New England” trademark to boost local manufacturing and regional growth.
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Coolidge
Frederick T. McGill
The
Exchange Trust Company
Massachusetts Real Estate Exchange
Crawford House
McGill
New England
Boston
Plot to aid draft dodgers alleged in Berger conspiracy trial
Chicago December 11 Evidence promised to show planning of an underground railway to Mexico to aid draft evaders seeking sanctuary in the south ern republic and similar activities aimed at embarrassing the United States in wartime were outlined by Joseph B Fleming assistant district attorney in his opening address to the jury in the trial of Victor L Berger Congressman-elect of Milwaukee and four other Socialists on a charge of conspiracy under the espionage act
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Chicago
Mexico
Republic
United States
Joseph B. Fleming
Victor L. Berger
Milwaukee
Wartime protest group figures in court case
Mr. Fleming cites the Young People's Socialistic League with W A Kyuse as secretary arguing the group sought to discourage army enlistment. He notes a 1917 Chicago convention resolution urging nonregistration and faults members Herm an Bosler Kruse for plans to flee to Mexico. Defendants Garber and others denounce Liberty Bonds as capitalist control.
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Fleming
Young People’s Socialistic League
W. A. Kyuse
League
Chicago
Mr. Fleming
Herman Bosler
Fort Oglethorpe
Kruse
Mexico
United States
Stedman
Adolph Garber
700 Harvard Naval Radio School Students To Quit
An official Navy announcement states about 700 wireless students at the Naval Radio School in Harvard will be discharged for Christmas. Twenty percent of Cambridge station enlisted personnel will be demobilized. reserves who joined for the war duration are still subject to a four year Navy call. Remaining students in April will be sent to Great Lakes Naval Training Station to finish courses.
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Naval Radio School
Harvard
Navy Department
Cambridge
Navy
Great Lakes Naval Training Station
Havana Strike Widens as Workers Walk Out
The general strike in Havana continued to spread today with waiters and cooks at hotels and cafes leaving their posts. Guests faced difficulties obtaining meals as the action affected service across multiple establishments.
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Havana
Letters-from-Home-Day Aimed at U S Troops Returns
Next Monday is designated Letters-from-Home-Day with support from the Secretary of War and War Department Commission. Major William Burnet Wright urges all citizens to aid in fostering morale with cheerful letters to overseas servicemen and camp troops. Local authorities are asked to keep communities clean and free from prostitution and degrading influences during demobilization.
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Secretary of War
War Department Commission On
William Burnet Wright
War Department
Doubt Carr Citizen Status Warps Lawrence Board
Lawrence, Dec 11. A public question looms whether Peter Carr Alderman and commissioner of public safety and former state legislator is a citizen eligible to hold office. Supporters claim Carr was born in Ireland and not naturalized, relying on his father’s papers though he was over 21 when the father naturalized.
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Lawrence
Peter Carr
Public Safety
Dennis E. Carey
Fire Department
Alderman Carr
Ireland
Former Yardmaster Fined for Larceny in Interstate Shipment
Samuel Moore once yardmaster of the New York New Haven and Hartford railroad in Worcester was fined 250 dollars after pleading guilty to larceny of property shipped interstate. He initially pleaded not guilty and changed his plea yesterday. Co-defendants Thomas W. Ross and Herbert T. Welcome received jail terms of four and six months respectively.
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United States District Court
Samuel Moore
New York, New Haven & Dartford
Worcester
Moore
Thomas W. Ross
Herbert T. Welcome
Ross
Welcome
Worcester House of Correction
Brewers to Orient predicted by California association leader
Rudolph Lamet president of the California State Brewers' Association predicts a general exodus of brewing capital from the United States to the Orient as the association concludes its annual meeting in San Francisco on December 11.
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San Francisco
United States
Orient
Rudolph Lamet
California State Brewers’ Association
Abdication Rumor On King Boris Not Confirmed
London reports nothing official about a Bulgarian king Boris abdication. Reuters notes the revolution was unsuccessful and the abdication rumor arrived via Copenhagen in early November. The suggested peasant government under M. Stambulinsky was mentioned.
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Boris
London
Boris of
Bulgaria
Reuter's, Ltd
Copenhagen
M. Stambulinsky
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