American Press ship named to honor newspapers
The American Press will be launched at Hog Island by the American International Shipbuilding Corp next Tuesday December 23. Miss Elizabeth C. Stone sponsors the 7825 dead weight ton steel cargo vessel, 401 feet long and 54 feet beam, the seventh launch at this plant.
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Philadelphia
American Press
Hog Island
American International Shipbuilding Corporation
Elizabeth C. Stone
Melville E. Stone
Associated Press
Wilson Spends Half Hour Outdoors in Cold Anniversary
President Wilson braved intense cold and overcast skies for his daily half hour on the White House south portico. The day marks the fourth anniversary of the President and Mrs. Wilson's wedding, but no celebration was planned.
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Washington
Wilson
White House
Canada to Raise News Print Price to Eight Dollars Per Ton
Ottawa announces that news print paper will cost eight dollars per ton f o b mill starting January 1. The current price paid by Canadian newspapers stands at sixty nine dollars per ton.
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Ottawa
Canada
Pringle
Million-Paced Portrait Honors Red Cross At Knoedler
A $20 000 canvas titled Idealized American woman hood merging 1000 faces will be presented by the War Department to Red Cross headquarters in Washington as a tribute to the wartime relief group. Exhibited in New York at Knoedler Gallery, the painting is too large to ship widely but will likely tour Chicago St Louis Minneapolis and Cleveland before permanent display in Washington.
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New York
War Department
Red Cross
Washington
Knoedler Gallery
Chicago
St. Louis
Minneapolis
Cleveland
Thine is the Glory painted by Mora acquired by Baker
Secretary Baker arranged for Major Joseph G. Kitchell to acquire the canvas titled Thine is the Glory. The work blends portraits of over 1000 Red Cross women workers into one allegoric composition praised by critics as a universal type of American womanhood.
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F. Luis Mora
Baker
Joseph G. Kitchell
Red Cross
United States
Kitchell
Mora
Marshall
W. H. Vanderbilt
August Belmont
Apelles
Boston University Sorority Fair Saturday in Copley Square Hotel
Boston University Society plans a fair at the Copley Square Hotel to raise funds for French war orphans. The event is led by the Boston University Sorority Society with proceeds benefiting overseas relief.
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Boston University Society TO Give Fair
Boston University
Copley Square Hotel
Alpha Delta Pi Fair For France Orphans Planned
The Alpha Delta Pi Sorority at the College of Liberal Arts will host a full day fair Saturday at the Copley Square Hotel to raise funds for the French war orphan they have supported for three years. Miss Eliza Marshall, class of 1920, of Lawrence, leads the effort.
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Alpha Delta Pi Sorority
College of Liberal Arts
Copley Square Hotel
Eliza Marshall
Lawrence
Assistance Recipients Named in Local Honor Roll
She is assisted by Caroline Daly 23 of Brookline Marthe Pollock 23 of Allston Gladys Elliott 22 of Somerville and Adelaide Shepard 21 of North Easton in the community project recognition.
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Caroline Daly
Brookline
Marthe Pollock
Allston
Gladys Elliott
Somerville
Adelaide Shepard
North Easton
King's Chapel Pulpit 200th Birthday Celebration
King's Chapel marks 200 years of its pulpit next Sunday at 10 30 AM. Built in 1719, the wooden pulpit predates the church stone building erected in 1789, and remains the oldest pulpit in use on the original church site once part of the Church of England.
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King’s Chapel
Schoor and
Tremont Street
Church of England
First Unitarian Church
Police indict six in fur theft case in Brooklyn
New York December 18 two Brooklyn policemen and four others were indicted on grand larceny and receiving stolen goods charges. District Attorney Lewis said evidence suffices to convict six officers of aiding burglars in recent theft of property worth 200 900 including furs valued at 12 000.
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New York
Brooklyn
Lewis
Editor Edward Wilson Dies in Columbus at 78
Colonel Edward Wilson, editor of the Ohio State Journal in Wilson since 1905 and former United States marshal of Porto Rico for five years, died in Columbus today at age 78.
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Columbus, O
Edward 8. Wilson
Ohio State Journal
United States
Porto Rico
Christmas Turkey Prices Hold Steady in Boston Market
Marketmen in Boston say Christmas turkeys won’t fall below 60 cents per pound with carload lots at 50 to 52 cents wholesale. Haddock and whitefish rise on bad weather while pork remains the best buy at 30 cents. Lamb prices climb with fore quarter at 20 cents and leg at 40 cents per pound.
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Boston
Best Buy
Haddock Prices Rise as Cold Weather Bites Wharf Market
Fish price reports show haddock at 15 cents today, up from 13 cents a week ago. Market dealers advertising at current levels are reportedly taking losses as wharf wholesale rates sit around 13 cents.
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