Thousands Rally for Red Cross Drive in New England
New England Red Cross volunteers push toward the 1919 Christmas roll call milestone with rapid, house to house and booth enrollment across six states. Boston reports 176000 metropolitan members, New Hampshire boasts 65000 to date, Vermont 31000, Maine 3000, while New York and Chicago exceed prior year totals as overall drive pace accelerates.
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New England
Red Cross
Milk Street
Boston
E. S. Webster
Industrial Department
Theoston Leaiquarters
Liberty Cottage
New Hampshire
Ballyhoo
Marion Sprague
E. C. Fogg
Copley Plaza Hotel
Plaza
Lenox
Brunswick
Malcolm Lang
Charles B. Burleigh
Boston Industrial Committee
Joseph A. Maynard
South
Thomas W. Murray
CG. S. Ching
Washington Red Cross
New York
Chicago
Northwestern
Flu closes town stores in South Bristol after outbreak
FLOOSE closes all stores and public places in South Bristol Me except the post office as influenza strikes the village. The outbreak has brought widespread closures and disrupted daily life.
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Bristol
Reports of Hun revolt were faked
Senate hearing details German propaganda and financing networks in the United States. Alfred L. Becker describes funds from German war securities via Chandler & Co. and banks like Zimmerman & Forshay and Transatlantic Trust Co. used to promote pro German activity. He cites Tauscher plot, Stein affair, and Albert’s 1916 anti submarine warfare letter influencing German embassy circles.
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Washington
Berlin
United States
Senate
Alfred L. Becker
New York
Bolo Pasha
Paris Journal
France
Dernberg
Heinrich F. Albert
Chandler & Co
Becker
Count von Bernstorff
Albert
Zimmerman & Forshay
Transatlantic Trust Company
Muller Schall & Co
Knauth, Nachod & Kuhne
Hans Tauscher
India
Mir
Abraham Stein
A. N. Stein & Co
Dutch East Indies
Stein
Adolph Pavenstedt
G. Amsinck & Co
Samuel Untermyer
H. I. Albert
von Papen
Germany
Untermyer
Secret Service
Foreign Office
George von Skal
New York City
Bserlin
Bagdad
George Sylvester Viereck
Lauis Viereck
Journal
William Randolph Hearst
Bolo
E. G. Grace
Bethlehem Steel Corporation
von Bernstorff
Hearst
M. M. Warburg & Co
Hamburg
Kuhn, Loeb & Co
Bernard Dernberg
German Propaganda Still Pushed in United States
Washington reports state department despatch from The Hague says German propaganda led by Professor Brinckmann continues to spread anti American materials in the United States and among the Allied nations. The funds for the propaganda office are supplied through German official channels.
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Washington
United States
Brinckmann
Hague
State Department
Netherlands
Ranney May Head Police
Boston police commissionership rumors swirl as names circulate for successor to the late Stephen O'Meara. One theory favors merging license and police duties under a single head, reviving a three-headed past structure. Fletcher Ranney, tied to Boston Licensing Board and backed by Charles S. Baxter, is strongly favored by some. Former Mayor Edwin A. Curtis, ex-police commission member, met with the Governor and hinted at advised procedures without details.
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Boston
State House
Stephen O'Meara
Meay
Police Commission
Fletcher Ranney
Boston Licensing Board
Charles S. Baxter
Edwin A. Curtis
Curtis
Bosica Housing Association organizes in Beacon Street
Mayor Peters was elected honorary chairman and Leslie H. Allen was named president at the inaugural meeting of the Bosica Housing Association in Channing Hill Beacon Street. The group aims to improve housing in Greater Boston with insights from Lawrence Veiller of the National Housing Association and Ralph Adams Cram of the Boston Planning Board outlining strategies for tenement districts.
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Peters
Leslie H. Allen
Bosica Housing Association
Channing Hill
Beacon Street
Boston
Lawrence Veiller
National Housing Association
New York
Ralph Adc
Ams Cram
Boston Planning Board
How to Get Rid of Rheumatism Verona
An advertisement claims Fruit-a-tives tablets relieved years of rheumatism and side and back pain from strains. Testimonial by W. M. Lampson states initial improvement after first box and continued health. Price 50c a box six for $2.50 trial 25c, from Fruit-A-tives Ltd Ogdensburg NY or at dealers.
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Verona
Paris
W. M. Lampson
Fruit-A-Tives, Limited
Ogdensburg
N. Y
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W. Ee. Quilty
T. D. Green
JS . Bailey Co
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Copenhagen
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Wolverine
Sandy Andy
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Mr. Becker
George T. Odell
New York Evening Mail
McClure
the Mail
Senator Reed
B Becker
Trans-Ocean
German South American Institute
Portugal
Spain
News Alliance
Massachusetts Avenue
Huntington Avenue
Bell
Riverside Drive
New York State
Bernstorff
Senator Wolcott
Ranney
Wey
Atlantic Ocean
Floyd Gibbons
Fhe Crowell Publishing Company
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