Big Bill Kelther to write his prison life for Post readers
William J. Big Bill Kelcher plans a series of prison life stories for the Sunday Post. He seeks no sympathy or excuses, only a value to New England readers and a message for the youth. He aims to print the first installment tomorrow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
BIG Bill
Kelther
POST
William J
Big Bill) Kelcher
The
Mr. Kelcher
New England
Keliher
Tomorrow’s Sunday Post
Big Bill Kelliher Seeks Return to Honor After Prison
Former con artist and alleged fake fare operator Clarence “Big Bill” Kelliher returns to Boston after Leavenworth release. He speaks of remorse, loyalty to the government, and plans to work with Ford in Detroit before settling in Boston. He credits his son and a sympathetic priest for his freedom and reflects on prison life, law, and reform.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Jacob Astor
Charlies M. Schwab
Transatlantic Trirs
Keliher
Leavenworth
Kan
Boston
Kelcher
James
Walsh
Needham
Washington
Senator Walsh
Department of Justice
School Street
Mr. Kelcher
New York
Hasbrouck Declines Navy Cross For Minnesota Captain
Captain Raymond L. Hasbrouck, commander of the battleship Minnesota, declines the Navy Cross, aligning with Rear Admiral Sims that officers of ships attacked by German submarines should not receive special awards. He cites losing his ship Covington with six lives lost on July 1, 1918, as the reason, noting no quarrel with anyone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Raymond LD. Hasbrouck
Minnesota
Navy Department
Sims
Daniels
Hasbrouck
Bryn Mawr
Admiral Sims
Department
Covington
United States
Europe
Parochial School Opens Moving Picture House
The Rev. John J. Gilday of St. Patrick's Church South Lawrence inaugurated a community moving-picture house in the parochial school hall. The program aims to develop community spirit and will screen only high class educational and entertaining photoplays.
Navy Men Refuse War Decorations Fight Continues
More Navy men refuse war decorations in the Newport News division of the cruiser and transport force. Captain Hasbrouck, now commanding the battleship Minnesota, asked Secretary Daniels to remove his name from the Navy Cross list. He formerly led a transport sunk by a German torpedo.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newport News
Cruiser and Transport Force
Hasbrouck
Minnesota
Daniels
Daniels Orders Board to Revise Navy Awards
Secretary Daniels ordered the Navy Department's board of awards to reconvene January 5 to revise recent recommendations. The move follows controversy after Admiral Sims declined the Distinguished Service Medal while awards stood unchanged.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Daniels
Navy Department
Board of Awards
Sims
Daniels Has Not Yet Received Declinations
Secretary Daniels reported no word by night that Vice Admiral Hilary P. Jones and Captain Raymond D. Hasbrouck had declined naval decorations recently awarded, following Admiral Sims. He declined to discuss reports of declinations circulating at Newport, Rhode Island.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Daniels
Hilary P. Jones
Raymond D. Hasbrouck
Sims
Newport
R. Tf
Post Santa Claus Fund Contributions Ledger
The listing shows numerous individual donors and amounts toward the Post Santa Claus Fund with totals around 20 271 99 plus acknowledgments for in memory donations and postmarked entries from Back Bay Station. Names include Mary Elizabeth Maplewood N J and Girl Scouts of Eliot Me while entries note in memory gifts for Cousin Edward McGregor and Little Josephine among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colo Tamcopis
Boston Postmark
MVR Erie
Maplewood
N. J
Deanwood Tho
Aioe Alegre
Mars Als
Dick Neon Scales i
Pratt
Brevidense
K. L. Mellen
Winchester
N. Hf
Edward McGregor
Edna
Barbara
Sherborne
Hyannis
Mass
Back Bay
Jophine
Ngud Bay
Sureibon Coy
Donald BE
Carl
Sarah Madeline
Harriet Coy
Eleanor Cleveland
Gertrude Pon
Girl Scouts of
Eliot
Friends
Bradford
Milie B. Stevens
Milford
Maas
Ward
Ruth
Suncook
N. H
Hitogithy Miovebales
Kelley, Waltham
Elia Doster Micharie
Wiliinht
Mit
Forest Ave
SU Amone
Spaigh
Sherburne Defends Lawrence Merchants Against Wood Charges
Sherburne states Wood's charges against Lawrence merchants were not proven and proposes a public hearing at Wood’s convenience with merchants present. Merchants’ letter to Wood asks for impartial investigation by the Commission on the Necessaries of Life and defends Lawrence prices as fair and variable with manufacturers’ costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sherburne
Lawrence
Commonwealth
City of Lawrence
Charles H. Adams
United States Labor Bureau
Labor Review
Representa
Tives
Merchants’ Association of
Adams
William M. Wood
American Woolen Company
Wood
Richard Ward
Lawrence Chamber of Commerce
Dan A. Donahue
Merchants’ Committee
Boston
George KE. Rix
Rix
Association
Funeral notices from Dorchester and nearby towns
Funeral announcements list numerous residents with dates and times for services across Dorchester, Roxbury, Everett, Medford, Brighton and surrounding areas. Names include Bazley, Biggs, Buchanan, Burnham, Crowley, Dailey, Donnelly, Dundon, Eldridge, French, Griffin, Hagarty, Hampe, Hill, Keefe, Killion, Jones, Lentiti, Leslie, Marcotte, Marston, McArdle, McQuade, Newhall, Porter, Quigley, Russell, Silver, Stanton, Wentworth, Wilson, Young and Kelly with addresses and service times through December 27 to December 29.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Concord
Nhh
New York
Connecticut
M'Ardle
Boston
Etta May
James J
Elizabeth McArdlie
White
Lexington St
Gloucester
M'Quade
Dorchester
Martha
John A. McQuade
Newhall
Agnes Sharpe Newhall
Broadway
Porter
Frank O. Porter
Chapel
Samuel F. Burroughs
Dudley St
Quigley
Everett
Rita V
William H., Jr
Annie T. Quigley
Susie Assoiuion
Charles I. Russell
Woodlawn
Silver
Katherine T. Silver
Stanton
John T
Mary Hourihan Stanton
Fourth St
St. Augustine's Church
Knights of Finbar
Union
Wentworth
Winchester
Margaret H
Henry N. Wentworth
SS Church St
Wilson
Medford
Emily B
Annie I. Wilson
Somerville
Winchester St
Young
Christina Young
James W. Young
Shirley St
Winthrop
Death notice for Albert Weiss
Noemi Lodge 11 U C T S announces the death of Mr Albert Weiss husband of Sister Henrietta Weiss. Funeral from Sister Helen Cohen 12 Elansboro St Dorchester Saturday Dec 27 7 30 PM. Interment Sunday Dec 28 Waterbury Conn. RAE B GOLDMAN President JESSIE M BORNSTEIN Secretary
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Noemi Lodge
Albert Weiss
Henrietta Weiss
Helen Cohen
Elansboro St
Dorchester
D. N
Waterbury
Conn
Rae B. Goldman
Jessie M. Bornstein
In sad memory of Father Michael Haggerty
In sad and loving memory of our dear father Michael Haggerty who passed away December 27 1914 Requiescat in pace Gone but not forgotten by his loving children
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michael Haggerty
In loving memory notices from Roussel Griffin and Weiss
In loving memory of Elizabeth C. Roussel who passed away a year ago today. Also memorial for Margaret infant daughter of Charles A. and Annie F Griffin who died in East Boston. Moses Mendelssohn Lodge announces the passing of Brother Albert Weiss with funeral at 12 Hansborough Street Dorchester on Saturday at 7:30 p.m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elizabeth C. Roussel
Margaret
Charles A
Annie F.griffin
Boston
Moses Mendelssohn
O.ff
S. of I
Albert Weiss
Hansborough St
Dorchester
Solemn High Mass for Mrs. McCaughern at Mission Church
A solemn high mass will be offered at the Mission Church Roxbury for Mrs John Mc Caughern nee Hunt on Monday December 29 at 8 am She died in Bristol Connecticut on November 20 She has a brother Thomas J Hunt who resides at 10 Shepard Ave Roxbury in the Mission Church parish
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
French
Lincoln
Archibald
Abigail French
Boston
Cleveland St
St. Taike’s
Brotherhood of Painters
Tocal
Newfoundland
Griffin
Roxbury
Michael
Catherine Griffin
Nea Coyne
Lawn St
Ee Fe Ue
Church of the Blessed Sacrament
Anta Cortege
Hagarty
Esther (Morgan
Adams Nagarty
Centre Ave
Dorchester
Hampe
Maria Theresa
John A. Hampe
Dorothea Hobestadt
Bowdoin Sq
Westville St
Holy Trinity Church
Shawmut Ave
Brookline
Mary E
Benjamin
Benjamin 2Nd Ellen Hill
McCarthy
Homme
Tamper St
At & A.m
St. Mary's of the Assumption Church
Keefe
Margaret M. Keefe
FE. Doyle
Bennington St
Star of the Sea
Mission Church
John McCaughern
Nee Hunt
McCaughern
Bristol
Conn
Thomas J. Hunt
Shepard Ave
Mr and Mrs Harrington Thank Friends For Kind Thoughts
Mr and Mrs John T Harrington of 190 London Street East Boston thank all who sent thoughts and remembrances after the death of their daughter N Evelyn Harrington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John T. Harrington
London St
East
Boston
N. Evelyn Harrington
In Loving Memory of Eleanor A Forbes
In loving memory of Eleanor A Forbes who passed away December 27, 1918. By her mother and little daughter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eleanor A. Forbes
Merchants See Wide Price Variations In Investigations
A letter discusses need for detailed explanation before pricing justice can be set. It notes figures from Mr. Wood’s study and argues reports vary with investigator interpretations. Housewife submissions in the Wood inquiry are criticized.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wood
Lawrence Prices Compared With Other Cities Face Fluctuations
A letter notes Lawrence prices for certain articles run higher than some cities while others are lower. It cites unstable conditions as cause for frequent manufacturer price increases and retailer pass‑throughs on new invoices. The letter says investigators’ evidence supporting judging Lawrence merchants was not shared.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrence
Boston Churches News for New Year Eve and Day Services
A compact listing of Boston area church events for New Year holiday observances. Multiple Baptist and Universalist churches detail service times, sermons, and choir or musical plans. Includes Tremont Temple, First Baptist Commonwealth Ave, Warren Avenue Tabernacle, Dudley Street Baptist, Immanuel in Cambridge, Union Square Medford, and others with topics such as A New Starting Point, Drift and Progress, and Your Life Story for 1919. Some venues host special programs and open discussions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tremont Temple Baptist Church
New England
Cortland Myers
Lotus
Lamson
Temple
Me Coce
Saunier
Commonwealth Ave
Clarendon St
Austen Kennedy de Blois
Newton C. Fetter
Warren Avenue Tabernacle Baptist Church
West
Canton St
Herbert $. Johnson
D. D
Frank B. Haggard
Mr. Haggard
Bible School
Dudley Street
George R. Stair
Harvard
Immanuel Baptist Church
Corner Magazine St
Putnam Ave
Cambridge
Homer Stanley Morgan
George S. Winsor
Union Square Baptist Church
Walnut St
Giles Park
Somerville
George A. Lawson
Denton J. Neily
First Baptist Church of
Medford
Mass
Ruggles Street Baptist Church
Roxbury
Gabriel Reid Maguire
Clarendon Street Baptist Church
Tremont St
W. Harry Freda
Boston
Various Religious Meetings and Speakers in Boston Area
Readings list multiple venues including Free Religious Association at Wesleyan Hall 581 Boylston with Swinburre Hale and George Mills speaking on Revolution. Ford Hall in Beacon Hill hosts Jeanette Rankin on What the Non-Partisan League Has Meant to American Politics. Other groups include Home of Truth Newbury Street with sermons Healing meetings New Thought Forum Chauncy Hall 585 Boylston and more.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Franklin Union
Daniel Feley
Free Religious Association
Wesleyan Hall
Boylston St
Copley Sq
Swinburre Hale
New York
London
George Grover Mills
Free Religious Associaton
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ford Hall
Beacon Hill
Boston
Jeanette Rankin
Congress
Non-Partisan
League
AmericanPolitics
George W. Coleman
Home OF Truth
Newbury St
Eleanor Mel
NEW Thought Forum
Chauncy Hall
Hoylston St
Henry Armstrong
Robert G. Ingersoll
Boston Rationalist Forum
Dwight Jfall
Tremont St
Charles Fleischer
Esoteric Brotherhood
Hall
Dartmouth St
Christian Missionary Alliance, Inc
Wemberton Sq
FE. Jos. Evans
People's Forum
Shawmut Ave
Albert C. Knudson
Louise Cutts Powell
Hotel Brunswick
Spiritualist Meetings At Several Boston Churches
A list of upcoming spiritualist services and lectures across multiple venues in Boston. Includes Unity Church events at Jordan Hall and Stewart Hall with speakers such as Rev. F. A. Wiggin and Professor Young, plus evening seances, music, and watch-night services. Also notes halls on Tremont Street, Xmas services, and events at Higher Spiritualism in Somerville with Mrs. J. BE Armstrong.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jordan Hall
Conservatory of Music
F. A. Wiggin
D. D
Stewart Hall
Tremont ST
Professor Young
Henri Sentner
New England
Adele Al.liams
Charles Prevor
Land
Odd Fellows
Dwight Hall
W. L. Gout
Harvey Redding
Huntington Ave
Church Higher Spiritualism
Pearl St
Somerville
J. BE
Armstrong
Christian Science and many churches greet Christmas week
Listing of weekend and Christmas week services across Boston churches. Includes First Church of Christ Scientist Mother Church Boston Norwood locations with 10 45 a m and 7 30 p m services, Old South Church sermon topics, Park Street Church addresses and topics, Union Church illustrated sermon, Shawmut Church watch night, Cathedral of St Paul schedules, Trinity Newton Centre service, Advent Mt Vernon service, Christ Church Old North Church carols, Temple Israel services, and Temple Forum talks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First Church OF Christ, Scientist
Falmouth
Norway
Paul Sts
Boston
Christian Science
Old South Church
Copley Sq
Archibald Black
George A. Gordon
Methuselah
Gordon
Whittier
Park Street
Congregational
Carper Park
Christian Endeavor
John Hermann Loud
Union Church
Columbus Ave
West Newton St
Ernest Graham Guthrie
India
New World
Alden Clark
Stereopticon Pictures
Shawmut Congregational Church
Tremont
West Brooklinests
Mark Wayne Williams
America
Dean Rousmaniere
Trinity Church
Newton Centre
Mt. Vernon
Brimmersts
William Harman van Allen
Ss. Ff. D
Christ Church
Old North Church of History
Salem St
Temple Israel
Commonwealth Ave
Blandford St
Harry Levi
Henry L. Gideon
Temple Forum
Charles Zueblin
St Mark's Roxbury Invites Attendance
The Rev. E. L. Miller pastor at St. Mark's English Roxbury invites participation in morning worship at 10 30 sermon by pastor Sunday school at 11 45 and a cordial invitation to attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christadelphians
Walker Memorial Building
Berkeley
Appleton
Sts
The
Elks
Magazine St
Central Sq
Cambridge
King's Chapel
Tremont School Sts
Howard N. Brown
D. D
Sydney B. Snow
ST. Mark's English
Winthrop St
Roxbury
E. L. Miller
Concertand Service At Epworth Church Boston Mass
Method is t Epworth Musical service directed by Paul Shirley with Boston Symphony Orchestra members including Ferdinand Thillois Florian Wittman George Miquelle and Harry G Starr assisting the pastor. Morning sermon Our Guide by Rev Joseph P Kennedy. Evening program features Wagner Loeillet Bennot Beethoven Grieg MacDowell and more. Tremont Street Church hosts travelogue to Japan and New Year banquet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Methodist Episcopal People's Temple
Columbus Ave
Berkeley St
Epworth
Paul Shirley
Symphony Orchestra
Ferdinand Thillois
Florian Wittman
George Miquelle
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Harry G. Starr
Bennot
Beethoven
van Givers
MacDowell
Sigurd Jorsalfar
Grieg
Joseph P. Kennedy
D. D
George Fratt Maxim
Religious notices and meetings listed for Boston churches
A compact list of church services and events across Boston including First Methodist Episcopal Church at 41 Temple Street with morning worship by Rev William M Gilbert and evening sermon by the pastor, and a Healing Through Music session at Huntington Chambers. Also New Thought Church meetings, Catherine Thompson astrological meetings, Salvation Army services at Charlestown and Boston, Swedenborg lectures by John Whitehead, with dates and special programs noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First Methodist Episcopal Church
Temple St
State House
William M. Gilbert
Louis Albert Banks
Huntington Chambers
A. Griswold Long
NEW Thought Church
New Civilization
Faelten Hall
Huntington Ave
Emma C. Poore
Catherine Thompson
Boylston St
Also Mentioned on This Page
Bill
Kelliher
Kansas
Ford
Detroit
Parker House
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Maine
Park Square
Eliot Street
Warrenton
James Tighe
Tighe
Charlestown
Noc
Washington Street
North Pole
Dr. Cook
Peary
Reads
Richard Olney
Cleveland
Olney
Courts of Justice
Haywood
Faro
Ee, Pt
Cuba
Henry Ford
Hadley
Yale
Martin Walsh
Coney Island
Flo
Washington ST
Gayety Theatre
John J. Gilday
Frank B. Conlin
Santa Claus
Adamson
Druggists
Aivt
Merchants’ Association
Classified Department
Biggs
Hingham
David M
Emma I. Biggs
Main_ st
Buchanan
Henry Buchanan
Logan St
Waterman Chapel
Burnham
Tilley Burnham
Park St
Burns
Margareta
Carpenter
Allston
Dee
Arthur P
Jennie Carpenter
Gates
Litchfield St
Bote
Carr
Maynard
Joshua W Carr
Elmcourt
Cavanaugh
Fuller St
Mishkan Tefila
Centre St
West Roxbury
Crowley
Dennis
Mary Crowley
West Dedham St
Dailey
Helen M. Dailey
Michael J
Lena Dailey
Holderild
Vernon St
Donnelly
Walter W
Mary W
Nea Shay
Evans St
St. Matthew's Church
Stanton St
Nee Hayes
Melrose
Mystic St
St. Francis de Sales’ Church
Melrose Counell
Flowere
Eldringe
lIn Everett
Thomas Lyman
Killion
Brighton
John Killion
Wallingford Rd
St. Columbkinle’s
Jones
Harriett
John H. Jones
M. FE. Zion Church
Henrietta
George Lenth
Manthorne Road
Leslie
Haymarket
Benjamin A. Leslie
Kelly
Henry
Catherine Kelly
Whittier St
St. Mark’s Church
Haggerty
Roussel
Canada
Tremont Stree
Beach
Vicinity
Jesus Christ
Tinntington Ave
Church OF the New Jerusalem
Lindsey
Theosophy
the Universal Brotherhood and Theosophical Society
Symphony Hall
Theosophical Society
New York City
N. P. Blavatsky
William Q. Judge
Katherine Tingley
International
Point Loma
California
Symphony Chambers
Inquirers
Unitarian
Branca
Earth
Common Cause Forum
Unity Church
Episcopal
Lutheran
Methodist Episcopal
Ists
Salvation Army
Naval and Military Corps
First Parish
Harvard St
W.A. Antrim
Joseph Perry
Alfred Tyler
Young People
Talmage
Ida T. Ray
Lizabeth Turner
Daughters of Veterans
Tyler
Salvation Army Corps
Alden
Lillington
Yattan
Swedenborg
John Whitehead
A. M
Th. B
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