Family Driven from Chelsea Fire on Franklin Avenue
Three women and three children of Charles Pagchorian’s family were driven to the street by a fire in a wooden building at 143 Franklin Avenue Chelsea. Firemen battled extreme cold and the blaze for over an hour before extinguishing it. The group was cared for at Chief Heewey’s home on Revere Beach Boulevard until relatives claimed them.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Pagchorian
Chelsea
Franklin Avenue
Corydon Heewey
Revere Beach Boulevard
Incendiary Arrest After Bakery Fire Incident
Miss Adeline Grouce a 27 year old domestic worker for baker Fred Schuyler of 168 West Newton Street was arrested on arson charges after Patrolman Timothy Telliher said he saw her light a pile of clothing in a rear bakery room. The arrest is linked to a string of fires at the bakeshop.
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Adeline Grouce
Fred Schuyler
West Newton Street
Timothy Telliher
Miss Grouce
101St U. S. Infantry
France
EK. M. Malone
Arlington Street
Everett
Edward M. Malone
B Company
Malone
9Th Regiment
A. M. Pacifici
E. M. Delaney
R. N. Swain
F. E. Butler
Harvard Boys Chop Trees to Save Coal in War Time
Fifty Harvard students teamed with the Massachusetts Forestry Association to thin woodlands on the Warren estate in Walden Tham to conserve coal. State Forester R M Gibbs oversaw the effort guiding cutting to preserve young trees. Workers logged 8 am to 4 30 pm with a half hour for lunch earning 2 50 a day.
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Harvard Boys
Cambridge
Washington
Cornelia Warren
Cedar Hill Farm
Waltham
Harvard
Massachusetts Forestry Association
Nathaniel T. Kidder
Harris A. Reynolds
Warren Estate
R. M. Gibbs
Wide probe of the amateur detectives
The inquiry shows many prominent names were used without their knowledge to back a Boston branch of a society that paid for members and offered badges and police assistances. Dingley led enrollment while protesters and officials distance the operation and he is fired after a state hearing.
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Agent Dingley
Boston
Paul Revere Frothingham
Ellery Sedgwick
Charles &. Burrill
Henry S. Harriman
Chamber of Commerce
George F. Willett
Willett- Sears Company
Phillip Cabot
Allan Forbes
F. W. Bird
Dingley
Lodge
Weeks
Deering & Milliken
Lester Leland
Walter Badger
J. H. Stedman
William Wood
J. M. Connell
George M. Ross
Francis Getty
Forbes Lithograph Company
Harvard
New York
Peter Bent Brigham Hospital
John Devoy
Hibernian Hall
Journal
Washington Street
Police
Department of Justice
Society
Hayes
Protective Association
Defence Society
Massachusetts Public Safety Committee
State House
H. D. Craig
Henry B. Endicott
St Cecilia's Guild Plans War Relief Entertainment
St Cecilia's Guild a professional women's sodality will hold an afternoon program at Miss Charlotte A Powell's home 61 Columbia Road to raise funds for Red Cross comfort bags. The event occurs Saturday afternoon with proceeds aiding war relief efforts.
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Red Cross
St. Cecilia's Guild
Charlotte A. Powell
Columbia Road
Shipyard Workers Urgently Needed Across Nation
United States Chamber of Commerce resolutions urge all government departments to act fast on housing for shipyard workers. A cited Atlantic coast yard shows 8009 workers dropping to 15 percent due to lack of beds and no alternative lodging, forcing men to sleep on pine boards.
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Washington
Board of Directors
Chamber of Commerce of the United States
Atlantic Coast
Jewish Men and Women Executed in New York
Thirty Jewish men and women were executed by the authorities in New York on December 27. The report details the dramatic mass execution, noting the scale and the target group amid ongoing wartime tensions.
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New York
Zionist committee reports Jerusalam massacre claims
A provisional executive committee for general Zionist affairs announced that the Turkish army which surrendered Jerusalem to General Allenby on December 10 massacred many, including prominent Holy City residents and suburbs figures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jerusalem
Allenby
Provisional Executive Committee For
General Zionist Affairs
Holy City
Worcester Man Held as German Propagandist
Worcester resident Jacob Loesberg, a former English High School language teacher, was arrested in Jonesburg Virginia on charges of being a German propagandist. Born in Austria and naturalized in 1901, he claims Worcester as his residence.
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Worcester
Jacob Loesberg
Jonesburg
Loesberg
Austria
Governors Invited to Beeckman Reception in Providence
Providence December 27 The Governors of the New England States were invited by Rhode Island Town Criers to attend a reception on January 3 for Governor Beeckman who has just returned from a tour of European battlefields. An informal Governors conference will follow on January 4.
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Providence
New Fingland States
Town Criers
Rhode Island
Beeckman
Japan Pledges Full Backing to Allies in War
Emperor Yoshihito in the speech from the throne pledges cooperation with the entente powers to the fullest extent. He notes close relations with allies and stresses securing victory, maintaining peace in the Orient, and directing ministers to present defence plans amid current conditions.
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Torso
Japan
Yoshihito
Orient
Condi
May Die From Fall Into Ship's Hold
William Welch a 41 year old East Boston man is in critical condition at East Boston Relief Hospital after slipping on ice and falling head first into the hold of the steam ship Oxonian at Pier 4 Clyde street a 25 foot drop. He is on the dangerous list and may die.
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William Welch
Neptune Road
East Boston
Welch
Oxonian
Clyde Street
Col Pierce Joins New War Council
Washington December 27 Secretary Baker expanded his war council by adding Colonel Palmer E. Pierce to oversee supply and equipment questions. Pierce already serves on the War Industries Board representing the department.
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Col. Pierce
NEW War Council
Washington
Baker
War Council
War Department
Palmer EE. Pierce
Department
War Industries Board
No Moving at Deer Island
The proposed federal naval prison on Deer Island will not change current occupancy. The government plans to lease the unused women's prison for male inmates sent by the Navy Department while the house of correction remains in use for municipal and State court prisoners.
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Deer Island
Navy Department
House of Correction
Aviator Gordon Mott Killed in Fall at Benbrook Field
Royal Flying Corps of Canada flyer Gordon Mott died at Benbrook Field in Fort Worth when his aircraft fell during a flight today. Local authorities reported the fatal incident occurred December 7.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Worth
Texas
Gordon Mott
Royal Flying Corps of Canada
Benbrook Field
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Indianapolis
Jamerson
Clothes
Dexter Building
Washington St
Perdinand King
Eckman
Kieeman Laboratory
Waltham Estate
B. F. Wilson
S. I. Solomont
A. Quint
W. 5. Levenson
LA Casdane
B Co
A. S. Inf
Grove
101St U. S. Regiment
ST. Cecilia’s Guild
Tiffany
de E Biorn
U. S. Chamber of Commerce
Brockton
Beverly
Hyde Park
Lynn
Springfield
United States
Emnedy
New England
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Naval Prison
the House of Kuppenheimes
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