Books Review Highlights on War Era Economies and Figures
The column surveys several recent books on wartime prices and profiteering, social reform, and postwar economic policy. It praises Frederic C. Howe for exposing food price exploitation, notes Chesterton's Utopia of Weavers, and discusses works on prison reform, taxation, and domestic economy. It also previews memoirs by travel writers and fiction from brokers turned authors.
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Scribner
Frederic C. Howe
Europe
Mr. Howe
Denmark
Germany
Australia
United States
Boni & Liveright
G. K. Chesterton
Chesterton
Everett Family Has Five Children in Service
Mrs. H. A. Jeffrey reports all five of her children are in United States war service. Her son George is a yeoman, Mark serves at cadet school in Cambridge, her son David and Albert are graduates now returning from France, and her daughter Renie, 22, has enlisted in a four year term at a radio school in Cambridge. A family service flag with five stars is displayed at their Everett home.
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United States War Service
H. A. Jeffrey
Post
Broadway
Everett
Renie
Radio School
Cambridge
Yeoman Renie
Everett High School
David M
Albert J
France
George S. Jeffrey
Aisles Yeoman
Navy Yard
Mark M
Soxy
Jeffrey
Massachusetts Signal Corps
Everett Brothers
Miss Renie
David M. Jeffrey
English Poet Gibson Makes Fourth Army Try Pay Off
Wilfred Wilson Gibson, born in the Scottish Highlands and educated in New Zealand and England, finally wins enlistment after three prior refusals. He served in the trenches and now heads to Europe with plans to lead a tank assault next month. Carolyn Wells publishes her 100th book, marking a prolific milestone.
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Scottish Highlands
New Zealand
England
Germany
Belgium
London
United States
Europe
Wilfred Wilson Gibson
Family pride spans six wars in Boston lineage
Mrs J J Foster of 36 Haskell Avenue Revere cites a long family record of service from the Spanish American War Civil War War of 1812 Revolutionary War and French and Indian Wars. She notes relatives in Boston including Wheeler and Tolman ancestors and says she is a Daughters of the Revolution member.
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J. J. Foster
Haskell Avenue
Revere
George A. Foster
Quartermaster’s Department
Camp Sam Houston
Texas
Thomas Wheeler
George Wheeler
Boston
Wheeler
Boston Common
Josiah Wheeler
Anasa H. Tolman
State House
Cottage Street
Federal Street
Washington and
Sussex Streets
The
Daughters of the Revolution
Government paid for relocating German detainees in Boston
The government spent 8821 to move Germans on seized ships in Boston harbor to Deer Island and Gallups Island. The funds covered fitting up quarters and keeping detainees there until they were sent South, according to an annual Immigration Commissioner Skeffington report released yesterday.
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United States
Boston Harbor
Deer Island
Gallups Island
Skeffington
Cheney filed for involuntary bankruptcy in Federal Court
Boston financier Benjamin P. Cheney and his wife actress Julia Arthur were named in an involuntary bankruptcy petition filed in federal court. The action follows Cheney's Thursday assignment to attorney William Turner and Allan Forbes, president of the State Street Trust Company.
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Benjamin P. Cheney
Boston
Julia Arthur
Mr. Cheney
William [. Turner
Allan Iorbes
State Street Trust Company
Mail Clerk Charged With Stealing Letters
Andrew Mangels a 43 year old veteran post office clerk at the central office was arrested by Deputy U S Marshal Tighe on charges of secreting and embezzling letters from the United States mails. Mangels married with a Medford home was arraigned before Commissioner Hayes and held in 1000 bail for a January 10 hearing. Letters were addressed to Boston business houses.
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Andrew Mangels
Central Office
United States
Tighe
Mangels
Medford
Hayes
Boston
Thanksgiving feast in France delights troops abroad
Private Joseph Lally of an ambulance company in France writes home from Water town that Thanksgiving included pie and cake, a real New England style dinner with turkey and trimmings, noting it was the first such taste since leaving the States and that the troops are mighty hearty.
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Joseph Lally
France
Watertown
States
New England
Fires Destroy Capen School and Mail at Station
State and local authorities investigate two fires in Northampton. The Capen school building burned causing about 30000 dollars in damage. An open platform at the railroad station burned destroying 15 sacks of mail and damaging 488 platform for about 500 dollars.
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Northampton
Italy’s Striking View Mirrored in Bernardy Statement
An authorized brief by A. A. Bernardy presents a striking view of Italy’s crucial situation. The message emphasizes key tensions, political factors, and international concerns shaping the country’s current path.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hugh Gilbert
America
France
Stephen Laurenne
Italy
A. A. Bernardy
Ambassador de Cartier de Marchienne
Belgium
Baltimore
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Alfred S. Clark
Knopf
Edward C. Randall
Randall
Dutton
E. Katherine Bates
Benziger
Joseph Husslein
Little, Brown
Thomas Mott Osborne
Hartley Withers
Mr. Withers
Herbert Hoover
Putnam
Charles J. Murphy
Gertrude MacKay
S. Agnes Denham
Lippincott
Ola Powell
Penn
Mary M. Wright
Capital Books
Funk & Wagnalls
Grenville Kleiser
Kleiser
Moffat
Yard
J. Frederick Essary
Mr. Essary
Bobbs, Merrill
Anna Steele Richardson
William Maxwell
Annie Peck
Mrs. Workman
Edna Turpin
Peggy
Roundabout Lane
Virginia Mountains
Barney
Miss Turpin
Harry A. Franck
David Cory
Wall Street
Hector MacQuarrie
Food Administration
Sugar
American Sugar Refining Company
Sugar Trust
Claus A. Spreckels
Senate Committee
Literary Digest
Palestine
Jerusalem
Canada
Church
Sinn Fein
Niagara
U. S. Food Administration
Lansing
Joseph
Russia
Washington
Art
Army Chaplains News of Finance and Investment
All News-dealers
Funk & Wagnalls Company
New York
Carolyn Wells
Cheney
Adot
Postoffice
Sunday Post
U. S
Secretary of State
Robert Lansing
Lord Northcliffe
Thunderer
Hamilton Belle
Jusserand
Ambassador Macchi di Cellere
Private Mack
Messines Ridge
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