Equip Men for Played Dead Goes to Jail
A crowded wartime note describes 12 men equipped by British War Relief leaving 44 Bromfield Street for Canada to join Allied forces. The piece also reports Frederick Roe Searing’s two year prison sentence for insurance fraud and related actions by his former stenographer Elizabeth Rendell.
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Bromfield Street
Canada
Philadelphia
Frederick Roe Searing
Elizabeth Rendell
Atlantic City
N. J
Searing
New Orleans
Actress reveals home remedy for gray hair
American actress Joicey Williams, starring at the Imperial Theatre in St. Louis, shares a cheap DIY formula to darken gray hair. Mix half a pint water with 1 ounce bay rum, Barbo Compound, and glycerine, apply twice weekly until the shade deepens, claiming it leaves hair soft glossy without scalp staining.
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Joicey Williams
Imperial Theatre
St. Louis
Frigate Constitution Fire Threat at Charlestown Yard
A motor boat moored beside the frigate Constitution at the Charlestown navy yard caught fire from engine backfire. Tug James G. Wheeley helped separate vessels as fire crews extinguished the blaze with sand, causing about $200 damage to the boat.
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Constitution
Charlestown Navy Yard
James G. Wheeley
Burial Service for Mrs Susan Adams Howe
Two ministers officiated as many former and present parishioners attended the funeral at the Church of Our Saviour in Longwood for Mrs Susan Adams Howe wife of Rev Reginald Heber Howe D D rector of the parish. The service was led by the Rev Frederic W Fitts and the Rev Daniel P D Addison D D. The body was taken to Forest Hills.
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Thea Cnurch
Our Saviour
Longwood
Susan Adams Howe
Reginald Heber Howe
D. D
Frederic W. Fitts
St. John’s Church
Roxbury
Daniel PD. Addison
All Saints’ Church
Brookline
Forest Hills
Former Rutland Sanitarium Officials Admit Book Juggling
Dr Arthur K Stone chairman of the trustees testified before the House Ways and Means committee that two former Rutland State Sanitarium officials, one in government service and the other outside the state, admitted to juggling the institution accounts. The hearing discussed a £30 000 appropriation to cover the deficit.
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Rutland State Sanitarium
Arthur K. Stone
Hospitals and Consumptives Department
House
Ways and Means Committee
Two ex officials not accused of crime in mismanagement review
The report found no criminal action by the two ex officials regarding misused funds. It noted that the Legislature, trustees, and others were deceived by liabilities carried forward and padded estimates. Dr Stone urged funding to start the year clean and blamed the trustees and auditorial oversight for failures.
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Stone
False Liberty Bond reporting penalized in Senate bill
In a Senate hearing Chairman Culberson presented Attorney General Gregory's letter noting Treasury and Federal Reserve Board interest in a bill to punish false reports about Liberty bonds. The measure proposes up to 29 years in prison and a $10 000 fine for obstructing bond sales.
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Washington
Senate
Administration
Culberson
Judiciary Committee
Gregory
Secretary of the Treasury
Federal Reserve Board
United States
Glad to Be Sent Home Soldier Recalls War Aims
Corporal Rf. Der by Holmes of the British Army spoke at the Press Club about wanting to return home with a safe blighty. He described being wounded in several engagements including a near loss of an arm and trench life. He noted his attempt to join aviation failed due to his health but admitted a longing to go back to his country.
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Derby Holmes
Holmes
Don” O'Connell
Corporal Holmes
Aviation Corps
Merrill urges cash and carry system in Maine stores
Dr. Leon S. Merrill of Orono, federal food administrator for Maine, urged cash and carry benefits during a Portland conference with retail food dealers. A committee was tasked with planning its statewide adoption. Merrill met ten wholesale food dealers and warned that those with over 30 days of flour substitutes could be hoarders while noting a shortage and hopes for supply within two weeks.
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Portland
Leon S. Merrill
Orono
Maine
Merrill
German intern Dorchester resident held at Fort Oglethorpe
Walter Claranbach a German resident of Dorchester was arrested under the alien enemy proclamation and will be interned at Fort Oglethorpe Georgia until the war ends. Authorities found photographs of ships and other material deemed suspicious among his possessions.
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Walter Claranbach
Dorchester
Fort Oglethorpe
BU Os
Opera season in Boston and Yale war roster
Opera season opens February eighteenth in Boston with the Chicago Opera Company amid coal shortages. Yale Alumni Weekly releases a roster of 5809 servicemen, detailing army navy government and civilian roles and noting 15 deaths and 42 military honors.
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New Haven
Yale
William N. Sibert
G. Arthur Hadsell
Camp Meade
Army
Navy
Noted praise for judicial temperament of district attorney
The speaker commends qualities shown in administering the Office, acknowledging the mixture of good and bad in people and in individuals. They praise a judicial rather than harsh temperament appropriate to a district attorney, noting long worldly experience.
Mass in Navy Yard Brig Celebrated by Charlestown Priest
The Rev. John O'Hearn of St. Francis de Sales Church Charlestown, is assigned by Cardinal OConnell to celebrate Mass every Sunday at 7 a.m. in the station brig at the Charlestown Navy Yard.
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John O’hearn
St. Francis de Sales Church
Charlestown
Cardinal O’connell
Charlestown Navy Yard
Ferryboats Sought as City Keeps Fleet for Boston Transit
United States government seeks four city ferryboats while Mayor Curley says none can be spared. Only five remain available for traffic between the city and East Boston, and all are needed. Six boats in flotilla. one was damaged by fire and out of service.
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United States
Curley
Boston
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