War's End Saved Work Slackers Exposed in Crowder Report
Washington, Feb. 5. The second annual selective service report by Major General Enoch Crowder outlines plans for industrial deferment and an industrial furlough system had the war continued. It cites 24,284,021 total registrations and 2,800,000 mobilized as the era’s main outcomes, with labor shifting and work or fight rules impacting thousands in essential industries.
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Washington
Enoch H. Crowder
Baker
Crowder
General Crowder
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Rhode Island
Arizona
Jordan Marsh Company Highlights Store Offers And Exhibits
The store promotes order service and mail or phone shopping with prompt filling. A Furniture Sale draws favorable comment, a Lace Gown Exhibit runs daily in the Exhibition Room on the seventh floor, and a Lace Exhibit features below waist blouses in Georgette. The Travel Bureau assists Southern trips, Leather Coats appeal for winter driving, and new cottons spark summer wardrobes with crisp colors and designs.
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the &Th
Roosevelt Souvenir Buttons At Powdoin Square Theatre Tonight
Patrons at Powdoin Square Theatre will receive Memorial souvenir buttons honoring Theodore Roosevelt. The ad promotes Adamson's Balsam as a cough cure.
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Theodore Roosevelt
Powdoin Square Theatre
Roosevelt
Adamson
Draft System Report Highlights High Points and Costs
The report shows 24,000,000 classified over four days with 4,791,172 in service by November 11. Rejections at 30 percent and aliens at 3,877,083. Dependency exemptions 74 percent. Class 1 workers 6.20 per cent. Alcohol addicts 1.33 per cent. Nervous disorders 13.5 per cent. Tuberculosis 8.5 per cent. Mental deficiency 9.4 per cent. Induction cost $7.90 per man versus $24.48 under voluntary enlistment.
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General Crowder
Washington
Three Vessels Sink From Mines Off British and Scandinavian Coasts
Off Tyne and Coquet Island areas, mines struck three ships. The British sloop Penarth reportedly sank twenty three miles off the Tyne with forty sailors saved by two trawlers. Nearby, a Norwegian fishing steamer and a Swedish steamer were sunk with twenty five lives lost, including eight fishermen. The Sphynx, a 1572 ton Swedish vessel, went down en route from England to Sweden near Coquet Island.
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South Shields
England
Penarth
Tyne
Copenhagen
Stavanger
Sphynx
Sweden
Coquet Island
Scotland
Doctor Walker Found Dead in Edmundston Jail
Dr A G Walker of Houlton Maine was arrested in connection with the death of Mrs Etta Sharp McElroy of Bridgewater. He was found dead in a jail cell in Edmundston with a poison bottle nearby. an autopsy linked Mrs McElroy’s death to an alleged illegal operation.
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Houlton
Etta Sharp McElroy
A. G. Walker
Edmundston
N. B
Bridgewater
Eight Hour Day Urged by Labor
Witnesses representing labor and mills urged a federal eight hour work day before the committee on federal relations. E W Burdett of Lawrence argued Massachusetts industries are disadvantaged by shorter days, claiming a uniform eight hour day would aid state enterprises.
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Labor and Mills
Committee On Federal Relations
United States
E. W. Burdett
Lawrence
Massachusetts
The Married Life of Helen and Warren Instalment
Warren frowns over mishaps while Helen endures a tough moment in the latest installment of The Married Life of Helen and Warren by Mabel Herbert Urner for Boston Post Sunday Magazine.
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Warren
Helen
Mabel Herbert Urner
Boston Post
Dorothy Arlene Patten Entered In Maine Baby Contest
A baby from Ellsworth named Dorothy Arlene Patten weighs 27 pounds at four months old and stands 31 1 2 inches tall with two teeth. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Hillman Patten and had an eight pound birth weight.
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Maine
Ellsworth
Dorothy Arlene Patten
Dorothy
Ralph Hillman Patten
Harvard Junior Prom Plans Set for March 3
Plans for the Harvard junior prom are complete with March 3 set for the dance in the Harvard Union. Each junior may bring a partner while sophomores and seniors may also bring guests. Dancing runs from 9 p m to 3 a m and officers are sending out applications.
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Harvard
Harvard Union
Critics assail naval bill as open covenants debate grows
Washington February fifth. House debate over the annual naval appropriation bill sparks criticism of President Wilson. Rep Graham of Illinois denounces a forced three year navy expansion as a covert threat and secrecy around information given to lawmakers. Rep Little finds no necessity or argument for the increased program.
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Washington
House
Wilson
Congress
Paris
Graham
Illinois
Daniels
Mr. Graham
Secretary of the Navy
Naval Committee
Little
Navy committee backs new construction program
Discussion followed receipt by Chairman Padgett of a cablegram from the President expressing satisfaction with the navy committee's unanimous recommendation of the new construction program. Only Rep. Little of Kansas spoke against the bill, arguing the increased shipbuilding would burden the finances with no enemy in sight.
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Padgett
Naval Committee
Representative Little
Kansas
Parliamentary authority urged restraint on public spending
A speaker argues that Parliament must heed a strong, money of the people warning to curb expenditures, saying a commanding voice insists authorities look out over taxpayer funds. The remark frames fiscal caution as a top democratic duty.
Fire damages two buildings in Southbridge blaze
Fire, likely from a cigarette butt, caused about $25,000 in damage to a three story at 70 Mechanic street owned by J A Loppe and a two tenement house owned by Victor B Pelletier. Both buildings were gutted.
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Southbridge
Mechanic Street
J. A. Loppe
Victor B. Pelletier
William Jethro Spudd Changes His Valentines Opinion
William Jethro Spudd of the Spudd Dialogues in Beal's Boston Post Sunday Magazine offers a personal, prejudiced take on valentines and undergoes an eventual change of heart in the next issue.
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William
William Jethro Spudd
Spudd
George Brinton Beal
Boston Post
Valentines
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