League of Nations Opens Conference in Boston
James W. Gerard helped launch a two day New England Congress for a League of Free Nations in Tremont Temple Boston with executive luncheons receptions and three public gatherings. Prominent speakers including Taft Lowell Marlin Coolidge Van Dyke and Baker urged immediate action to prevent future wars.
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League of Nations
Boston
James W. Gerard
New England Congress
League of Free Nations
New England
Tremont Temple
Congress
Taft
Gerard
Frank P. Walsh
War Labor Board
John H. Clarke
United States Supreme Court
William Caleb Loring
Massachusetts Supreme Court
Newton D. Baker
Baker
Chamber of Commerce
Brunswick
Somerset
Taft Urges League of Nations at Boston Meeting
Former President Taft caps a busy Boston itinerary urging a League of Nations. He warns against Bolshevism and praises labor cooperation as a barrier to extremism. Taft outlines a proposed league structure with an international court and economic and military pressure if needed.
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Coolidge
America
League of Nations
Sully
Henry IV
Mr. Taft
League
Council of
Congress of Nations
Taft
Senate
Henry van Dyke
Holland
Tremont Temple
Peters
Germany
Foch
Boston
State House
Hotel Brunswick
Young’s
Copley Plaza
Bar and Bench Association
City Club
Acid in Stomach Sours the Food
A well known authority attributes indigestion to stomach acidity not lack of digestive juices. Excess hydrochloric acid slows digestion, causes fermentation, sour meals, and gastric discomfort. He recommends four ounces of Jad Salts in water before breakfast for a week to neutralize acidity and aid digestion.
Notable Delegates at League Conference Include Prominent Educators
A large list of attendees features University of Maine president Robert J. Aley, Amherst’s Alexander Meiklejohn, Radcliffe’s Bertha M. Boody, Mt. Holyoke’s Mary E. Woolley, Harvard professors, Yale and Brown affiliates, municipal officials, and leaders from the World Court League, Mass. education and professional associations, reflecting broad academic and civic representation.
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Robert J. Aley
University of Maine
Alexander Meiklejohn
Amherst College
George W. Anderson
Boston
Sherman I. Whipple
George W. Crocker
Coolidge
Simon Vorenberg
Bertha M. Boody
Radcliffe
Butler Ames
Lowell
Mary E. Woolley
Mt. Holyoke College
H. Conrad Bierwerth
Harvard University
Gleason L. Archer
Suffolk Law School
Frederick L. Anderson
Newton Theological Seminary
Arthur A. Blanchard
Technology
George FE. Cook
New York
The
Mothers’ Magazine
Walter H. Creamer
Lynn
Henry Robert
Connecticut
Harvey WN. Davis
Harvard
Seth N. Gage
Vermont
Richard L. Gay
Massachusetts Chamber of Commerce
William L. Gleason
Brockton
Frederick T. Guild
Brown University
Warner A. Graham
Adeline Belle Hawes
Wellesley
R. F. Alfred Hoernle
Ira N. Hollis
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Henry W. Holmes
Division of Education
George Edwin Horr
Newton Theological, Seminary
Charles F. Johnson
Portland
Harry Ll. Koopman
Kersopp Lake
Alfred C. Lane
Tufts
C. R. Lauman
William L. Machmer
Amherst
Henry Lefavour
Simmons College
Collis Lovely
St. Louis
Boot & Shoe Workers’ Union
Richard C. MacLaurin
Arthur W. MacLean
Portia Law School
Charles F. McCarthy
Marlboro
Edwin T. McKnight
Massachusetts Senate
Louise S. McDowell
E. N. Morgan
Massachusetts Agricultural College
Simeon EF. Baldwin
World’s Court League
W. H. P. Faunce
G. H. Perkins
University of Vermont
Arthur S. Barnes
Bristol
Women Delegates Hostesses Welcome Free Nations Congress Guests
Boston society women and leaders from New England colleges and clubs gathered in Copley Plaza ballroom for a reception and tea for more than 300 delegates of the League of Free Nations Congress. The event featured hostess committees led by Mrs. Elmer J. Bliss and prominent hostesses including Mrs. Calvin Coolidge and Miss Ellen Fitz Pendleton. Tomorrow a luncheon at the Hotel Somerset will hear speakers Beatrice Forbes Robertson Hale ex President Taft and Dr. William H P Faunce.
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Wilson
Europe
Taft
America
League of Nations
League For Peace
Gerard
Germany
A. Lawrence Lowell
Harvard University
Lemuel H. Marlin
Boston University
Calvin Coolidge
Peters
Henry van Dyke
Tremont Temple
Herbert S. Houston
Harvey J. Hill
League
Brunswick
Copley Plaza
Uotel
New England
A. Young
Boston
Samuel Carr
Commonwealth Avenue
Lowell of Iorvard
Iemuel E. Marlin
Toston University
W. E. Birdsall
Richard Fitzgerald
John K. Allen
William R. Bush
Elmer J. Bliss
Flora McDonald
Barrett Wendell
W. E. Jones
League of Free Nations Congress
League of Women Workers
Women’s Educational and Industrial Union
The
Civic Federation
Italian Club
League To Enforce Peace
William R. Rush
Andrew J. Peters
Clarence R. Edwards
Spencer Wood
A. J.lawrence Lowell
J. Malcolm Forbes
Ellen Fitz Pendleton
Bertha M. Boody
Mary E. Wooley
Sarah Louise Arnold
Samuel McCall
Nathaniel Thayer
Robert Gould Shaw
Augustus Hemenway
Henry L. Higginson
Charles Sumner Bird
L. Carteret Fenno
Robert Emmons
John Hill
W. EB. Birdsall
W. FE. Jones
Hotel Somerset
Beatrice Forbes Robertson Hale
William H. P. Faunce
Paderewski Seeks Allied Support for Polish Army
Ignace Jan Paderewski has asked the Polish national committee in Paris to press allies for consent to sending the Polish army in France to Poland. Czecho-Slav troops have invaded eastern and western Galicia causing reported atrocities against civilians. Paderewski has been named a delegate to the Paris peace conference and will join Polish colleagues soon.
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Paris
Ignace Jan Paderewski
Polish National Committee
Poland
France
Paderewski
Chyrow
Galicia
Nowlarg
Colds Cause Headache Relief with Brand Bromo Quinine
An advertisement touts LAX ATIVE BROMO QUININE Tableta as relief for feverish headaches and body pains from colds. It notes only one product name Bromo Quinine and features B. W. GROVE'S signature on the box.
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B. W. Grove
Christie Recital at Jordan Hall Holds Mixed Merit
Winifred Christie, pianist, offered a War memorial recital in Jordan Hall. The program included MacDowell's Sonata Tragica and works by Couperin Rameau Debussy Griffes and Borwick transcriptions. The reviewer found the performance honorable but uneven with the soloist' s mood and grasp not fully aligned to the demanding piece.
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Winifred Christie
Jordan Hall
MacDowell
Miss Christie
Couperin
Rameau
Debussy
Charles T. Griffes
Lawrence Residents Plan Deportation Action Over Agitators
Citizens in Lawrence vote a three member committee to confer with the Department of Justice and the U S district attorney in Boston to pursue deportation of agitators. Mass neighborhood meetings are set for next Sunday night in schools and halls with both striking workers and citizens invited. Father Mariano Milanez urges locals to show the right side of the issue and explain what to expect if demands fail.
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Department of Justice
United States District Attorney
Boston
Russia
Germany
Mariano Milanez
Holy Rosary Church
Lawrence
Yeowoman Notary Public Appointed Amid Lawrence Turmoil
The fifth woman in Massachusetts to be made a notary public is Chief Yeowoman May Hurley of Roxbury. Her appointment comes as Lawrence endures a day of riots and arrests tied to textile industry tensions and outside agitation.
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Massachusetts
Yeowotmnan May Hurley
Auburn Street
Roxbury
Miss Hurley
Naval Offices
Yeowoman
May Hurley
Bullet Hits Trolley Car Near Andrew Square
A stray bullet fired from an unknown shooter shattered a trolley window on a Meeting House Hill to Andrew Square car near Edward Everett Square on Columbia Road at 6 15 last evening. The shot narrowly missed a passenger and lodged in the woodwork. police searched for the shooter but made no arrest.
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Meeting House Hill
Andrew Square
Edward Everett Square
Columbia Road
Boys of 55th Home Today
Two hundred fifty boys of F Battery and the Supply Company of CA C discharged from Fort Wright arrive in Boston this afternoon at 2 30 PM at South Station. Supply Company includes Chelsea men while EF Battery traces to the old Fusiliers Company of Boston. Most men from A B and C Batteries have been discharged and the remaining officers and headquarters are to be discharged early next week.
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C A. C
Fort Wright
Boston
South Station
Chelsea
Old Fusiliers Company
The Married Life of Helen and Warren Instalment
Warren is grouchy and Helen endures another challenging episode in this week’s tease for Mabel Herbert Urner’s The Married Life of Helen and Warren in the Boston Post Sunday Magazine.
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Warren
Helen
Mabel Herbert Urner
Boston Post
Leader of Kilties on Way Home
Lieutenant Colonel Percy A Guthrie who opened British-Canadian recruiting in New England and recruited over 1300 men for his Maclean Kitties is returning home from war torn France and Belgium after a summer 1917 Boston recruitment drive.
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Fredericton
N. B
Percy A. Guthrie
New England States
Boston
I’rance
Belgium
Kilties Commander Vies Homeward After War Wounds
The former commander of the 16th Battalion First Canadian Division, wounded at Festubert in 1915, undergoes surgery in France and plans to return to England then home. His 22 wounds from earlier service are noted along with a silver tube on his right side. A courier reports the operation over and imminent homecoming for Colonel Guthrie and other New England survivors.
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Festubert
Western Front
Valenciennes
England
Royal Air Force
Canadian Corps
Bonn
Germany
Coblenz
Rhine
Guthrie
London
McLean Kilties
42D
Black Watch
Bramshot
Canada
France
Belgium
U S 10 Use Rhine Route to Germany Supply Line
The War Department announced orders for large shipments to Coblenz for the army of occupation. Readily available goods include ham 236000 pounds sausage 270000 pounds flour 8900000 pounds oat meal 500000 pounds sugar 2000000 pounds prunes 421000 pounds canned soup 2000000 pounds butter and oleomargerine 380000 pounds jam 652000 pounds and 90000000 cigarettes.
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Washington
Army of Occupation
Germany
Rotterdam
Rhine
Coblenz
War Department
Massachusetts liquor licenses bill advances to third reading
The bill allowing cities in Massachusetts to issue liquor licenses for portions of a year, sponsored by Mayor Peters, was passed to a third reading in the Senate. A companion bill to raise the maximum savings bank deposits to 2000 was also moved forward.
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Massachusetts
Peters
Senate
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