Japan House Rejects Naval Armament Curtailment Move
In Tokio on February 10 the House of Representatives shot down Yukio Okaki and his Ken sei-Kat opposition plan to curtail naval armaments. The Kokumin-To supported the measure, while government groups Seiyn-Kai and Kansei-Kai opposed it. General Tsuda outlined unsatisfactory conditions in China and Siberia and argued Japan cannot reduce naval and army development.
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Tokio
Associated Press
House of Representatives
Yukio Okaki
Kensei-Kat
Kokumin-To
Seiyn- Kai
Kansei-Kai
Tsuda
China
Siberia
Japan
Hold up thwarted as proprietress battles armed thief
An armed man attempted to rob Miss Frances T. Nolan at her Lynn grocery on 328 Boston Street about 11 pm. Two bystanders, Edward French and Arthur Bedard, rushed from a rear room, chased the gunman across the street, who fired three shots before fleeing.
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Boston Street
Lynn
Frances T. Nolan
Edward French
Arthur Bedard
Hanover Street
Had Designs On Children
Somerville police sought a man about 35 with a smooth face and dark complexion after two young sisters reported being approached on Windom and Summer streets. He led them toward a building under construction on Cottage street, but fled when the girls screamed. The children were frightened but unharmed.
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Somerville
Windom
Summer Streets
Ss#immer streets
Cottage Street
Hew
Hhifd
Fruit-a-tives Ad Promises Kidney Relief
An advertisement from March 27 1918 in Moretown Vermont touts Fruit-a-tives as strengthening kidneys and stopping backache. Moses Murphy testifies to relief from kidney, liver, and digestive issues after a short treatment. Price 50c per box, 6 for $2.50, trial 25c. available at dealers or Fruit-Age Limited Ogdensburg.
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Moses Murphy
Fruit-A-Ge Limited
Ogdensburg
Carholdup yields fatal crash near Monmouth Junction
Unidentified man dies after a gunmen staged a whiskey truck robbery at Monmouth Junction. Four bandits in a large touring car stopped the truck from Newark to Philadelphia, drove off two occupants, and led others into the woods. Police later found a matching wreck four miles away. one man died at the hospital.
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New Brunswick
N. J
Newark
Philadelphia
Monmouth Junction
Edward Everett Early Harvard Career and Lafayette Oration
Edward Everett, called to Brattle Street Church at 19, became a Harvard Greek literature professor after two years. He studied in Europe for five years, returning as a refined scholar. In 1824 he gave the Phi Beta Kappa oration at Harvard, where Lafayette’s presence stirred the crowd into tumult as poets and patriots celebrated the French hero.
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Edward Everett
Brattle Street
Buckminster
Boston
Harvard
Eliot
Europe
Everett
Cambridge
Lafayette
Richard H. Dana, Jr
Thursday Knighters Club Organized at Elks Club
The Thursday Knighters formed to hold weekly social and educational meetings at 6:30 PM at the Elks Club. Alfred J. Moore was elected president with Bartholomew Connors as vice president and Alfred C. Morris as secretary. Officers include John Hester treasurer and John J. Hackett assistant treasurer.
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Elks’ Club
Alfred J. Moore
Bartholomew Connors
Alfred C. Morris
John Hester
John J. Hackett
Harold Walker
John Magrath
Joan F. O'Neil
John Grainey
Stanley G. Bayard
John F. Fitzgerald
Daniel J. Lane
Jay Regan
John Duffy
Carroll White
Thomas Rice
Hugh Madden
Nebraska House Refuses Miss MacSwiney Speech
The Nebraska House voted 48 to 44 to bar Miss Mary MacSwiney from addressing the Legislature on the Irish question next Monday, saying her mission to the U.S. was not of importance to Nebraskans. In Toledo, Tommy Gibbons defeated Tony Melchior in the first round at 46 seconds of a 12 round bout.
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Lincoln
Neb
Nebraska
Toledo
Tommy Gibbons
St. Paul
Tony Melchior
New Castle
Penn
Last Rites for Prof Wendell at Trinity Church
A large Harvard faculty and Boston figures attended the funeral of Barrett Wendell professor emeritus of English at Harvard. Clergy and notable pallbearers including Lowell Rhodes Gardner Longfellow Coolidge and others participated. Cremation followed and remains go to Mt Wollaston Cemetery in Quincy.
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Harvard University
Greater Boston
Trinity Church
Barrett Wendell
Emiritus
Harvard
National Institute of Arts and Letters
Massachusetts Historical Society
American Society of Arts and Sciences
Boston Athenaeum
Somerset, Tavern
Alexander Mann
John Folkes Jackson
Union Theological Seminary
Spruce Burton
Church of St. John the Evangelist
Boston
President Lowell
James Ford Rhodes
George P. Gardner
Robert Grant
Board of Overseers
George P. Baker
George H. Lyman
Henry W. Longfellow
John Templeman Coolidge
Russell Gray
John T. Wheelwright
Roger B. Merriman
Chester R. Greenough
Archibald
Coolidge
Arthur D. Hill
Corporation Counsel of
M. A. de Wolfe Howe
William R. Castle
J. A Lowell Blake
Lithgow Osborne
C. B. Perkins
William Greenough
B. Opdycke
Edward M. Pickman
Wendell
Charles W. Eliot
Robert H. Gardner
Quincy
Mt. Wollaston Cemetery
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Bayer
Seal Brand Coffee
Asa Dey
Mar
Larabee
Lord & Webster Co
Commercial St
Moretown
Vermont
Band
BY William Justin Mann
Miss MacSwiney
Gibbons
Wim. Elliott
Pko
Ceylon
John Alden
van Dams
Wisconsin
Aheginter Co
Union St
Summer St
Tremont St
Bromfield St
Nes
Washington St
Friend St
Prof
Meadowbrook Hennery
Ichican Meadowbroc Creamery
Doz
Trong
Lardee
Waltham
Moody St
West Broadway
Washington
Meyer Jonasson Co
Tremont and Boylston Sts
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