Thomas E Wilson hailed as model employer in Chicago
William C. Freeman extols Thomas E. Wilson head of Wilson & Company Chicago as a self made leader who treats all workers as family. He praises Wilson for fairness devotion to duty and humane business principles that have boosted the firm and earned local pride. Freeman previews a forthcoming letter about the plant’s employer.
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Thomas E. Wilson
Wilson & Company
Chicago
Abraham Lincoln
Mr. Wilson
Wilson
U S Army DVCs Return Home Amid War Bride Arrivals
The United States cruiser Huntington and transports Matsonia and Louisville docked in New York with 7101 officers and enlisted men from the AEF. The Matsonia carried 3345 troops led by Brigadier General Richmond P. Davis. The Louisville carried 1173 troops and 301 other passengers including 18 war brides. Two women stowaways were found aboard and held at Ellis Island.
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92D Division
Ellis Island
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Aul R. Withington
Boston
Harvard
Army Medical Corps
Georgianna Withington
Charlsgate
Withington
Fred Talbot Jenkins
Salisbury Plains
Jenkins
Winfield, Kan
J. Edwin McDowell
McDowell
France
America
Philadelphia
Farm Mechanic a New Profession
The federal board for vocational education plans to train disabled soldiers and former farm boys as farm mechanics. With farm labor shortages and more machinery, every farm of 10 acres or more will need such mechanics, and demand is expected to exceed supply.
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Washington
Federal Board For Vocational Education
Army Chaplains Both Angels and Devils Says Gen Edwards
Gen Edwards described the 101st Infantry chaplains in France as both angels and devils. Speaking before about 2000 in Malden Auditorium, he recalled how chaplains cared for soldiers yet could be fierce in front lines. He cited Chaplain Rollins’s sermon urging soldiers to kill and rejected titles for chaplains.
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Gen. Edwards
101St Infantry
France
Edwards
Malden
Daughters of the Nation
Rollins
Red Cross Sends $4.55 Million in Cloth to Europe
The Red Cross War Council forwarded textiles valued at 4.55288 million dollars to Paris to clothe thousands in devastated European countries. The shipment totals 13.5 million yards of textiles and will be made into garments by the recipients.
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Europe
Red Cross War Council
Paris
American Red Cross
Dr Edwards Olive Tablets Promise Better Complexion
A 17 year practice by Dr. F M Edwards promotes Dr Edwards Olive Tablets as a liver and bowel remedy. The olive colored pills, said to cleanse waste and poisons, are available in 10c and 25c boxes through all druggists.
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F. M. Edwards
Dr. Edwards
Brazilian Squadron Welcomed in Cherbourg
Brazilian sailors arriving from Portsmouth were warmly greeted by locals in Cherbourg. Vice Admiral Rouyer and Mme Rouyer hosted a dinner at the prefecture in honor of Admiral Frontin and his officers.
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Cherbourg
Portsmouth
Rouyer
Mme. Rouyer
Frontin
Resolutions condemn Lynn school committee over alien teacher
The Army and Navy Service Club of Lynn passed resolutions condemning the Lynn school committee for retaining Miss Caroline Borhauer an alien enemy as a French teacher at Lynn Classical High School. The council had ordered the treasurer to stop her salary, yet she continues teaching amid committee support. she was not a citizen when war began and had applied for citizenship.
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Lynn
Caroline Boorhauer
Lynn Classical High School
Army and Navy Service Club of
Borhauer
Miss Borhauer
Justice Ford Resigns Over Wilson Criticism at Lincoln Day
Justice Ford of the Supreme Court resigned from the Republican Club citing failure to repudiate criticism of President Wilson by James M. Beck. Beck had addressed the club at its Lincoln Day dinner, prompting Ford's departure.
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Justice Ford
The
Supreme Court Today
Republican Club
Wilson
James M. Beck
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