Dorie Military Funeral in Plymouth
In Plymouth on a blizzard day more than 260 townspeople and 60 veterans from the 1W1st Infantry 6th Division attended the first double military funeral for World War I veterans. Sergeant Leonard B. Langille and Private Chester R. Howland, both dying in 1918, lay in state at the armory. Services were in the Church of the Pilgrimage then at Vine Hill Cemetery where taps sounded and volleys fired. Storm cut short grave rites and floral tributes were not placed at the graves.
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Plymouth
Leonard B. Langille
Simon Langille
Chester R. Howland
L. R. Howland
France
Vine Hill Cemetery
Hughes Named Secretary of State Faces Senate Skepticism
Chicago report notes cool Senate reception to Charles E Hughes as secretary with doubts about harmony with Republican foreign policy aims. The piece contrasts his hard headed reputation and insistence on executive prerogatives with calls for lawful, independent treaty negotiation while detailing recent reparations and a clean diplomatic slate. It adds a separate human interest item about a Milwaukee to Chicago cross country walk by Bernice Radtke and Edward P Wilson amid a deserter case.
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Washington
Charles E. Hughes
United States
Senate
David Jayne Hill
Hughes
Congress
Harding
Mr. Hughes
Roland W. Boyden
Reparations Commission
Europe
Trenton
Marion
America
Terre Haute
Ind
Chicago
United News
Bernice Radtke
Edward P. Wilson
Philadelphia
Wilson
Bernice
Million Dollar Campaign For Deaconess Hospital Fund
A campaign to raise one million dollars for New England Deaconess Hospital will launch on February 24 and run to March 8. One third funds capacity expansion from 70 to 150 beds, one third for endowment, and one third to pay indebtedness. Committee chaired by Horace A. Carter includes prominent financial figures. Alfred L. Aiken of National Shawmut Bank serves as treasurer.
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New England Deaconess Hospital
Horace A. Carter
Alfred L. Aiken
National Shawmut Bank
Smoke Forces Medford Families from Burning House
Two families fled a Medford home on Braemore Road off Broadway after smoke filled the house early yesterday. The blaze appeared to have started from an unknown cause in the cellar. Resident Harry S. Day, initially escaping, reentered to retrieve belongings and was rescued by firemen after climbing to a ledge.
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Braemore Road
Broadway
Medford
Harry S. Day
Delousing 1200 Steerage Immigrants From Danzig Port
About 1200 steerage immigrants from the stricken port of Danzig on the steamship Manchuria will be deloused at Deer Island for 12 days after the vessel arrives in Boston. The ship may be held in harbor until the delousing is completed under the new immigration ruling.
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Danzig
Poland
Manchuria
Deer Island
Boston
Cumming Eyes Boston Port Delousing Plan For Immigrants
Surgeon General Hugh Cumming inspected Boston immigration facilities and endorsed using Deer Island as a temporary embarkation center. Army medical teams will assist at Gallups Island while ships from Antwerp, Southampton and Rotterdam undergo delousing and health checks. Plans include possible Portland delousing station usage and 12 day detention for European arrivals with clean health documents.
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Hugh Cumming
United States Public Health Service
Boston
Army
West Roxbury
Parker Hill
Gallups Island
Sealand
Antwerp
Cherbourg
Southampton
Rotterdam
New York
Deer Island
Hayes Stealing Honey Cough Remedy Ad
An advertisement touts Hayes Stealing Honey to stop coughs by soothing the throat and ending tickle. Each bottle claims relief with a free Grove’s Penetrating Salve for chest colds and croup, priced at 36 cents.
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Hayes
GROVE
Censorship Debate Tangles New York Motion Pictures
President Gompers of the AFL condemned state censorship of motion pictures as a coercive measure that would curb freedom of expression. He urged voluntary industry censorship organized with input from theatre patrons as a more effective, American approach.
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Washington
New York
Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Harvard Music Fund Established in Paine Will
Harvard University receives more than $61,000 from Mrs. John Knowles Paine of Cambridge. The fund supports two annual traveling fellowships with stipends of 1400 to undergraduates beyond freshmen and resident graduate students at Harvard who show distinguished talent and originality in musical composition and scholarship, to study abroad.
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Harvard University
John Knowles Paine
Cambridge
Harvard
Adventure of the Devons Opens in Boston Sunday Post Magazine
Elizabeth Jordan begins a new serial in the Boston Sunday Post Magazine about theDevons, a brother and sister duo who leave wealth and pleasure to seek excitement and danger, promising a brisk tale of adventure.
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Devons
Elizabeth Jordan
Boston Sunday Post
Cardinal O'Connell Honored at Lenten Musicale
Cardinal O Connell was guest of honor at the first Lenten Sunday musicale at the League of Catholic Women home 1 Arlington Street. Soprano Jean Parsons Ashmont violinist Anna Ejihorn Allston and pianist Ida McCarthy Watertown performed despite the storm and drew a good crowd.
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Cardinal O'Connell
League of Catholic Women
Arlington Street
Jean Parsons
Ashmont
Anna Ejihorn
Allston
Ida McCarthy
Watertown
Immigrants From Ellis Island Held for Typhus Check
Twenty five of six hundred thirty released immigrants were sent to a hospital after re examination revealed typhus carrying vermin. A Boston bound train brought twenty two immigrants who were cleared by health authorities at Grand Central Terminal.
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New York
Bllis Island
Boston
Grand Central Terminal
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Rose Bros. CO
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Holland
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FAR East Tea, Coffee & Cocoa Co
Haymarket Square
Boston, Mass
Cathedral Church of St. Paul
Bishop Fiske
Syracuse
Robert L. Norton
Deaconess Hospital
Winchester
Razor
E. P. Reed Lumber Co
Rockland, Mass
New England
General Cumming
Peters
East Norfolk
Naval Hospital
Chelsea
Rutland Sanatorium
Rutland Hospital
Portland
Suffolk
Warren Inst'n For Savings
Park St
N. Y
Harvard Music Fund
Paine
Cardinal O’connell
Onoto
Thomas DE LA Rue & Co., Ltd
West 42Nd Street, New York
Victor
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Bori
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Cortot
DE Luca
Destini
Elman
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Gluck
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Johnson
Kindler
Kreisler
Kubelik
Martinelli
Melba
Paderewski
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Ruffo
Schumann-Heine
Scotti
Sembrich
Tetrazzini
Werrenrath
Whitehill
Witherspoon
Zanelli
Zerola
Eames
Zimbalist
Victrola
Victor Talking Machine Co
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Victor Talking, Machine CO
Camden, N. J
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