Transport Vedic Due Here March 8
Washington dispatch notes the transport Vedic due at Boston March 3 with the 64th Regiment Coast Artillery and a casual Massachusetts company for demobilization in 19 camps. Transport La Lorraine also due March 3 to New York carries Base Hospital No 7 with Massachusetts personnel and casuals.
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Washington
Vedic
Boston
64Th Regiment, Coast Artillery
Massachusetts
la Lorraine
New York
105000 Rifles for Use Against Bolsheviki
Bridgeport dispatch reports 60000 rifles will depart for Vladivostok to arm allied troops fighting Bolsheviki. This second consignment in six weeks brings total rifles to 105000 valued at 2100000 dollars, manufactured by Remington Arms Company.
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Bridgeport
Conn
Vladivostok
Russia
Remington Arms Company
Joint Congressional Committee Sifts Budget System
A joint congressional committee to investigate and report on a national budget system is proposed in an amendment to the general deficiency bill by Representative Shirley of Kentucky. President Wilson has approved the proposal in a cable to Mr. Shirley.
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Washington
Shirley
Kentucky
Appropriations Committee
Wilson
Mr. Shirley
Lent Abstinence Rules Extend to All Saturdays
Cardinal O'Connell announces new canon law requiring abstinence from fresh meat on every Saturday of Lent. The diocese will read the regulations at mass and publish the directive in Pilot, the official organ, for pastors and priests.
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Cardinal O'Connell
Boston
Four Boston Streets Renamed Names Honor War Heroes
Street commissioners renamed four streets in Boston area. West Roxbury German Street becomes Birchwood Street after Civil War debates. Hamburg Street in the South End is renamed Ryan Street. Walk Hill Street in Dorchester changes names, with more details on the remaining two streets.
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West Rox
Bury
Birchwood Street
Boston
Hamburg Street
South End
Mystic
Harrison Avenue
Ryan
Walk Hill Street
Dorchester
Lent rules expand abstinence to seven Saturdays
A circular outlines worldwide Lent regulations for the diocese. Abstinence from meat applies on seven Saturdays with noonday exceptions on Holy Saturday. Fast days cover Catholics 21 to 59, with illness or disability exemptions. Ash Wednesday falls on March 6, Ember Wednesday noted. Lent ends Easter Sunday April 20.
Lenten Regulations 1919 Archbishop Boston Decree
Official notice from Archbishop O Connor Boston outlines Lent fast and abstinence rules for 21 to 59 year olds with exemptions for sick and laborers. Details specify meals, days of abstinence, meat intake rules by status, and general devotions and paschal communion timing.
Boston War Camp director leads Dorchester singing tonight
Musical director Alfred Hallam of the War Camp Community Service will conduct community singing at the Dorchester School Centre this evening at 8 o clock. Mrs Jeanette Wallace Emrich speaks on Turkey and Armenia while Mrs Lucy Haljian performs vocal numbers. The event includes patriotic songs and a mass meeting for reconstruction efforts in the Near East with Hon. Guy A Ham presiding. The public is invited.
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Boston War Camp
Dorchester School Centre
Near East
Dorchester
Jeanette Wallace Emrich
Turkey
Armenia
Lucy Haljian
Alfred Hallam
Hallam
Mechanics Building
Washington
Guy A. Ham
Street renamings in Boston alter Babson Arlington names
Blue Hill avenue and Norfolk street are renamed Babson street, and Ferdinand street between Tremont and Columbus avenues becomes Arlington street. The changes affect through traffic patterns and city maps.
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Blue Hill Avenue
Norfolk Street
Babson Street
Ferdinand Street
Tremont Street
Columbus Avenue
Arlington Street
France Opposes Sinking German Fleet at Peace Talks
Paris dispatch quotes Stephane Lauzanne saying the French delegation will vigorously oppose the general sinking of the German fleet. He notes France will use ships allotted to it in the division of the fleet in proportion to losses suffered in the war.
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Paris
Stephane Lauzanne
France
Bolsheviks Repulsed With Heavy Losses On Murmansk Front
Archangel area February reports a Bolshevik counter attack against allied positions on the Murmansk front was repulsed with heavy losses. An armored train was used in the failed assault. A Bolshevik airplane dropped a bomb near American positions on the Vologda railway. Other Archangel sectors remain quiet after a fortnight.
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Archangel
Associated Press
Murmansk
Bosheviks
Vologida
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