Impersonators Use Roosevelt Name For Fraud In New Mexico
Captain Archie Roosevelt reports con artists traveled in New Mexico posing as him and Mrs Roosevelt. They contacted Robert Monroe Ferguson of Silver City by telephone and letter, asking for 50 dollars with a tale of a fund shortage. Ferguson was to meet the duo in Deming but they vanished after the telegraphic ruse.
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New York
New Mexico
Archie Roosevelt
Roosevelt
New Mexican
Albuquerqué
Robert Monroe Ferguson
Silver City
Ferguson
Deming
Albuquerque
Santa Fe
General Hospital No. 1
France
Captain Roosevelt
New Mex
Gunners to Quit Merchant Ships
The Shipping Board announced that naval guns and crews on American merchant ships are being withdrawn as ships reach home ports. Rifles and crews return to the navy while bow and stern gun emplacements are dumped on docks after removal.
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Washington
Shipping Board
Waiter Wins War Medal in French Honors
Clarence Van Allen a Roxbury resident and former waiter earned the French Medaille Militaire for extraordinary heroism in France with the Old Sixth Massachusetts Infantry. He served with the 371st and fought under General Gouraud, amid a group of 15 decorated in the same effort.
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Clarence van Allen
Boston
France
van Allen
South
Huntington Avenue
Roxbury
L. Company
Sixth Massachusetts Infantry
371St
Gouraud
Ith
Depew Preyor
Clifton Morrison
Kenneth Lewis
Massachusetts
George Byrd
Verdun
Fourteen Churches to Launch $10 Million After War Drive
The Interchurch Emergency Campaign committee announced a united effort by fourteen Protestant denominations to raise ten million dollars for postwar emergency needs. Each denomination will run a separate campaign concurrently. The plan outlines principal uses for the funds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
United Church
Interchurch Emergency
War relief and church groups aid soldiers and Europe
The campaign outlines aid for soldiers and sailors including pastors at bases and camps, chaplaincy support, Bible supplies, equipment and funds for demobilization, college readjustment and scholarships, and church expansion in war zones. Denominations listed include Protestant Episcopal, Methodist Episcopal, Presbyterian and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Army
Navy
Army Training Corps
Evangelical Churches of Europe
Protestant Episcopal
Methodist Episcopal
Presbyterian Church
United States
United Presbyterian Church
Baptist Churches North
Congregational
Reformed Church In America
Reformed Church In
the United States
United Lutheran Church, Evangelical Association United Evangelical Church
Evangelical Synod of North America
Disciples of Christ and Christian Church
Albanians to Send Delegation for Peace Conference
The Albanian congress in Boston elected a 10 member delegation to speak for Albania at the peace conference. The group includes Mehmet Konizta Medhat Bey Frashari Faik Bey Konizta Rasih Begpino and Rev. F S Noli among others. They seek self determination for Albanian speaking people and restoration of territories from 1913 London arrangements.
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Boston
Albania
Mehmet Konizta
Medhat Bey Frashari
Switzerland
M. Turtula
Rasih Beg Pino
F. S. Noli
Aubrey Herbert
England
Mr. Erickson
Italy
Ancelo Loreccio
National Albanian
Faik Bey Konizta
Sotir Peir
London
Socialists Urged to Support Wilson
The Social Democratic League of America cabled European Socialists urging stronger support for President Wilson's peace program. The message says democratic socialists oppose imperialism and Bolshevism and align with Wilson on this issue.
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Wilson
New York
Europe
United States
Social Democratic League of America Today
From Baseball to Bodies in Paris Adventure
A Yankee athlete and his entourage tour Paris with a guide and Calhoun. They ride a fiacre, critique the driver, and remark on Paris streets, uniforms, and dames. Jeanne calls sister by phone while Calhoun jokes and warns of Paris con men preying on soldiers.
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Jeanne
Calhoun
Paris
Joe
Coney Island
Uey
Jes
Cafe de la Paix
U. S
United States
Police Seek Insane Patient in Boston Area
Boston police search for David Adderson 25 tall five feet five inches 130 pounds with light hair brown eyes and a three day beard. He wore a gray cap a chinchilla overcoat brown trousers new overshoes and a gray shirt with rolling collar. He disappeared after friends failed to meet him at South Station and a hospital transfer was not completed.
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Boston
New York
David Adderson
South Station
Mattapan State Hospital
Adderson
Mrs Elizabeth Kenney Dies After Illness at West Somerville
Mrs Elizabeth C Kenney wife of former Alderman James W Kenney of Somerville died yesterday noon at her home 12 Waterhouse Street West Somerville after a two week illness from pneumonia.
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Elizabeth C. Kenney
James W. Kenney
Somerville
Waterhouse Street
West
Actress Reveals Home Remedy To Darken Grey Hair
Joicey Williams, famed American actress at the Imperial Theatre in St. Louis, shares a cost effective home mixture to darken gray streaks. Mix half pint water, 1 ounce bay rum, Barbo Compound, and 1 ounce glycerine. Apply twice weekly until desired shade. not a dye, gentle on scalp.
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Joicey Williams
Imperial Theatre
St. Louis
Somerville to Have Fluse Hospital
Trustees approve installing a portable wooden building on the hospital grounds to care for influenza patients. The State owned structure will be carted by public works and fully equipped with heat lights and sewerage. Ten beds will be set aside for patients unable to pay with city support.
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Somerville Hospital
Somerville
Public Works Department
Veteran Boss Also Has Medal of Honor
A Civil War veteran Orlando P Boss Fitchburg writes to the Editor noting he is a Medal of Honor recipient and asserts another holder in the state besides Colonel Whittlesey, praising all Medal of Honor recipients.
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Boss
Medal OF
Post
Sunday Post
Whittlesey
Carson
Orlando P. Boss
Putnam Street
Fitchburg
P. S
Miss Girardin Proclaims Love as Keys Seeks Liberty
Miss Florence Girardin former elevator operator at the Harvard Club vows to travel to Cincinnati with her 63 year old lover John B Keys to aid his release from a Cincinnati hospital if needed. Keys insists on marriage and guardianship proceedings spark alienist examination and legal action by relatives with public safety officials involved.
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Florence Girardin
Harvard Club
Cincinnati
John B. Keys
Girardin
Romsey Street
Dorchester
Boston
Miss Girardin
Mr. Keys
Keys
William Lender
John R. Holmes
Public Safety
John Stark
Union Savings Bank and Trust Company
Health agent Frederick A Bates dies at 70 in Lowell
Frederick A Bates longtime health board agent in Lowell dies aged 70 after a short illness from influenza. Born in Vermont he served in the Civil War before returning to Lowell and working for local manufacturers and city service. He leaves a wife and resided at 263 Mammoth Road.
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Lowell
Frederick A. Bates
Board of Health
Mammoth Road
Vermont
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Private van Allen
Pebeco
Aha Ds
Eer
Deer Lick
French Lick Springs
French Lick, Ind
Ethel Tower
Zeigfeld
H. C. Witwer
Norman
Enoug
Gazink
Algeria
Monsieur
Noah
Charlie Chaplin
Dames
Winter Garden
McClure Newspaper Syndicate
Small, Maynard & Co
Daily
Elizabeth Kenney
Romeo
John Keys
Clyde Johnson
Dr. A. Reed
Dr A. Reed Cushion
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Tremont
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