Franklin Square House Fund Drive Receives Donations
Personal contributions from former residents include a $1000 legacy from Mrs. Dora M. Nickerson of Winchester and $500 from Miss Mary Woodman of Cambridge, bringing the total received yesterday to $1675 for the Franklin Square House fund. A dancing party at Grandin Hall on Friday night will aid the drive, hosted by Mrs. Mabel Worcester, Miss Vera E. Chace, Mrs. Vera P. Lane, Dr. Ruth F. Bennet, and Miss Elsie Struck, as Sewing Circle and society girls organize the campaign under Miss Flinor Jackson and Mrs. Livingston Davis. The house colors are now orange and blue, with buttons bearing Lest We Forget Franklin Square House.
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Franklin Square House
Dora M. Nickerson
Winchester
Mary Woodman
Cambridge
George Perin
Grandin Hall
Mabel Worcester
Vera E. Chace
Vera P. Lane
Ruth F. Bennet
Elsie Struck
Sewing Circle
Flinor Jackson
Livingston Davis
Smoot Attacks Sugar Dealers in Senate Action
In Washington Senator Smoot blasted sugar dealers charging 22 cents a pound while only selling two pounds at a time. He urged the Attorney General to intervene against profiteering as 65 percent of beet sugar has already been delivered.
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Washington
Senate
Smoot
Utah
Rafael Montero
Cuba
McNary
Oregon
Wilson
Sugar Equalization Board
United States
Weldona remedy touted in Worcester ad promises relief from rheumatism
Weldona promotional piece features Mrs. G. H. Noble of Worcester recounting severe rheumatism and marked improvement after using Weldona. The ad says the firm distributes a free book at Houghton & Dutton's drug dept and via Weldona Co. address in Boston.
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G. H. Noble
Hawley St
Worcester
Weldona
New England
Weldona Co
Boylston St
Boston
Houghton & Dutton’s
Drug Dept
Hood's Sarsaparilla Promises Relief From Catarrh
An advertisement touts Hood's Sarsaparilla as a constitutional remedy for chronic catarrh affecting nose throat digestion and even hearing. It claims the tonic purifies blood to remove the disease cause and offers Hood's Pills for biliousness or constipation as a gentle cathartic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hood
Plan for speedy small claims courts proposed by judicature commission
A plan to settle small claims up to $5 directly before police, municipal, or district court judges is the commission’s sole recommendation. It favors a quick informal hearing while preserving jury trial rights. The commission seeks an extension to Jan 1 1921 to complete its study and would allow transfer to a formal docket if needed.
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Special Commission On
Judicature Commission
Henry N. Sheldon
Dean Roscoe Pound
Harvard Law School
John W. Cummings
Fall River
Messrs. Pound
Cummings
George R. Nutter
Addison IL. Green
Legion Stand Unjust 10 Him at State Convention
Nathan Efron, delegate to the last State American Legion convention, says Legion members and newspapermen wrongly hissed him for opposing a resolution praising Department of Justice agents in the Red roundup. He contends the DOJ men were simply doing their duty for which they were paid and legally required to act, and he opposed Donovan’s measure urging hearty support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nathan Efron
American Legion
Legion
Department of Justice
Efron
James A. Donovan
Lawrence
Donovan
Educators Meet at Boston University in Feb Conference
A New England educators conference will be held at Boston University on February 6. Invitations were issued to education leaders across six states. Superintendents, high school and normal school principals will attend to address the growing teacher shortage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New England
Boston University
Nine Reds Nabbed in Mass. Raid on Quincy and Brockton
DOJ agents and local police arrested nine alleged radicals in two cities Quincy and Brockton last night seizing valuable documents and literature. Two men were freed after proving citizenship. seven remained in Brockton jail awaiting transfer to Boston for examination at Bureau of Investigation offices led by George E. Kelleher.
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Quincy
Brockton
Department of Justice
Boston
George E. Kelleher
Bureau of Investigation
Federal raid nets Communist materials in Quincy and Brockton
Federal agents and local police arrested Peter Kolder and Michael Duch at Quincy addresses 49 Broadway and 13 South Walnut as they uncovered a hidden floor cache. The raid yielded Russian ledgers, a Lenin photo album, red badges, membership cards, and stamps. In Brockton seven Lithuanians were detained with a record of about 90 radical names.
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Kelleher
Quincy
Broadway
South Walnut Street
Quincy Point
Fore River Shipbuilding Company
Peter Kolder
Michael Deduch
Lenine
Trotsky
Communist Labor Party
Brockton
Daniel M. Ryan, Jr
Communist Party
Pleads For Cut Prices At Publicity Conference
Thomas W. Pelham of Gillette Safety Razor Company urged price fixing and maintenance by manufacturers at a Pilgrim Publicity Association meeting to keep branded goods attracting customers while stores push fixed prices on unbranded items. Adolph H. Ackermann of Lynn opposed, backing unlimited retail competition and arguing highly advertised goods seem less valuable at fixed consumer prices than non advertised items.
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Thomas W. Pelham
Gillette Safety Razor Company
Pilgrim Publicity Association
Pelham
Adolph H. Ackermann
Lynn
Massachusetts Veterans Lose State Bonus For Residency Rule
More than 25,000 war veterans in Massachusetts are denied the $100 state gratuity because they were not residents for the required six months before enlistment. Captain J T Duane, assistant to Deputy Treasurer G B Willard, said about $3,000,000 more remains to be distributed to service members abroad and to others with records to be corrected. Forgeries have been uncovered with over 200 perjurers found, including a Boston official. The bulk of the work is expected to be completed by spring.
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Massachusetts
J. T. Duane
G. B. Willard
Boston
Duane
Lynn City Council seeks charter raise for mayor and alderman
The Lynn City Council last night voted to petition the State Legislature to amend the Lynn charter to raise the mayor s salary from 3000 to 5000. The petition also requests raising alderman pay from 500 to 1000 for the member serving the ways and drainage committee.
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Lynn
Committee of Ways and Drainage
Trackman Killed at Parker Street Crossing
Carmelo Luise of 24 Summer Street, a Boston & Maine trackman, was struck by a train near Parker Street this afternoon. He had both legs amputated and died soon after at Lawrence General Hospital.
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Lawrence
Carmelo Luise
Summer Street
Boston & Maine Railroad
Parker Street
Lawrence General Hospital
Benefit at Colonial Theatre Sparks Yankee Division Drive
Chief interest in the approaching YD offensive centers on a Sunday benefit at the Colonial Theatre. It aims to raise $200,000 for a Boston club house, with Boston theatre stars participating. Seats will be sold tomorrow afternoon at the theatre from 2 to 5 oclock via public auction.
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Colonial Theatre
Boys of New England
Yankee
Boston
Bird Named Lead Auctioneer For YD Offensive Fund
Lewis J. Bird, a famed New England auctioneer aged 70, volunteers to head the YD fund raffle sale in Boston. Governors and society figures buy boxes as committees organize statewide drives with quotas of 5000 to 7000 dollars for Maine New Hampshire Rhode Island and Connecticut. The effort includes a military ball, hockey plans, and Salvation Army volunteers aiding General Cole’s offensive drive.
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Lewis J. Bird
New England
C. R. Cabot
Bird
Clarence R. Edwards
General Edwards
Women’s Committee
Coolidge
Nathaniel Thayer
Roger Walcott
James J. Phelan
Edward W. Hutchins
Joseph W. McConnell
Benjamin F
Reinhold Faelten
Professional Women's Club
YD Fund
Charles H. Cole
Edwards
W. B. Luther
Boston
General Cole
Esta Mae Barr
May Desmond
Nathaniel S’. [Emmons
William J. Keville
Maine
New Wortopshire
Rhode Island
Connecticut
Albert Greenlaw
Augusta
New Hampshire
Oscar Lagerquist
Manchester
Feiveren
Feiveren Te St. John Chaffee
Providence
Massachusetts
Boston calendar of lectures and meetings today
A busy schedule in Boston features services across Orthodox, Eastern and Independent churches for Christmas, a lecture on parliamentary law at the Boston Women’s City Club, and multiple meetings by civic and women’s groups. Notables include Taft speaking at Dorchester Women’s Club and a large national convention bid discussion among Democratic leaders.
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Boston Women’s City Club
Electa M. Sherman
Boston League of Women Voters
Business Women’s Club
New England Historic Genealogical Society
Ashburton Place
Bertha S. Papazian
Armenian National Union
America
Building Trade Employers’ Association
City Club
Leon H. Vincent
Dartmoor
Tufts
City Jub
EE. A. Kernahan
Huntington Avenue
Margaret Brent
Hotel Westminster
Francis E. Slattery
the Citizen
William Howard Taft
Dorchester Woman’s Club
Second Church
Codman Square
Dorchester Centre
League of Nations
Plan Love Feast for Democrats
Washington January 6 prospective candidates for the Democratic nomination will meet and declare views at the Jackson Day banquet ending the Democratic national committee meeting. A dozen speakers on the program include leading presidential possibilities. A message from President Wilson and a letter from William G McAdoo are to be read, addressing possible third term and treaty issues.
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William Jennings Bryan
Daniels
Palmer
Cox
Ohio
James W. Gerard
Germany
Champ Clark
Missouri
House
Cornwell
West Virginia
Hitchcock
Nebraska
Pomerone
Underwood
Alabama
Owen
Oklahoma
Peter Oleson
National Committee
Minnesota
Wilson
Bryan
Mr. Wilson
Mr. Bryan
Cummings
White House
Washington
Democratic National Committee
William G. McAdoo
the Treasury
Bayer Aspirin Trust Signal in Tablets Sale
The Bayer Cross on tablets confirms genuine Bayer Tablets of Aspirin trusted for safety by millions. The label lists uses from colds to neuralgia and rheumatism, with directions and affordable tin boxes of 12 tablets and larger packs sold by druggists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bayer
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Houghton & Dutton
Commission
B. U
Quincy and
Lenine and
Nathaniel S*. Emmons
Knights of Columbus
William J. Day
Johnson
Young Men’s Christian Association
Locke
Young Men's Christian Union
Salvation Army
Adam Gifford
Franklin M. Sulzer
Army
France
Stella Young
Annie Russo
Mary Shepard
Perkins
Franklin W. Ganse
A. BE. Briggs
Willam GL. Woodbury
1St Field Signal Battalion
Massachusetts Civil Service Reform Association
Twentieth Century Club
Frederick P. Cleveland
Arthur Wilson Dennen
Kansas City
E. M. Clendenning
Bill
U. S
Secretary of War
Europe
Harris
Georgia
Soviet
Russia
War Trade Board
State Department
Bovinine
Crug
Bovining
Dousnt
New York
Columbia
Cwideners Grafonola Shops
Emple
Wilake Su
Washington St
Widener’s Grafonola Shops
Temple Place
Boston, Mass
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