Glimpses Into the Elves of Our Old Ladies in the South End
The Associated Charities of Boston notes elderly women in need adapt in various ways. They mention one 86 year old who borrowed a violin at 82 to learn music and others who attend weddings or visit busy restaurants for moments of joy. The treasurer reports a deficit of 2865.40 for the year amid recurring shortfalls. A $100000 legacy from Mrs. R. D. Ievans brings cautious cheer.
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South End
Associated Charities of Boston
Boston
R. D. Ievans
Daily Post Subscription Rates Announced
The Daily Post lists new pricing: monthly 30 cents, quarterly 90 cents, yearly $3.50. Limited details accompany the notice.
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Daily Post
Post draft questions answered by draft editor column
This excerpt summarizes guidance from a draft editor on classification and procedures for draft registrants. It covers dependencies, family support, and how changes in personal status affect classification, plus practical notes on where and how to register and handle inquiries. It preserves named individuals, places, and policy terms from the source.
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A. P
Detroit
Ans
Woman Named as Likely Boston School Superintendent
One name prominently mentioned as successor to Dr. Franklin B. Dyer is Miss Mary C. Mellyn. Dyer refuses reelection. Other candidates named include Jeremiah F. Burke Augustine L. Rafter and Frank V. Thompson, assistant superintendents.
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Franklin B. Dyer
Boston
Mary C. Mellyn
Miss Mellyn Elevated to Assistant Superintendent of Boston Schools
For years Miss Mellyn directed the department of practice and training at $3750. In June 1916 she became assistant superintendent with a $5460 salary, succeeding Walter S. Parker. She remains in charge of practice and training, a key division in shaping teachers for higher roles.
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Mellyn
Brooks
Boston
Roxbury
Rice Training School
Wells
Dillaway School
Department of
Harvard Technology
Columbia
Harvard Teachers’ Association
The
Women’s Association of Technology
Twentieth Century Club
Guild of St. Catherine
Women's City Club
Massachusetts Equal Suffrage Association
Body of Missing Girl Found in River in Massachusetts
Lawrence dispatch reports the body of Florence Bale age 22 found today in the Shawsheen River. She had been missing for several days and was in poor health, with officials believing she wandered from home during a period of mental low mood.
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Lawrence
Florence Bale
Shawsheen River
Pape's Cold Compound Powers Quick Symptom Relief
A vintage pitch touts Pape's Cold Compound as a fast remedy for grippe symptoms. Dosing is every two hours for three doses to relieve nasal congestion, discharge, headache, feverishness, sore throat, and sneezing. The ad promises prompt relief, easy taste, and cautions to buy only the genuine product.
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Grippe
Pape
American boy joins British army in World War I trenches
An American youth who earned the rank of Sergeant after 13 years of US military service is stirred to act by the Lusitania sinking. He travels to England, enlists in the British forces, and reaches the trench lines somewhere in France.
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S. B
Ans
J. M
J. W. McL
New Hampshire
Massachusetts
United States
England
France
Identity Disks And An Army Church Parade Memoir
A British World War I memoir fragment describes issuing identity disks worn as neck and wrist charms showing rank name number battalion and religion. The author recalls mistakenly declaring Church of England, attending a compulsory church parade under fire, and observing aircraft and artillery as trenches loom.
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Church of England
R. C
C. of E
Empey
Into the Trench and Up the Line We Move
In the morning our general, nicknamed Old Pepper, inspected the draft and assigned me to B Company with Stewart. For ten days we rested repairing roads for the French, drilling, and digging bombing trenches. After marching three days to reserve billets the guns grew louder as we neared the front.
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Old Pepper
Stewart
First baptism by shell fire in a World War column
A vivid war diary passage describes a night bombardment as the narrator and his unit halt for artillery. Shells explode to the left, smoke rises in fields, and the fear of death grips him while he longs to return home. The scene ends with a promise to continue tomorrow in the Daily and Sunday Post.
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Daily and Sunday Post
Arthur Guy Empey
Haass Will Be Interned After Federal Order
Federal orders in Washington call for Clemens A. Haass to be interned for the remainder of the war. The Milton clubman and associate of Count von Bernstorff was arrested last month under the enemy alien proclamation and will be sent to a southern detention camp. He owned wealth and property and denied celebrating a German victory after the Lusitania sinking.
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Washington
Clemens A. Haass
Milton
Count von Bernstorff
Haass
Lusitania
Dorchester Bay
Hanover Street
Mrs Hearst Named Chairman of New York War Defence Board
Mayor Hylan appoints Mrs William Randolph Hearst to lead the women's branch of the Mayor's Committee on National Defence after resignations from Mitchel appointees. No chairman named yet for the men's committee.
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New York
William Randolph Hearst
Hylan
Navy Yard Clerks Denied Draft Exemption
The Navy Department refused the draft exemption request for 200 clerks at the Charles Town Navy Yard, marking the second denial. Earlier 14 were exempted, and subsequent claims were filed with some approvals signed by department heads.
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Navy Department
Charlestown Navy Yard
Four East Boston Children Treated After Three Accidents
Four children under six were rushed to East Boston Relief Hospital after three separate accidents within twenty minutes. Fire and police responded, with each child receiving medical evaluation and care.
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East Boston
East Boston Relief Hospital
Fire at 51 White Street Hurts Five Children
Smoke from an overheated stove on the first floor trapped Ver non and Ruth Crane ages 3 and 5, who were revived nearby and sent to East Boston Relief Hospital. An ambulance accident injured Paul Crocker 6 as they moved the Crane children. Edna Walliston 8 swallowed liniment and recovered at the hospital.
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Smoll
White Street
Vernon
Ruth Crane
East Boston Relief Hospital
Paul Crocker
Monmouth Street
Crane Children
Edna Walliston
Fight nurse lieutenants clash over State Guard commissions
Friends of Red Cross nurses oppose commissioning state guard nurses as lieutenants arguing Red Cross nurses in the field risk their lives for less pay. Officials say 100 nurses will be selected by Mrs Nathaniel Thayer with commissions and a salary of 1800 dollars annually and will be announced later this week.
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Red Cross
State Guard
Nathaniel Thayer
Thayer
United Shoe Case Moves Forward in Supreme Court
The Supreme Court granted the government's request to postpone further consideration on several major anti trust suits due to the war, except the case against United Shoe Machinery Company which will proceed.
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Washington
Supreme Court
United Shoe Machinery Company
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OLD Ladies OF the
Associated Charities
Silvertone
Bolivia
Washington, Corner Bedford
de Rey
West Broadway
Oleo
Swift’s Nute
Meadowbrook Creamery
United States Food Administration
Ovens Cleanser
Dams Square
Washington St
Adams Square
Fancy Cc
Frank
Sunday Post
Cc. J
Woman For
Miss Mellyn
Dr. Dyer
Dyer
Cee
Tommy
Chapter
Hearst
N. Y. Defence Board
Navy Yard
Friends of Red _ Cross
United Shoe
Paine
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