Massachusetts Churches Call Sunday for Peace Day Observance
The Massachusetts Federation of Churches urges all churches to observe Sunday for prayer and thanksgiving on terms of peace. Sunday aligns with the Federal Council of Churches in America calling for a league of free nations. The 2600 Protestant churches in the state cooperate through the federation led by Reverend Emelius W. Smith.
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Massachusetts Federation of Churches
Federal Council of Churches
America
League of Free Nations
Massachusetts Federation
Committee On Peace
Comitee On International Relations
Emelius W. Smith
Death of dean of transcript printers Whitcomb
John D. Whitcomb longtime Boston Evening Transcript employee died at his Medford home aged almost 85 after a recent illness and shock. He served seventy years with the paper and would have turned 85 next week.
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John D. Whitcomb
Boston Evening Transcript
Park Street
Medford
Somerville Soldier Killed in France Earns DSC
Lieutenant Judson G. Martell of 96 Rogers Avenue Somerville was killed in action near Cunsi France on October 14 while leading his unit against heavy fire. Despite fatal wounds he directed his command before succumbing to a sniper’s bullet.
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New
Repeal of Espionage Act Urged in Senate
Senator France of Maryland urged repeal of the espionage act in the Senate saying its enactment is unnecessary unjustifiable and unconstitutional He called for full publicity open diplomacy and immediate release of wire systems from the clutch of a reactionary administration.
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Washington
Jan
Senate
France
Maryland
Casualty List Shows Decrease Across Nation
Casualty totals for the day fall to 46 with 24 local soldiers listed among fatalities. Corrections note several previously reported killed in action returning to duty. New England honor roll lists four officers killed in action. The overall list includes killed, died of wounds, accidents, disease, missing and wounded counts.
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New England
New England Boys on Casualty List
Casualty notices list multiple New England service members by name and residence. Includes officers Lt Sidney Beauclark Concord New Hampshire and Lt Walter Desmond Medford Massachusetts, with others from Londonderry New London Conn Worcester Stamford and more. Some personnel died of wounds or disease and several were wounded or returned to duty.
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Sidney W. Beauclark
No. State St
Concord
N. H
Walter P. Desmond
Medford Corp
William H. Holland
Litchfield
William H. Cutting
Hamilton
Arthur J. Gingras
W. Spring St
Ansonia
Conn
Isadore W. Baker
Lincoln S&t
Worcester
Samuel Geer
West St
New London
John J. Murdock
North St
Gilbertville
Harold E. Price
Trenton Sst
Pawtucket
Robert P. Scott
Blackmore Ave
Eden Park
R. I
John M. Canavan
Dorchester Ave
Dorchester
Earl J. Sanders
Bayrd
South Amherst
Alex Woronowicz
Harbor St
Stamford
House panel approves consuls plan and embassy fund
The House Foreign Affairs Committee added provisions to the 1920 diplomatic appropriation bill authorizing employment of 2 new consuls and 150 vice consuls as part of postwar commerce expansion. It also approved a $3,000,000 appropriation for purchasing embassies abroad.
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House Foreign Affairs Committee
Chignole Story Led to French Flying Corps Heroism
Marcel Nadaud, a retired French flyer, narrates how a merry Paris street urchin named Chignole joins the Flying Corps and how ordinary people rose to heroic size under wartime stress in The Flying Poilu. The book is reviewed as a sympathetic account featured in Boston Post Sunday Magazine.
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Chignole
Paris
Profit in 1918 Meat Business Reaches High Marks
The net for the previous year stood at 650000. The 1918 profit on meat and all other products was about 134 percent.
Charles H. Sheldon Dies In Providence At 72
Charles H. Sheldon vice-president of the Union Trust Company died in Providence today. He was born in Providence in 1852.
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Providence
Charles H. Sheldon
The
Union Trust Company
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