Mercy and Deportations in Belgian Crisis: German Tyranny Exposed
In wartime Belgium the cardinal denounces von Bissing and German officials for wholesale deportations and enslavement of workers. The critique condemns Hart’s Jan 12 1917 proclamation on unemployed Belgians, alleging hypocrisy, deceit, and punitive measures by German authorities.
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von Bissing
van Huene
Antwerp
van der Goltz Pasha
Belgium
Hart
Trois Fontaines
Forest Service
Cardinal Mercier Urges Study of Deportation Issue
Baron von Bissing writes Cardinal Mercier urging consideration of deportations as a social and economic issue. He argues Belgian workers in Germany aid families, cites blockade effects, and calls for equal economic factors between Belgium and Germany amid wartime conditions.
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Germany
Belgium
England
Baron von Bissing
103 Year Old Mary Regan Champions Ireland Freedom
Lawrence January 103 year old Mary Regan lives with her granddaughter at 22 Durham Street. An Irish freedom advocate who smokes a pipe on medical advice she rejects suffrage and believes women should care for home. Born in County Cork she emigrated to Lowell after marriage and later wed Dennis Regan. She swears by early to bed and early to rise and enjoys candy and ice cream nightly.
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Jan
Mary Regan
Durham Street
Regan
County Cork
Ireland
Cornelius Driscoll
Lowell
Dennis Regan
Belgian Unemployed Deported to Germany War Labor
Four hundred thousand Belgian workers are forced into labor by the occupying German power. The decree system expands from Belgium to Germany, breaching public order fears but masking the aim to bolster the German war effort. Families endure privation while pleading for mercy and return.
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Belgium
Germany
Mina
Kreischef
St. Paul’s Square
Nivelles
Meldeamt
Ually
Must Buy From Other Fellow Women Warns At Pilgrim Hall
Miss Eunice Avery of Springfield urged reciprocal trade in a Women’s City Club talk at Pilgrim Hall. She warned against buying American goods exclusively and cautioned that eradicating Reds lies in removing their influence from American institutions. She noted 1920 offers hope as Americans begin to understand the other fellow.
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Eunice Avery
Springfield
Women’s City Club
Pilgrim Hall
Miss Avery
Chicago Youth McKenna Placed on File in Central Court
Francis K. McKenna a 19 year old from Chicago who used checks recklessly in the Back Bay was remonstrated by the Central Court yesterday and his delinquencies were placed on file after assurance he would reform.
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Francis K. McKenna
Chicago
Central Court
Clan Murdoch Fire Triggers Big Loss at Bermuda
A British steamer from East Indian ports bound for Boston put into Bermuda with her cargo afire. The Clan Murdoch carried jute ivory hessians indigo skins and other goods valued at 2 000 000 dollars loaded at Madras Tuticorin Cochin and Port London the last named an Egyptian port.
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Clan Murdoch
Boston
Bermuda
Madras
Tuticorin
Cochin
Port London
Creditors of Bankrupt Shoe Firm In Luck Get Dividend
Creditors of the W. E. Connors Shoe Company in this city received a Christmas present when Referees Olmstead of the U S Bankruptcy Court declared a dividend of 100 cents on the dollar. Philip W. Jacobs acted for creditors and later became receiver and trustee, uncovering about 6318 dollars to pay all claims in full.
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W. E. Connors Shoe Company
Olmstead
United States Bankruptcy Court
Philip W. Jacobs
Vanderbilt House in New York Sells for 5.5 Million
The Cornelius Vanderbilt mansion on Fifth Avenue between Fifty-seventh and Fifty-eighth streets sold for 5.5 million dollars in cash. The purchaser’s name was not disclosed, with unconfirmed talks of a hotel by T Coleman du Pont or a Marshall Field department store. The Vanderbilt family said the sale followed high maintenance costs.
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New York
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Fifth Avenue
Fifty-seventh
Fifty-eighth Street
America
T. Coleman du Pont
Marshall Field
Pershing Endorses New York Victory Hall Project
General Pershing endorses the Victory Hall proposed near Grand Central Terminal in New York City as a $15,000,000 monument to American soldiers. The committee backing the project plans to raise funds by popular subscription.
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New York
Victory Hall
Grand Central Terminal
General Pershing
Cassatt Widow of Ex Railroad President Dies in Philadelphia
Mrs. Alexander Johnson Cassatt widow of a former Pennsylvania railroad president died at her Philadelphia home. She was a niece of James Buchanan former U S president.
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Philadelphia
Alexander Johnson Cassatt
Pennsylvania Railroad
James Buchanan
United States
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