Life and Letters of Edward Everett Hale reviewed
A New England reader overview praises Edward Tiverett Hale Jr for The Life and Letters of Edward Everett Hale. The two volume biography frames Hale as a Boston clergyman and senator’s chaplain who shaped national conduct. It highlights Hale’s youth in Boston and Harvard era, his shift from essays to The Man Without a Country, and his conservative early views.
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New England
Edward Everett Hale
Little, Brown
Edward Tiverett Hale, Jr
Boston
Hale
South Congregational Church
United States Senate
Harvard College
America
Europe
Portraits of Franklin Davis and other American Greats
A critical survey reviews Benjamin Franklin Sself Revealed by William Ca bell Bruce and Richard Harding Davis by Charles Belmont Davis. It also highlights Madame Adam by Winifred Stephens and biographies of Norman Prince, Harry Butters, and Lt. Gen. Chaffee, noting their contributions, character, and enduring impact in modern history.
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America
Benjamin Franklin
Putnam
William Cabell Bruce
Franklin
Bruce
Mr. Bruce
Richard
Madame Adam
Dutton
Winifred Stephens
France
Cambetta
George Sand
Flaubert
Victor Hugo
de Goncourts
Prosper Merimee
Dumas
Renan
Germany
Norman Prince
Houghton, Mifflin
George ¥. Babbitt
Harry Butters
Lane
Denis O’sullivan
Prince
Butters
Great Britain
League of the Allies
Somme
Vermont Farmers Hold Steady Against War and Prices
Rural Vermont residents voice pride in sustaining farms amid draft anxieties and rising costs. Farmers praise hardworking leaders and warn city visitors miss rural hardships, noting shift to self reliance and local branding such as maple sugar sold beyond state lines.
Baker’s Testimony on War Supplies Draws Debate
Secretary Baker faces sharp questioning over claims that army equipment is substantially adequate for initial rush needs. Senators press on rifle and machine gun shortages, truck shortages for Pershing, and delays in Browning gun production with Baker promising further data and a February start.
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Baker
Pershing
Hitchcock
Crozier
Chamberlain
Senator Wadsworth
Congress
Executive Branch
Wadsworth
Board of Labor Standards
France
Senator McKellar
Weeks
Camp Bowie
Texas
Greble
Mr. Baker
Mr. Weeks
Senator Hitchcock
Senator Weeks
Horse feed shortages grip Boston area horse owners
With only 48 hours of grain for horses in Boston area stores, local horsemen warn of severe suffering. Oats are scarce though elevators hold grain. shipments cannot be released without federal orders. Public Safety Committee presses for seizure orders and talks with Endicott and McAdoo while teams and welfare groups seek relief.
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Boston
Washington
Public Safety Committee
Women Host Tea Dance for Enlisted Men at Copley Plaza
More than 159 enlisted men from the Harvard Radio School and related units attended a tea dance in Boston hosted by the war service committee of the Boston Equal Suffrage Association at Copley Plaza. Proceeds collected at the door, funded by non participant sources, will be donated to the Equal Suffrage Coffee House at Ayer and to Americanization efforts for foreign born women.
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Harvard Radio School
Harvard School For
Commonwealth Pier
War Service Committee
Boston Equal Suffrage Association
Copley Plaza
Equal Suffrage Coffee
Ayer
Paper trade as war shifts US share vs German dealers
Washington reports that since the European war began the United States has greatly increased its share of the se trade of Chill. Robert Barrett, special agent, told the Department of Commerce that German dealers controlled the trade, selling 55 percent of the paper used while the United States sold 13 percent.
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Washington
United States
Robert 8. Barrett
Department of Commerce
Woman Found Near Death in Attic Rescue by Police
Nora Haywood, 55, in dying condition from starvation, removed from a sparsely furnished attic at 168 Pleasant Street to City Hospital. Authorities say she would have died within 24 hours if not rescued by police.
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Nora Haywood
Pleasant Street
SAYROADS NEED ALL EMPLOYEES
Washington January 11 hearing on the administration railway bill heard Julius Kruttschnitt chair of Southern Pacific oppose pruning railroad work forces under government operation saying it would disrupt organization when returning properties after the war. He argued solicitors for passenger business also handle freight so many cannot be dispensed with.
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Washington
House Interstate Commerce Committee
Julius Kruttschnitt
Southern Pacific
American Railway Association
Sims
Kruttschnitt
Best Medicine for Woman's Ailments Adverts
Mrs Sara Shaw of Portsmouth Ohio testifies Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound restored her health after weakness side pains and family strain. The letter urges other women with displacements irregularities inflammation ulceration backache headaches or nervousness to try the root and herb remedy.
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Portsi
Ohio
Lydia E. Pinkham
Sara Shaw
R. No. 1
Portsmouth
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Finley Peter “Dunne
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Charles Belmont Davis
Chaffee
University of Chicago
William Harding Carter
Cuba
China
Pekin
Philippines
Los Angeles
Carter
Baileys
Sunnyside Farm
Jason A. Baileys
Jason
Mrs. Bailey
Vermont
Chapin
Middlesex
C. P. Dudley
L. B. Brooks
Montpelier
Mr. Dudley
Mr. Brooks
Arthur Bliss
Bliss
B. W. Daniels
Waterbury
Kerstein
Krensi
Florence Kelly
Ordnance Bureau
London
Sharpe
Senate
War Department
New York Times
Neue
William Blake
Poland
U. S. Food Administration
Harry Lauder
Funk & Wagnalls Company
New York
Sayroads
Connor
Brookside Big
Swat
Connor’s
Henfield
Warner
Campbell
Kirkman
Babbitt
Netti
John T.connorco
Food Administration
Wone
Cerva
LEMP
ST. Louis
Boaton
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