Pershing selects 34 officers for Distinguished Service Medals
General Pershing announces 34 officers including Major Generals Menoher Wright Read Hines Muir Summerall Haan Allen Cronkhite Kernan and Colonels Pal mer gain DSM honors for work shaping the American army in France and its assault on German lines. Brigadier generals cited include Eltinge Brown Andrews Nolan Fox Conner Moseley Fiske Smith Hogoud Malone McCoy Drum Conner.
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Washington
Pershing
France
War Department
Charles T. Menoher
42D
Rainbow
Air Service
Waker
Wm. M. Wright
George W. Read
John L. Hines
Charles H. Muir
Charles P. Summerall
William G. Haan
Henry T. Allen
Adelbert P. Cronkhite
Francis J. Kernan
Overseas Service of Supply
Supreme War Council
Leroy Eltinge
A. E. F. Preston Brown
Avery D. Andrews
Mennis E. Nolan
A. E. F. Fox Conner
George W. H. Moseley
Harold 3. Fiske
General
Harry A. Smith
Langres
Johnson Hogo
Workers Urged to Ignore Millmen Demands in Lawrence
In Lawrence on January 19, the American Woolen Company mills were advised by the workers’ general committee to reject millmen calls for elected representatives to meet mill owners on Wednesday. The committee argued the move would undermine their authority and influence over the 48-hour week demand.
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Lawrence
American Woolen Company
Service Men At Show At Boston Theatre
Sailors soldiers and marines crowded the Boston Theatre yesterday afternoon at a War Camp Community Service weekly performance. The crowd included Base Hospital No. 10 Parker Hill Roxbury personnel and sailors from French ships anchored at Charlestown navy yard. Eight star acts of professional performers filled the bill for several hours.
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Boston
War Camp Community Service
Base Hospital No. 10
Parker Hill
Roxbury
Charlestown Navy Yard
Police raid nets 48 craps players in Cambridge
Cambridge officers and Watch and Ward Society members stormed the home of James Pracey driving 48 men from a craps game. Eben Sears was injured when struck by a brick but his wound was not serious. All players were captured and jailed on $20 bail for District Court.
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Watch and Ward Society
Cambridge Police
James Pracey
School Street
Cambridge
Eben Sears
Cambridge Relief Hospital
Wyman Presho
McCaffery
Watch and Ward
Sears
Jefferson
Morgenthau Warns Against Turkish Rule Endurance
Henry Morgenthau argues at New York event that most nations aided Turkey to balance power, urges open Dardanelles and restoration of Christian rights, stating Turkish vitality is exhausted and the nation has disintegrated. He calls Turkey unreformable and warns the peace conference against repeating past mistakes.
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New York
Henry Morgenthau
Turkey
Dardanelles
Asia
Africa
Mississippi
Metropolitan Hill Ladies' Club Dance Planned
The Metropolitan Hill Ladies' Club of Roslindale has arranged its annual dancing party for tomorrow evening at the Normac bun galow in Roslindale. Led by president Mrs. T. H. Mullowney the committee expects a large turnout with Mayor Peters ex mayor Fitzgerald and City Council President Walter L. Collins among the invited guests.
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Metropolitan Hill Ladies’ Club
Roslindale
Normac
T. H. Mullowney
Peters
Fitzgerald
Walter L. Collins
SEEK MAN FOR RESERVE BANK
Washington Jan 19 The Treasury seeks a new member for the Federal Reserve Board to fill Frederic A Delano's vacancy. Likely candidates include Frederick H Goff of Cleveland and Thomas D Jones of Chicago. Jones had been nominated by President Wilson in 1914 but his appointment was not confirmed.
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Washington
Federal Reserve Board
Frederic A. Delano
Treasury
Middle West
Frederick H. Goff
Cleveland
Thomas D. Jones
Chicago
Jones
Wilson
Albert Strauss
Europe
Peace Commissioners
Wilsons fate at peace conference hinges on Ireland stance
Peter Golden of New York told a Lyceum Hall mass meeting in Woburn that President Wilson’s image will rise or fall with his handling of Irish independence at the Paris council. About 1200 Catholics attended as resolutions urged Wilson to press Ireland’s case. Speakers included Joseph Smith of Boston and Mayor B J Golden.
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Wilson
America
Peter Golden
New York
Lyceum
St. Charles Church
Joseph Smith
Boston
B. J. Golden
Woburn
Daniel C. Riorden
Police arrest yegg suspect in South End lodging house
Thomas Gallagher twenty six is jailed on assault and robbery charges after a South End arrest with two women, Sadie Drohan and Mary Thistle, found with nearly five hundred fifty dollars. Mazza thirty four? Mazza was robbed in Roxbury area after a lunch encounter with a man believed to be Gallagher.
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South End
East Boston
Thomas Gallagher
Roxbury
Gallagher
Hanson Street
Driscoll and Winn
Station 7
Mazza
Lieutenant Taylor Killed in German Bombing Raid
Arlington Heights native Lieutenant Raymond C. Taylor of the 96th Aerial Squadron in France has been confirmed killed in a September 16 aerial bombing raid over Germany. Taylor, 26, a Tufts College graduate, was among six pilots and observers killed as four planes attacked the Conflans railway and engaged enemy fighters.
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Raymond C. Taylor
Arlington Heights
96Th
France
Germany
Conflans
Taylor
Codman
Tufts College
Myers Warns Boston Hub Full of Iniquity
Rev Cortland Myers at Tremont Temple denounces Boston as rife with sin saying a night reveal would show depths of iniquity. He likens the city to Pompeii with a volcano ready to erupt and laments Sunday crowds at theatres and vaudeville while churches stay empty.
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Boston
Cortland Myers
D. D
Tremont Temple
Pompeii
Springfield Lawyer Robert A Knight Dead of Apoplexy
Springfield Jan 19 Robert A Knight a Hampden county bar member for 30 years died this morning of apoplexy He served on the Massachusetts Bar Association executive committee Knight born North Brookfield May 7 1860 attended Harvard Law School admitted Worcester county bar 1881 moved to Springfield 1887 He belonged to city clubs and was a former Common Council member His wife and two children survive.
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Springfield
Robert A. Knight
Hampden County
Massachusetts Bar Association
Mr. Knight
North Brookfield
Harvard Law School
Worcester County Bar
Springfield I W W raid disrupts local recruiting union
Federal officers and police raided the Springfield I W W recruiting union at 230 Main Street seizing seditious books and about 15 000 membership cards. Secret service also took stamps and propaganda materials worth over 5000 dollars and documents outlining strike schedules and sabotage plans. Names of hall occupants were recorded. no arrests were made. Samuel Bernow, 17 Franklin Street, listed as secretary.
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Springfield
Main Street
Secret Service
Samuel Bernow
Franklin Street
Civil War nurse Lucy Hart dies at 78 in Spencer
Mrs Lucy Adams Hart aged 78 former nurse with the eye of the Potomac and widow of Civil War veteran Toby Hart died at her Spencer home after a paralytic shock suffered two years earlier. She married at 14 and had 21 children, six of whom survive.
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Spencer
Lucy (Adams) Hart
Eye of the Potomac
Toby Hart
Confession Flagged In Queens Murder Case
District Attorney O Leary says he will seek commitment for Patrick O Donnell to an observation hospital after he signed a statement claiming he killed Elizabeth Mary Riddell in Queens. O Donnell appeared at Jamaica court but was too nervous to plead. hearing postponed. Detectives doubt the confession as wife and employers provide an alibi for the night of the murder.
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New York
O'Leary
Queens County
Patrick O’donnell
Elizabeth Mary Riddell
Borough of
Queens
O’donnell
Jamaica Court
Miller
O'Donnell
Yonkers
Jamaica
Riddell
Treasury outlines final Victory Liberty Loan plan
Secretary Glass announced one last war loan drive the Victory Liberty Loan to be issued in late April. The issue will total five to six billion dollars, with a likely amount of five billion.
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Washington
Treasury Department
Glass
Victory Liberty Loan said to be last intensive bond drive
Mr. Glass predicts the Victory Liberty Loan will be the final intensive campaign for government bonds with no basis for two more issues this year. He says subsequent securities will be sold quietly through banks, not by broad advertising, as Treasury plans respond to postwar costs and ongoing federal lending needs.
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Glass
Treasury
Economic Struggles Prompt Debate Over High Rates
The text hints at policy options to curb inflation, including potentially raising interest rates beyond 414 percent or exploring alternative measures, reflecting a broader struggle with economic stability and borrowing costs.
German spy system mocked by publisher at Trinity Church
Frederick F. Cutler, a shoe trade publisher, told Trinity Church Newton Centre listeners that the British spy service during World War I was far superior to Germany’s. He cited rapid German naval setbacks and British intelligence as proof of superiority.
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Frederick F. Cutler
Trinity Church
Newton Centre
Cutler
Mr. Cutler
Kiel
Man Arrested On Polygamy Charge In Milford
Milford police arrested Arthur Boulanger alias Baker 34 and a woman claiming to be his wife Alvira Boulanger 21 in a tenement on Central Street. The man faces polygamy charges and the woman a statutory offense. They had traveled from Woonsocket Rhode Island a week earlier and she is named Rose Latour by police. They will be arraigned today.
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Milford
Arthur Boulanger
Baker
Alvira Boulanger
Central Street
Murphy
Fitzpatrick
Fullam
Woonsocket
R. I
Rose Latour
Boulanger
Ridding Metz of All Undesirables
Paris reports Metz continues purification of German elements under favorable conditions. A Havas dispatch notes the latest convoy from Metz includes Professor Haenlein of the Royal College faculty, a known pan Germanist and former director in German societies. All German nationals in secondary schools have been relieved of their posts.
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Paris
Metz
Havas
Haenlein
Royal College Faculty
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