Fliers Plan Massachusetts Aviation Group Following War Meet
The Boston Press Club hosted a noon gathering of returned military and naval airmen at 3 Beacon Street. Major Cushman A. Rice spoke on forming a Massachusetts statewide aviation organization to promote flying and allied projects nationwide with plans for future meetings and joint military air service efforts.
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Boston Press Club
Beacon Street
Cushman A. Rice
America
Massachusetts
Army
Navy Air Service
Commonwealth
Navy
Rice
Aviation Answers and Airman Tips From Early Experts
Questions cover Lt Campbell’s 151 consecutive loops and winter flight by military aviators. Advice warns against fainters on board, notes fur-lined heated flight gear, ice fields as landing sites, and the crucial role of hearing and engine reliability in aviation safety.
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RE. T
W. T. Campbell
H. S
G. H
Cc. L. S
Air Service
Poland Mission Planned by Supreme War Council
Paris January 22 The supreme council of the peace conference announced plans to send a two member mission to Poland two delegates from the United States Britain France and Italy The statement notes backing for immediate armed intervention to help the new republic withstand Bolshevik raids and to establish governance with Marshal Foch consulted.
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Paris
Supreme Council of the Peace Conference
Poland
Supreme Interallied War Council
Ministry For Foreign Affairs
United States of America
Baron Makino
Baron Matsui
Boston College to Decide on Basketball Season Today
At the afternoon athletic association meeting Boston College council will decide if basketball becomes a minor sport this year. Victor Rochette prepared a schedule including returns with Navy Yard, Connecticut Aggies, Newport Torpedo Station, and games with Brown, Harvard Radio, Tufts, and New York State University.
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Athletic Association
Boston College
Victor Rochette
Boston Navy Yard
Connecticut Aggies
Newport Torpedo Station
Brown
Harvard Radio
Tufts
New York State University
Testimonial and dance for late Fitton Club manager Jack Lawless
Family of Jack Lawless receives a testimonial and dance in Sumner Hall East Boston honoring the former Fitton Athletic Club manager who died of pneumonia. Friends and club members participate in the event to express condolences and celebrate his life.
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Jack Lawless
Fitton Athletic Club
Sumner Hall
East
Boston
Prohibition Victory Meeting Ends in Disorder at Tremont Temple
Massachusetts anti liquor leaders led a mass meeting at Tremont Temple praising the constitutional amendment and calling for strict enforcement. Former Gov Bates, Congressman-elect Luce, Robert Woods and Wayne Wheeler spoke as McCurdy and Sailor Ryan clashed with pro prohibitionists, while Wheeler lauded Massachusetts and urged nationwide enforcement.
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Tremont Temple
Massachusetts Council For National Prohibition
John L. Bates
Robert Luce
Robert A. Woods
South End House
Wayne B. Wheeler
Washington
Anti
McCurdy
Mr. Wheeler
Wheeler
Baltimore
Cardinal Gibbons
Sailor Ryan
Bates
Mar
Newton Highlands
the Post
Luce
Prohibitionists Mistake Smoke Fire For Sudden Victory
Hundreds of temperance supporters leaving Tremont Temple misread smoke from a Tremont Street saloon as a new fire at a school street bar. They found police and bartenders still in service as grease on a stove in a rear room caused a small blaze. No damage.
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Tremont Temple
School Street
Women’s party hold Wilson responsible in suffrage push
Mrs. M Toscan Bennett of Hartford told a studio audience that burning speeches symbolize world focus on Wilson’s actions about democracy. She urged volunteers to go to Washington to keep pressure for federal amendment ratification and announced a Suffragist sale campaign in the city.
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Wilson
National Woman's Party
M. Toscan Bennett
Hartford
Washington
Mrs. Bennett
Germany
55th Coast Artillery Is Home
The 55th Coast Artillery returns to New York aboard the Manchuria and the Cretic, totaling 6,390 officers and men, including ill and wounded. They helped break the Metz Mezieres rail line, trained with 155 mm guns, and served at Chateau Thierry, the Aisne, and the Argonne, with two men dying en route home. Their bodies will be buried in Boston.
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New York
America
Manchuria
St. Nazaire
France
Mauretania
Chateau Thierry
Aisne
Argonne
Meuse
Beaufort
655Th Coast Artillery
William J. Phillip
Frederick C. Guyette
Battery CG
Boston
55th Coast Artillery Aide in World War I
The 55th Coast Artillery, led by Colonel John J. Robert, drew many Boston-raised soldiers and saw heavy action at the end of World War I. Casualties included 13 KIA, 16 died of disease, and 61 wounded, with multiple commendations from French and American commands. Chaplain Frederick M. Cutler highlights one French citation.
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55Th Coast Artillery
John J. Robert
New York
Boston
Frederick M. Cutler
Theatres Decide Not to Raise Theatre Tax
Washington theatre owners, inspired by Alma Tell in Eyes of Youth at the Shubert Wilbur, view a crystal picture of doom if the theatre tax rises to twenty percent. They hold a conference and choose not to increase the tax, urging patrons to see the play at once.
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Washington
Alma Tell
Shubert-Wilbur
Oldfield Retires From Racing After Decades on Track
Cleveland, Jan 22 Barney Oldfield longtime auto racing star and holder of the standing start mile record announces retirement from the track He will devote his time to a tire company he heads The Daytona mile record of 4053-100 seconds set May 16 1910 remains standing He was disqualified last year by the AAA for exhibition driving at county fairs as exhibitions were canceled due to the war
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Cleveland, O
Barney Oldfield
Oldfield
Daytona
Fla
American Automobile Association
Tragedy at Mill Pond in East Dedham Fatal and救活 Rescue
A mill worker rescued two boys from Mill Pond after they fell through thin ice while skating. Barrett Bradford, 13, drowned, while Ralph Barss, 12, and John Tullock, 11, were saved. Morris Smargon leaped into the icy water to aid them before the fire crew recovered Bradford’s body.
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East Dedham
Barrett Bradford
John Bradford
Colburn Street
Ralph Barss
John Tullock
Mill Pond
Morris Smargon
Services Held for Dead Music Teacher
The body of Mrs. Ella Bruch Mahr of Arlington Heights, a musician and NEC faculty member, was cremated yesterday afternoon in Mt Auburn Cambridge. Funeral services were held at her late home 1 Elmore Street with Rev Charles Taber Hall of St John’s Arlington officiating. NEC faculty members attended.
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Ella Bruch Mahr
Arlington Heights
New England Conservatory of Music
Mt. Auburn
Cambridge
Elmore Street
Charlies Taber Hall
St. John’s Episcopal Church of
Arlington
New England Conservatory
Waterfront Calendar Notes Amid War Time Details
Waterfront calendar for January 23 lists time and tide data with moon phases and planetary positions. Includes day counts since war began and seasonal references noting full and new moons, and evening and morning star visibility.
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Venus
Mars
Jupiter
Saturn
Fish pier receipts tally seven hundred twenty four thousand pounds
About a dozen trips at the fish pier yielded total receipts of 724,000 pounds with ex vessel prices varied by species. Haddock and cod entries appear among arriving fleets with a list of vessels and the pounds landed for each category.
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Haddock
Annam First Fast Indies Vessel Through Panama Canal
The Danish motorship Annam, from Calcutta, sails a 10500 mile route via the Panama Canal becoming the first Fast Indies ship to reach by this route. It ferries jute to Ludlow Manufacturing and winds up oil for fuel after Singapore leg. Freight to South America hits a record $65 per thousand feet for lumber on E L Comeau and Mereghan.
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Roseway
Albatross
Annam
Calcutta
Indies
Panama Canal
Indian Ocean
Red Sea
Suez Canal
Mediterranean
Singapore
Pacific
Panama
Ludlow Manufacturing Associates
Ruth
Commonwealth Pier
Piedmont
Scott Wrecking Company
Admiral
New Brunswick
South America
E. L. Comeau
Mereghan
St. John
Buenos Ayres
Shipping News Arrivals and Towing Movements Listed
A detailed shipping bulletin notes motor ship Annam Dan Schmith from Calcutta via Singapore and Panama Canal, and a lineup of steamers and tugs including Valley Forge Lab lich Port Reading Belmont Draper Langhorne Skippack Perth Amboy Tap tey Norfolk and Nesquehoning with numerous towing barges. Also bailed steamers Canada Melita St John N B Lake Jessup Manzanillo and various barges and towages to Rockland Salem Portsmouth and Norfolk.
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Annam
Schmith
Calcutta
Singapore
Panama Canal
Grecian
Page
Philadelphia
Delaware
Crowell
New York
City of Gloucester
Larsen
Gloucester
Valley Forge
Lablich
Port Reading
Belmont
Portsmouth
Draper
Marblehead
Langhorne
Skippack
Perth Amboy
Taptey
Norfolk
Gibson
Albert J. Stone
Cox
Nesquehoning
Richardson
Cacoosing
Canada
Portland
Melita
St. John
N. B
Binghamton
Lake Jessup
Manzanillo
Lake Bledsoe
Newport News
Boxer
Elk Garden
Gedney
Thomaston
Juno
Mahoning
Beverly
M. Mitchell Davie
Shickshinny
Rockland
Piedmont
Salem
Wade Hampton
Confidence
Sandwich
Beattie
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Macklin
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William G. Thayer
St. Mark’s School
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St. Mark’s
Patrick O’brien
I. F. Fuller
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O’brien
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Navy Department
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Mackadee
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Rig ‘Ee
Aren
Bo Tate
Wilson & Co
adilic-Son
Southern I Ry
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National German Alliance
Washington Times
Newark ‘Ledger
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Mr. Woods
Ryan
Hold Wilson
Metz-Mezieres
Congress
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Charles J. Rieh
Engs
Mats
Mrs
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Bairnsfather
Edmund Gurney
Leon Gordon
Percy Jennings
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Raymond Hubbell
Lanssire TS
Marie Carroll
Denman Maley
The
Famoutis Peacock Alley Chorus
Beach
Nan Halperin
Williams
Wolfus
Karleton
Emmy
His
Haley Sisters
Larne & Dupre
David Schooler
Arank
Gaby
Espe
Dutto
Marmein Sisters
Piymol
Pha
Lee
J.J. Shubert Wagins
Boildi
Oliver Morosco
D c Arrillo
Grage Valentine
B.Y
East Dedham Boy Crowns —Mill Worker's Heroism
Carpheu
FBI
SAT New Bil
Clayton & Lennie
Leonore Simonsen
Scanlon & Denno
Ray Huling
Talmadge
Lapham
Ken
Lila Lee
Wm, Farnum
Harold Lockwood
Pals
Enid Bennett
Fuss & Feathers
Houdini
Elsie Ferguson
John Barrymore
Ranksin Parm Theatre
Bert Lytell
the Spender
Bowdoin
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Propuctesy
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Quickennd
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Matinee
Roseland Girls
Solly Ward
Anklin Park
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Warwick Accidental Micon
Fredout of
Robert In
Saving Grace
Fritz! Scheff Miseon
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Bing
Tarn Wow
Mack Sennett
Mil Mickey Mabel Normand
Mickey
Back Bay
Castle Square
Filene
Exeter
William A. Brady
Copley Square
Gearden
Gary Deslys
Orth & Cody
Lou
Gene Archer
Quixie Four
Stagpole & Spier
Frank Hartley
Flagg
Impropaganda
Fred’ Stone
Geraldine Farrar
Fred Stone
SUN. Aft
Olympia Wash
ST. Harold Lockwood
the Met
EL Barrymore
Ymphony Hall
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Henri Rabaud
Alfred Cortot
Josef Hofmann
Huntington Avenue
Boston Opera House
W. Smith
Dstootdhaatet
L. Cod
M. Cod
Pollock
Benj, Smith
Athena
B. Atwood
M. Marshall
Mr. P. Goulart
Elmer E. Gray
Minerva
Edith Thompson
John D
Shipping News
Mabel
Howard
Cooper and
Lacey
Ajax
Emilie
Scott
Kane
Mann and
Marr
Bob Carlson
Mike Secott
Dublin
Shwuber
I Emsaat
Little Bidg
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Fray Comstock MorRis Gest
Dark Beach
Peggy Lawrence
Willette Kershaw -Eves
Colonial Meares
Charles J. Rich
Eves
Fred
Stone
Jack O’ Lantern
Copley
Henry Jewett
Walls OF Jericho
Filene’s
Jordan
Armenia
Symphony Hall
Herrick
Aurora Mardiganian
Burton Holmes
Dloneo
Romarc
Mato
Joseph Arthur
Ball Room
Garrison &T
Mechanics
Dancing
Waverley
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