Zionist mass meeting draws 5000 to Hub Theatre
The Hub Theatre hosted about 5000 attendees at a Zionist movement mass meeting to seek a legal and publicly recognized Jewish home in Palestine. Joseph Barondess Leon Zolotkoff and A Sprayregen spoke praising US Russia policy shifts and interfaith support amid Jewish suffering.
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Zionist Movement
Palestine
Joseph Barondess
Education of
New York
Leon Zolotkoff
Chicago
Jewish Daily News
A. Sprayregen
Order Sons of Zion
Barondess
United States
Russia
Veteran of 14 Civil War battles dies in Providence
Martin Larvin of Providence Rhode Island died today at age unknown after a long Civil War career with the Second Rhode Island Light Infantry. He carried a bullet in his head since Salem Heights where an eye was shot out. He survived fourteen engagements.
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Providence
R. I
Martin Larvin
Second
Rhode Island Light Infantry
Salem Heights
Senate Panels Move To Speed Anti Trust Legislation
An informal Washington conference among Senators Newlands Pomerene Robinson Thomas Thompson Myers and Saulsbury and Representatives Clayton Floyd Carlin laid plans to expedite the Wilson anti trust program. They backed joint hearings and quick action on interlocking directorates restraints of trade and cut throat competition with hearings beginning soon and a March 1 deadline.
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Washington
Congress
Wilson
Newlands
Nevada
Senate Committee On Interstate Commerce
Pomerene
Robinson
Thomas
Thompson
Myers
Saulsbury
Clayton
Floyd
Carlin
House Judiciary
Judiciary Committee
McReynolds
Joseph E. Davies
Corporations
Quack Cancer Cure Labeled By Harvard Doctor
Dr Ellis Kellert at Collis P Huntington Memorial Hospital Harvard called the claimed cancer cure a quack remedy. Charles Duford of South Framingham paraded a test patient last summer but Kellert found no cancer. The hospital has not heard from Duford since. The doctor said the demonstration remains open to Duford.
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Dunford
Kellert
Duford
Sidney Strong Makes His Business Pay Drama Sermon
The Rev. Austen T. Kempton of Broadway Baptist Church Cambridge presented last night the final drama sermon in his first series before a hushed audience that overflowed to the church stairs.
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Austen T. Kempton
Sidney Strong
Broadway Baptist Church
Cambridge
Drama sermon at Broadway Church tests business ethics
Sidney Strong a factory owner fights ruin after a dishonest raised check. His college pitcher son arrives with a game win and a temptation to throw it for pay. Strong tears up the bad check and is later lent $50,000 by a friend of his father, restoring faith. The piece draws a large audience and prompts plans for copyrighting and more drama sermons.
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Broadway
Sidney Strong
Phidelah Rice
Kempton
Moyer to Face Trial with Miners Leaders
Charles H. Moyer head of the Western Federation of Miners and six other union leaders indicted for conspiracy will return to Michigan to stand trial with the strikers. Special prosecutor Nichols said they must come at once or extradition proceedings will be filed as the January term opens in Houghton County.
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Houghton, Mich
Charles H. Moyer
Western Federation of Miners
George E. Nichols
O. N. Hilton
Denver
Nichols
Houghton County
Stevens Linen Mills Rushes Orders Letting Overtime Rule
The Stevens Linen Mills, a leading global operation, is hiring extra help as orders surge. About 2000 workers are employed with departments operating at full capacity and overtime. Under Agent John Crawford and Superintendent Wadsworth Crawford an expansion adds hundreds of jobs at a cost of 150.09 dollars.
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Dudley
Stevens Linen Mills
Stevens Mills
United States
John Crawford
Wadsworth Crawford
Hiram J. Litchfield Dies in Somerville
Hiram J. Litchfield a Snownh business man in Somerville died of pneumonia on Flint Avenue aged about 60. He was a veteran connected with Spaulding Lich valley of Westford and well known in Billerica. He leaves a wife and eight children. Funeral at home Wednesday afternoon.
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Hiram J. Litchfield
Flint Avenue
Somerville
Spaulding Lich
Vally
Westford
Billerica
Ordered to Sing for King in Bilbao Opera Tour
Spanish tenor Miorencio Constantino received a cable ordering him to Bilbao by April 15 to perform multiple roles for King Alfonso. He will sing in The Girl of the Golden West Posea Lida Pagliacci and The Barber of Seville with a $1400 per performance fee.
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Miorencio Constantino
Avho
Paust
Boston
Spain
Teatro Arriego
Bilbao
Senor Almeda
Opera House
Constantino
Seville
R. Constantino
Alfonso
Royal Opera House
Madrid
Coal Teamsters Raise Wages for Agents and Elect Union Officers
The Coal Teamsters and Handlers Union reported wage raises for agents J. Fenton and R. Lynch as appreciation for benefits won. Three grievances were adjusted. The union elected FLP as President, Thomas McAuley as Vice-President, Fenton as Secretary-Agent, Lynch as Agent, and John F. English as Recording Secretary.
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Hn J. Fenton
A R. Lynch
Ppf
Thomas McAuley
Fenton
Lynch
John F. English
Justee
J. T. Cunniff
Teamsters
Onl
15 Sailors From Wreck Reach Port
The Yarmouth steamer Boston brought the crew of the wrecked Gloucester fishing schooner Iglantine into port yesterday from Nova Scotia. Fifteen men, rescued from Halifax, arrived in various states from well to badly frost bitten after a harrowing voyage.
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Yarmouth
Boston
I’glantine
Nova Scotia
Halifax
Gloucester
Eglantine Destroyed In Nova Scotia Gale After Reef Strike
A schooner named Eglantine was driven ashore near Spry Bay during a Wednesday gale off Nova Scotia. Fifteen crewmen escaped in dories, reaching a cove after a ten mile, bitter night row. they sent word to Halifax and were rescued by the American consul. Names of the rescued include John White W Wentzell F Thompson E Berry and others.
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Nova Scotia
Spry Bay
John White
Halifax
Boston
W. Wentzell
F. Thompson
E. Berry
J. Willniff
J. Feltmate
Spencer Allen
John McDonough
J. Larson
Jogren
Gloucester boat Selma wrecks off Meagher's Beach
The Gloucester fishing schooner Selma captained by Downey was wrecked off Meagher's Beach east of Halifax. All aboard reached shore safely. 14 crew were brought to Halifax by the Lady Laurier, while the captain and three others stayed near the wreck. The vessel is a total loss and owned by the Maritime Shipping Company of Gloucester.
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Halifax
N. S
Selma
Downey
Meagher’s Beach
Lady Laurier
The
Maritime Shipping Company of
Gloucester
Extermination Urged for Kansas Dogs and Pests
Topeka January 2 W A 8 Bird of Topeka told the Kansas Improved Stock Breeders Association that 90 percent of Kansas dogs should be exterminated and all crows and pigeons eliminated as disease carriers, in a speech to the association.
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Topeka
Kan
Bird
Kansas
French Woman Lawyer to Lecture in Boston
Miss Alice Gendel de la Ruelle the fifth woman licensed to practice in France is coming to Boston to lecture after studying U S schools in Washington D C. She met President Wilson and attended a diplomatic reception by his invitation. La Ruelle is described as a vigorous French pioneer of the woman movement with lively humor and sharp eyes.
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Alice Gendel de la Ruelle
France
United States
Boston
Washington, D. C
Paris
Wilson
Miss la Ruelle
Alice Genbel DE LA Ruelle
G. V. Buek
Hair tonic kills two inmates at Eastern Penitentiary
In Philadelphia on January 2, prison officials say two 24 year old inmates, Charles Harris and Charles Reitze, died after drinking hair tonic to satisfy an alcohol craving. They reportedly obtained the liquid from a prison barber this afternoon while claiming it was to “fix up” for visitors.
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Philadelphia
Charles Harris
Charles Reitze
Eastern
State Board to Take Up Boilermakers Wage Case
The State Board of Conciliation and Arbitration will begin hearings tomorrow on the wage dispute for Boilermakers. Members of the Boilermakers' and Iron Ship Builders' Union seek a 15 percent wage increase.
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State Board of Conciliation and Arbitration
Boilermakers’ and Iron Ship Builders’ and Helpers
Pacific Coast Citrus Growers Report Bumper Crop
After three years of disappointments Pacific coast citrus fruit growers report a bumper crop for this year according to F. O. McCormick vice-president of the Southern Pacific railroad.
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Chicago
F. O. McCormick
Southern Pacific Railroad
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