Raised in Hub to aid suffering Jews reaches large total
A Boston fundraiser drew Governor McCall and Mayor Curley as crowds contributed to aid Jews in war zones. Donations included substantial pledges from Mary Antim and others, with leaders like Louis Kirstein and Joseph Herman managing pledges amid appeals for doubled gifts.
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Hub
Roxbury
Mary Antim
Ludwig Eiseman
Max Mitchell
David A. Ellis
Boston Transit Commission
McCall
Curley
George W. Anderson
United States
Harry Levi
Temple Israel
M. M. Fichler
Temple Ohabei Sholom
Louis H. Kirstein
A. C. Ratshesky
Joseph Herman
Dr. Levi
Europe
Russia
Galicia
Kirstein
Palestine
How You May Throw Away Your Glasses
Advertisement claims thousands wear glasses unnecessarily and offers a home remedy. It urges visiting a drugstore for Optona and mixing with warm water to bathe eyes two to four times daily, promising fewer or no glasses. It warns of neglect and aging eyesight and mentions various eye ailments.
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Optona
Six Thousand Raised for Chelsea Jewish War Sufferers Fund
A mass meeting at Williams School Hall in Chelsea last night reported the Chelsea fund for Jewish war sufferers reached $6000. The gathering focused on aid efforts and relief plans for those affected by the war.
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Chelsea
Williams School Hall
Relief Funds Raise $1700 in Salem and Nearby Towns
Salem reports a charity drive for Jewish war sufferers with $1000 collected in street efforts, $100 at a mass meeting, and $300 in contributions totaling $1700. Additional sums include $287 in Peabody and $130 in Danvers.
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Salem
Peabody
Danvers
Read History Carefully Says Harold Dunne on Mr. Watkins
Harold John Dunne of South Boston urges Mr. Walter Kendall Watkins to study history before quoting it. He argues the Puritan decline began around 1700 with reformers and Puritan politics gave way to new influences, citing Boston rum and slave trade, Judge Sewall, and Andros Tracts while praising Irish, Polish and Jewish heritage and warning against intolerance.
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Walter K. Watkins
Curley
Watkins
Robert Calif
Cotton Mather
Church of England
Boston
Bennett
Burke
Province of
Massachusetts Bay
Sewall
O’neils
O’sullivans
O’connors
O'Dunns
Alba
America
Walter Kendall Watkins
Harold John Dunne
Columbia Road
South
Law Recodification Favored by Committee Leader
Senator James F. Cavanagh of Everett said the judiciary committee will report favorably on Governor McCall's recommendation to recodify the state laws. He urged the work not to drag on for six years nor cost nearly a quarter of a million dollars like the last revision.
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Legislative Committee On
Judiciary
McCall
James F. Cavanagh
Everett
Senate
College Girls Must Be Girls
Wellesley College students protest a masquerade dance plans as the faculty bans all male costumes at the last moment.
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Wellesley College
Noonday Novena at St Marys North End and Socials
Large congregations attend the noonday novena at St Marys Church North End with prayers at 12 40 led by Rev William J Conway S J A dancing party by St Leos parish at Dorchester Club Talbot avenue on Feb 4 proceeds for the church fund Walter A Ford will direct the floor St Agnes Court MOF will hold a whist and dancing party tonight in Magnolia Hall Hyde Park Mrs Rose Rooney chairs the committee
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St. Mary's Church
North End
William J. Conway
S. J
St. Leo’s
Dorchester Club
Talbot Avenue
Walter A. Ford
St. Agnes Court
Magnolia Hall
Hyde Park
Rose Rooney
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Engineers’ Union
Pop
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Misses' Waist Shop
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