Raids Target Gangs In Citywide Night Sweep
Police conducted a large night operation from 11 pm to 1 am sweeping scores of restaurants and hangouts in the downtown area, South End, and Back Bay. Officers in plain clothes searched hundreds of young men for weapons liquor or dope, frisking all found and seizing contraband where present. The raid was planned for silence to minimize attention and disruption.
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South End
Back Bay
Hanover Street
City Hall Avenue
Joy Street
Lagrange Street
East Dedham Street
Dudley Street
Roxbury Crossing
Fire Moves 300 Patients at Lenox Hill Hospital
A fire in the operating room at Lenox Hill Hospital on New York's East Side forced the evacuation of 300 patients. The incident occurred late in the afternoon and emergency crews moved patients to safety as flames were contained.
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New York
Lenox Hill Hospital
German Hospital
Dasto Tth
John Ballam Pleads Guilty Before Superior Court
John J. Ballam pled guilty yesterday before Judge Brown in the Superior Criminal Court to promoting anarchy by advocating destruction of property and overthrow of the Commonwealth government. No sentence was imposed. Ballam to return for a later date. Mrs. Marion E. Sproul is expected to plead today to an indictment for an offence against the Commonwealth’s peace. Assistant District Attorney Gallagher secured Ballam’s extradition from New Orleans.
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John J. Ballam
Brown
Superior Criminal Court
Commonwealth
Sentente
Ballam
Marion E. Sproul
Gallagher
New Orleans
Hampton Doctor Nominated Surgeon General by President
Dr. Hugh S. Cumming of Hampton Virginia was nominated today as surgeon general of the public health service by President Wilson. He succeeds Dr. Rupert Blue whose term expires on January 16.
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Washington
Hugh Ss. Cumming
Hampton
Public Health Service Today
Wilson
Rupert Blue
Mean barometer and climate readings report
Meteorologist SMITH reports climate readings including mean barometer and mean temperature with relative humidity and dew point. Maximum and minimum temperatures are noted with total precipitation values for the period.
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Sui Stansarta
Evip
Peruri
A. Smith
Eee
Kidney relief remedy pitch from old newspaper ad
An old ad claims backache and dull kidney misery stem from eating meat. It promotes Jad Salts or four ounces of Rad Salts daily to cleanse sluggish kidneys, ease uric acid, and stop bladder irritation, touting lithia-water benefits.
Coastwise Co Moves Headquarters to New York
Announcement states Coastwise Transportation Company will relocate its headquarters to New York after Harriman interests buy 26 000 shares. Boston office remains for security operations and Captain John Crowley stays on. Livermore Dearborn & Co. to manage, policy to be set at Feb. 28 meeting.
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Coastwise Transportation Company
New York
Harriman
Boston
John A. Crowley
Coastwise Company
Livermore, Dearborn & Co
Harrimans
Shawmut Steamship Company
State House Briefs Highlight Ponds Hearing and Welfare Proposals
The annual hearing on allowing boating and fishing on the great ponds opens before water supply and public health committees with officials and amateur sportsmen. The social welfare committee heard a plea for a state fund for dependents of prisoners, advocated by Sanford Bates and others. Public utilities ordered a revised Boston to Medford train schedule. Speaker Warner declines Wendell Phillips Thore’s challenge on old age pensions. A bill would raise governor portrait funds from 1000 to 3000 dollars, and another would abolish the 2 dollar teacher registration fee.
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Committee On Social Welfare
Sanford Bates
Penal Institutions
Thomas C. O'Brien
Boston
B. Loring Young
Weston
Bates
Wendell Phillips Thore
Warner
Committee On State House and Libraries
Committee On Education
House
State Department of Education
William Woodhead Dies Sudden in Chicago
William Woodhead of New York aged 56 and former president of the Associated Advertising Clubs of the World collapsed and died of heart disease at the Union League Club. He was publicity manager of Sperry Hutchinson.
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Chicago
William Woodhead
New York
Associated Advertising Clubs of the World
Union League Club
Woodhead
Sperry & Hutchinson
Oath of Socialist Assemblymen Questioned in Trial
In Albany on January 27 the prosecution in the trial of five suspended Socialist Assemblymen argued they took their oaths with mental reservations. The strategy aims to show unfitness to serve based on insincere oaths.
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Albany
N. Y
Assembly Judiciary Committee
Stanchfield Presents Evidence on Oaths and Socialist Loyalty
John B. Stanchfield, committee counsel, reads evidence linking oaths and party rules to the duty of the Legislature to fund militia. He cites the Socialist Party constitution forbidding military funding, NY oath to uphold the state constitution, and the militia funding mandate, framing the case around defendants’ loyalty to Soviet Russia. The testimony includes Socialist statements and letters endorsing Soviet governance and a defense speech by Assemblyman Louis Waldman.
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John B. Stanchfield
Chicago
Lenine
Trotsky
New York
J. Gh Ae Martens
United States
America
Louis Waldman
Russia
Stanchfield
The
Socialist Party
National Party
State of
Church Should Solve Unrest Campaign Speech
Dr. William C. Sturgis spoke at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul urging the church to address unrest across the nation. He announced a four noon address series, calling the church to aid waste areas and poor farming counties as the country aided the allies.
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William Co. Sturgis
Cathedral Church of
St. Paul
Sturgis
United States
Massachusetts
Women urged joint bank account for couples
Miss Agnes Hassett of the Business Women's Club urged a joint bank account for husband and wife saying it would prevent many legal processes and expenditures after a death. She spoke on Women and Finance advising study of markets and favoring public utility bonds as safe investments.
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Agnes Hassett
Business Women’s Club
Harvard Men in Congress Signals Deep Crimson Ties
Harvard Crimson reports 26 alumni serving in U S Congress with an even split between the House and Senate. Massachusetts leads with Lodge and seven representatives. Rhode Island and Connecticut each placeHarvard graduates in both chambers. Listed senators include Hale Lodge Keyes Penrose Gerry Elk is, while representatives span Winslow Rodgers Phelan Dallinger Tinkham Galligan Luce and others across New York Ohio Colorado Connecticut Rhode Island and Texas.
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Harvard
United States Congress
Washington
Harvard Crimson
Cambridge
House of Representatives
Senate
Massachusetts
Congress
Henry Cabot Lodge
Rhode Island
A& Harvard
Maine
New Hampshire
Connecticut
Frederick Hale
Henry W. Keyes
Boies Penrose
Pennsylvania
Peter G. Gerry
David Elkins
West Virginia
Samuel E. Winslow
John Jacob Rodgers
Michael F. Phelan
F. W. Dallinger
G. H. Tinkham
James A. Galligan
Robert Luce
New York
Frederick C. Hicks
LL. B
Edmund Platt
L. W. Mott
Walter W. Magee
A. B. Houghton
Ohio
Nicholas Longworth
Debutante Miss Rosamond Lillie of Back Bay Named
Miss Rosamond Lillie of the Back Bay is introduced as this year's debutante for 1919 20 by The Sewing Circle. She resides at the Hotel Vendome and is active in several young folks organizations as a club member.
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Rosamond Lillie
Back Bay
Hotel Vendome
House to Probe Army Medal Awards Next Week
The House war investigating committee will begin examining military decoration awards in the army during the war. Chairman Rep. Johnson of South Dakota announced the panel will also include Reps. Bland of Indiana and Flood of Virginia.
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Jan
House
Johnson
South Dakota
Bland
Indiana
Flood
Virginia
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Trellis
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Ye Craftsman
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T. Noonan & Sons CO
Ecret
Exsalyyne AF
R.H White Co
Jersey
Heather Jersey
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Gray
Navy
Copenhagen
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Flannelette
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Salem
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R. H. White CO
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