Will of Miss Johnson bars smokers from aged women home
The Worth Andover testatrix Catherine Johnson died June 24 and filed for probate. Her will directs the North Andover home for aged women not to admit any woman who smokes or drinks. She leaves the homestead and $20,000 to establish and furnish the home, plus $100 to Old North Parish Unitarian Church, $100 to the Charitable men, and her eight legged table to the Historical Society. The estate is valued around $48,000.
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Worth Andover
Johnson Home
North Andover
Testatrix
Old North Parish
Historical Society of
Lawyer Accused of Impersonating Secret Service Agent
Ernest A. Thompson a Boston lawyer was arrested by a deputy U S marshal for posing as a United States secret service agent while gathering evidence in a divorce case. He was arraigned before Commissioner Hayes held $500 bond and pleaded not guilty. Officials say he sought permission to use an apartment as a watching location claiming to be a secret service man while shadowing alleged German spies.
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Ernest A. Thompson
Boston
United States
United States Secret Service
Hayes
Thompson
Secret Service
Schooner Hathaway Reaches Brazil Safely
Crowell and Thurlow report the four masted schooner Samuel W. Hathaway arrived safely at Para Brazil after a prior U boat raid claim. Captain Bonomo sent a cable confirming the vessel reached port on Tuesday contradicting earlier reports of its sinking near New Jersey.
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Samuel W. Hathaway
Crowell & Thurlow
Bonomo
Para
Brazil
Hathaway
Edward H. Cole
Jacob M. Haskell
New Jersey
Commutation Delayed in 1908 Somerville Murder Case
The Executive Council postponed action on John J. Killian’s bid to commute his life sentence for the 1908 murder of Charles E. Bushee in Somerville. Killian, Kelson, and Gilmore plotted a robbery at the drugstore. Bushee died from injuries a month later. Kelson was pardoned after two years. Gilmore was released last Christmas.
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Executive Council
John J. Killian
Charlestown
McCall
Killian
Middlesex County Superior Court
Otto Kelson
Jocko” Gilmore
Charles E. Bushee
Somerville
Bushee
Kel- Son
Gilmore
Officers' Reserve Training Camp Closes in Plattsburg
The Officers' Reserve Training Camp ended this afternoon at Plattsburg N Y with about 220 students receiving certificates of commendation to join future camps. A second camp will begin July 18 and run to Sept 18. Six hundred students from the current camp volunteered for another month of training.
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Plattsburg
N. Y
Hood Rubber Plant Raises Wages and Expands Employee Benefits
At Hood Rubber Plant the service department boosts morale with at cost groceries medical and dental care, a 24 hour hospital staff, and the Hood Arrow paper. About 1000 of 3000 women workers form a war relief club providing outfits for soldiers and supporting Liberty Loans Red Cross Y M C A and other funds. The plant promotes War Savings Stamps amid wartime service.
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Service Department
Louis Daniels
Hood Arrow
Army
Navy
Nichols Avenue
Tuscania
Liberty Loans
Red Cross
K! of C
Hood Rubber Company Raises Wages for Watertown Employees
More than 8500 workers at Hood Rubber Company in Watertown received a substantial wage increase in a company wide pay hike affecting production and office staff.
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The
Hood Rubber Company of
Watertown
Company Grants Second Wage Increase This Year
The firm raises wages for a second time this year under a new wage schedule that took effect last Monday. The prior increase began March 3 percent, and the company cites its war policy to boost cooperation with employees for mutual benefit. It also notes unmatched efficiency gains and ongoing improvements beyond wage raises.
Cruelty of Germans Revealed by Liberated Professor
Professor Frank Pollay, recently liberated from a German prison, described German barbarism at the Osteopaths' Association annual convention dinner in the Copley Plaza last night. He stirred attendees with details of Kaiser's regime abuses.
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Frank Pollay
Osteopaths’ Association
Copley Plaza
Professor Pollay
Funeral Services for Mrs Catherine Meade
A solemn high mass of requiem was celebrated in St Catherine Church Charlestown for Mrs Catherine Meade mother of Major James J Meade USMC. The burial was in Holy Cross Cemetery Malden.
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St. Catherine’s Church
Charlestown
Catherine Meade
James J. Meade
United States Marine Corps
Daniel Gorman
Daniel Golden
John D. Tierney
Holy Cross Cemetery
Malden
Nutmeg Nationalists Plan State Ticket
Hartford July 3 Gutzon Borglum of Stamford is being considered as the National party candidate for Governor of Connecticut, according to Samuel A. Stodel national organizer who arrived to arrange the State convention. Professor Yandel Henderson of Yale also is being considered. The party plans to nominate a complete State ticket.
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Hartford
Conn
Gutzon Borglum
Stamford
National Party
Connecticut
Samuel A. Stodel
New York
S Party
Yandel Henderson
Yale University
Osteopathy Leaders Address National Convention Session
Joe Chappel reports from a convention session in which he recounts his France trenches trip urging letters to front line troops. Dr Evelyn R Bush discusses rebuilding paralytics and osteopathy sparked by her paralyzed son. Speakers stress prevention and bodily health, noting misfit rulers and infant mortality linked to feeding practices.
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Joe Chappel
National Magazine
France
Evelyn R. Bush
D& Bush
Charles Hazzard
New York
American Osteopathic Association
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