Nearly 100 Join Red Cross at Boston Common Meeting
About 100 new Red Cross members joined yesterday afternoon on Boston Common. Rev Robert L Lynch and Kenneth C Macdonald led a bandstand program featuring Vera Van Atta and Lina Gershon from Keiths. Harry Boudreau and Jimmy McHugh sang Joan of Arc. Hector McCarthy, pianist for the Koynes sisters at Keiths, performs this noon with patriotic numbers. Kenneth C Macdonald of ambulance unit 39 will speak.
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Red Cross
Boston Common
Robert L. Lynch
Kenneth C. Macdonald
Vera van Atta
Lina Gershon
Keith’s
Harry Boudreau
Jimmy McHugh
Joan of Arc
Hector McCarthy
Sara
Nellie Koynes
Keith's
The
Homeopathic Hospital
Ulster Men Rally for Free Speech in Boston Hall
A large Ulster Men’s Association meeting at Faneuil Hall urged that all men may express their views, condemning England’s 700 years of persecution. Tensions rose as John J. Walsh clashed with Joseph Smith, with many audience members leaving and resolutions calling on Wilson to press Britain for Irish independence.
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England
Ireland
Joseph Smith
Faneuil Hall
Ulster Men's Association
Greater Boston
Smith
John J. Walsh
Mr. Walsh
Eliot Walsh
Walsh
Charles S. O'Connor
Bose
Wilson
Serbia
Belgium
O'Connor
Newspapers Should Not Provide Free Publicity for Causes
N A Huse of the American Press Association argues newspapers must refuse free publicity for any cause including Red Cross or Liberty bonds. He urges government paid, coordinated advertising for the next Liberty loan and condemns commandeering newspaper space as akin to seizing steel output.
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Chicago
N. A. Huse
American Press Association
Red Cross
Liberty Bonds
Mellen Loses 60000 Suit Over Advisory Contract
Charles S. Mellen lost a case before arbitrator Alton B. Parker seeking 60000 from the New York New Haven Hartford for an advisory contract paying 30000 a year for five years. Parker awarded 95000 to reimburse expenses from lawsuits tied to his presidency. Litigation began during his tenure and continued after retirement.
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New York
Charles S. Mellen
Alton B. Parker
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
Parker
Mr. Mellen
Wilson Asked to Aid On Food Bill in Senate
President Wilson's help was sought to resolve Senate deadlock over food control legislation. Leaders plan to relay his conclusions ahead of a July 21 vote. Senator Martin and Finance Chairman Simmons presented the situation to the White House amid growing demand for a compromise.
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Washington
Wilson
Senate
Martin
Simmons
Finance Committee
White House
Senate Iron and Steel Control Bill Discussed at White House
The House bill amended and the Gore compromise were debated as the President agreed to study both measures. Officials say the pending bill broadening control to iron, steel, copper, cotton and other products must be materially altered to have any chance of passage. Senator Martin said the Senate remains uncertain after the White House meeting.
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House
Senate
Gore
Martin
White House
Will leaves estate to Mrs Reed after Lucie Chandler death
Lucie A. Chandler died at 23 Lime Street and left nearly all her $12,000 estate to Mrs M Eleanor Eddy Reed, matron of honor at Reed’s Newton wedding. The will, filed for probate in Suffolk County, directs jewelry and other items to be distributed per a written memorandum. It is unclear if Dr Larry B McAfee receives any bequests.
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Lucie A. Chandler
Lime Street
M. Eleanor Eddy Reed
Newton
Suffolk County
Estate provisions allow monthly payments to aunt in New Bedford
Trinkets the will gives to her all the residue of the estate with a provision that if she deems it wise she may pay Mrs. Elizabeth C. Keene of 67 Parker Street New Bedford an aunt of Mrs. Chandler. Keene is 77, widowed and in feeble health. Mrs. Reed was Miss M. Eleanor Eddy before marriage on June 26.
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Elizabeth C. Keene
Parker Street
New Bedford
Chandler
M. Eleanor Eddy
West Newton
Fall River
George S. Eddy
Quarrelled Pair Held on Statutory Charge
The two individuals were detained after a dispute and held on a statutory charge. Details of the offense and jurisdiction were not specified in the report.
Not Guilty Verdict for Coal Operators in Sherman Case
New York July 12 The jury in a Sherman act case against semi bituminous coal operators and companies in Virginia and West Virginia found all defendants not guilty.
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New York
Virginia
West Virginia
Harvard Athletes Meet Sec y Baker
Congress man George Holden Tinkham introduced two Harvard athletes to the Secretary of War for aviation duty. Chick McLaughlin of Jamaica Plain, captain of the 1911 Harvard baseball team, and Bob Fisher of Dorchester, leader of the 1913 football eleven, volunteered for Uncle Sam.
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Washington
George Holden Tinkham
Secretary of War
Harvard
Uncle Sam
Chick McLaughlin
Jamaica Plain
Yale
Bob Fisher
Dorchester
Woman Loses 225000 From Uncle Everett Barney Estate
Mrs Isabella Adelaide Barney Hunt loses 225000 she would have received under a compromise of the Everett H Barney will. Supreme Judicial Court full bench rules the agreement invalid for lack of assent by the will’s trustees in Springfield trust settings.
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Isabella Adelaide Barney Hunt
Everett H. Barney
Springfield
Supreme Judicial Court
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Worcester
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