Ships Board seeks sextants for navigation schools
The recruiting service of the Shipping Board in the Custom House needs sextants for students at free government navigation schools preparing men for officers’ roles in the merchant marine. Many instruments have been donated, including one from John Tower of the Interlake Steamship Company in Cleveland.
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Shipping Board
Custom House
John Tower
Interlake Steamship Company
Cleveland
Scouts Rally to Fund Ambulance Service in France
Acting under orders, 200 boy and girl scouts and Army workers collected funds on the streets yesterday and will continue today to maintain five ambulances in France. The effort follows events from yesterday and today.
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France
Well Known Aroostook County Man Drops Dead
Howard W. Safford age 60 prominent Mars Hill businessman and president of the Mars Hill Trust Company and the Mars Hill and Blaine Electric Light and Water Company died suddenly at his home in Mars Hill Maine He leaves a wife and daughter.
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Mars Hill
Howard W. Safford
Mars Hill Trust Company
Mars Hill and Blaine Electric Light and Water Company
Aroostook County
Eight German Planes Encounter Ends With Wounded Aviator
Corporal James N. Hall of Boston, serving with the American Aviation Corps in France, describes in a letter from Neuilly a solo ascent at 12 000 feet against eight German planes. He exchanged fire at 75 metres, took a hit, and crash landed into a front trench while convalescing at the American Hospital. He was decorated with the Croix de Guerre with palm and the Medaille d Honneur and expects to return to flying soon.
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James N. Hall
Boston
American Aviation Corps
France
George C. Greener
North Bennet Street
Neuilly
Hall
Corporal Hall
Foreign Air Forces
Draft to secure a new mayor by public official selection
A letter to the editor proposes using a draft style system to choose public officials including mayors. The writer, Andrew Fisher Jr., suggests Boston start the idea by drafting figures such as Storrow Filene Rourke Liggett Cushing and O Keefe with Mayor Curley possibly receiving three numbers. He argues officials would owe their positions to the people, not friends, and calls for Good Government Association backing and district nomination by exemption boards.
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Boston
Storrow
Filene
Louis K. Rourke
Louis Liggett
Grafton Cushing
Patrick F. O'Keefe
Curley
Good Government Association
Andrew Fisher, JR
Toes Crushed in Fall From Car at Dorchester Street
Lawrence Lenft of 2 Worcester Square fell while boarding an electric car on Neponset Avenue Dorchester. His right foot slipped under a wheel, crushing three toes. He was removed to City Hospital for treatment.
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Lawrence Lenft
Worcester Square
Neponset Avenue
Dorchester
Lenft
City Hospital
Arlington Police Raid Leaves Youth Dead Near Crap Game
Four Arlington officers are suspended during an investigation into the probable fatal shooting of 21 year old Francis MacDonald of 1542 Massachusetts Avenue Arlington Heights. After a raid on a crap game near the Lexington line at 3 am, six shots were fired as fleeing crowds dispersed. The shooters insist they fired into the air. which bullet struck MacDonald remains undetermined.
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Arlington
Francis MacDonald
Massachusetts Avenue
Arlington Heights
Lexington
MacDonald
Arlington raid ends in fatal shooting incident
MacDonald was shot in the back during a raid and died at Symmes Arlington Hospital. Chief Thomas O. D. Urquhart and Arlington Selectmen lead the investigation with four policemen suspended: Arthur Nolan Felix Lopez Arthur Connor and Charles Carroll. Discrepancies exist between MacDonald and officer accounts.
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MacDonald
Symmes Arlington Hospital
Thomas O. D. Urquhart
Arlington Selectmen
Arthur Nolan
Felix Lopez
Arthur Connor
Charles Carroll
Mac- Donald
John A. Mac- Donald
Arlington
John F. McDonald
Boston
Carroll
Nolan
Warren Jukes
Albert Bornstein
Ensign Rogers
John J. Leahy
Leahy
East Cambridge
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Lon York
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Coats
Ogeda
Him
James Norman Hall
J. S Batley CO
Bailey CO
Swagger
Tns
Wamips Cirtsi
Sir Hose
Menders
Uy. & Bailey CO
EJ. & Bailey
Ce’ A
Paris Garter
Paris
A.stein & CO
Makers Children's
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Ceylon
Pine Grove
Goodwill
Burnett's
Elm St
Union St. Lon
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the Ginter Co
C.B. Brown Co, Inc
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Washington St
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Sunday Post
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