Warn Against Chain Letter Plan in 1918 Notice
A letter to the editor warns readers against a proposed chain letter to fund a French hospital. It states the Red Cross and French ambassador oppose the scheme and that the Treasury and War Savings security authorities did not authorize it. Executive manager H B Endicott signs dated June 26 1918.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
Seattle
Red Cross
Ambadasador
Treasury Department
National War Savings Committee
H. B. Endicott
Massachusetts Committee On Public Safety
Edward L. Minor Dead In Cleveland Heart Disease
Edward L. Minor formerly of Boston died last Sunday in Cleveland of heart disease. He had worked for Armour & Co. since 1894 and was named assistant auditor and later credit man in the Boston territory in 1900.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward L. Minor
Boston
Cleveland
Minor
Armour & Co
Promoted Toledo Territory Assistant Superintendent
In 1911 he was promoted to assistant superintendent of the Toledo territory and held the post until his sudden death.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toledo
Vacation at School for Crippled Children
The Industrial School for Crippled Children at 241 St. Potolph Street closed for summer on June 21 and will reopen Sept. 30. Applications for entry are accepted during the summer. the school offers primary and grammar instruction, manual training, a typesetting department, a potential sewing trade class for girls over 14, a nurse, and noon meals. The facility provides motor bus transport for children who cannot travel to and from the school.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Industrial School
St. Potolph Street
Price Ranges Show Reductions Across Listings
The notice lists several price brackets moving lower from 125.00 to 85.00 and 135.00 to 165.00 in a sequence of discounted amounts. No further context or entities are provided in the fragment.
Down at the Heel and O'Sullivan's Heels Advert
A sermon on footwear care urges readers to repair worn heels today. It touts O'Sullivan's Heels as durable and long lasting, available in black white or tan for men women and children, and promotes immediate shoe repair to avoid a poor impression.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
O'Sullivan
O’sullivan
Fallon-Fitzpatrick Wedding in Brookline
Miss Elizabeth S. Fitzpatrick daughter of Mr and Mrs Thomas B Fitzpatrick of Brookline married Lieutenant Nugent Fallon at a nuptial mass in Brookline Cardinal OConnell officiated with several priests assisting. The bride’s sister served as matron of honor and a niece trio of flower girls attended. Best man was John Fallon, brother of the groom.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elizabeth S. Fitzpatrick
Thomas B. Fitzpatrick
Gardner Road
Brookline
Nugent Fallon
Government Aero Station
Pensacola
Cardinal O’connell
Michael T. McManus
Thomas J. McCluskey
S. J
Boston College
John P. Sheehan
St. Mary’s Church
Matthew J. Fox
Springfield
Evelyn
Betty Fitzpatrick
John Fallon
St. Mary's Church of the Assumption
Cardinal O'Connell
Sara Elizabeth Fitzpatrick
Stranger arrives after 3500 mile trek to join district draft
Harvard townsfolk woke to a surprise as Leland Whitney, a farm resident, stepped from a stage coach with hotel and steamship labels on his luggage. He traveled 3509 miles from Scotland via Glasgow and Liverpool to Worcester and Harvard to report for the local draft.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harvard
Post Ofice
Ayer
Leland Whitney
Division 15
Glasgow
Scotland
Liverpool
New York
Worcester
Ayer Draft Board
Whitney
Former Pershing Captain Aims to Enlist in Cavalry
West Springfield June 26 The 71 year old Civil War veteran Captain Frank Stales desires to enlist with Uncle Sam's cavalry to fight the Huns. Stales was captain of the company where General Pershing served as a lieutenant years ago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Springfield
Frank Stales
Uncle Sam
Huns
Stales
General Pershing
Pelletier Confined With Sprained Ankle In Hull
District Attorney Pelletier is kept at home in Hull with a sprained ankle from a fall from his veranda. He briefly continued work and duties for the Knights of Columbus war fund before swelling forced him to stay home yesterday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pelletier
Hull
Knights of Columbus War Fund
Zionist Organization of America Formed in Pittsburgh
At the Zionist convention in Pittsburgh on June 26 the existing structure was dissolved and a new plan adopted consolidating all Zionist divisions into a single central body named the Zionist Organization of America. The organization will be divided into administrative districts under the central body.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
Zionist Organizations of America
Zionist Convention
Zionist Movement of America
Zionist Organization of America
Zionist District Plan Adopted Amid Mobilization
The convention approved a district plan for 50 to 2000 registered Zionists by a 293 to 69 vote. Leaders including Rabbis Jasem Kishur and Stone pushed concessions. A London Jewish Colonial Trust allotment of 70,000 shares stirred crowds. $180,000 in par value shares were sold described as Jewish Liberty bonds. Major White warned enlistment limits via the 90 day US Britain accord, while Lipsky urged nationwide recruitment for the Jewish legion. A Brandeis Mack Kallen Dehaas gathering outlined policy for a Jewish commonwealth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rabbis N. Jasem
Jersey City
Ish Kishur
New York
Elihu D. Stone
Boston
Jewish Colonial Trust Company
London
Zionists of
America
Stephen S. Wise
Major Brooman-White
Major White
United States
England
Jewish Legion
Palestine
Louis Lipsky
Lewis D. Brandeis
Julian W. Mack
Chicago
Horace A. Kallen
Jacob Dehaas
Jewish Commonwealth
Silver Jubilee of Roslindale Sacred Heart Parish
The Sacred Heart parish Roslindale marks its silver jubilee with ceremonies by priests and parishioners starting Saturday. The annual tom bola social festival on parish grounds promises prizes including a homestead lot donated by Moody Land Co. Jubilees honor the parish founding 25 years ago the pastor Rev John F Cummins 25 years Calvary Chapel 25 years with solemn high mass July 4 led by Cummins assisted by Deacon Eugene Tomey and Sub-deacon Henry C Reardon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sacred Heart
Roslindale
Brown Avenue
Ashland Street
Moody Land Company
John F. Cummins
Calvary Chapel
Calvary Cemetery
Eugene Twomey
Henry C. Reardon
Six new lieutenants commissioned at Camp Devens
Six more enlisted men received commissions at Camp Devens this day. Three are from the 301st Infantry and three from the 304th Infantry Connecticut outfit. Names include Warren A McInnis Jamaica Plain and Gardner Trowbridge South Norwalk among others. Paul of Hartford is noted as a Dartmouth cheerleader.
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Camp Devens
Boston Regiment
304Th Infantry
Connecticut Outfit
Warren, A. McInnis
Jamaica Plain
Richard #. Paul
Hartford
301St Infantry
Walter B. Boone
Taunton
Winfield Harold Boardman
Morrisville
N. Y
Gardiner Trowbridge
South Norwalk
Conn
Gardner Catlin
Waterbury
Twelve more enlisted men sent to officer training camp at Camp Johnston
Twelve more enlisted men who passed the preliminary examination for commissions as second lieutenants in the Quartermaster Corps National Army have been sent to the Quartermaster Officers Training Camp at Camp Joseph E Johnston Jacksonville Florida. The group includes Corporal Frank W Murphy Watertown Battery A 301st Field Artillery Corporal Roland D Stearns Brookline Headquarters company 301st Infantry Corporal Frank J Sweeney Somerville 10th company Depot Brigade Battalion Sergeant-Major Glen Underwood Gardner headquarters detachment 5th battalion Depot Brigade Sergeant William J Nixon East Rochester N H Headquarters company 201st Infantry Sergeant Lester H Carter Gardner A company 301st Headquarters trains and military police.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Quartermaster Corps
National Army
Quartermaster Officers’ Training
Camp
Joseph E. Johnston
Jacksonville
Florida
Frank W. Murphy
Watertown
301St Field Artillery
Roland D. Stearns
Brookline
301St Infantry
Frank J. Sweeney
Somerville
Glen Underwood
Gardner
Depot Brigade
William J. Nixon
East Rochester
N. H
201St Infantry
Lester H. Carter
301St
Draft Camp Reports Military Integrity Amid Bribery Probe
Local cantonment investigates a draftee who offered $10 000 to gain a favored draft classification and attempted to leverage the Emergency Fleet Corporation. The man, now a soldier, sought transfer into a forestry battalion. authorities shifted him to a line unit. The 2500 aliens naturalized at Boston court today join Depot Brigade artillery and machine gun regiments. Chaplain Kenneth C MacArthur arrives in camp from Suffield with a Harvard degree and prior teaching duties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emergency Fleet Corporation
Ament
Division
Maine
James NM. Morton, Jr
United States District Court
Boston
Kenneth C. MacArthur
Mist
First
Second Baptist
Suffield
Estate of Colonel Livermore Reveals Unlisted Calumet Stock
Probate inventory shows Colonel Thomas L. Livermore did not own Calumet & Hecla stock at death. Estate appraised at 341203 dollars includes 1000 shares of American Telephone & Telegraph and a single 1000 dollar Liberty bond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas L. Livermore
Calumet & Hecla Mining Company
American Telephone & Telegraph Company
Man imprisoned for killing daughter denied new trial
The full bench of the Supreme Judicial Court refused a new trial for a man sentenced to up to five years in State prison for causing the death of his four year old daughter, Lauretta Wakelin, on June 1, 1916.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lauretta Wakelin
Supreme Judicial Court
Cubs buy Cy Barger from Memphis club
Announcement made today states pitcher Cy Barger, manager of the Memphis Southern Association club, is sold to the Chicago Nation. The transaction follows the close of the Southern season on Friday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Memphis
Tenn
Ezra
Cy'’ Barger
Asjseo
Chicago Nationee
Gmere snaps and Snap Fasteners offer value in wear and price
The notice touts Gmeore Snaps as essential for comfort and security in clothing and notes money value. It compares fairness of price with eggs and advertises Snap Fasteners at 5c and 110c grades, plus 25c on 8 dollar cards, promoting full measure at 15 for the price of 12.
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Miss Holland
Boylston Street
Scot
Pershing
Zionists
BY Benjamin Freedman
Post
Roslindale Parish
Devens
Harold H. Kendall
East Longmeadow
Arthur G., Marsden
Lawrence
James C. McDonald
Fall River
311Th Field Signal Battalion
Wentworth L. Fay
Burke
Maus
Ss. Wheelwright
Bristol
R. I
Livermore Estate
Wakelin
Melrose
Joseph Wakelin
CUBS
CY Barger
Penn Rivet Corporation
Cambria Sts
Philadelphia
Swift & Company
Consumer’s
Union Stock Yards
Illinois
U.S. A
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