Loyalty Week Opens With Children’s Day Observance
Boston observes Loyalty Week with Children’s Day events on the Common and, if rain, in Faneuil Hall at 11. The program runs daily through Thursday. Children meet at Park Square parade grounds, march to Parkman bandstand, sing The Star Spangled Banner and America, then recite allegiance to the flag with other features.
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Boston
Committee On Public Safety
Faneuil Hall
Parkman Bandstand
America
Park Square
Parkman Stand
The Making of a Famous Medicine
A lab tour describes Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound production with herbs gathered seasonally and solvents and equipment sterilized. The article credits pasteurization and sterile bottling, noting women’s letters praising the remedy for female illnesses and the care in its preparation.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Minimum wage scales approved for several trades
The Massachusetts Minimum Wage Commission approved new weekly scales affecting millinery, women's undergarments, petticoats, aprons, kimonos, neckwear, and other needle trades with Aug 1 effective dates. The plan sets varied weekly pay by age and experience, including $10, $7.50, and $6 options for millinery workers and scaled rates for needle trades.
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Massachusetts Minimum Wage Commission
Killed in Paris Air Raid
Paris reports eleven killed and fourteen injured as bombs dropped by German airmen hit the Paris district in last night raid.
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Paris
Un-American Sympathies Questioned in City Oversight
A letter to the trustees urges impartial investigation and warns against appointing anyone with un-American sympathies to oversee control duties. The mayor is addressed as the recipient of these suggestions offered impersonally and without self interest.
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Dr. Donlan
Thomas E. McQuade
Thomas E. Masterson
Long Island
McQuade
Boston Infirmary Department
Boston
Department
Count von Hertling
Reichstag
Germany
William T. Hornaday
America
Moffat
Yard
Belgium
France
Alsace
Lorraine
Turkey
Wagon Kills Boy In East Boston Collision
Five year old John M. Lynch died and three year old Frank J. Lynch was severely injured when a heavy express wagon struck them at Lamson and Everett streets. The wagon owned and driven by Vincenzo Correale of 2 Castlecourt East Boston. Correale was arrested at the scene and charged with manslaughter.
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John M. Lynch
Edward F. Lynch
Maverick Street
East Boston
Frank J. Luyynch
Lamson and
Everett Streets
Vincenzo Correale
Castlecourt
Boston
Correale
Ten year old William E Galvin earns diploma with honors
William E Galvin at ten years old receives a diploma from the Theodore Lyman Grammar School on Noddle Island district and is the school’s youngest graduate. He also wins first honors in the junior four minute speaking by the national board on war activity.
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Theodore Lyman School
William E. Galvin
Ast
Boston
William Falvin
Paris Street
William
Theodore Lyman Grammar School
Noddle Island
National Board On
Books on peace and war aims reshape postwar visions
A survey of works by Gardiner Henderson Wells Jastrow Grabo Kallen and others argues for a decisive defeat of Germany before any lasting peace. It critiques secret diplomacy, urges international arbitration and disarmament, and highlights proposed international bodies and economic reforms.
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England
France
America
Arthur Henderson
Henderson
Mr. Henderson
Morris Jastrow
Lippincott
Germany
League of Nations
Jastrow
Carl H. Grabo
Knopf
H. M. Kallen
Jones
Mr. Grabo
Kallen
International Democratic Congress
Walter E. Weyl
Macmillan
Russia
Mr. Weyl
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Silk
Coats
Manufacturers
Pedt
Taffeta
Practical Front
P.N. Corse
Georgette and Crepe de Chine
Hanover
Portland Streets
Washington Street
Bloomer
Donlan
Peters
Charles E. Donlan
Long Island Hospital and Almshouse
Little Brother
William I. Galvin
J. B. M. Gardiner
Doubleday
Austria-Hungary
Mr. Gardiner
Labor Speaks
Mr. Wells
H. G. Wells
Wilson
Vienna
Metternich
Talleyrand
League of Free Nations
Hague
Central Africa
Rhine
Robert T. Morris
Stratford
George Winter Mitchell
Mitchell
Sigmund Freud
Freud
Dutton
W. J. Crawford
Putnam
Herman Cahn
Cahn
Castoria
Loz
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