Starvation Grim in Bolshevik Russia Reported by British
British subjects returning from Russia describe widespread famine in Petrograd Moscow Kiev and Odessa. Food is scarce and prices soar with meat milk and vegetables selling at extreme rates while fuel is scarce and coffins scarce. The Kremlin hoards wood and fuel as Red guards requisition food and medicine is scarce amid collapsing money value and rationing.
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London
Bolshevik Russia
Petrograd
Moscow
Russia
Lenine
Trotzky
Kiev
Odessa
Kremlin
Officers Ordered Back From France And Cuba
Secretary Baker announced Brigadier-General Edward A. Kreger will return to the United States to act as acting judge advocate general during General Crowder’s absence in Cuba. Nearly twenty general officers, including Brig.-Gen. Samuel Y. Ansell, are returned to regular army rank, with Ansell to chair the clemency board reviewing court martial findings for possible commutation.
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Ansell
Crowder
Baker
Edward A. Kreger
Cable
United States
Cuba
Kreger
Judge Advocate Corps
War Department
Judge Advocate General
Judge Advocate-General’s Office
Italian Workmen To Aid France In Devastated Region
Rome reports that thirty thousand Italian workmen are to be sent to France to work in the devastated region as announced by Idea Nazionale.
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Rome
France
Idea Nazionale
Senate Refuses Passage on True Name Law and Other Bills
The Senate accepted the public health committee report and allowed Rep Fitzgerald to withdraw his repeal of the true name bill, aligning with the House on upholding the act. It approved a Boston land historical preservation measure and reinstatement bills for Fahey and Chase, blocked a bond requirement for insurance brokers, and passed for engrossment a Christmas club interest bill and a memorials appropriation for soldiers and sailors.
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Senate
Committee On Public Health
Fitzgerald
Boston
House
Committee On Cities
Pleasant, Pond
East Cottage Streets
Dorchester
Thomas J. Fahey
Boston Fire Department
Edward W. Chase
Public Works Department
Senator Gifford
Barnstable
Gifford
Holders Win Dupont Stock Case In U S Circuit Court
Pierre S. Dupont and allied directors retain $56 million in Dupont Powder Company stock after Judge Buffington's ruling ending a four year dispute. Plaintiffs had argued Pierre S. Dupont and directors used Dupont Securities to buy stock for personal gain rather than for the powder company and its stockholders.
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Philadelphia
Dupont Powder Company
I. Coleman Dupont
Pierre S. Dupont
Buffington
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Philip F. Dupont
Alfred I. Dupont
T. Coleman Dupont
Powder Company
Dupont Securities Company
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Kingly Trousers
Summer and
Hawley Sts
Brockton
Beverly
Hyde Park
Saas
Worcester
Enox Jew
America
Illinois-Rockland
Dept. B
Knox Jensury
Washington St
Wirth
Jewelers Building A
R.a.white Co
R. H. White CO
Kuppenheimer
New England
Hawley Streets
Louis Miller
American Tailors
Boylston Street
Washington
Truename Law
Christmas Club
Dupont
Pierre S
Pathe Phonograph
Takesa
Washington St. Boston
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