Bravery Citations Awarded to New England Soldiers
War Department lists Distinguished Service Crosses for five New England men. Lt. Albert E. Angier of Brighton Avenue killed in duty receives a posthumous DSC after delivering prisoners under heavy shellfire. Sgt. Jeremiah Healey of East Pepperell aids his men near Charlevaux and volunteers to break enemy lines. Sgt. Edward Carter of West Rutland leads a patrol and clears a machine gun nest near Grand Pre. Pvt. Frank Pollinger of Worcester commands a squad with a wound, keeping his unit active during encirclement near Charlevaux.
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New England
War Department
Albert E. Angier
Brighton Avenue
Brighton
Jeremiah Healey
308Th Infantry
East Pepperell
Charlevaux
Argonne Forest
Edward Carter
30Th Infantry
West Rutland
Grand Pre
Frank Pollinger
808Th Infantry
Endicott Street
Worcester
Heroic Action of Soldiers Near Revillon
Lieutenant Angier of M Company 308th Infantry led his men amid enemy wire near Revillon on Sept 14. Though mortally wounded he directed the assault and position consolidation refusing care. He is the son of George M Angier of Boston. Private Irving Woolf of I Company 308th Infantry from Hartford volunteered for a patrol near Revillon on Sept 10 to capture prisoners.
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Angier
M Company
308Th Infantry
Revillon
George M. Angier
Brighton Avenue
Boston
Irving Woolf
Fenwick Street
Hartford
Conn
Boston Fish Fleet Sets Record With Massive Weekly Catch
The South Boston fish pier shattered records as 86 vessels landed 5 667 090 pounds of fish in a single week, far exceeding previous highs. Mild weather and Gulf Stream shifts drove vast schools north, pushing prices to five year lows despite a total season catch of 22 722 70 pounds over Jan 1 to yesterday.
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Boston
South Boston Fish Pier
Clemenceau Receives Queen of Romania in Paris
Premier Clemenceau today received Queen Marie of Romania privately at the war ministry. The Queen, accompanied by M. Antonescu and a lady of honor, was received with full military honors in the courtyard. The two leaders spoke for about thirty minutes.
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Paris
Clemenceau
Marieg
Rumania
War Ministry
M. Antonescu
Sunday Games Needlessly Now Says Reader Letter
A Massachusetts reader argues against Sunday sports bills, citing New Hampshire and Albany hearings. He contends postwar legislation should not curb afterwar freedoms and warns daylight saving and work rules should not end the Sabbath. He invokes Lincoln and Roosevelt to press Sabbath holiness.
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Albany
New York
Beacon Hill
Concord
N. H
Senate of
New Hampshire
Massachusetts
Senate
France
Kansas
Lowell
America
Walter Scott
Abraham Lincoln
Roosevelt
Bishop Hughes Reports France Mission at Meeting
Bishop Edwin H. Hughes of the Methodist church who recently spent six months studying conditions in France will speak Monday forenoon at Wesleyan Hall 681 Boylston street. His subject is Religious Impressions of Six Months on the Battlefront.
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Edwin H. Hughes
Methodist Church
France
Methodist Board of Bishops
Methodist Preachers
Wesleyan
Boylston Street
Hughes
150-Year-Old Cloak Provides Daily Comfort
Mrs. Sarah W. Lee-Mortimer of Boston and Brookline wears a 110-year-old army cloak, a historic treasure once owned by Captain Lemuel White. The green broadcloth garment, worn for 49 years, may be donated to a museum after her death. Captain White fought at Long Island, was jailed on the Jersey, escaped, and kept a diary cited by Mrs. Lee-Mortimer.
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Sarah W. Lee-Mortimer
Boston
Brookline
Lemuel White
Hartford
White
Sullivan
Long Island
Jersey
Yale College
Lee Mortimer
Chauncey
Harvard College
Widener Library
Harvard
Saran W. Lee-Mortimer
Dartmouth Memorial Fund Gift Honors fallen alumnus
The trustees of Dartmouth College in Boston announce a $10,000 gift from Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Johnson of Holden to establish the BH Phelps Johnson Memorial Fund. The fund will buy social science library books and endow annual dues for the late E Phelps Johnson, class of 1913.
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Darthmouth College
Boston
E. C. Johnson
Holden
E Phelps Johnson
Dartmouth
BH. Phelps Johnson
Hyphenated Americans as Allies of Germany
London dispatch reports a Pall Mall Gazette claim that Germany seeks a secret peace alliance with hyphenated Americans and pro German Dutch and Swiss. The plan allegedly uses these groups to soften peace terms while exploiting Russia for German benefit with aid from international financiers. Switzerland is cited as the main hub, with Paris also involved.
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London
Germany
Paris
Pall Mall Gazette
Russia
Switzerland
Peace Congress Aged to Protect Farmers Interests
Paris March 7 A memorandum to the peace conference urged an extended program to safeguard farmers' interests worldwide. Presented to the American delegation by Charles S Barrett national president of the Farmers Union US it calls for a special League of Nations body for international agriculture and expansion of the Rome based International Agricultural Institute plus a universal crop estimating system.
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Paris
Peace Conference
Charles S. Barrett
Farmers’ Union of the
United States
League of Nations
International Agricultural Institute of Rome
Dorchester Lend-a-Hand Club Elects New Officers
Miss Mildred Bickmore becomes president of the Lend-a-Hand Club of Christ Universal Church Dorchester with Miss Lillian Swazey as secretary and Miss Ruth Mansfield as treasurer. The club plans its annual spring dance at Dr. and Mrs. C. J. Douglass residence on Centre Street Dorchester Friday evening March 14 to benefit the Dorchester House.
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Mildred Bickmore
Brent Street
Dorchester
Christ Unitarian Church
Dix Street
Lillian Swazey
Ruth Mansfield
Red Cross
C. J. Douglass
Centre Street
Dorchester House
War Insurance Certificates Delayed by Faulty Addresses
Secretary Daniels notified Commander Rush that several war risk insurance certificates at Washington have not been delivered due to wrong or incomplete addresses or moved beneficiaries. He urged those affected to contact the War Risk Insurance Bureau in Washington immediately with correct mailing directions.
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Secretary of the Navy
Daniels
Rush
Charlestown Navy Yard
War Risk Insurance Bureau
Washington
Captain Rush
Electrical Workers Prepare Arbitration Talks
Springfield March 7 Charles P Ford secretary of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers says there will be no strike by electrical workers on the Pacific coast or elsewhere while wage and work condition grievances are under consideration. He notes the appeal for a committee to hear the demands has been sent to Postmaster General Burleson via Secretary Tumulty.
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Springfield
Ill
Pacific Coast
Burleson
Charles P. Ford
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
Tumulty
O'Leary Trial Nearing End in Sedition Case
In Federal Court New York Jeremiah A. O'Leary's sedition trial nears its end as prosecutors and defense prepare for a jury verdict by late next week. He differentiated hatred of England from devotion to America and described his anti-British articles and a 1917 campaign for a food embargo to curb foreigners buying American supplies. He opposed both the Anglo French loan and the idea of a German loan in the United States.
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New York
Jeremiah A. O'Leary
O’leary
England
America
Germany
O'Leary
Maine Legislature Considers Bonds for State Harbors
In Augusta on March 7 Senator Charles B Gurney proposed a constitutional amendment to allow the state to issue 1 150 000 dollars in bonds for building and maintaining public wharves and port facilities. A Senate bill would regulate clams from May 15 to August 1 with a 5 dollar per bushel penalty. An automobile hunting ban measure was killed in the Senate.
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Augusta
Charles B Gurney
Portland
Senate
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