250 000 Tons of Food Given
A Hoover led relief review shows 250000 tons of food sent to distressed European civilians chiefly flour and fats. Relief staffs have been set up across central Europe and funds totaling 105000000 have been allocated by Congress for the American relief administration under Hoover.
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Washington
Europe
Herbert C. Hoover
Food Administration
Wilson
Congress
American Relief Administration
Mr. Hoover
Life story of leader of the Women's Death Battalion
The Sunday Post features the life story of the famed head of the Women's Death Battalion. All New England readers follow this compelling weekly profile of the figure and her controversial role.
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Sunday Post
All New England
Women's
New Carnation Shown at Horticultural Hall
Interest in the March display of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society at Horticultural Hall is high with rare specimens from nurseries nationwide. Sunshine carnations from Charles E. Strout of Biddeford Maine are praised as finest and fragrant with a firm body. A Phalanopsis schilleriana bed from the Philippines draws comment as a first hub exhibit. The show runs daily 1 to 6 o'clock and invites public viewing.
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Horticultural Hall
Charles E. Strout
Biddeford
Philippines
Mary McDevitt
Arlington Oy
Lenten Services and Talks by Boston Clergy
Protestant churches across Boston announce Lent services with sermons by Rev. Clarence Dunham, Rev. Harry Lutz, and others. Bishop Babcock conducts Lenten rites at St. James and confirms classes. A Winter Hill concert and a talk on Religion in France After the War are scheduled, with speakers including Prof. Bracy and Rev. Laurens MacLure.
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Young People’s Orchestra
Winter Hill Baptist Church
Somerville
Boston Baptist Bethel
Hanover Street
Herbert Rollins Whitelock
France
Boston Congregational Ministers’ Club
J. C. Bracy
Vassar College
New Hampshire Greeks Hold Hellenic Day in Franklin
Greeks from New Hampshire cities gathered in Franklin to mark Hellenic Day and sent resolutions to Paris urging Clemenceau to favor uniting northern Epirus with Greece and evacuation of Epirus by foreign troops. Speakers included Csassa vetus of Boston and Rev Haramandas of Manchester. Mayor Leach welcomed the group. A bouquet and $8 check were presented to Mayor Leach for welcoming the 103d United States Infantry from France.
Patrick Quinn Granted Knighthood in British Honors
London March 9. The British honors list includes Patrick Quinn superintendent of the Criminal Investigation Department at Scotland Yard receiving a knighthood. Sir George Renken Ask, chairman of the Industrial Council, is elevated to the peerage. Haron Finlay becomes a viscount and Sir Richard Atkin is named lord justice of the court of appeals.
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George Renken Askwith
Industrial Council
Patrick Quinn
Criminal Investigation Department
Scotland Yard
Haron Finlay
Richard Atkin
High Court
Court of Appeals
Hub Pastor Asks Ruling Over Preaching by Abbott
Rev Dr Karl Reiland of St Georges Episcopal Church faced criticism for inviting Sr Lyman Abbott to preach at St Georges. The Living Church article by Rev Dr W H Van Allen sparks church discussion. Van Allen questions canon law allowing non clergy to speak on special occasions and seeks ecclesiastical guidance from New York authorities.
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New York
Karl Reiland
St. Georges Episcopal Church
Stuyvesant Square
East Sixteenth Street
Lyman Abbott
St Georges
Living Church
W. H. van Allen
Episcopal Church of the Advent
Boston
van Allen
St. Georges
Eight-hour day push by New England moulders union
The Boston conference board and two adjacent districts met at 995 Washington Street to urge an eight hour workday with a 6 40 minimum wage. About 800 employers and 15 000 workers in Boston and surrounding regions would be affected as boards plan to implement the policy next month.
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International Moulders’ and Caremakers’ Union of North America
Washington Street
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United States
Boston
William John
Connecticut Valley
James A. Loveday
Eugene L. Murphy
Welcome Home 26th Division Poem Contest
The Sunday Post invites poems and prose addresses of welcome for the homecoming of the famous 26th Division. Each week a cash prize is awarded for the best entry with grand prizes at the contest's end. Full particulars appear next Sunday.
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Sunday Post
Serbia Left Land of Ruin
Dr Louis I Dublin, statistician with the American Red Cross, reports Serbia from Belgrade to Monastir as economically and physically ruined. He cites 15 to 20 years to recover, 150000 typhus deaths in 1915, 112 percent Belgrade tuberculosis loss in 1917, and widespread starvation and disease among 5 million inhabitants. Bulgarians forced away many Serbians, leaving emaciated survivors traveling on scarce crusts of bread and occasional goat milk.
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Serbia
Belgrade
Monastir
Louis I. Dublin
American Red Cross
Italy
Greece
Juga
Slavia
Dublin
Bulgaria
Three Arrested for Gaming on Lord's Day
Sergeant Horton of the Dudley street station and patrolmen arrested three men early yesterday at 635 Warren street on gaming charges. The suspects are Frank Deland, 23, of 635 Warren street, Daniel Sullivan, 35, of 4 Rand street Roxbury, and Joseph Goldberg, 28, of 93 Brunswick street.
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Horton
Dudley Street
Warren Street
Frank Deland
Daniel Sullivan
Rand Street
Roxbury
Joseph Goldberg
Brunswick Street
Taft Hissed and Cheered at New York Forum
Former President William H. Taft spoke at the Church of the Ascension forum in New York and argued that the Irish question should not be settled at the peace conference. He noted delegates must create several small nations, provoking cries of How about Ireland? from the audience.
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New York
William H. Taft
Church of the Ascension
Taft
Ireland
Taft voices caution at conference on sensitive issues
In a church setting Mr Taft discourages bringing domestic questions into the talks. He urges focus on disarmament and cooperation among nations at the conference. He outlines aims to hem Germany from Russia and to create buffer states including Serbia and Constantinople, to limit Germany Austria and Turkey.
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Relief for Asthma Ends in Fatal Burns
Mrs. Millicent Bassett of Clifton Place Roxbury died at City Hospital from burns suffered when a home asthma relief device over a lamp ignited her clothing Saturday night. Neighbors extinguished the flames but she died the next day. She leaves a son Charles Heintz, an officer in the Superior Court.
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Millicent Bassett
Clifton Place
Roxbury
City Hospital
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Americans Will Attend London Peace Meeting
Paris March 9 The Greek Premier Venizelos Leon Bourgeois of France Oscar Straus and Hamilton Holt of New York left Paris to attend a meeting of the Society to Enforce Peace in London this week The gathering is said to have no link to the peace conference but may draft resolutions urging amendments to the League of Nations plan.
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Paris
M. Venizelos
Leon Bourgeois
France
Oscar Straus
Hamilton Holt
New York
Society
London
League of Nations
Memorial Service for Lieutenant Lawton Held in Quincy
Memorial services for Lieutenant Hobart A. Lawton of Quincy and B Battery 124th Field Artillery who died on the battlefield November 7 were held yesterday afternoon in Christ Episcopal Church.
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Hobart A. Lawton
Quincy
124Th Field Artillery
Christ - Episcopal Church
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