Roosevelt Praises Rush and Charlestown Navy Yard
Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt lauded Captain William R. Rush and the Charlestown navy yard workers for high quality work and loyalty. He commended the yard as the least troublesome in the nation and praised Rush’s leadership during an unofficial fall visit en route to Ward College overseers’ meeting.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Marvels in Gowns at French Wounded Fair
A Boston charity sale in Horticultural Hall offers gowns from Worth Lucile and Poiret plus many lesser designs. Spectators view and buy evening and day wear from 10 cents to 40 dollars to help French wounded and the Boston tuberculosis fund. Highlights include a 40 dollar velvet Worth gown and a 10 cent pink georgette dress, with racks of coats suits shoes and accessories. The sale runs today and tomorrow with Alsace Lorraine tea room and music from 4 to 6 pm. Mr. and Mrs. George Arliss guest of honor. Edith Bangs Sally Fairchild and Mrs. Ralph Emerson head the sale with 100 society volunteers.
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George Arliss
Edith Bangs
Sally Fairchild
Ralph Emerson
Allotment Letters From Soldiers Families Reveal Payment Struggles
Extracts sent to Washington show the Bureau of War Pensions grappling with delayed and misdirected allotments and allowances for soldiers families. Warnings of missing pay, misfiled requests, and urgent pleas surface in the handwritten communications.
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Washington
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Crystal Palace
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49 Hens Report Record Egg Laying in February
Mrs. Mary Sk. Brown of Sanford Maine reports 49 hens laid 487 eggs in February, averaging 12 eggs per day for 28 days. January saw 497 eggs from the same flock, averaging 10 eggs per month, with hens producing about one third of an egg daily in January and 43 percent daily in February.
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Mary Sk. Brown
Republican chairmen named for House expenditures panels
Washington March 10. The Republican committee on committees named eight chairmen for House committees on government department expenditures. The selections cover War Department Graham Illinois Navy Haskell New York Post Office Seisman Maryland Justice White Maine Treasury Dale Vermont Public Buildings Kryder Pennsylvania Commerce Williams Illinois Agriculture Baer North Dakota. Three more chairmen on expenditures committees remain to be chosen.
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Pennsylvania
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Ilinois
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North Dakota
Election Committees Form Under New House Roster
The three committees on election will be led by Dallinger of Massachusetts Goodall of Maine and Dowell of Iowa. Minor panels chose chairs including Ireland Illinois Alcohol Smith Idaho Labor Smith Michigan Patents Nolan California Revision of laws Little Kansas Arid lands Kincaid Nebraska Reform in the civil service Lohiback New Jersey Flood control Rodenberg Illinois Coinage weights and measures Vestal Indiana and many others after new rules committee members were named. Republicans filled vacancies on the rules committee with Wason New Hampshire Kr leder Pennsylvania Johnson South Dakota and Schall Minnesota the latter a former Progressive. Holdovers Campbell Kansas Snell New York Rodenberg Illinois and Fess Ohio remain in leadership.
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Maine
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Pennsylvania
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South Dakota
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Minnesota
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Snell
New York
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Fess
Ohio
Germans to Seize Schleswig Cattle
German authorities begin seizure of all cattle in Schleswig province effective today, with advices from Copenhagen confirming orders issued by German officials in Washington and Copenhagen.
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Coperhagen
Massachusetts Plans Grand Yankee Division Street Decorations
State and city officials outline decorating schemes for parades spanning streets and public buildings in Massachusetts and Boston to welcome returning servicemen. They propose flags, laurel festoons, poles and banners along avenues, with arches and rustic touches, using signal style flag lines and even actual signal flags where possible.
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Large Fleet of Warships at Charlestown Navy Yard
A historic gathering of 39 warships anchors at Charlestown navy yard with South Haven and Blue Ridge diverted to Commonwealth Pier for space. The destroyer Maddox arrives, commissioned after noon, while the Nebraska returns with wounded sailors and awaits a brief stay. Between Sunday and noon yesterday ten ships arrived, with many more expected by summer.
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Blue Ridge
Commonwealth Pier
Maddox
Fore River
Nebraska
Liberty planes in line on front on armistice day
Washington dispatch reports Major R J Bates of Detroit arrived from France saying there were 9018 Liberty planes in line on the western front ready for service on the armistice signing day. Bates commanded the principal American aviation camp in France.
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R. J. Bates
Detroit
France
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