Ex Mayor faces fire over removal claims and ties to Matthews
Street Commissioner Frank A. Goodwin and Frank J. Brennan allege Mayor Peters acted improperly in dismissing them. They accuse ex Mayor Nathan Matthews and campaign contributors of pressuring the city, citing disputed property deals and charter clashes as justification. Both say their letters were filed with the city clerk as public documents.
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Nathan Matthews
Peters
Frank A. Goodwin
Goodwin
Frank J. Brennan
Brennan
Matthews
Board of
Street Commissioners
Boston
Law Department
City Club
Board of Street Commissioners
Father John's Medicine Advertises Grip Recovery Support
An old style advertisement promotes Father John's Medicine as the solution for getting over grip. It claims forced nutrition helps ward off relapse by restoring organ function and building strength. The copy highlights 60 years of success for colds throat troubles coughs and as a tonic.
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Father John
Irish youths answer call in war effort letter
Captain T. F. MacMahon of the Irish Guards reveals a Connaught letter praising Ireland's war response. It notes good conditions, plenty to eat, and over 2000 Irish volunteers in Sligo since the war began, urging cooperation with global liberty and democracy while criticizing a small dissident faction.
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Ireland
Sligo
France
Belgium
Smail
Germans Claim French Trenches Were Stormed
In Champagne west Prussian companies after long artillery pre paration stormed French trenches northeast of Prosnes and after destroying enemy works returned with 90 prisoners. Vigorous reconnoitering in the air led to violent fighting. Yesterday 19 enemy airplanes and two captive balloons were shot down. Cavalry Captain Baron von Richthofen achieved his 64th aerial victory.
Delivery Post Seeks Expanded Newspaper Circulation
The Post invites more readers to subscribe and offers delivery by train boat and auto to over 500 000 breakfast table readers in New England. Circulation department can arrange service contact Main 1383 for subscriptions.
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Score
New England
The
Post
Father and Two Sons Enlist in the British Army
James Pittman of 325 Wifth Street South Boston and his two sons Henry Herbert Pittman and William Pittman enlisted yesterday at the British and Canadian Recruiting Mission 44 Bromfield Street in the inland waterways and docks section. They join the same unit and plan to fight under the Union Jack. They will depart tonight for Montreal then Europe to join Royal Engineers bases.
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James Pittman
Wifth Street
Boston
Henry Herbert Pittman
William Pittman
France & Canada Line
Bromfield Street
David Pittman
James
Europe
Pittman
David
Pittmans
Montreal
Royal Engineers
Olive Tablets Offer Liver Aid for Stomach Ailments
Advertisement notes thousands of stomach sufferers using Dr Edwards Olive Tablets to stimulate the liver and bowels. The article claims improved digestion, fresh mouth taste, better energy, and relief from indigestion with a vegetable compound sold in 10c and 25c boxes.
Naples Air Raid by Dirigible Hits Civilians in Italy
An enemy dirigible bombed Naples causing civilian casualties and property damage. Sixteen people died and 40 were wounded, with bombs falling along Via Roma, Corso Vittorio Emmanuele, and the Little Sisters of the Poor asylum. Harvard reported gifts totaling 1,000 and 1,455 for the vocational guidance bureau and Huntington Hospital respectively amid war-updated faculty moves.
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Via Roma
Corso Vittorio Emmanuele
Little Sisters of the Poor
A. Lincoln Filene
Vocational Guidance Bureau of
Harvard
Collis P. Huntington Memorial Hospital
Harvard Corporation
Er. V. Brewer
Ensigns
Charles G. Smith
Washington
P. R. Cherington
Graduate School of Business
Memorial Library for Harvard Hero
Henry B. Meeker of New York donates a memorial library of more than 1000 volumes to the Harvard Crimson in honor of his son William K. Meeker. He died in an airplane accident at Pau France while serving with the Lafayette Escadrille. The late student was a 1917 Crimson editor and president. Simple dedication ceremonies will be held in the Crimson building sanctum with faculty and student attendance.
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Harvard Crimson
Henry
BE. Meeker
New York
William K. Meeker
Pau
France
Lafayette Escadrille
Meeker
The
Crimson
Mass Meeting at Harvard Tomorrow
Harvard hosts a mass meeting in the new lecture hall tomorrow evening. President Lowell Dean Yeomans and B Preston Clark of Plymouth Cordage will speak on the role students must play when peace arrives and reconstruction begins.
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Harvard
Lowell
Dean Yeomans
B. Preston Clark
Plymouth Cordage Company
New Cambridge Bank Opens in Kendall Square on April 3
The Manufacturers' National Bank with a $200000 capital and a board of prominent Cambridge businessmen will begin business in Kendall Square Cambridge on April 3. The charter was issued recently and the opening announced yesterday.
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New Cambridge Bank
Manufacturers’ National Bank
Kendall Square
Cambridge
Cured His Daughter's Fits in Milwaukee
A Milwaukee resident reports his daughter was fully cured of epilepsy by a friend’s prescription. The father offers to mail a free bottle in plain wrapper to any suffering reader who writes R. P. N. Lepso at 27 Island Ave. Milwaukee Wisconsin.
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Milwaukee
Wisconsin
R. P. N. Lepso
Island Ave
Boston YWCA campaign raises to 30000 toward 75000 goal
Boston Young Women’s Christian Association campaign teams report 30000 raised toward a 75000 goal. Treasurer George C. Lee lists numerous individual and corporate donors, with several large gifts and anonymous contributions totaling 29764.00, supporting housing and social programs for young women.
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Boston Young Women's Christian Association
George C. Lee
Lee, Higginson & Co
Boston Young Women’s Christian Association
Lee
Cathedral Mission Entered by Very Rev Edward FitzGerald
The Very Rev Edward T Fitzgerald will preach the third week of a cathedral mission at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Washington D C. The event opens Sunday evening March 17 and runs nightly through Palm Sunday including Saturday.
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Edward T. Fitzgerald, Co. P
Dominican House of Studies
Washington, D. C
Cathedral of the Holy Cross
Karl G Baker Admitted as Practising Attorney
Karl G Baker, longtime reporter with the Record and Boston Post, was sworn in as a practising attorney before Judge Pierce of the Supreme Court yesterday. He was among 68 admitted.
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Karl G. Baker
Boston Post
Pierce
Supreme Court
Baker
Cardinal Confirms 300 Children at St. Cecilia’s Ceremony
Cardinal O’Connell addressed 300 children at St. Cecilia’s Church naming them soldiers in life’s great war against sin. He urged steadfast faith, noted their protective captain is God, and described the church as a constant sanctuary. Detailing attire, he led a unifying Back Bay crowd with white veils and ribbons.
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Cardinal O’connell
St. Cecilia’s Church
Back Bay
Zeppelins Raid Over England Causes Bomb Drop in Hull
London reports three enemy airships crossed the Yorkshire coast between 8 30 and 10 p m last night. One dropped four bombs on Hull demolishing a house and killing a woman by shock. The other two wandered remote countryside unloading bombs before returning to sea.
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London
England
Hull
Yorkshire
Italy to Probe Charges by Marconi
Rome confirms Count Macchi di Cellere will investigate the facts cited by Senator Marconi about the Italian high commissioner and military mission in the United States. Another inquiry into aviation material purchases will be led by Senator Cavazza and the purchases were said to be by persons not connected with the embassy or mission.
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Washington
Rome
William Marconi
United States
Count Macchi di Cellere
Marconi
Cavazza
Wartime Orlex Hair Color Remedy Ad
An advertisement promotes Orlex powder to color gray hair at home. Dissolve a box in water and comb through the hair for any shade from black to light brown. Each box costs 25 cents and includes full directions. A $100 gold bond guarantees the powder contains no harmful metals or coal tar derivatives and it does not rub off. The product promises a younger appearance.
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Orlex
Germans Pay for Paris Raid Casualties
Four German aircraft were shot down and fifteen crew members killed or captured during Monday night’s air raid on Paris.
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Paris
Paris Raids Fail To Hit City As German Bombers Suffer
The raid was massive with squadrons along the Rivers Oise and Oucq and lines to Paris. Few units reached Paris while aerial defences forced many German planes to drop bombs in vacant fields. The American Red Cross aided the wounded as French planes counterattacked German airfields. More than three tons of bombs were dropped on Gotha fields, many returning bombers likely to fail on landing.
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Oise
Oucq
Greil-Paris
Soissons-Paris
Paris
American Red Cross
Gothas
British to Cut Down Brewing and Malting
In the House of Commons Rt Hon Leif Child Jones and others urged cutting grain use for brewing and malting. John R. Clynes said the government will reduce brewing tonnage immediately while maintaining beer supply for heavy manual workers, considering the food situation and American opinion.
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London
House of Commons
Leifchild Jones
John R. Clynes
Food Control Board
America
Pinex remedy promises quick relief for severe coughs
A home made cough remedy using 214 ounces of inex mixed with plain sugar syrup is touted as a fast and lasting treatment for coughs throat tickle and chest colds. The ad promotes Pinex a concentrated Norway pine extract claiming rapid relief and warns to avoid imitations with a refund guarantee from The Pinex Co.
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Pinex Co
Wayne, Ind
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