Bogus Hero Goes to Jail in War Promotion Case
William J. Phillips was arrested on a charge of wearing illegal army uniform parts after claiming to have served in Europe. He entertained crowds in Waltham with vivid wartime tales, earning about $70 from banners and trinkets. Investigators confirmed he served for seven months and was recently discharged.
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William J. Phillips
Waltham Moving Picture Theatre
Chateau Thierry
Argonne Forest
Federal Building
Army of the United States
United States
Dewey
Europe
Portland committee urges South Portland annexation plan
A Portland Chamber of Commerce committee recommends annexing South Portland to Portland. The panel, chosen to study the merger, plans to travel to Augusta to seek legislation enabling both cities to put the issue to voters. An act from 15 years earlier failed twice and expired after five years.
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Portland
South Portland
Portland Chamber of Commerce
Augusta
Polish Victories Over Bolsheviks Reported
Polish headquarters describe gains in Pinsk and Grodno districts with Grodno city administration taken by Poles. Bolsheviks retreating abandon cannons machine guns ammunition locomotives and half a million rubles.
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Paris
Pinsk
Grodno
Wedding Plot Suit Is Lost In Worcester
Earl v. Day, a 22 year old Northbridge youth, failed to reach a jury in Worcester Superior Court as Judge Keating ruled the evidence insufficient to support a conspiracy to force marriage with 18 year old Margaret McLellan. Day faces a separate case for neglect to support wife and had earlier lost a suit seeking annulment. his fiancée Rosalie Charron affirms she remains devoted despite the setback.
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Worcester
Earl v. Day
Northbridge
Francis C. Thayer
Blackstone District Court
Weslyn Webster
Samuel B. Taft
John McClellan
Frank A. Cross
Margaret McLellan
Worcester Superior Court
Margaret McClellan
Miss Charron
Day
Boston Rabbi Chosen Chief for Orthodox Congregations
Dr Abraham Aaron Judelowvitch of Boston is named chief rabbi of the Orthodox Jewish Congregations of the United States after 17 years without a head. Born Minsk sixty nine years ago he led Baldwin Place Synagogue before moving to New York then Boston. His book The House of the Fathers is widely used by rabbis. He was installed at Schaar Shamoyim in New York City with nearly 2000 rabbis in attendance.
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Abraham Aaron Judelowvitch
Boston
Baldwin Place
North End
United States
Jacob Joseph
New York
Russia
Minsk
England
House of the Fathers
Schaar Shamoyim
Wife Dressed in a Blanket Sparks Boston Divorce Session
John J. Connaughton of Boston City Hospital testified in a divorce case that he found his wife emerging from a lodger’s room wrapped in a bed blanket. He said he did not confront the lodger and advised his wife to spend the rest of the night with the man she had been with.
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John J. Connaughton
Boston City Hospital
Mystery Witness Describes Kimono Room Encounter
A man named Rogers, in a peculiar abbreviated costume, was present in the room with a kimono. Mr Connaughton denied his wife took letters signed Sweetheart Nell from his pockets and said he found his belongings disturbed.
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Rogers
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