Greatest factor in winning war tribute to American motherhood
Maud Ballington Booth praised American mothers as the key to victory in a Tremont Temple Mothers Day sermon for the Volunteers of America. She highlighted mothers’ influence shaping soldiers before U S entry, praised American troops, and noted the 14th Engineers while urging support for the Volunteers of America amid wartime needs. Dr. Cortland Myers and Captain Charles Chariton spoke, stressing aid for soldiers and the group’s war hut and fundraising goals.
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Maud Ballington Booth
Tremont Temple
Volunteers of America
Sam
France
Cortland Myers
Lindsay
Howard Street
The
Booth
Volunteers
Dr. Myers
Charles Chariton
Drive Starts Well Committees to Raise Memorials for War Heroes
Mothers drive for the honor roll fund succeeds despite poor weather as 17 000 young women begin soliciting funds for bronze tablets to be placed in Boston wards. Leaders include Leo J Lyons chairing the drive committee and Victoria Roberts heading a West End group. Local groups plan house to house canvassing and a memorial honoring all who served, urging continued support to complete the project.
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Boston
Young Men’s Hebrew Association
Old South
Leo J. Lyons
West End
Young Women’s Hebrew Association
Victoria Roberts
Albert Levis
Dorchester
North End
Dorothy
P. Sullivan
Back Bay
South Boston
Mary Hennessey
Edward l L. Logan
1011St Infantry
Washington
Flanders Field
Arlington Plans Big Welcome Home June 17
Arlington sets a large Welcome Home Day for soldiers sailors and marines returning from service on Bunker Hill Day June 17. The organizing committee says it will be a major town event in the area’s history.
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Arlington
Bunker Hill
Luxury tax sparks public discontent across shops and courts
The 10 percent luxury tax on soda fountain decoc tions and other quasile luxuries faces rising opposition ten days in, with shopkeepers and buyers alike voicing displeasure. Soldiers and sailors heavily sign repeal lists, while shoppers ask, what's the tax, amid broad public scorn for the measure.
Stores oppose luxury tax as nuisance causing public protest
A survey of store managers and business heads finds widespread unpopularity of the luxury tax. Managers cite the trouble of collection and consumer frustration over taxing everyday items like sodas and medicines. Liggett’s drug stores report a growing petition calling for repeal with thousands of signatures from diverse classes.
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Liggett’s
W. G. Swett
New England
Mr. Swett
Thousand at Irish Meeting in Lowell Thrills Audience
About one thousand people attended an enthusiastic gathering at Associate Hall in Lowell to boost the citys $10,000 share of the Irish Victory Fund. James B. Casey read resolutions urging President Wilson to keep war pledges. Speakers included Judge J M Wall of New Jersey and Senator OCallahan of the General Circuit Court.
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Lowell
Associate Hall
James B. Casey
Wilson
J. M. Wall
New Jersey
Senator O'Callahan
General Circuit Court
Man shoots self in mistaken love affair motive
Mustafa Mohammed of 16 Lakeview avenue attempted suicide with a 22 calibre revolver at his home. He was hospitalized at St. John's Hospital with a slight shoulder wound. Police believe a love affair disappointment triggered the act.
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Lowell
Mustafa Mohammed
Lakeview Avenue
St. John’s Hospital
Dudley Street Baptist Church Marks 100th Anniversary
A historical pageant depicting the church of yesterday today and the future capped the first of a three day observance for the Dudley Street Baptist Church 100th anniversary last night.
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Church of
Dudley Street Baptist Church
Flirt With Employers Sparks Moral Rhetoric at Tre Mont Temple
Reverend Cortland Myers denounces women who flirt with married employers and men who lure them for money as dangerous, likening them to wartime tyrants. He urges women to reject advances, declaring such behavior equates to self-destruction and condemning the male employer as rotten at heart.
Ruth and Boaz as true love models condemn modern marriages
A speaker critiques modern commercial marriage citing Ruth and Boaz as ideal matches. He praises Ruth as a beautiful woodland figure with brains over jewelry, warns against trivializing love, and claims fewer marriages result from undervaluing love rather than sentiment.
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Ruth
Boaz
America
Do You Weigh As Much As You Ought
The ad warns that underweight people face serious illness and insurance risks. It promotes Father John's Medicine as a pure food tonic that builds up thin, weak, and run down individuals. It claims the remedy is easily absorbed by a weakened system and helps gain weight steadily.
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Father John
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