Booksellers Convene Annual American Booksellers' Association Meeting
Boston hosts the three day gathering opening this morning at Copley Plaza with speakers including Joseph C. Lincoln Irvin S. Cobb Dr Samuel M Crothers Amy Lowell Harold J Laski and Frank P Sibley. The program features discussions on book making and marketing plus luncheons dinners and trips to historic sites.
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Joseph C. Lincoln
Cape Cod
Irvin S. Cobb
Samuel M. Crothers
Amy Lowell
Harold J. Lasiti
Harvard University
Frank P. Sibley
American Booksellers’ Association
National Association
Boston
Copley Plaza
Charles J. Butler
New York
George Haven Putnam
France
Andrew J. Peters
Davia Uv. O'Connell
Funk & Wagnalls Company
Brunswick
Houghton, Mifflin & Co
Cambridge
Lexington
Concord
Little, Brown & Co
Alcott House
Symphony Hall
Charles E. Lauriat, Jr
W. M. Schenck
Richard F. Fuller
Change in government life insurance payment options
Washington May 12 The War Risk Insurance Bureau plans a revision of the government converted life policy for soldiers sailors and marines to allow the insured to choose lump sum or monthly installments over twenty years. Henry D Lindsley director recommends the change awaiting Secretary Glass approval. The insured may switch plans anytime but beneficiaries cannot choose.
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Washington
War Risk Insurance Bureau
Henry D. Lindsley
Bureau
Glass
Clean-Up Campaign Opens Across New England
New England starts a regional clean-up drive as Boston leads with mops brushes and paint brushes visible in every city and town. Dust dirt and rubbish are hauled to local dumps as communities mobilize to clear debris from the historic past.
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New England
Boston
Boston Clean-Up Campaign Mobilizes City Helpers
The city launches a two week effort led by the United States Reclamation Service to purge cellars yards and alleys of dirt and rubbish. Volunteers sort usable material for thrift stamps traders and curb waste with the help of the police hospital and school committees. Manchester won last year and Boston aims for the silver loving cup by enlisting 500 civic co operators with more applicants sought.
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United States Reclamation Service
England
Boston
Women’s Committee For Public Service
Boston School Committee
New England
Manchester
Senator Wadsworth Attacks Suffragists at Tremont Temple
United States Senator James W. Wadsworth Jr of New York condemned suffragists tactics and warned against expanding federal powers at a Tremont Temple meeting billed by the Massachusetts Anti-Suffrage Association. David Goldstein, a former Socialist, linked socialism to attacks on marriage and family, while the hall filled with anti suffrage supporters and sympathizers. John A. Sullivan introduced Wadsworth as the senator who will not sell his birthright for a mess of pottage, drawing a warm reception.
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Tremont Temple
Women's Anti-Suffrage Association of
Massachusetts
United States
James W. Wadsworth, Jr
New York
David Goldstein
Anti-Suffrage Association of
Goldstein
John A. Sullivan
Boston
Harvard Students Attend Overseers Meeting In Historic Inclusion
Harvard University admitted student representation to the board of overseers meeting held in University Hall for the first time. The event yielded no major action on student activities. Major R. M. Johnston, long in Europe with the U S Army history division, was advanced to full professor in history and will return to Cambridge for the fall term.
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Harvard University
Board of Overseers
University Hall
R. M. Johnston
Europe
United States Army
General Staff
Harvard
Cambridge
Bar Harbor inventor in Boston aims to rouse officials
An inventor from Bar Harbor registered in Boston as Alexander V. Wilson, Bar Harbor, and traveled to rouse official Boston from a feared fatal aeronautical slumber. The eccentric mission frames a quirky local history moment with a name and place tied to both towns.
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Boston
Bar Harbor
Alexander V. Wilson
Boston aims to top list for aerial mail service in 1809 jubilee
Inventor Wilson, 73, flew over Boston during the peace jubilee and declared Boston must lead two cities in forming a municipal aerial mail system. He met with Washington aero chiefs, Boston Chamber of Commerce, and Mayor Peters, seeking approval to establish a landing station and gear up postal and Army aviation authority support to keep Boston at the forefront or risk losing the service for years.
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Inventor Wilson
Boston
Wilson
Washington
Uncle Sam
Aero Organization
Boston Chamber of Commerce
Peters
Aeronautical Congress
Macon
New England
West
Chamber of Commerce
Bar Harbor
Vorarlberg Votes to Join Switzerland
Vorarlberg, the western Austrian district, voted 45 500 in favor of annexation to Switzerland and 11 000 against in a plebiscite held Sunday. Swiss cantons to hold a plebiscite on taking in the crownland. Vorarlberg borders Bavaria Tyrol Grisons Liechtenstein St Gall and covers about 1004 square miles with population over 100 000.
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Berne
Switzerland
Associated Press
Vorarlberg
Austria-h Hungary
Bavaria
Tyrol
Grisons
Lichtenstein
St. Gall
Crown Land
Devens Hotel Register Stolen Before Trial
A soldier thief stole the hotel register at Hotel Devens during the night, potentially affecting the trial of three “mystery maids” arrested with Rainbow Division officers. Night Clerk P J Murphy shouted stop but the thief fled. no suspect identity has emerged and rumors place the maid trio from Lowell.
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Camp Devens
Devens
Rainbow Division
P. J. Murphy
Queen of the Reds to be deported in Chicago raid
Marie Nardini known as Queen of the Reds, her husband Pasquale, and Adolph and Joseph Fratesi were detained on deportation warrants after a raid that seized anarchistic literature. They had recently been released from Wisconsin State Prison where they served time related to the 1917 Milwaukee police station explosion that killed seven detectives.
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Chicago
Marie Nardini
Queen of
Wilson saves soldier life in clemency ruling
Washington May 12 The death sentence given by a military court martial in France for Private H Ashworth 116th Infantry after conviction for killing Private Thomas A Jackson has been commuted by President Wilson to life imprisonment General Pershing said the circumstances did not justify execution of the death sentence and praised the clemency decision
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Washington
France
H. Ashworth
116Th Infantry
Thomas A. Jackson
Sams
Wilson
Department
Pershing
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