Purse of Gold for Veteran Railroad Foreman
Conductors motormen and other Bay State Street Railway employees at Broadway carbarns presented Charles A. Babb, foreman, with a $120 gold purse upon his retirement after 16 years in the Revere section. He will be succeeded by Joseph Chaisson and plans a move to New Hampshire to take up farming.
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Broadway Carbarns
Bay State Street Railway Company
Charles A. Babb
Foreman Babb
Revere
Joseph Chaisson
Mr. Babb
New Hampshire
101st Veterans Seek Logan as Leader
Colonel Edward L. Logan is sought as organizer of a new veteran association for the 101st Regiment. Captain David J. Brickley proposed the plan, with working committee members from the regiment and Ladies Auxiliary involvement. The 101st Auxiliary fund of $43,000 would serve as nucleus toward care for wounded men and families, with final disposal to be determined by the comfort and auxiliary committees.
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Edward L. Logan
Veteran Association
101St
David J. Brickley
101St Machine Gun Battalion
Knights of Columbus
101St Auxiliary
William W. Taff
Ladies’ Auxilary
1Ist
Auxiliary
James J. Phelan
Ladies’ Auxiliary
101St Infantry
Colonists Eye Colonel as Leader for New Organization
The men view the colonel as the likely head of a new movement and believe his leadership will speed and stabilize the work. Plans call for starting real organization next week with headquarters sought on Berkeley Street, a building previously used by the Knights of Columbus.
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Knights of Columbus
Berkeley Street
Young war bride sued for divorce in Indiana suit
New York May 18 Mrs Virginia B Mitchell 17 daughter of Mabel Williams West Hampton Beach postmistress learned yesterday she must defend a divorce suit brought by her husband William I Mitchell a captain recently discharged from the army in Jeffersonville Indiana The couple wed while he was in service and now live apart as his suit seeks separation and dissolution of their marriage
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New York
Virginia B. Mitchell
Mabel Williams
West Hampton Beach
L. I
William I. Mitchell
Jeffersonville
Ind
One Hundred Condensed Novels in The Post
The Post launches a hundred condensed novels starting May 1 with daily and Sunday installments. Readers express enthusiasm and request back issues while editors and assistants review manuscripts from across the United States and Canada for the series ongoing over the next hundred days.
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Post
The
Boston
United States
Canada
Helena Ritchie
Margaret Deland
Sara Ware Bassett
Aid for Women in Jobs Expands in United States Service
Washington may 18 facilities for handling women's work have developed in the United States Employment Service as rapidly as male work. About 22 percent of employer calls and 15 percent of applications involve women. Seventeen thousand applicants weekly and nearly 700000 placements in 14 months from January 1918 to April 1919.
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Washington
United States Employment Service
Employment Service
Made Dead Legally After 49 Years
Newcastle Indiana May 18 Daniel Dunbar who went to Oregon 49 years ago is to be declared legally dead to settle an estate of 330 dollars. He left notes for Daniel Bowman Sr now dead to be held until he returned. Abraham Bowman 77 desires relief from the money. Only 300 remained after the Hagerstown Bank failure. Circuit Court action to declare Dunbar dead and settle the estate was recently taken.
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Newcastle
Ind
Daniel Dunbar
Oregon
Dunbar
Daniel Bowman
Mr. Bowman
Abraham Bowman
Hagerstown
Soldier thought dead greets family again
Five years after enlisting in the Canadian army Edward T. Devitt returned home as a war scarred veteran. His father and sister had believed him killed for nearly four years after an official notice. The reunion occurred when he appeared at the family threshold in Minneapolis Minnesota May 18.
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Minneapolis
Minn
Edward T. Devitt
Devitt
Police Officer Franks Shaughnessey Struck Crossing Broadway
Officer Frank Shaughnessey of the Athens street station was struck by a Davis Ice Cream Co vehicle driven by John B McDonald while crossing Broadway yesterday afternoon. His collar bone was broken in the accident.
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Frank Shaughnessey
Perch Street
Athens Street
The
Davis Ice Cream Company of
Cambridge
John B. McDonald
Broadway
Michigan Men Arrive Today to Camp Devens
The battleship Rhode Island carrying units of the 32d Division Michigan National Guard will dock at Commonwealth Pier after 8 AM. Soldiers will debark and proceed to Camp Devens. Welcome committees from state and city plan to greet the ship and escort it to anchorage aboard the Monitor and Actus.
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Rhode Island
Michigan National Guard
Commonwealth Pier
Navy Yard
Camp Devens
Anchorage
Monitor
Actus
Ypsilanti
Michigan
C. B. Brown
S. E. Crawford
William Birgin
107Th Field Signal Battalion
Devens
Antis Open Beer Fight After Hand Decision
In New York on May 18 the Anti-Saloon League vowed to push a law defining intoxicants after Federal Judge Hand ruled that wartime prohibition bars only intoxicating beer. Wayne B. Wheeler, the league's general counsel, said Congress should define intoxicants to include all beer, and warned the decision would not aid brewers if that definition passes.
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New York
Hand
Joseph Hoffman Brewing Company
Anti-Saloon League
Wayne B. Wheeler
Congress
Judge
Jacchia's Brother to Visit America
Mr Jacchia conductor of the Pops returns to the stand for tonight's concert after illness. He has word from his brother in Italy, prominent in Caproni airplane manufacturing, that he expects to visit the United States soon in Caproni's interests. The company reportedly plans seaplanes and army aircraft.
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Jacchia
Pops
Italy
Caproni
United States
Jacchla
Noonan's Hair Petrole Advertised for Hair Care
An advertisement promotes Noonan's Hair Petrole as an antiseptic stimulating petrole that aids natural hair growth and scalp health. It claims visible improvements after a few applications and notes availability from druggists, department stores, barbers, or directly from T. Noonan & Sons in Boston, with pricing stated for women and men.
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Noonan
Neonan
T. Noonan & Sons
Portland St
Boston
Barbers
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Woman’s Home Companion
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the Post
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Cyrus Townsend Brady
Emile Gaboriau
Larz Anderson
Captain Ginger
Belgium
the Pops
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Lacombe Traumeret
Samson and Delila
Saint-Saens
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Piemontesi
Sinigeglia Intermemo
William Ratcliff
Mascagni
Tschaikowsky Bacchanale
Wagner
Britton Publishing Company
Fourth Avenue
New York City
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America
R.h.white Co
White’s
Georgette
Madras
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Glasgow
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R. H. White CO
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