Funeral for Longtime Cambridge Physician Dr Stephen Driver
The funeral for Dr Stephen W Driver a Cambridge physician will be held at Christ Church Cambridge at 2 PM Thursday officiated by Rev Dr Prescott Evarts and Rev Dr Woodman Bradbury He is survived by daughter Martha Elizabeth Driver and his wife died years ago Born in Sharon 85 he graduated from Harvard College class of 60 and Harvard Medical School He served as a surgeon in the Civil War and lived at his Brattle Street home built in 1787 all his life.
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Harvard Medical School
United States Service
Driver
Brattle Street
House Days Win First Skirmish
Prohibition advocates in the House won the first skirmish in pressuring President Wilson to use war time authority to ban the manufacture of light wines and beers along with whiskey. Distilling had ended last September under a presidential proclamation.
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Washington
Wilson
House Debates Food Bill Amendment on Prohibition Link
The House, 69 to 58, adopted a Randall amendment delaying $11 million in the food production bill until the President issues a proclamation banning food use in liquor production. Candler opposed rushing the proclamation, while Randall Caraway Mondell backed the amendment amid arguments over food conservation and wartime conditions.
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House
Representative Randall
California
Candler
Mississippi
Randall
Caraway
Arkansas
Mondell
Wyoming
America
76th Division to reach full war strength this month
Camp Devens reports the 76th Division will be brought to full war strength by month end. About 2200 more recruits from Camp Upton arrived today, raising total New York camp arrivals to nearly 4500 with yesterday’s contingent.
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Camp Devens
Camp Upton
New York
Military division to fill up as Depot Brigade reassigned
The depot brigade at the camp will transfer personnel to the division to complete its ranks, with a brigadier general and several senior officers to lead the brigade. Four new battalions are planned, and a general staff school continues with bayonet and rifle demonstrations. Lieutenant Stanley Gray and Lieutenant Ernest Hall are noted for rifle demonstrations and intelligence training respectively.
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Weigel
General Staff School
Stanley Gray
304Th Infantry
Ernest Hall
Allston
Harvard
Division
Washington
Table Linen Seized for German Army Supplies
London May 10 The imperial clothing office has commandeered all washable tablecloths and napkins unsold in German shops to replenish hospital material for the army. Merchants may keep linen made only of paper fibre or other substitutes due to shortages from heavy casualties.
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London
Associated Press
Germany
Imperial Clothing Office
Hand of God in This War pamphlet barred as unmailable
Postmaster Murray reports Washington has declared Rev. J. M. Foster of this city pamphlet The Hand of God in This War unmailable under the espionage act. In accordance with the ruling, any copies received at district post offices will be held pending further instructions.
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Murray
Washington
God
J. M. Foster
Southern Presbyterians Reject Organic Union Vote
Durant Oklahoma May 21 The General Assembly of the Southern Presbyterian Church rejected organic union with the Northern Presbyterian Church by a large majority 153 to 72 after two days of debate. The body remained open to a possible federal union of all Presbyterian and reformed churches in the United States.
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Southern Presbyterians
Durant, Okla
Northern Presbyterian Church
General Assembly
Southern Presbyterian Church
Presbyterian and Reformed Churches
United States
Jury Finds Draft Dodger Guilty
Vincenzo Cretarola of Beverly was found guilty by a jury in U S District Court of wilfully failing to register under the draft act. The jury deliberated briefly, with the defense arguing registration occurred at Haverhill where he lived on June 6, 1917. Admissions to a Beverly officer were introduced in evidence.
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Vincenzo Cretarola
Beverly
United States District Court
Haverhill
Turkish Troops Mutiny in Asia Minor Crisis
Turkish troops at Afdin in Asia Minor mutinied. Two thousand soldiers sent from Madrissa near Smyrna deserted. Desertions also reported from coast garrisons. Essad Pasha of Janina tasked with repressing the movement.
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Asia
Athens
Afdin
Asia Minor
Madrissa
Smyrna
Essad Pasha
Janina
New Flours in Old Recipes Weight Not Cup Measures
A clipped note explains substituting cereals for white flour by weight rather than volume. It lists 4 ounce wheat flour equivalents in cups and shows matching cup measures for barley rice corn flour buckwheat hominy oats and other grains to use with the same moisture and leavening as wheat flour.
Switzerland Germany Agree on Mutual Exchange of Goods
Under the treaty Switzerland and Germany will co operate in exchanging ordinary products. Germany will supply 8000 carloads of chemicals potatoes benzine zinc and pharmaceutical products within nine months in return for chocolates condensed milk and conserved fruits from Switzerland.
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Berne
Switzerland
Germany
German planes rescued from North Sea after London raid
Two German air planes of a new large type were rescued by Swedish steamers in the North Sea after the Sunday raid on London. The machines were believed to be the ones reported by the British official air report as driven down in the sea.
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London
Copenhagen
Exchange Telegraph Company
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