Salvation Army Drive Aids Boston Fund To Top $200000
The Salvation Army drive in Boston, led by Elks and volunteers, aims to raise 400000 with their eighth day push. Daily totals reached 40626 yesterday, lifting the running sum to 187274 as organizers expect a record outcome aided by a large Elks mobilization and rallies at the Common.
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Elks
Salvation Army
Boston
Order
Volunteer Army
Alfred L. Aiken
National Shawmut Bank
Rikers
Army of Elks
Charles H. Cole
Shawmut Bank
The
Mary Jane
Boston Telephone Operators’ Union
William A. Gaston
Cole
John Herburne
Frank W. Bunnell
Robert E. Goodwin
Edward L. Logan
William J. Keville
Carroll J. Swan
Auction at Boston Common Nets 1100 for Salvation Army
In spite of drizzle, the flower auction at Belleau Woods on Boston Common raised over 1100 for the Salvation Army drive. Flowers donated by the Florists' Association of Boston. Capt Henry Comerall opened the sale. Notables like Mrs Edwin A Shuman and Max Mitchell bought roses, and the crowd bought remaining blooms for the Elks Hospital distribution to wounded soldiers. A naval band provided the music.
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Camerais
Saleon Common
Belleau Woods
Boston Common
Salvation Army
Florists’ Association of
Boston
Henry D. Comerall
101St Infantry
Edwin A. Shuman
N. Sallinger
Charles E. Ware
Sailor Ryan
Liberty Loan
F. P. Walker
The
Moxie Company
Stunts Committee
Elks’ Hospital
Parker Hill
Ambassador praises American women at Paris luncheon
Paris May 22 The American colony with 200 members of the American Club welcomed new ambassador Hugo C. Wal lace at a luncheon. His speech honored American women for wartime devotion and said history will note that American women led the country into the war.
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Paris
American Club
Hugo C. Wallace
France
America
Fresh Fish Plentiful in Market This Morning
Market reports abundant fresh fish from Southern and Western waters, with several varieties available at fair prices. Local suppliers note increased supply from nearer waters and steady demand as buyers choose from the diverse offerings.
Fresh seafood, eggs and fruit prices listed in Bangor market
Prices from a Penobscot River Bangor market show salmon 70c lb, Cape Cod mackerel 2%c lb, Kennebec shad 25c lb, native black sea bass 25c, striped bass 85c, king fish 25c, turbot and lemon sole 20c, chicken halibut 30c, frog legs 50c a dozen, soft shell crabs 1 a dozen, crab meat 75c to $1 lb, lobsters 35c to 40c lb. Cod haddock pollock flounders 10c lb. Eggs vary 68c to 75c a dozen. tub butter 68-70c lb. Florida watermelons in market, baby size $1-$1.50. Porto Rican pineapple 15c-75c. strawberries 30c.
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Penobscot River
Bangor
Kennebec
Florida
Food Prices and Produce Availability Reported
The notice lists prices for citrus and vegetables including Florida oranges 6 to 75 cents a dozen and California orange 70 and 8 cents a dozen. Spinach 35 cents peck, asparagus 10 to 50 cents bunch, new cabbage 8 12 cents per pound, wax and green beans 20 cents quart, eggplants 35 cents each, summer squash 15 to 25 cents each, beets and turnips 18 20 cents a bunch, cucumbers 15 20 cents each, radishes 5 cents a bunch, lettuce 15 20 cents a head, rhubarb 5 cents a pound. Meats and fowl priced: leg of lamb 43 cents, legs 40, forequarters 28 30 cents per pound, fresh fowl 48 cents, rump roast 40 65 cents, roast pork 40 cents, young duckling 55 cents a pound, hams 40 cents, corned beef brisket 88 cents a pound.
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Florida
German League of Nations Plan Impracticable
Paris May 22 The German plan for the League of Nations contains 65 clauses and largely follows the conference covenant but adds compulsory arbitration and an international parliament both deemed impracticable by the League of Nations Commission. The allied reply is drafted but not sent, noting general agreement with the covenant and the impracticable nature of the new ideas.
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Paris
League of Nations
League of Nations Commission
River Project Gets Adverse Report
Lawrence May 22 Colonel Francis R. Shunk army engineer at Boston sent a communication to Mayor John J. Hurley informing him that the board of army engineers surveying the Merrimac River for a Lowell to sea navigable project reported unfavorably The chief reasons cited are the high cost of the improvement and the improbability of sufficient commercial use to justify it.
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Lawrence
Francis R. Shunk
Boston
John J. Hurley
Board of Army Engineers
Merrimac
Lowell
Atrocities by Students and Communists Train at Harvard Plan
Budapest executions of alleged counter revolutionists reported by an AP dispatch. Victims include Holan, Bishop Balthasar, and Colonel Dormany. Bodies found along the Danube shore. guards accused of throwing detainees into the river. Harvard committee proposes military training for Cambridge students, including courses, summer camps, and a field artillery unit with memorial gymnasium.
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Vienna
Associated Press
Budapest
Marko Strasse
Herr Holan
Kaschau-Oderberg
Balthasar
Debreezin
Dorm
Danube
Pest
Theiss
Harvard Committee of Military Sciencce and Tactics
Leonard Wood
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Russian Night at the Pops Draws Large Crowd
Symphony Hall patrons packed the doors for Russian night at the Pops. Conductor Jacchia returned after a 10 day illness to cheers from more than 400 music lovers who were turned away. A second Russian program will be announced soon.
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Symphony Hall
Jacchia
Pops Symphony
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Esta Mae Barr
Henry D. Cormerais
William Antrim
Logan L. Mclean
Massachusetts Elks’ Association
Boston Musicians’ Protective Union
Pelletier
Navy
McLean
Cox
Warner
House
Thomas H. Dowd
Elks’ Committee
Murray
Deeds
W. T. A. Fitzgerald
Curley
Burrill
Mark Sullivan
Ers
McLearn
Thomas G. Plant
J. Pennington Gardner
Hurley
P. J. Mulcahy
Magrane Hfonstone
Burella
Capes
Leghorn
Milan
Louis Heeds
Beach
Harvard
MR. Jacchia
Vorenberg
Castuone
Men’s. “Chalmers
Norfolk
Jover Tetk Alco
Washington, Hanover and
Sla Sts
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