College Girls in Auto Crash Near Springfield
A party of six including three Smith College students traveling to New Haven, Conn., collided head on with a heavy truck in Thompsonville, Conn. Miss Frances McCloud of Milwaukee is in critical condition at a local hospital. Others sustained minor injuries while Myron Clark of Concord suffered a wrist fracture and lacerations. The truck carried four tons of castings and a touring car later overturned while rescuers reached the scene.
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Springfield
Smith College
New Haven
Conn
Thompsonville
Frances McCloud
Milwaukee
Wis
Jane Griffin
New York City
Eleanor Ballou
Concord
M. T. Griffin
Griffin
Walter B. Nash
Williamsburg
Myron Clark
Free Pew Favored by Jews Opens Hebrew Convention
The 26th biannual Union of American Hebrew Congregations session focused on a resolution backing unassigned pews and ending minimum dues. Debate featured rabbis and lay leaders on pew ownership, congregational autonomy, and a plan to form a social service department within synagogues. The meeting applauded civil rights efforts and noted Jewish Welfare Board support for soldiers and sailors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Union of American Hebrew Congregations
Judge Hays
Simon Wolf
Washington
Cathlic
A. C. Ratshesky
Jacob R. Morse
Fred E. Bruml
Cleveland
Gustave A. Efroymson
Indianapolis
Isaac Goldberg
Detroit
Daniel P. Hays
New York
S. M. Johnson
Cincinnati
Adolph Kraus
Chicago
J. W. Lilienthal
San Francisco
Max B. May
Henry Morgenthau
Adolph S. Ochs
Simeon W. Rosenberg
Albany
Jacob H. Schiff
Jacob Schnadig
Ludwig Vogelstein
Herman Wise
Buffalo
Albert Wolf
Philadelphia
William B. Woolner
Peoria
A. L. Saltzenstein
Milwaukee
Union
Federation of Temple Sisterhoods
Boston Committee
Lexington and Concord
North Shore
Americans urge action as Jews plead Poland relief
Prominent Jews from across the state tell a State House hearing that Poland’s treatment of Jews demands U.S. action. They support Representative Stone’s call for an order urging Wilson and Congress to secure fair treatment and protection of Jewish lives and property in Poland, citing Polish officials’ anti Jewish policies and killings.
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Poland
House Committee On Rules
State House
Representative Stone
Boston
Wilson
Congress
Anton Dmovsky
Paris
America
Webster
Haverhill
Der
Aetna Mills Shutdown Blamed on Executives in Watertown
In a statement by President Edgar E Patten and Secretary James B Cruise of United Textile Workers No 1167 the seven week shutdown at Aetna Mills Watertown is laid to the company executives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edgar E. Patten
James B. Cruise
United Textile Workers’ Union
Aetna
Watertown
Constable Ellis Ends Eggburst Feat In Court
Constable Otis Ellis of Wilmington demonstrated a tech feat by bursting an egg with pressed palms, using a crumpled $10 bill. The incident involved Sinclair who grabbed the bills and fled across three blocks, leading to a pursuit with Officer McLaughlin and 100 townsfolk. Ellis, aided by short crutches, appeared in Central Court where Sinclair was held for sentence tomorrow.
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Otis Ellis
Wilmington
Silver Lake
Mr. Ellis
Sinclair
Constable Ellis
Central Court
Ellis
Friend Street
Egg test ends outdoors with constable’s tenspot
Mr. Ellis demonstrates his hypothesis as Howard Sinclair evades the police cordon to mingle with cafe guests. Sinclair fails to guess the constable Ellis’s weight within 30 pounds, prompting a decisive outdoor test where Ellis places his tenspot on the curb and Sinclair faces the outcome.
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Mr. Ellis
Howard Sinclair
Constable Ellis
Sinclair
Private Curtis McDonald Quimby Despondent over Parade Duty
Worcester May 22 Private Curtis McDonald Quimby Mississippi native attached to the 26th Division was found dead on the Boston & Maine tracks near Harvard station the night of April 25. An inquest report says his despondence over being assigned to kitchen police duty during the Boston parade led to death by his own action.
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Worcester
Curtis McDonald Quimby
Mississippi
26Th Division
Boston & Maine
Harvard
Boston
Stone
Clinton District Court
Worcester Superior Court
Greenwich Lawyer Files Alienation Suit and Divorce
Stamford May 22 Greenwich lawyer William Rungee sues wealthy mother in law Mrs Abbie L Husted for 50000 damages and attaches 100000 of her property while also seeking divorce from his wife Adeline Rungee alleging habitual intemperance and drug use. The couple previously faced a divorce suit from Mrs Rungee seeking custody of twins Gladys Muriel and Marion Carol.
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Stamford
Conn
Abbie L. Husted
North Maple Ave
Greenwiche
William ©. Rungee
Greenwich
Judiciary Committee
The
Connecticut General Assembly
Husted
Connecticut
Rungee
Gladys Muriel
Marion Carol
Bangor Welcomes Soldiers Home Parade and Banquet
Bangor Me May 22 4000 people took part in a city celebration honoring soldiers and sailors. Whistles bells rang as the program opened and business halted for the day. The day featured a parade banquet bonfire fireworks and band concerts for the veterans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bangor
Noor
Persia Seeks U S Protection, Caldwell Says
New York May 22 Persia would like to be taken under the wing of the United States. John L Caldwell American minister to Persia said before leaving for Teheran after attending the peace conference and visiting this country. He was called to Paris by President Wilson to report on Persian affairs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Persia
United States
John L. Caldwell
Teheran
Paris
Wilson
Plane Forced Down by Fog Over Seaboard Route
Dense fog disrupted an Army Martin bomber flight from Washington to New York carrying papers for Assistant Secretary of War Crowell. The plane reached Elkton Maryland before turning back and landed safely in Washington early this afternoon.
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Washington
Seaboard
New York
Crowell
Europe
Mount Vernon
Elkton
Maryland
Elliott-Fisher Bookkeeping System Description
A concise outline describes Elliott-Fisher as a complete bookkeeping system rather than a single machine. It emphasizes precise addition, subtraction, posting, checking, balancing and analysis of figures, tailored to fit any size or complexity of modern accounting departments.
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Internal Revenue Department
Elliott-Fisher
U. S. Bureau of Efficiency
Elliott- Fisher
United States
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Timothy Smith Co
Washington St. Roxbury
Mass
Timothy Smith
Cooper’s Union
Ipswich
Hebrew Union
M. D. Rosenberg
Washington, D. C
Rosenberg
Committee On
Schell
Beardsley
Feinberg
Greenwood
Everett
M. Eichler
Family of Nations
L. M. Epstein
Massachusetts
Joseph Berak
Representative Schell
Henry Lasker
Rabbi Novack
Camp Devens
Race
Clare
U. S
Elliotts Fisher
Elliott-Fisher Company
Winter St. Bldg
Winter St
Tel. Beach
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