Mass Jewish Protest in Boston Over Polish Massacres
Twenty five thousand Boston Jews attended a mass protest at Parkman band stand and Mechanics Building to urge action by President Wilson and peace delegates. The event featured leaders from politics and religion, sorrowful mourners, and a ceremonial march with mourning bands, ending with speakers pledging to oppose Jewish persecutions in Poland and beyond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chopin
Peters
United States
Congress
Resolutions call on Wilson to secure rights for Eastern Jews
A mass meeting in Mechanics' Hall adopts unanimous resolutions urging President Wilson and the peace delegates to secure full civil religious and political rights for Jews in Poland Romania and other eastern European states. Speakers evoke Polish massacres and urge U.S. action backed by a council with military force if needed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilson
Poland
Lemberg
Galicia
Pinsk
Lithanthia
America
Lida
Vilna
Kielce
Kalicz
Jaroslau
Przemysl
Tarnow
United States
Rumania
Ukrainia
Boston
Peace Conference
American Peace
State Department
Congress of the United States
Senate
House of Representatives
Lift Off Corns With Freezone Magic Claim
An advertisement promises painless corn and callus removal with Freezone. It asserts instant relief on sore areas and says the treated corn or callus lifts off, root and all, without pain or irritation.
Springfield Jews Protest Massacre Mass Meeting
Prominent Gentile speakers joined the Jews of Springfield in a mass meeting voicing indignation against Jewish massacres in central Europe and urging allied nations to act. A parade of about 200 Jews led by former service men with American and Jewish flags preceded the gathering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cox
McCall
Alice Stone Blackwell
Peters
Charles H. Cole
Harvard
Charles W. Eliot
E. D. Stone
R. Geld
Temple Adath Jeshurun
H. Masliansky
New York
Charles E. Hughes
Senator Lodge
Nathan Strauss
Dallinger
Fitzgerald
Tinkham
Jacob H. Schiff
Joseph A. Lincoln
Lowell
General Edwards
Mr. Mitchell
Poland
Springfield
Europe
Harvard Will Honor Her Dead Tomorrow at Sanders Theatre
Major Henry Lee Higginson will be speaker of honor at Harvard’s services for the dead tomorrow morning at 11 30 oclock in Sanders Theatre. Officers graduates and students will gather at University Hall at 11 oclock and march to Sanders Theatre led by the Charles Beck Post G A R in uniform. Memorial Hall tablets will be decorated with flowers prior to the parade. Former Governor Augustus B Willson of Kentucky and the Rev Albert Parker Fitch will deliver addresses and Professor Jefferson B Fletcher will read a poem. The university choir will sing.
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Henry Lee Higginson
Harvard
Sanders
University
University Hall
Charles Beck Post
Sanders Theatre
Memorial Hall
Augustus B. Willson
Kentucky
Albert Parker Fitch
Jefferson B. Fletcher
Civic Administration Code Investigation Meets in Hartford
The commission created to study a civic administration code for Connecticut organized in Hartford by selecting Senator James W. Mead as chairman and Representative Frank E. Morgan as secretary. No further business was transacted at this session.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hartford
Conn
General Assembly
James W. Mead
Frank E. Morgan
Barneys Cambridge Lawyer Arrest Hears Case May Open
A Cambridge lawyer for Barney faces arrest amid claims of aiding in an escape. Police press a broad probe into a widening conspiracy as prosecutors set June 18 for the murder trial of Barney Dillon and Hurley, with judges warning editors to avoid publishing trial evidence and urging juror impartiality.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cambridge
Barney
Mathew Dailey
Sullivan
Dillon
Hurley
Deininger
Callahan
John F. Dillon
Joseph F. Flarley
Newfoundland to Welcome Its Boys Home
One thousand men of the Newfoundland Regiment will be welcomed in St John s Newfoundland tomorrow as they arrive from Liverpool on the transport Corsican. The unit has been overseas for nearly five years and sailed in the convoy that accompanied the first Canadian military contingent.
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ST. John’s, N. F
Newfoundland Regiment
Liverpool
Crane ordered sent to Danvers for commitment observation
Newburyport May 28 in the Superior Court John D. Crane of Lynn was charged with annoying women and was ordered committed to Danvers Asylum for observation as to his sanity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newburyport
John D. Crane
Lynn
Danvers Asylum
Jurors to Get $4 a Day Backdated Claim
Francis A. Campbell Suffolk County Superior Court clerk asserts the juror pay raise to four dollars a day and mileage to twelve cents takes effect May 19, 1919, not 90 days after April 18 as counsel advised. He sent a letter to City Auditor Alfred J. Mitchell ordering the increase from that date.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Corporation Counsel
Francis A. Campbell
Suffolk County Superior Court
Alfred J. Mitchell
Clerk Campbell Affirms High Court Opinion On Act 1919 Effect
Clerk Campbell quotes the chief justice confirming the time Act 1919 Chapter 112 takes effect and orders jury rolls to pay $4 a day with 12 cents per mile. He cites Chapter 97 on general law taking effect, emergency laws, and referendum exemptions tied to religious matters and localities.
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Campbell
Mitchell
General Court
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Mechanics’ Building
of David
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Roumania
Piedmont Peanut
South
Piedmont
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Record
Transcript
Joseph Bearak
Jewish Labor Organization
Max Mitchell
France
Polish Republic
Alice Stone
Blackwell
Chogy
Crawford Street
D D. Addison
Brookline
Rabbi Gold
Maiden
Meuse-Argonne
Toul
St. Mihiel
Mons
Verdun
St. Julien
Chateau Thierry
Festubert
Ypres
Jutland
Emeritus Eliot
Russia
Paderewski
Council of Nations
Great Brotherhood of Justice and Humanity
Cole
Cole’s
Soldirza
Stone
Mr. Masliansky
England
Connecticut
Murphy
Sanderson
Aias
Newfoundland
Danvers
Commonwealth
Castoria
Fletcher
CY As
Chas. H. Fletcher
Fletcher’s
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