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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 05, 1919
Page
4
The State Department announced Japan is agreeable to cooperate with American authorities in Siberia following a note from September. Details of plans and whether negotiations concluded were not disclosed and the Japanese reply text was withheld.
Despatches from Tokyo report that Washington warned Japan troops in Siberia failed to protect American railroad engineers and hindered food shipments for Russians. The note reportedly urged cooperation and safe transport in the rail link serving Russian needs.
Despatches from Omsk report Colonel Emerson ordering the American Railway Corps withdrawal from Siberia to align with Czecho Slovak forces repatriation on Nov 4. State Department says forces will not be pulled back and the railway commission will stay active. Mission members reportedly moved to Irkutsk ahead of Bolshevik advance.
Textile councils representing union employees of the cotton mills in New Bedford and Fall River plan a joint wage demand within a week. The move follows an emergency committee meeting of the National Amalgamation of Textile Operators in Fall River. About 70,000 operatives work in the two cities.
A 1919 Jerusalem letter appeals to readers to mail half pound boxes of candy for 40 Syrian and Armenian orphans at Miss M Forbes Girls’ School Syrian Orphanage. Senders’ names and addresses must be clear. gifts acknowledged with letters.
Everett Patrolman Michael A. O Gara saved Mary C. Edmester from being killed by an express train. He shouted to the unaware woman then dragged her to safety just before the train passed. The Carnegie Hero Fund Commission awarded him $1000 and a gold medal after two years of review.
Patrolman O Gara rang his duty call from a patrol box on Second Street Everett on the evening of August 7 1916 A nearby gatetender signalling the Rockport express sighted the scene and reported the approach of the train amid the incident.
The Medway and Dedham Street Railway Company will convert four two man cars to one man operation on its 20 miles between Dedham and Franklin to cut costs. The line has been running at a loss with light patronage, and officials say the change could help. It will be among the first small Massachusetts railways to implement one man cars.
Germany replies to the inter allied note demanding surrender of ships turned over to Dutch shipping firms during the war. Berlin says it is ready for an arbitrable decision based on an agreement between the Allies, the Associated Powers, and The Netherlands, even if the result differs from Germany’s view.
The Rev. Isaac Ward Ph D pastor of the First Presbyterian Church Columbus Avenue corner Berkeley Street began a two weeks trip through Iowa and Nebraska to represent the general assembly committee of the Presbyterian church s new era movement in a series of institutes. The Rev A C Knudson D D professor at Boston University will occupy the pulpit on Nov 9.
The Iris race convention in Melbourne with about 1000 Australasian delegates passed a resolution in favor of self determination for Ireland and a fund to aid the movement. Sir Robert Best criticized the push as a cover for rebellion against Britain while Archbishop Mannix noted the English Archbishop Redwood supported the self determination motion.
Ida Tarbell born November 5 1851 in Erie Pennsylvania. A noted author of The History of the Standard Oil Company and The Life of Abraham Lincoln her essays The Business of Being a Woman discuss present female issues. She emphasizes the child as the central focus of a woman lifework and a new world’s future.
A British steamer named Bretan Jer ran aground near Virginia Beach during dense fog while attempting to reach port. The vessel is reported to be in no danger.
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