Maynard to aid Red Cross drive in Boston area
Lieutenant Belvin W. Maynard the Flying Parson will make ten flights from Bedford Field with a passenger named by the first ten $5,000 donors. Mrs Maud Booth will speak at rallies while Charles F Weed leads Metropolitan efforts. The drive enlists 4213 in Boston and surrounding towns with multiple communities reporting enrollments and large gifts.
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Boston
Belvin W. Maynard
Maud Ballingtop Booth
Charles F. Weed
Metropolitan
Bedford Field
Bedford
L. H. Drennan
Government ships to be sold to American citizens
A House merchant marine committee bill completes disposition of the government merchant fleet. It preserves the Shipping Board as regulator and bars sale to foreign interests of ships needed in the American fleet. All government vessels would be sold to American citizens and the existing construction program would continue.
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Washington
House Merchant Marine Committee
Shipping Board
Barrett resigns as Pan American Union chief
Washington Nov 5 John Barrett director general of the Pan American Union for 14 years formally tendered his resignation to the governing board. The resignation takes effect June 30 when Barrett is expected to become president of a new unofficial Pan American organization for development of international commerce and goodwill.
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Washington
John Barrett
Pan-American Union
Union
Barrett
Gompers Addresses Conference On Eight Hour Day
Samual L Gompers president of the American Federation of Labor spoke at the International Labor Conference as an unofficial US representative. He urged the straight eight hour day as a maximum with a 48 hour week in view and warned that even the eight hour day in the United States could be shortened if labor fails to achieve its goal.
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Washington
International Labor Conference
Samuell Gompers
Americart Federation of Labor
United States
Gompers Seeks Commission On Hours Of Work
Mr Gompers spoke in reply to a majority report by employer delegates favoring shorter hours but said general enforcement is blocked by wartime production needs. Later he urged referring the entire hours issue to a commission, but his motion to a committee failed 30 to 41 as many labor delegates voted no and his abstention was not counted.
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Gompers
George R. Barnes
British War Ministry
Police Still Seek Crowell in Enfield Sanitarium Case
Hartford agents report Samuel F. Crowell, a Manchester resident and former Library Bureau Hartford manager, missing since Saturday breakfast. Dr. Thornton Vail has offered a 500 dollar reward and declined further comment while police in Connecticut and Massachusetts pursue leads. Crowell, once active in Liberty Loan drives, had health issues amid recent strain and was under care at the Vail Sanitarium for a few weeks.
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Hartford
Conn
Samuel F. Crowell
Manchester
Crowell
Boston
Liberty Loan
Big. Com
William H. Leete
Eyfeld
Albert L. Crowell
Highland Park
Connecticut
Massachusetts
Murphy interview echoes post election mood at Tammany Hall
New York Nov 5 Charles F Murphy leader of Tammany Hall spoke to himself as reporters watched his reactions the day after Tammany suffered a defeat. Asked if he would resign he replied No I’m not going.
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New York
Charles_ F. Murphy
Tammany Hall
Tammany
Uessions
Murphy
Four boys burned in powder explosion at Somerville plant
Four youths were injured when a powder can exploded at a Somerville plant. Horrell 16 Gillette 15 and Fillette 15 were taken to Somerville Hospital on the danger list, with serious burns to the head face and arms. Rescue, fire officials and police investigated as it was learned 1600 empty cans were involved and prior orders had them all emptied into one container for disposal.
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That Horrell
Pearson Road
Somerville
Dangelist
Somerville Hospital
Arthur %Ilette
Dow Street
Salvatore Fillette
Alpine Streat
Joseph Ree
Kraft
Gillette
Fillette
Somerville Fospital
Walter Ly Wedger
Horrell
Dwyer
Dorchester Auto Crash Victim Had Fatal Night Charge
Slaughter was held for the grand jury in 1000 by Judge Joseph R. Churchill of the Dorchester Court. McGaffigan drove an automobile that on the night of October struck and fatally injured Miss Gertrude A. Cannon of 269 Boston Street in Dorchester at Edward Everett Square.
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George H. Ellis Company
Shepard Worsted Mills
Pittsburg Plate Glass Company
Franklin Rubber Company
Zurich General Accident & Mutual Insurance Company
Boston Morris Plan Company
American Radiator Company
Rockwell & Churchill Press
Baker, Ayling & Young
Harris Forbes Company
Hayden Stone Company
Boston
Milk Street
Allston-Brighton
Harvard Avenue
Charlestown
Monument Square
Dorchester
Columbia_road
Hyde Park
Littlefield Building
Jamaica Plain
Curtis Hall
East Boston
Old Police Station
South Boston
Municipal Building
Roslindale
Congreve Street
Roxbury
Norfolk House
George C. Lee
Julia C. Prendergast
C. E. Flynn
C. F. Weed
Storm wrecks lobster traps and boats in Cape shore gale
Portland date line reports a 49 mile per hour gale piling up lobster traps and small fishing craft on the Cape shores. All shipping stayed in harbor while barges and schooners used double anchors to avoid drifting. Damages to traps and craft run to several thousand dollars.
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Portland
Cape
Bill to Extend Food Control Act Proclaimed Peace
Navy notes a bill to extend the Lever Food Control Act for six months after peace, introduced today by the chairman at Washington as requested by Attorney General Palmer. The measure aims to maintain wartime controls during the transition to peacetime operations.
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Washington
Navy
Palmer
Aspirin for Colds Bayer Tabletts in Bayer Package
Bayer marks aspirin as genuine for nineteen years prescribed by physicians. Handy tin boxes hold 12 tablets with proper directions for colds pain headache neuralgia and rheumatism. Lost few cents. Bayer aspirin is the trade mark of Bayer Manufacturer Ole acetic acid ester of salicylic acid.
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Bayer
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