Harvard Radio School Expands Dorms For Navy Men
Gold Coast to be available as a dormitory for Uncle Sam's naval radio men. Craigie Hall on Mt Auburn Street will house 150 members as Harvard Radio School grows, with total radio students nearing 2000. About 125 graduates leave the course weekly, while 175 to 300 new students enter. Three college dormitories, Hemenway gymnasium and Memorial Hall, have already been turned over to navy use.
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Uncle Sam
Harvard
Craigie Hall
Mt. Auburn St
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Harvard Radio School
Harvard Radio
Hemenway Gymnasium
Memorial Hall
Navy
20 000 Mechanics Wanted In Service
The quartermasters department announces a large recruitment drive seeking 20 000 mechanics of all grades and classes. Enlistments occur at 2% Huntington Avenue room 606 until the district quota is met.
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Huntington Avenue
Change in plans for officers announced by Baker
Washington Nov 13 1918 Secretary Baker announced that all officers training camp graduates will receive commissions and most will be sent to active service immediately with troops or service schools. The review showed few should be kept on inactive status.
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Washington
Baker
Department plans to keep officer candidates in service Jubilee
The department plans to assign only a small percentage of second series camp graduates to active duty this month, prompting protests from families. Many commissioned as reserve officers will join divisional regiments or staff corps. others become super numeraries for further training. With at least 313,000 National Army men to be called by spring, officials prefer keeping graduates active rather than returning them to civilian life.
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United States
National Army
Orders to Keep Germans in Mexico Warned
American authorities in El Paso warned that after November 15 any American entering Mexico must have a State Department passport to return to the United States. Friendly aliens in Mexico may obtain passports from their consuls with American consular oversight. Mexicans can obtain passports from their government.
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EL Paso
Tex
Mexico
State Department
United States
Veteran Insurance Man Captain Sears Dies at 85
Captain William B. Sears a veteran of the fire insurance business since 1865 died at his Brookline home age 85. He had long Boston offices at 44 Kilby Street with the firm W. B. Sears & Son.
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William B. Sears
Harvard Avenue
Brookline
Hoover Accepts Aid From Credit Men
Washington November 13 The food administration accepted the offer of the National Association of Credit Men to assist in food conservation. J H Tregoe secretary treasurer heads a committee to develop a plan with association officials and its 125 branches nationwide.
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Washington
The
Food Administration
National Association of Credit Men
J. H. Tregoe
Dennett Seventy-Eighth Birthday Overshadowed by Draft Duties
Malden's first municipal postmaster Charles E. Dennett marked his 78th birthday while overseeing draft records. He praised his undisturbed service since 1882 and warned enlistees to abstain from alcohol as the second draft looms. His grandsons Rodger and A Endicott Dennett serve in the Aviation and Engineering Corps respectively.
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Charles E. Dennett
Malden
Garfield
Division 2
Selective Draft Board
Mr. Dennett
City Hall
Wilson
Dennett
Sharon
Rodger
A. Endicott Dennett
United States Service
Rodger Dennett
Aviation Corps
A. Endicott
301St Regiment
Ayer
Massachusetts Transit Panel Guests Tour New York
Massachusetts Street Railway Investigation Commission members led by chairman Joseph W. Martin were hosted at a New York Chamber of Commerce reception. They later toured the Hudson and Manhattan railroad system as support for solving Massachusetts transit issues.
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New York
Massachusetts Street Railway Investigation Commission
Joseph W. Martin
Chamber of Commerce
State of
Hudson and Manhattan
Chamber
Massachusetts
Tinkham Arrives Safely at Bordeaux
Congressman George Holden Tinkham has arrived in Bordeaux France. His secretary George R Canty received a cablegram late last evening confirming the safe arrival.
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Tinkham
Bordeaux
George Holden Tinkham
George R. Canty
Boston
France
Chorus Girls End Ugly Dining Habits Fight
Stage door protests spark a nationwide movement to curb excess dining by chorus girls after performances. Miss Helen Clarke of Love o Mike submits plans to the Women's Council of Defence ally, urging actors to avoid white bread midweek and expensive meals, with pledge blanks to cut meat on select days.
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Helen Clarke
Love O
Mike
Wilbur Theatre
Stage Women’s Conservation Union
Women's Council of Defence
Miss Clarke
Nathaniel Thayer
Strauss Now on War Board
Washington November 13 The personnel of the new war trade board was completed tonight by the appointment of Albert S Strauss of New York to represent the Treasury He has been assisting McAdoo on foreign exchange problems in an advisory capacity without pay
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Washington
New War Trade Board
McAdoo
Albert
Farm Hand Arrested as an Enemy Alien
Francis Brickman, 24, a farm hand with work history across several local farms, was arrested by Pittsfield police for the federal authorities in Boston as an enemy alien who failed to report after moving between locations. He has brothers in the German army and is known to have been in West Virginia Hoboken and Pittsfield in recent months.
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Pittsfield
Francis Brickman
Boston
Brickman
West Virginia
Hoboken
Prosecutor Eyes Doctor Over Death of Infant Patient
Chicago reports criminal prosecution looming for Dr. Harry J. Haiselden who placed Baby Hod zima under a death sentence. The physician claims the deformed infant would be better off dead and the mother administers medicine to hasten a painless death as the child endures skull deformity and tracheal stricture.
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Chicago
Harry J. Haiselden
Hodzima
Coroner threatens grand jury over infant case in Chicago
Coroner Peter F Hoffman vows grand jury action if the Hodzima baby dies and urges a physician committee to probe the case. He accuses Dr Haiselden of overstepping authority as the mother defends feeding medicine, while Haiselden jeers at Hoffman and defends his so called painless passing of the child.
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Peter F. Hoffman
Robertson
Haiselden
Stephen Hodzima
North May Street
Paul Hodzima
Hoffman
Chicago
Boards of Education
Will Register Alien Enemies Proclaimed Soon
President Wilson is expected to issue a proclamation requiring every alien enemy in the United States to register. The measure aims to sift out potential saboteurs among about a million Germans and curb fires in munition plants grain elevators and warehouses and propaganda harming the war effort.
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Washington
Wilson
United States
America
Diaz seeks press aid for Italian Army at critical moment
General Diaz the new chief of staff meets headquarters correspondents. He expresses confidence in co operation from Italian and allied press to elucidate and elevate public opinion toward a victorious, united effort amid difficult times.
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Diaz
Associated Press
Italy
Indicted in Plot on Ford in Federal Case
Detroit November 13 An indictment charging use of the mails to defraud was returned against Jacob Yellin who was arrested after Edsel Ford received a ransom note threatening his infant son Henry Ford II if $10 000 was not sent. Yellin pleaded not guilty and was held on $10 000 bail as arraignment followed.
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Detroit
Mich
Jacob Yellin
Edsel B. Ford
Yellin
Edsel Ford
Henry Ford
Miss Wilson Gives $500 to Canadian Red Cross
Montreal reports Miss Margaret Wilson daughter of President Wilson sent a $500 contribution to the Canadian Red Cross Society. The gift came from proceeds of a recent concert in the city.
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Miss Wilson
Canadian Red Cross
Montreal
Canadian Red Cross Society
Margaret Wilson
Wilson
Indictment Targets Mayor Over Coal Seizure in Willoughby
A federal grand jury indicts Mayor Carmichael of Willoughby Ohio Prosecutor George C von Beseler and Deputy Marshals James Barnes and Grant Lamos for impeding interstate coal shipments on November 1 and 2 The charges allege conspiracy to seize New York Central coal and detain freight trains with arrests of engineers and conductors The case cites a claim of rightful seizure amid humanitarian arguments by the prosecutor.
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Cleveland
Federal Grand Jury
Carmichael
Willoughby
George C. von Beseler
James Barnes
Grant Lamos
New York Central
von Beseler
Kavanaugh
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