Doughnut King Vet Receives French Croix de Guerre
Springfield resident Willie Andrews known as the Doughnut King and a former private of Company A 3rd Infantry has been awarded the Croix de Guerre by the French Government. He earned the nickname during the Salvation Army drive by eating the most doughnuts in Springfield.
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Springfield
Willie Andrews
Company A
3Rd Infantry
Austin Street
Worcester
Salvation Army
Andrews
Springfield Meat Cutters Restrained in Strike
Judge W. C. Wait granted a temporary injunction on the petition of the H. L. Handy Company restraining former employees now on strike who are AMCBWA members from picketing the plant or interfering with company workers by intimidation or annoyance.
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Springfield
W. C. Wait
Superior Court
H. L. Handy Company, Meat Packers
Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of America
Jitneys 10 Be Canned In Whitman
Whitman officials adopt strict jitney regulations under the 1916 local jitney act effectively ending the Brockton Whitman jitney service once a lucrative Bay State line branch.
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Whitman
Jitney Buses Face Obsolescence in Brockton Vote
Public trustees move to end loss making jitney lines as street cars prevail at a special town meeting. Selectmen adopt strict license rules preventing buses from competing with electric street railway service, with ward meetings set to gauge civic sentiment ahead of aldermen decisions on revoking jitney licenses.
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P. F. Sheehan
Board of Selectmen
Brockton
Bay State
Today’s events at state house and universities
Educational convention opens at Committee Hall State House with morning and afternoon sessions in Ford Hall. Annual meetings at Boston University College of Liberal Arts and Mt Vernon Street for Special Aid Society. Lectures by Eunice Avery and Rev OBrien. Various club meetings and dinners follow, including Woman’s City Club address by Mrs Parker. Charity events at Paul Revere Hall and a Scottish charity concert at Beacon Hall conclude the day.
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Committee Hall
State House
Ford Hall
Association Urban Universities
College of Liberal Arts
Boston University
Special Aid Society
Mt. Vernon St
Philomatheia Club
Boston College
University Heights
Richard J. O’brien
S. J
Mason St
Massachusetts Charitable Fire Society
King’s Chapel
Harvey N. Shepard
Boston City Club
United States
David I. Walsh
Women's City Club
Cornelia Stratton Parker
Society
Massachusetts Women's Hospital
Beacon Hall
Coolidge Corner
Newman
Alsace Lorraine
Symphony Hall
Boston
Supreme Court
Copley Plaza Hotel
The
Woman's Auxiliary Board
Scots’ Charitable Society
Paul Revere Hall
Arrest of radical official in St. Louis
Federal agents arrest Milos Vojnovic a butcher in St Louis after tracing Chicago sent Communist literature to his home. A roster found lists 107 members of a Socialist party branch with Vojnovic as recording secretary.
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ST. Louis
Milos Vojnovic
The
Socialist Party
Chicago
Air Express to Fly to Chicago From Mitchel Field
Vice Admiral Mark Kerr announces a non stop flight from Mitchel Field to Chicago in a Handley Page bomber carrying 9600 pounds of express for the American Railway Express Company. The test aims to prove airships can serve commerce with a roughly ten hour trip. Delays followed due to customs notification and Chicago field conditions. Dansant at Radcliffe raises funds for a new piano for Elliot Hall.
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Mineola
Mark Kerr
Mitchel Field
Chicago
American Railway Express Company
Admiral Kerr
New York Central Railroad
Radcliffe
Elliot Hall
Advocates Radical Measures for State Banking Ownership
Grand Rapids Michigan November 13 The National Grange convention heard John Morris Colorado state master propose radical reforms including state ownership of banks and insurance during his speech suggesting a break from previous lines.
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Grand Rapids, Mich
National Grange
John Morris
Colorado
Irish Nationalist Is Suspended in Commons
Jeremiah Mac Veagh, Nationalist for South Down, was suspended by the House of Commons after he told James Ian MacPherson not to be imperti nt when the secretary answered a question. MacVeagh refused to withdraw the remark, saying the house would share his view of MacPherson in months to come.
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London
Jeremiah MacVeagh
South Down
Ireland
House of Commons
James Ian MacPherson
MacVeagh
Sinn Fein
MacPherson
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Summer St
Tremont St. Ase
Maine
Ants
Bromfield
AIR Express
Canada
Dansant AT
Beverly
Hyde Park
Hawley Streets
Kennedy
Providence
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Mackinaws
Patrick Duluth
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