New Steel Freighter to Serve Metropolitan Line
The 261 foot Wilming ton built steel freighter for the Boston New York service will be built by Pusey Jones Company Wilming ton Del Construction starts at once and the ship is due in commission next June Naval architect Theodore B Ferris designed the vessel The oil burner will run 1112 knots an hour and carry 2000 tons of freight
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New York
Pusey & Jones Company
Wilmington
Del
Theodore B. Ferris
Maine Dairymen Elect Officers at Rangor Meeting
J A Ness of Auburn was elected president at the Maine Dairymen Association annual meeting in Rangor. Vice president H H Nash of Cherryfield, treasurer F S Adams of Rowdenham, secretary H M Tucker of Augusta were chosen. L C G Holston urged standardizing milk payment by butterfat and campaigning milk as food.
Pape's Cold Compound Promises Quick Relief
An advertisement touts Pape's Cold Compound for cold relief with doses every two hours until three are taken. The first dose supposedly unclogs nostrils and eases head airways, stops runny nose, relieves feverishness and headache, and costs only a few cents at drug stores.
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Pape
Grippe
Urge Broadening of Educational Scope
At the closing session of the National Federation of College Women resolutions urged a high school education for every child in America and more educational films in theatres, plus support for Americanizing foreign-born residents. Officers elected include President Kyra Kingman Miller New York and Vice-President Elizabeth Hamilton Oxford C.
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Chicago
National Federation of College Women
America
Kyra Kingman Miller
New York
Elizabeth Hamilton
Oxford
Flora Warren Seymour
Expert Woman Weaver Melvina Plant at Park Hill Mills
A Fitchburg mill praises Miss Melvina Plant as the most expert weaver at Park Hill Mills. With 17 years weaving, she manages rapid bobbin changes and immediate knot repairs to prevent loom stoppages. She finds the work fascinating and well paid.
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Park Hill
Fitchburg
Melvina Plant
Miss Plant
Post letters on cloture Alaska sale and Civil War battles
Readers ask about cloture meaning and its use in Washington. Alaska was purchased from Russia for 7 200 000 on March 30 1867. Notes compare Gettysburg and St Mihiel battle figures with casualty and artillery details.
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United States
Alaska
Russia
Gettysburg
St. Mihiel
Footwear facts and assorted inquiries in a post 1900 letter page
Readers ask about women's shoe sizes by country with France and Brazil at the smallest. The batch includes routing to a Rutland sanatorium by car from Cambridge via Worcester and Holden, Arkansas pronunciation guidance, and queries about Samuel Gompers origins and heritage.
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France
Brazil
United States
Argentina
Germany
Great Britain
Rutland
Cambridge
Boston
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
England
Dorchester Youth Faces Charges for Dilapidated Store Windows
Francis G Cahill 19 of Hancock Street Dorchester was charged in Dorchester Court with breaking windows of two Dorchester stores while intoxicated. Judge Churchill ordered restitution of $60 plus $21 witness fees.
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Francis G. Cahill
Hancock Street
Dorchester
Churchill
Holyoke Landlords Called by Board in Rent Probe
In Holyoke on November 19 two apartment block owners, A J Bourgeauilt and Oscar Faford, members of the Holyoke Real Estate Owners Association, were summoned to appear before the State Commission on the Necessaries of Life investigating rent profiteering complaints.
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Holyoke
The
Shonts Widow Removed as Temporary Administratrix
New York Nov 19 Mrs Milla D Shonts widow of Theodore P Shonts former Interborough Rapid Transit president is removed as temporary administratrix of his estate. Guaranty Trust Company named successor as probate of a will contested by Mrs Shonts proceeds.
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New York
Milla D. Shonts
Theodore P. Shonts
Interborough Rapid Transit Company
Guaranty Trust Company
Printers’ Situation Clearing Up in New York
Reports from a publishers meeting say press rooms in large and small plants were running at full capacity as the long strike and lockout nears its sixth week. Compositor shortages and vacations by members of Big St are also easing.
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Salo Oom Og Price
New York
NW York
Smaler
Big St
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Delaware
Maine
Rangor
Bangor
Tudge Blanchard
Pearl
William Boyle
Smyrna Mills
John W. Nadeau
Orono
State Board of Charities and Corrections
Nadeau
Jtnele John
R.H White Co
House of Commons
Washington
William Pitt
Earl of Chatham
Massachusetts
Pine
Wm. Elliott
Ceylon
Bell
Co U
Food Adm
Goseds
Arkansas
Arkansas City
Mrs. Shonts
N. Y
Plas'er
Upson
JPSON
Lochport
Mandy
Upson Board
Walla O
Visia
Upson Company
Lockport
A. T. Stearns Lumber CO
Neponset
Mass
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