Accused Doctor Pays $1000 Fine in Cambridge Case
Dr Alfred D Shea of Cambridge, pardoned in 1912 after a seven to ten year sentence for illegal surgery, yesterday pled to a similar charge in Superior Court at East Cambridge and was ordered to pay $1000 to the county for court expenses. He was arrested in May 1917 for allegedly operating illegally on a Brookline woman and indicted the next month. District Attorney Tufts accepted a plea of nolo in yesterday’s trial.
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Alfred D. Shea
Cambridge
East Cambridge
Brookline
Tufts
Nolo
Ambassador Francis Arrives in Scotland for Brief Vacation
The State Department reports Ambassador Francis has landed in Scotland from Archangel for a short vacation before returning to his post in Russia.
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Francis
Scotland
Washington
State Department
Archangel
Russia
Pershing Remembered as a Doer of Deeds
A West Point classmate hails General Pershing as a doer of deeds in an interview set to run in next week's Boston Sunday Post feature by H. F. Wheeler titled The Real Life of General Pershing.
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Pershing
West Point
General Pershing
H. F. Wheeler
Boston Sunday Post
Endorsement of Nuxated Iron Backed by Shaw and Others
Former Secretary of the Treasury Leslie M Shaw endorses Nuxated Iron as a valuable tonic. Dr James Francis Sullivan cites iron deficiency risks and praises the preparation's therapeutic value for weak and run down individuals. Notable supporters include Senator Towne and former Chicago Health Commissioner Kerr.
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James Francis Sullivan
Bellevue Hospital
New York City
Shaw
New York
Westchester County Ospital
United States
Charles A. Towne
Towne
Wm. R. Kerr
Chicago
Kerr
the Treasury
Leslie M. Shaw
Woman's Auto Stirs Trouble in Shrewsbury Suit
Judge Bolster clears Mrs Lillian F Howe former Hotel Haven proprietor of Shrewsbury of liability in a contract suit with Becker Stutz Auto Co Moore of 53 Walnut Street Lawrence and Moore admitted taking Howe's car with permission but she denied it The case relates to a preliminary action ahead of a tort suit with funds attached from Commonwealth Trust and a separate alienation of affections claim by Olivia Moore of Lawrence Moore now works as a shoe fitter in Haverhill.
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Wilfred Bolster
Municipal
M. A. Moore
Walnut Street
Lawrence
Mable
Lillian F. Howe
Editors Plan Food Conservation Week at State House
A conference of editors educators and clergymen meets at the State House at 11 AM to outline plans for Food Conservation Week to begin Sunday December 1. Fred C Wolcott a Hoover era official will be the principal speaker.
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State House
Federal Food Administration
Fred C. Wolcott
Mr. Hoover
Belgium
Food Administration Department
Washington
Boston Briefs on Public Safety, Irish meetings and notices
Local Briefs report a food conservation lesson at 377 Boylston Street led by Miss Anna L. De Planter, a conference for Irish society officers at Historic Hall, a large estate for James Sullivan following a fatal train incident, a peace league speech by Rev Dr van Allen, a church wedding at St Catherine’s, a burglary arrest of Mrs Margaret Allman, federal employee rally in Roughan Hall, Quincy city election rallies, Knights of Columbus events with Thanksgiving dinners, Army Navy Marine Day observances, and remarks by Howard Coonley on the future of the American merchant marine.
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Women’s Committee
Boston Public Safety Committee
Boylston Street
Anna
L. de Planter
Iron Workers Walk Out at Groton Ship Yard
About 100 night employees of the Groton Tron Works Company at Morse's Ship Yard in New London quit work after a hours rearrangement. Workers claimed four 12 hour days would require 48 hours weekly and that four hours of overtime would be needed, a demand the company refused.
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New London
Conn
Groton Tron Works
Morse
Mentho Laxene Syrup Ad Promises Fast Cold Relief
An advertisement urges readers to stock Mentho Laxene syrup to check or abort colds and coughing at onset. It touts no opiates, pleasant healing effects, full directions, a guarantee, and a money back offer from The Blackburn Products Co. in Dayton Ohio. It claims hundreds of thousands sold and very few refunds.
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A. Mitchell Palmer
Bayer Company, Inc
Riverside Avenue
Rensselaer
New York
Leverkusen
Germany
Vere Chininfabriken Zimmer & Co
Frankfort-on-the-Main
E. Merck
Darmstatt
Emil Aberhalden
Halle-on-the-Salle
Richard Willstatter
Berlin
United States
Farbenfabriken, Vormals Friedrich Bayer & Co
Anada
Farbenfabriken, Normals
Friedrich Bayer & Co
Carl Duisberg
Christian Hess
Rudolph Mann
Synthetic Patents Co., Inc
Blackburn Products Co
Dayton
Ohio
Boston Janitors Seek Wage Scale for 1919
The Apartment House Janitors and Chauffeurs Union of Boston presents a wage agreement to boost service. Proposed monthly minimums range from 10 dollars for two flats to 40 dollars for 16 to 24 flat buildings, with additional pay for vacuum systems and answering phones.
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Choremen
Union of
Boston and Vicinity
Drawings by Red Cross aid in France in Boston Past piece
Sterling Heilig profiles a set of quaint French drawings used by American Red Cross workers in France as featured in next week's Boston Past Sunday Magazine.
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Red Cross
France
Saving the Children of
Sterling Heilig
Boston Past Sunday
Pershing's Son Sends Christmas Box to Europe
Warren Pershing, son of General John J. Pershing, ships a Christmas box from Lincoln to New York for overseas troops. The gift includes chocolates, candied fruit, a knife, three linen handkerchiefs and silk socks, all packed to government size rules.
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Lincoln, Neb
Warren Pershing
John J. Pershing
France
Lincoln
New York
Europe
Smiths Offer to Opponents
Fitz Henry Smith Jr candidate for the 1919 House speakership issues an open letter inviting opponents Alvin Bliss and Joseph Warner to a conference. The candidate who shows a greater number of Republican members pledged to him would be the nominee, while the other two would withdraw.
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Fitz Henry Smith, Jr
Alvin E. Bliss
Joseph E. Warner
Peace conference views urged for Asia by Hart
Professor Albert Bushnell Hart warned at the State House that Asia must be considered in peace and cannot be treated as a field of exploitation. He urged Europe and Western nations to consider future friendship with Japan and China in their postwar dealings.
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Asia
Europe
Japan
China
Albert Bushnell Hart
State House
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Charles Head & Co
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Margaret Allman
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