Actress seeks divorce from strongman husband in Dorchester
Mrs. Ethel Azadian testified in Divorce Court that Paul Azadian, a six foot three inch weightlifter, abused her at home. She described brutal acts including being slammed and struck with a milk bottle leaving her face injured. She cited Armenian beliefs and asserted she is American. Judge Fox took the case under advisement.
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Ethel Azadian
Fox
Paul
Azadian
Dorchester
Printer Gets Into Army on Third Try
Joseph Fitzgerald of Pittsfield won military service after three attempts. Rejected twice for defective eyesight, he was accepted for the Twenty fifth United States Engineers as a member of a troop of expert printers and pressmen who are to go to France to print a newspaper for American soldiers. No game was ever won by laying down because victory was in sight. Buy a bond.
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Pittsfield
Joseph Fitzgerald
United States Engineers
France
Boston man leaves large trust to Harvard and colleges
The will of the late George W. Leverett of Boston leaves Miss Laura L. Berry a $15000 outright sum plus a $2000 annual annuity for years of her service as bookkeeper. Edward G. Masterman receives $5000 and relatives of his gain similar sums. Beneficiaries include the Colonial Society of Massachusetts $20000, MSPCA $10000, Berea College $10000, Tuskegee Institute $10000, Harvard scholarship fund $5000, and Bunker Hill Monument Association $10000. The estate funds further annuities and, after the last annuitant dies, $50000 goes to Harvard for scholarships and up to $125000 to establish a mathematics or physics professorship.
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Laura L. Berry
George W. Leverett
Boston
Edward G. Masterman
Moosehead
Colonial Society of Massachusetts
Massachusetts Society For the Prevention of Cruelty
Berea College
Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute
Harvard College
Bunker Hill Monument Association
Anti-Draft Socialist Sentenced to Three Years
A. L. Sugarman, a notable St. Paul socialist, was found guilty of seditious remarks tending to treason regarding the draft. He received a three year sentence to Fort Leavenworth penitentiary in Mankato Minnesota on October 26.
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Mankato, Minn
A. L. Sugarman
St. Paul
Fort Leavenworth
Man who delays Liberty Bond purchase linked to Kaiser
A Newport editorial warns that a man who does not buy a Liberty Bond by tonight is a friend of the Kaiser, framing dissent as aiding the enemy and urging prompt purchase to support the war effort.
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the Kaiser
New York Hypnotizes Hub Folk at Wage Hearing
The Boston hotel industry testifies before the Minimum Wage Commission about rising costs and the lure of New York's lights. Albert R. Apsey blames Boston spending while John J. Kearney urges separate wage boards for restaurants and hotels as figures show low weekly wages and room and board. The hearing reviews conditions with no immediate decision announced.
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Boston
New York
Great White Way
Albert R. Apsey
Massachusetts Hotel Association
Apsey
Arthur N. Race
John J. Kearney
Hotel and Restaurant Employees’ Union
War Department to Send Surplus Regiments to France
War Department plans to move men remaining in old regiments to France as surplus units for General Pershing to form corps troops. The note continues a discussion from the first page on organizing additional forces for the American expedition.
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War Department
France
Pershing
New England Division Leaves for France in First Official Notice
A letter to Senator Weeks from Secretary Baker, released last night, announces the departure of the complete New England division under General Edwards for France. It notes no assignment yet for General Sweetser and outlines reorganization of the Massachusetts National Guard regiments to meet Pershing and general staff plans for early active service abroad.
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Massachusetts Infantry
United States
General Pershing
Massachusetts
Edwards
Newton D. Baker
Senator Weeks
Baker
New England
General Edwards
France
General Sweetser
Senator
National Guard
General
Governors See Baker
Washington officials outline a plan to use skeletonized National Guard regiments as a reserve in France to keep Pershing's force strength at full. Five New England governors pressed for how seven regiments will be rebuilt while preserving ranks and officers.
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New England
Washington
National Guard
War Department
France
Pershing
Baker
Bliss
McCall
Massachusetts
Milliken
Maine
Keyes
New Hampshire
Graham
Vermont
Holcombe
Connecticut
General Bliss
General Pershing
New England National Army
Ayer
Mass
National Army
Cambridge Library Trustees Skip Hearing on Copithorne
Cambridge Library trustees met in the library and voted not to attend the public hearing for deposed city librarian Matthew R. Copithorne. The City Council plans the hearing next Tuesday, citing an opinion that the council has no right to hold it and that any finding is not binding on the trustees.
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Cambridge Library
Cambridge
Matthew R. Copithorne
Copithorne
Board of Trustees
Milk Distributors Found Not Guilty in Kerosened Milk Suit
H. P. Hood & Sons, milk producers and distributors, were found not guilty in a $10,000 civil action accusing milk of containing a foreign substance. The jury concluded the company did not sell milk that contained kerosene in the Fifth Civil Session.
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H. P. Hood & Sons
Bridget M Scannell obituary notice
SCANNELL In this city Oct 26 at her late residence 700 Huntington Ave Bridget M beloved wife of Roger I Scannell Burial private Please omit flowers Hour of service later.
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Scannell
Huntington Ave
Bridget M
Roger I. Scannell
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Hart Schaffner
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