Probe of Ryan Bank Accounts in Aviation Expenditures
New York October 29 An investigation into John D. Ryans bank accounts runs for the Congressional sub committee probing wartime aviation costs. An account transcript is being prepared from Hayden Stone Co Boston. Ryan offers full cooperation and rejects need for extra accountants.
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New York
John D. Ryan
Congressional
Ryan
Freer
Wisconsin
Charles E. Hughes
Hughes
Hyde Park Student Named Sergeant-at-Arms at Mt Holyoke
Ruth Lewis of Hyde Park is appointed sergeant-at-arms for the Mt Holyoke College class. She is the daughter of William E Lewis of Hyde Park and attends Hyde Park High School as a senior.
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Mt. Holyoke College
Hyde Park
Ruth Lewis
Wis
William E Is
Hyde Park High School
Women urged to curb prices by targeting cold storage
Mrs Ida M Hebbard president of the Boston Housewives league urged women to unite to lower food prices through concerted action including boycotts. She blamed cold storage plants as the main obstacle and said it is up to women to solve the food problem and act now.
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Ida M. Hebbard
Boston Housewives’ League
Foreign Missions Jubilee Marks 60 Years at Brookline
Mrs Lois Lee Parker, sole survivor of the founders of the Methodist Women's Missionary Society, helped inaugurate the golden jubilee convention of the Foreign Missionary Society of the United States at the Harvard Church Brookline. The anniversary observance continues through next Tuesday with women from the Methodist Episcopal Church involved in the international missionary effort.
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Methodist Women’s Missionary Society
The
Methodist Episcopal Church Foreign Missionary Society of the
United States
Harvard Church
Brookline
Jubilee of Methodist Women in Boston Highlights Global Mission
Mrs Lois Lee Parker, oldest surviving founder, addressed over a thousand members marking the society’s golden jubilee. Bishop Hughes praised Massachusetts leadership and Concord and Lexington era, while Mrs W F McDowell outlined goals for membership growth to a million, $1.6 million in funds, 1000 missionaries, and 180000 magazine subscriptions. The event included Vermont Day and New Hampshire Day with delegates Dr Ida Kahn Dr Li Bi Cu and Dr Mary Stone, and reports from Miss Howe Knowles Russell.
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Lois Lee Parker
Parker
Bishop Parker
Julia Thurber Butler
Massachusetts
Coolidge
Boston
Concord
Lexington
New England
W. F. McDowell
Bishop McDowell
Washington, D. C
McDowell
Gertrude Howe
China
Emma L. Knowles
India
Elizabeth Russell
Japan
W. F. Warren
Boston University
Frank Mason North
New York
Board of Foreign Missions
The
Methodist Episcopal Church
Homer C. Stuntz
Omaha
Pronunciation and air power questions for the era
A reader asks how to pronounce Sessue Hayakawa and how many first class airplanes the United States had when Germany declared war. The War Department lists 65 training planes with 51 obsolete. 667 of 2698 combat planes were built domestically, with Liberty motors the main U.S. contribution to aviation.
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Sir
United States
Germany
War Department
Uncle Sam
Liberty Motors
Ancient Structure Pediment Profile Description
A fragment discusses an architectural profile drawn from a window sequence to locate the apex of an old pediment. The text then shifts to a prohibition question about serving wines or liquors to guests in a home and cites an authorities view that bona fide guests may be served if supplies were in place before wartime prohibition began.
When to Plant Crocus Bulbs For Spring Bloom
Plant crocus bulbs about one inch deep before the ground freezes. For outdoor blooms next spring also plant tulips narcissus and hyacinths before the ground freezes this fall.
Apple Peeling Omen For Halloween Love
Folk belief links Hallowe'en fortune telling to peeling an apple. Remove the skin in one long strip, swing it around the head three times, and drop it to form a letter on the floor. The letter is said to hint at the future sweetheart's initial.
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Hallowe'en
Quote from Mrs Barbauld on not bidding good night
The quotation is attributed to Mrs Barbauld in her poem Life. It contrasts saying good night with a wish for a brighter clime and a morning greeting. The lines reflect longing and the hope of reunions after farewells.
Cambridge School Committee to Hear Dance Hall Objections
The Cambridge school committee will hear Rev. Hugh F. Blunt objecting to renting Thorndike School auditorium in East Cambridge for dances. Mrs. Ferdinanda W. Reed says she saw nothing improper and says Captain James M. Keaney of East Cambridge Police Division 3 backs the dances. The board invites Captain Keaney to attend.
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Cambridge
Hugh F. Blunt
Sacred Heart Church
East Cambridge
Thorndike School
Fast Cambridge
Ferdinanda W. Reed
James M. Keaney
Captain Keaney
Flora van Tattenburg to star at Shoe City Kennel Club show
Brockton report notes Flora van Tattenburg, a pure German police dog brought by Captain Cornelius F. Dineen, will headline the Shoe City Kennel Club show. The dog, famed for blueblood lines and praised by officials, was offered 1000 dollars and born November 1 in Hatzentort, around armistice time. Flora aims to become a true American fraulein and will compete in the Plymouth county championship.
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Flora
Captain Dineen
Kennel Club
Brockton
Germany
Flora van Tattenburg
Cornelius F. Dineen
Shoe City
Dineen
Hatzentort
Fraulein
Plymouth
Six Young Women and Three Men Stand Trial for Riot Assault
Six women Martha Foley Hermina Walt Jennie Klosson Louise Seren Olga Pallott and Julia Rashman and three men Frank Levensombo August Smith and John Smith face trial in Superior Criminal Court for assaulting Officer Samuel Hutchins during a riot. Rioting charge dropped after municipal complaint deemed defective. Officer Wiseman testified May Day parade on Copeland street featured a red flag. he identified Walt and Rushman. Hutchins to testify today.
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Superior Criminal Court
Samuel C. Hutchins
Municipal Court of
Roxbury
Martha H. Foley
Hermina Walt
Jennie Klosson
Louise Seren
Olga Pallott
Julia Rashman
Frank Levensombo
August Smith
John Smith
William Wiseman
Copeland Street
Miss Walt
Miss Rushman
Hutchins
Dorchester Boy Hurt Stealing Ride
Dorchester 10 year old Chester J. Hackett of 35 Draper Street was dragged by a wagon near his home when his right foot caught in the wheel spokes. Driver Samuel Millen of 154 Chelsea Street East Boston stopped after hearing cries. Hackett was sent to City Hospital with a fracture of both bones in the right leg.
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Chester J. Hackett
Draper Street
Dorchester
Samuel Millen
Chelsea Street
Boston
Young Hackett
City Hospital
Fastest mile trot by horses and tandem records
The record for a mile by two horses trotting together is 2 minutes 31.4 seconds set at Lexington Kentucky in 1812 by Uhlan and Lewis. Uhlan trotting alone covered a mile in 1 minute 45 seconds.
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Uhlan
Lewis Forrest
Lexington
Reconstruction and Fate of Faneuil Hall Through 1806
A local historian explains that the present Faneuil Hall is not the original. Part of the 1763 fire destroyed early walls, a new edifice rose within months and was enlarged in 1806. Only fragments of the original remain, with a rule to trace its old outline from a northeast view of the hall.
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Faneuil Hall
Priest applauds labor unions as bulwark against Bolshevism
The Rev. Jones I. J. Corrigan of Boston College praised labor unions at a Boston College High School Hall address. He defended collective bargaining against Judge Gary and argued unions improve living standards and workplace safety. He cited hours, child labor, illness, and old age protections as benefits secured by unions.
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Jones I. J. Corrigan
S. J
Department of Ethics
Boston College
Gary
Father Corrigan
United States
Radcliffe Bazaar at Agassiz House for Hallowe'en
Radcliffe College hosts a Hallowe'en bazaar in Agassiz House with home made candies books oil paintings and clothing for babies and mothers. Miss Francisca Warren artist in bank work will attend the event Saturday and Friday to support the Distant Work Committee scholarship fund aimed at aiding tired shoppers and their families.
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Hallowe’en
Radcliffe College
Tomor
Francisca Warren
Radcliffe Hallowe’en
Bazaar Set At Agassiz House With Tea And Theater
Carts tea and a table d hote supper are planned while three theatrical performances will entertain shoppers. The bazaar takes place in the Agassiz House living room where tables will be arranged for display and dining.
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Agassiz
Parkman to Wed Heiress Rotch Widow in Boston Society Match
Harry Parkman Jr., son of Mr and Mrs Henry Parkman of 30 Commonwealth Ave, will wed Mrs A Lawrences Rotch of 182 Beacon St widow of Prof A Lawrence Rotch Harvard who died in 1912. The ceremony at Emmanuel Church Newbury St will be conducted by Rev Elwood Worcester with no attendants. Rotch founded the Blue Hill Observatory and was noted in meteorology.
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Grant
Harry Parkman, Jr
Henry Parkman
Commonwealth Avenue
Back Bay Society
A. Lawrences Rotch
Beacon Street
A. Lawrence Rotch -of
Harvard
Rotch
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Methodist Women of Nation
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Gary Wrong
M. Louise Perry
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