Two Women Sue Over Husband Affections in Suffolk Courts
Adelaide L. Pierce of Peabody sues in Suffolk Superior Court with Aida L. Davis of Boston alleging alienation of Howard C. Davis’s affections. Davis asks for damages. Rose Bricker of Mattapan also sues Ethel Dolan of Commonwealth Avenue seeking $10,000 for loss of affections.
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Adelaide L. Pierce
Peabody
Suffolk Superior Court
Aida. L. Davis
Boston
Howard C. Davis
Jewish Soldiers Guests in Homes for Holiday
More than 100000 Jews in Boston and vicinity celebrated the new year last evening. In synagogues and temples many men in uniform attended as war and sermons dominated. The Jewish Welfare Board arranged hospitality for Jewish soldiers and sailors in city synagogues and temples with plans to house and feed them during furlough in private Jewish homes.
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Boston
Massachusetts
Jewish Welfare Board
Congress Begins on Tax Bill for War Costs
Washington notes Congress started work on a vast revenue measure to raise 24 billion dollars in taxes and 16 billion in bonds to fund next year’s war costs and loans to co belligerents amid claims of political unity.
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Washington
Congress
America
Kitchin Outlines War Revenue Bill as House Debates Rates
Democratic Leader Kitchin explained the war revenue bill in the House while Senate hearings began. He outlined the income tax details, warned high rates, and claimed the measure funds the war with equitable burdens, noting no protests from American business.
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House
Kitchin
Ways and Means Committee
Senate Finance Committee
Fordney
Michigan
Simmons
Germany
Kit
Mott Heads War Campaign For Huge World War Effort
John R. Mott was elected director general of the seven organization war drive to raise 170 500 000 during November 11 to 18 1918 in New York He serves as War Work Council chairman of the YMCA Cleveland H Dodge named treasurer The group includes Perkins Davison Agar Phelan Herrick Vanderlip Battle Schiff Fosdick and others representing the YMCA YWCA Catholic War Council War Camp Community Service American Library Association Salvation Army Jewish Welfare Board and government training camp panel.
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New York
John R. Mott
War Work Council
Cleveland H. Dodge
Salvation Army
George Gordon Battle
Jewish Welfare Board
Mortimer L. Schiff
Raymond B. Fosdick
Government Commission On
Daisy a Daisy Drive for the 101st Regiment
Citizens are urged to wear daisies in honor of the 101st Regiment. White outfits and baskets of flowers abound as girls and children sell daisies across shops and restaurants. Comets will be displayed from aeroplanes over the Common and Stadium with the slogan Watch for the Comets. A noontime patriotic gathering on the Common features Governor and Mayor along with arriving officers from France.
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i#1st Infantry
Alice Orne
Mary Goon
Alice Wong
Helen Fong
Dorothy Wong Fee
May Moy
101St Regiment
Comets
Mark King
France
Bernard Kievenaar
Moyse
Boston Boy Deserted in Davenport Iowa
A Boston boy, deserted by his mother in a Davenport Iowa lodging house, left after paying $5 weekly for two weeks. Authorities note the boy appears well educated and question if he was kidnapped or harmed, seeking any identifying clues from Boston.
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Davenport
Iowa
Boston
New England
President Orders Kerner Released From Court Martial
Washington reports Private William A. Kerner of Company G 306th Infantry who was sentenced to be shot for refusing to drill has been released and restored to duty by President Wilson.
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Washington
William A. Kerner
306Th Infantry
Camp Upton
New York
Wilson
Food Rules for School Children Campaign Call
The Boston school children enlist for life in the Health Army to help Uncle Sam. They aim to be 100% physically perfect and start a campaign to improve their health and fitness.
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Boston
Sam
Health Cards Promote Clean Living for Children
A city effort at the Children's Cottage distributes Health Cards to youths, especially boys, urging daily water intake, regular meals, varied foods, hygiene, and abstaining from shared utensils. A Health Army pledge reinforces the message with vows to keep the body clean, breathe pure air, and act for public health and country.
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New Health Army
Lieutenant Hollis Dies by Suicide in Dayton Hotel
Lieutenant Henry F. Hollis of the aviation corps, 23, shot himself in the head in a Dayton hotel. Son of Senator Henry F. Hollis of New Hampshire, he had recently left Cornell to join the aviation branch and had been at the local flying field for two months. He was injured in a prior training accident and lived with his mother and sister in Princeton.
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Dayton, CO
Henry F. Hollis
Aviation Corps
New Hampshire
France
Hollis
Cornell University
Aviation
National Service
Princeton
N. J
Senator Hollis
E. E. Fisher
Springfield
Mass
Elevated decision expected next week in Boston strike case
Attorney Vahey said the War Labor Board may hand down an award on Tuesday or Wednesday next week in the Boston Elevated employees dispute. Meantime, Middlesex and Boston Street Railway strikers gained news of a state wide street carmen union meeting in Waltham Monday night to plan action on wage demands and potential refer to the National War Labor Board.
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Elevated Men
Boston Elevated
War Labor Board
Middlesex & Boston Street Railway Company
Carmen
Hibernian Hall
Waltham
National War Labor Board
Union alleges collusion to disrupt labor policy drives Massachusetts strike
The meeting aims to address charges by union leaders that capitalists and street railway magnates plot to block disputes before the War Labor Board. If cooperation emerges, a statewide street railway strike could be scheduled to support the Middlesex and Boston dispute and test magnates’ resolve. James H. Vahey, counsel for the Middlesex and Boston unions, returned from Washington and pushed the allegations before national board members. Union linemen were ordered out amid wage talks, and first strikebreakers opened the Lexington to Bedford line as work resumes on adjacent routes. No interference from striking carmen has occurred.
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War Labor Board
Massachusetts
Middlesex
Boston
James H. Vahey
Middlesex & Boston Union
Boston Street Car Men’s Union
Washington
Boston Elevated
National Board
Vahey
Henry B. Endicott
State Committee On Public Safety
Endicott
Electrical Workers’ Union 104
Middlesex & Boston Company
Lexington
Middlesex & Boston Street Railway
Waltham
Arlington Heights
Billerica
Concord
Carmen
Artist Baker Is Set Free by U S Commissioner
English artist and sculptor Robert Peter Baker was discharged by United States Commissioner Hayes after being charged by Mrs. F. B. Boyer and Miss Elizabeth Grinnell with making disloyal remarks at a Beacons Street dinner. Witnesses swore the remarks were never made and Baker denied meeting Mrs. Boyer in London.
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Robert Peter Baker
F. B. Boyer
Elizabeth Grinnell
Beacon Street
United States
Hayes
Boyer
Miss Grinnell
Shipping Board
Back Bay
Baker
Father of four seeks larger home amid rental bias
A letter to the Post complains of landlords refusing tenancy when told a family has four children. The writer, father of four with the oldest 11, has searched since last April for a larger suburb home with country air, urging authorities to address housing discrimination harming families.
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Department of Justice
United States
Patrolman Vinal W Harmon Retired After 21 Years Service
Mart Japan police station honors Patrolman Vinal W Harmon after 21 years of service. He retires on half pay of $700 due to physical disability, requested by Harmon himself.
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Vinal W. Harmon
Mart
Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Promises Relief
Worcester Massachusetts resident Mrs F H Stone credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with ending months of weakness and pain. She says the remedy restored strength, allowed her to manage housework, including laundry, and supported her healthy baby. The ad urges women with displacements irregularities inflammation backache headaches and nervousness to try the root and herb remedy.
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Worcester
Mass
Lydia E. Pinkham
F. H. Stone
Bowdoin St
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