Watering 60 140 Horses Reported by Society
Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals reports 60 140 horses watered since June 25 at hydrant stations and traveling carts. Jack London Club membership reaches 198 366. August activity includes 627 cases, 2974 animals remined, 24 prosecutions, 2 convictions, 123 horses withdrawn, 68 horses and 642 small animals humanely destroyed. Hospitals log 62 409 total cases since March 1 1915. Bands of Mercy total 135 868.
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Massachusetts Society For the Prevention of Cruelty
Francis H. Rowley
Jack London Club
Society
Angell Memorial
United States
American Humane Education Society
Bands of Mercy
First Relief Kitchen Opens in Petrograd Russia
Riga dispatch reports the first American relief administration kitchen began in Petrograd to feed 50 000 children with a medical screening for ages three to thirteen to identify the neediest. shipments blocked by Soviet car shortages slow relief as goods pile in warehouses.
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Riga
Associated Press
American Relief Administration
Russia
Petrograd
Moscow
Few Jobless in Lawrence
Lawrence stands among the state’s cities with the fewest unemployed and lowest charity calls. State Board of Charity reports unusually good conditions and City Almoner Riley notes August saw only five new aid applications. Textile firms’ wage reductions during the prior year helped normalize conditions, as mill activity reflects local employment.
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Lawrence
State Board of Charity
Municipal Charities Department
Timothy W. Riley
Legion Delegation Seeks Harding Rebuke for Harvey Lie
At Newberry South Carolina on September 8 the American Legion resolutions denounced Ambassador Harvey's London dinner statement as a lie about why the U.S. joined World War and urged President Harding to recall him and issue a public rebuke. Amendments adding the adjective were defeated to keep the measure stronger.
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Newberry
Ambassador Harvey
London
Pilgrims Society
America
South Carolina
Rhode Island Unemployment Figures Seen For Hoover Talk
Rhode Island has 32 755 unemployed as estimated by State Commissioner of Labor George H Webb for Hoover's conference in Washington. The figure equals about four times the normal number of unemployed in the state.
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Providence
R. I
Rhode Island
George H. Webb
Hoover
Washington
Jackie Coogan Hits Stardom at Six with Own Producing Co
Child star Jackie Coogan earns over 50000 dollars in a year and heads a producing company at age six. He co stars with Charlie Chaplin in The Kid and awaits release of a new film. His parents were vaudeville performers in Los Angeles and he enjoys golf with clubs made for him.
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Jackie Coogan
Charlie Chaplin
the Kid
Jackie
Los Angeles
Brunton Lot
Mary Pickford
Douglas Fairbanks
Mary
Doug
Charlie
Arliss Chooses Idle Hands as Next UA Vehicle
George Arliss set for new film Idle Hands after critics hail him among the screen's best sellers. Earl Derr Biggers author of Seven Keys to Baldpate wrote the story selected for this United Artists project.
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Disraeli
George Arliss
Earl Derr Giggers
Mr. Arliss
United Artists
Glamor Roles Rise as Glyn Story Sold to Swanson Film
Famous Players Lasky buys Elinor Glyn original story Beyond the Rocks to be developed as a Gloria Swanson vehicle for a future Paramount production.
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Famous Players-Lasky Company
Elinor Glyn
Gloria Swanson
Paramount
Vattel Edition Ties to New Nation’s Framing and Neutrality
The Harvard copy of Vattel, used by the Second Continental Congress and the 1787 convention, influenced the Constitution's incorporation of international law. A manuscript note hints at a colonial guide to government. Washington and Jefferson likely consulted this edition while shaping neutrality in the 1783 France-Britain war.
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Dumas
Continental Congress
Vattel
United States
Harvard
Washington
Jefferson
France
Great Britain
Swig Family Denies Mortgage Cash Payment
Simon Swig vice president of Tremont Trust and his wife Fan nie and son Louis Swig of Taunton answered a suit by W Rodman Peabody liquidating agent denying any cash payment for a $25 000 mortgage on their motor avenue home They say the mortgage was for complying with a bank commissioner requirement to protect Tremont Trust from suspected loan risks.
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Simon Swig
Tremont Trust Company
Fannie
Louis Swig
Taunton
Guaranty Security Corporation
W. Rodman Peabody
Mhort Avenue House
Tremont Trust
Hollywood gossip and marriage notes on film figures
Fall River Milton Sills is married with a daughter. Addresses include Lasky studio Hollywood and Vitagraph in Hollywood. George Walsh Leena Owen divorce rumors Colleen Moore in Dinty and Conrad Nagle misattribution. Beasley and Mc Kim cast in The Man of the Forest. Wallace Reid Lasky studio Hollywood. Anita Stewart and Doris May locations listed. Maine Fan Gladys Brockwell rumored married to William Scott Fox. Address questions to Prunella Hall The Boston Post.
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Fall River
Milton Sills
Lasky Studio
Hollywood
Cal
Sacco
George Walsh
Leena Owen
Colleen Moore
Conrad Nagle
Louis Calhern
Jean Hersholt
Beasley
Robert McKim
Harvey
Boston
Antonio Moreno
Vitagraph Company
George Larkin
Ollie Kirkley
Eileen Sedgwick
H. Cc. H
Hirsie Ferguson
Paramount Aircraft Company
Fifth Avenue
N. Y
Wallace Reid
Lasky
Anita Stewart
Mission Bend
Los Angeles
Wallace
Dow
West Bedford
Doris May
Robertson-Cole
Richard Barthelmess
Gladys Hulette
Inspiration Pictures Corporation
Harold Lloyd
Hal Roach
Culver City
Wesley Barry
Marshall Nejlan
Hollywood Studios
Maine
Gladys Brockwell
William Scott Fox
Prunella Hall
The
Boston Post
Convention May Go Over To Next Week
The fifth biennial convention of the Jewelry Workers' International Union at the American House may be continued to the first of the week. Delegates face a heavy volume of business including many resolutions, making completion this week unlikely.
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Jewelry Workers’ International Union
American House
Vattel’s Law of Nations in Harvard’s Widener Library
Franklin sent three copies of Vattel’s Le Droit des Gens to James Bowdoin after Boston’s evacuation. Editor Charles G. F. Dumas influenced early American law. Franklin notes placing copies in Philadelphia and Massachusetts Bay College for Congress use.
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Widener Library
Vattel
Harvard
Benjamin Franklin
Franklin
James Bowdoin
Boston
Bowdoin
Philadelphia
Adams
Dumas
Law of Nations
College of Massachusetts Bay
Congress
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Menthor
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Become Bride
Marian Wu. Keen
Dorchester
Frederick W. Webbley
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Chester Temple Baptist Church
Otis W. Foye
Miss Keen
Joseph H. Keen
Chesterfield
Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co
Chesterfield Igarette
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Axminster
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