Lafayette Savings Bank President Held on Larceny Charge
Joseph A. Plouff, president of Lafayette Savings Bank, 452 Boylston Street, is jailed in Charles Street on $10,000 bail after being charged with larceny for borrowing $12,000 from several Boston banks. He remained jailed after failing to post bail following Tuesday’s arrest.
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Joseph A. Plouff
Lafayette Savings Bank
Charles Street
Boston
Ware
Boylston Street
Bank trustees to review Plouff loan case at State House
Bank Commissioner Thorndike said trustees of a Lafayette Bank affiliate will meet to discuss the case of John Plouff accused of borrowing over 12 000 from multiple banks using bankbooks in the family name. He noted deposits total about 10 075 with 150 depositors, most under 75 dollars, and expected no losses to depositors.
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Plouff
National Shawmut Bank
First National Bank
Fidelity Trust Company
Exchange Trust Company
Cosmopolitan Trust Company
Lafayette Bank
Thorndike
State House
Women Plan Big Banquet at Hotel Somerset
More than 500 guests are to attend a Women’s City Club dinner at the Hotel Somerset. Speakers include Jane Addams Lillian Wald Mrs John Hays Hammond Lucille Gulliver on What Can a Woman Do in the Present Crisis. Hamilton Holt represents the International Conciliation and Albert J Bryan speaks. Reports will be given on Beacon Hill club house renovations and civic mass meetings.
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Hotel Somerset
Women’s City Club
Jane Addams
Lillian Wald
John Hays Hammond
Lucille Gulliver
Beacon Hill
Munro to Address Business Women's Club on Europe
Henry F. Munro will speak to the Business Women's Club Friday evening September 18 at 7 30 p m. The topic is The European Situation and the address will take place at the clubhouse 144 Bowdoin Street.
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Munro
Business Women’s Club
Henry F. Munro
Bowdoin Street
Railroads Face Public Understanding Gap Says ICC Chairman
Edgar F E Clark chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission told delegates of the American Association of Baggage and Ticket Agents at Copley Plaza that lack of understanding between railroads and communities fuels opposition. He urged agents to educate patrons about railroad operations to foster cooperation and smoother actions affecting the industry.
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Edgar FE. Clark
Interstate Commerce Commission
American Association of Baggage and
Copley Plaza
Clark
Rail Commission rhetoric on fair service and progress gains
Leaders discuss Interstate Commerce Commission role in curb ing railroad abuses and ensuring reasonable rates. Howard Elliott of the New Haven appeals for tolerance amid unsettled conditions as officers are elected, naming Gerrit Fort as president and a slate of executives from major rail lines.
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The
Commerce Commission
Interstate Commerce Commission
Howard Elliott
New Haven Road
New Haven
Gerrit Fort
Union Pacific Lines
Alex Hilton
St. Louis
San Francisco
W. C. Hope
Central Railroad of
New Jersey
L. W. Landman
Michigan Central
J. C. Haile
Central Georgia
George A. Boyd
Pennsylvania Railroad
C. B. Ryan
Sea Board Air Line
L. F. Vosburgh
New York Central
O. H. Taylor
Eastern Steamship Corporation
Reward Offered for Airdale Dog Barney
Mrs. Walter A. Carl of 468 Walnut Brookline mourns the loss of her prize winning Airdale dog Barney aged one year. A reward of ten dollars is offered for the return of Barney.
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Walter A. Carl
Walnut Street
Brookline
Airdale
Barney
Carl
Redmond Urges Irish Brigade for England in WWI
Patrick Redmond calls for forming an Irish brigade within the English expeditionary force. He urges Irish recruits be kept together and officered mostly by Irishmen to earn national credit and unite Ireland under a common war aim. He appeals to Ulster men to join in the effort and to overlook domestic divisions for the war.
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Redmond
Ireland
Courageous Soissons Woman Defies German Demands
Paris dispatch recalls Mme. Macherez of Soissons who faced occupying German soldiers alone after officials fled. She declared there was no mayor to speak for the town and offered to answer for everyone, averting requisitions by insisting on proper terms.
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Paris
Mme. Macherez
Soissons
French Private Baba Couli-Baly Noted for Rifle Fire Valor
A French private soldier Baba Couli-Baly of the Forty-fifth Infantry is praised for coolness and exact rifle fire as he drove off 15 German cavalry while guarding an automobile train. Second Lieutenant Boquet and Sergeant-Major Mercier of the same regiment are commended for capturing a German general staff officer found reconnoitering in an automobile.
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Baba Couli-Baly
Forty-fifth Infantry
Boquet
Mercier
German casualty list notes notable deaths and censorship
A Copenhagen dispatch to the Evening News reports Captain Von Bethusy Hue and Count Saurma Jeltsch known as the Gentleman Jockey among the latest German casualties. also named Gideon Zangler the Austrian meteorologist killed on the Russian frontier. The note adds that 11 permits for photography or moving pictures in Germany have been revoked.
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London
Evening News
Copenhagen
von Bethusy-Hue
Count Saurma-Jeltsch
Gideon Zangler
Germany
Swedes Open Hospital in Petrograd for Russian Wounded
The Swedish colony in Petrograd under the minister's daughter has established a hospital for Russian wounded. Detachments of Czechs allied with peasants asked where to surrender to the Russians after the Russo Austrian fighting.
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London
Reuter Telegram Company
Petrograd
Passport Hat And License Trick Told By Attorney
Benjamin Phillips, Boston patent attorney, recalls a flight from Berlin where a Philadelphia friend used a Pennsylvania automobile license as a passport for four men. The German officers could not read it and accepted their claim as Americans. He notes a broad brimmed Stetson hat as a further clue.
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New York
Benjamin Phillips
Boston
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Mr. Phillips
Continent
Prince Joachim Treks Under Fire to Aid Wounded Adjutant
An officer recalls Prince Joachim riding nearly a mile under heavy shellfire to reach the firing line. He and Adjutant-Captain von Tahizahn were wounded as shrapnel burst nearby. The prince applied a field bandage and led the stretch to safety toward Allenstein hospital.
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Prince Joachim
von Tahizahn
Allenstein
Kaiser's Film Parade Displays German War Machinery
German government film units arrive in Copenhagen to show Kaiser supervised war pictures. The footage, shown to press, highlights the army’s marching order and equipment, with the Kaiser depicted in heroic poses. One frame titled The Kaiser Under Fire merely shows him viewing with field glasses from a safe distance.
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Copenhagen
Teacher Curtin Reported Threatened by Spy Hunt
West Roxbury High School teacher coach Thomas Curtin was reportedly arrested as a Servian spy and led away to be shot. A letter dated August 24 from Budapest's Grand Hotel says he escaped death and plans to sail from Southampton on August 26 aboard the steamship New York. He is believed to be in southern Europe awaiting passage home due to wartime travel disruptions.
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Thomas Curtin
West Roxbury High School
Franklin B. Dyer
Curtin
Grand Hotel
Budapest
New York
Southampton
England
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