McAdoo Urges New England Subscriptions to Liberty Loan
Boston June 5 Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo arrived to urge New England residents to subscribe to the Liberty Loan with emphasis on small 50 and 100 dollar pledges. He said broad participation shows national unity and helps banks handle the loan while reducing business disruption. He framed the issue as a clash between civilization and its foes and linked wartime funding to liberty and prosperity.
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Boston
McAdoo
New England
America
Yale professor named among anti militarist group in colleges
New Haven June 5 Yale professor Phelps listed among prominent Yale men whose records were seized in New York during a raid on the Collegiate Anti Militarism League. Robert W Dunn treasurer said 4000 anti militarists nationwide would refuse military service and mark draft cards with I am a conscientious objector to war.
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New Haven
William Lyon
Phelps
Lampson
Tishiterature
Yale University
Yale
New York
Anti-Militarism League
Columbia College
Robert W. Dunn
Huntington
League
Yaui
Secret Service
United States
Stee Entale
York
Dunn
Tata
Miss Marion Johnson and J A Darnley to Wed Tomorrow
Miss Marion B Johnson daughter of Chief of the Fire Department and Mrs Daniel E Johnson of 1520 Park Avenue and Mr James A Darnley son of Mrs Anne Darnley of Brooklyn will be wed quietly tomorrow due to the illness of the groom's brother The ceremony will be at St Augustine's church at Dd o'clock with a nuptial mass Rev James B Nihill P R officiating The bride will wear pearl gray silk with pink Georgette crepe. sister Miss Nellie M Johnson assists In wedding breakfast at the Stratfield immediate families only They will honeymoon in Atlantic City Washington D C and other points and reside at 158 East 42nd Street Brooklyn N Y after August 15 The bride is a Sacred Heart school graduate and popular in the city The groom holds a position with a Brooklyn firm
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Marion B. Johnson
Fire Department
Daniel E. Johnson
Park Avenue
James A. Darnley
Anne Darnley
Brooklyn
St. Augustine's Church
James B. Nihill
Johnson
Nellie M. Johnson
Killarney
Daniel E. Johnson, Jr
Sacred Heart School
Darnley
Children of Mary Present Patriotic Pageant at Sacred Heart
Under the auspices of the Sacred Heart parish the Children of Mary stage a patriotic entertainment at the Casino tomorrow at 8 15 pm directed by Miss Margaret Kieley with Herman as musical director. Participants include Esther Honan Joseph Oakey Margaret Rock and many others. episodes cover American history ending with the 1917 call to arms. The body of Frank McCarthy a private shot on the Mexican border will be buried in Brooklyn with military honors.
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Children of Mary of the Sacred Heart Church
Patriotic Entertainment
Casino
Margaret Kieley
Prof. Herman
Esther Honan
Joseph Oakey
Margaret Rock
Margaret Watters
Marian McCarthy
Ella Tobin
Marie Guzzi
Anna Ellsmore
Blanche Corbett
Mary Lucey
Ronald Ward
Russell Nugent
James Weldon
May Whaley
Therese O'Brien
John Nelson
Henry Watters
Richard Torpey
Frances Ward
William Honan
Frank McCarthy
Brooklyn
Creditors Sale Sacrifices High Grade Clothing Stock
Creditors press for quick settlement by liquidating Sonergazi stock of men's clothing and furnishings. Offers include suits from 7.85 to 16.95, coats at 6.98, trousers from 2.45 to 3.48, and numerous discounted accessories. Store doors stay open evenings till 9, location 1227-1229 Main Street Bridgeport Conn.
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Sonergazi
Stuttgarter
Arrow Brand
Arrow
Boston
Paris
Manhattan and Arrow
Manhattan and
Manhattan
Sullivan and SR Post
Edward Lonergan
Main Street
Stratfield Hotel
Bridgeport
Connhan
Home Garden Project Aids Girls at Parish School
Supervisors led girls from St Charles Parish school in a home garden project yesterday. L F Cobb headed the efforts, guiding students in planting and tending crops at the campus allotment area.
Women Socialists of Germany Send Message to Sisters in Russia
The German League for Women and Girls of the Working Class sent a communication to Russian women socialists after celebrating the Russian revolution. It expresses hope for a peaceful future with a peace league of the peoples, independence for all, no war indemnities, and closer union of Russian and German peoples.
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Women Socialists of
Germany
Russia
Berlin
German League For Wi
Girls of the Working Clames
Women Socialist’ of
Peace League of the Peoples
Mexico Abounds In German Proselytes
In Mexico City on June 6 Germans display strong national identity with embassy cars bearing flags and locals wearing enamel Prussian eagles. During a novitades bullfight German cheers erupt as banderillas are waved and a German college offers free instruction to all who wish to learn.
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Mexico City
Mexico
Biles
Serene Can
Prohibitive Whiskey Tax Proposed in Revenue Bill
Washington reports distillers warn that whiskey and other spirits production would nearly halt under a prohibitive tax on grain molasses and ingredients written into the war tax bill by the senate finance committee. The measure would also raise taxes on grain and molasses and restrict exports to wartime needs.
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Washington
Senate Finance Committee
Senate
House
Simmons
Germany
Judges Appoint Walter Holcomb State's Attorney
The first Monday of June annual meeting of judges approved new appointments and salary increases effective August 1. Walter Holcomb of Torrington was named state's attorney of Litchfield county, replacing Donald T. Warner who became a superior court judge in March. John E. Keeler will take over Bennett’s allotments as he nears Bennett’s 70th birthday in 1918.
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Supreme
Superior Courts
Walter Holcomb
Torrington
Litchfield
Donald T. Warner
Superior Court
William L. Bennett
John E. Keeler
Bennett
Curtis
Bridgeport
Burpee
Fairfield County
Danbury
Norwegians to Stage Nationwide Food Demonstration
The Tidens Tegn reports a Wednesday demonstration across Norway to press for a 150 million kroner grant to lower food prices. It calls for price controls, removal of the neutrality guard, and rejection of a new extraordinary military grant.
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Christiania
Iuie 5
Tidens Tegn
Norway
Sunday School Union launches drive for missions
London June 5 The Sunday School Union unites England’s Non-conformist churches to raise 125000 for missionary work at home and abroad. The plan asks two million junior scholars to give two cents each and 500000 senior scholars teachers and 500000 parents and friends to contribute amounts of twelve and twenty five cents respectively.
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London
Sunday School Union
England
Free Canning Demonstration Planned at Sanford Home
Under Bridgeport Equal Franchise League sponsorship a free public canning demonstration will be held at the Sanford Homestead 221 Washington Avenue tomorrow. Two sessions run 11 to 1 and 2 to 4 with tips on conserving food, economy, efficiency, and using sugar effectively for fruit and vegetable canning.
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Sanford
Bridgeport
Equal Franchise League
Sanford Homestead
Washington Avenue
Public Utilities Statement On Draft Notices
Boston officials defend draft notices as informational not evasion. Matthew C. Brush of the Boston Elevated Railway Co says the posting advised draft age men to note employment by a public utility and to specify exemption grounds insofar as service is necessary to the public utility. Similar notices were posted by other public service firms.
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Boston
Matthew C. Brush
Boston Elevated Railway Co
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