Call for Immediate Ratification of Peace Treaty Without Amendment
More than 250 prominent Americans from 40 states sign a nonpartisan appeal to the Senate urging immediate ratification of the Germany peace treaty without changes. The letter warns that any delay or reopening of negotiations risks new war and world unrest. It cites dangers to trade, reparations, and the leverage of allied powers, and endorses the covenant along with the treaty to secure lasting peace.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Willis
United State Senate
League
Taft
Geo. W. Wickersham
A. Lawrence Lovell
Harvard
Charles C Moore
San Francisco
George Gray
Wilmington
Del
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Harry A. Wheeler
Chicago
Chamber of Commerce
United States
Carrie Chapman Catt
Senate
Washington
Committee On Foreign Relations
Germany
Senate Committee On Foreign Relations
Paris
Antonermany
Lusitania
Berlin
League Between Nations
China
Shantung
Japan
Maine
New Hampshire
Massachusetts
Rhodesland
Vermont
Connecticut
The Coming of the Law and Breezy Jim on Star Friday and Saturday
Star Friday highlights Tom Mix in The Coming of the Law set in Dry Bottom New Mexico where lawlessness ends as Judge Graney and Kent Hollis bring order. Also shown Crane Wilbur in Breezy Jim a mystery western with action and romance and Juanita Hansen opposite Wilbur.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fox
Tom Mix
West
Charles Alden Seltzer
Dennison Clift
Arthur Rosson
Mix
Kent Hollis
Dry Bottom
New Mexico
Big Bill Dunlavey
Judge Graney
Hollis
J. Warrers Kerrigan
Matt and
Jeff
Pathe
Triangle
Crane Wilbur
J. Francis Dunbar
Mr. Wilbur
Dunkard
Evangelist
Juanita Hansen
Whrile Crane Wilbur
Belle Bennett
William Duncan
Fruit a Tives advertised headache remedy claims success
A testimonial from Mrs Alexander Shaw credits Fruit a Tives with ending years of violent headaches. The ad promotes 50 cent boxes, six for $2.50, and a 25 cent trial size, with distribution by Fruit a Tives Limited in Ogdensburg New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Conuxa
Alexander Shaw
Fruit-A-Tives Limited
Ogdensburg
N. Y
The Follies Girl star Olive Thomas headlines a wholesome film
Tuesday Olive Thomas, famed Ziegfeld Follies girl, stars in The Follies Girl a lively film play praised as entertaining clean family fare with drama and laughs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Olive Thomas
First Grand Fair and Dances At Local Halls
Sept 6 13 20 27 Saturdays King Philip Lodge Loyal Order of Moose hosts fair. Sept 29 Monday dance in G A R Hall by C W M Boy. Oct 2 Thursday Harvest Supper in Odd Fellows Hall by Reba Re bebah Degree Lodge. Dec 29 Monday Private Dance by Class 19 Colt Memorial High School at Hotel Belvedere.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
King Philip Lodge
Loyal Order of Moose
C W.M Boy
Odd Fellow’s Hall
Reba Rebebah
No- 12
Colt Memorial High School
San Parlor
Hotel Belvedere
Grandmothers Vindicated on Red Light Cure Myth
Scientists find red rays harm the smallpox bacteria and aid patient recovery contrary to old beliefs. The note recalls grandmothers hanging red flannel petticoats to hasten cures and prevent pitting while modern research shows the rays have a beneficial effect on patients.
Philadelphia Measure Explains Defective Survey Chain
A historic note explains that Philadelphia used a chain 1000 feet long instead of 990 feet due to a surveying error. The defective chain made each hundred feet three inches longer, causing property boundaries to be defined by an incorrect measure in much of the city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Good Time to Do It
A speech snippet shows Uncle Eben mockingly rejecting socialists and red doctrine, claiming color blindness when confronted with such ideas. The line hints at political irony and local dialect.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Uncle Eben
Administrator Appointed for Bristol Estate of Christian Herrmann
Charles W Herrmann announces appointment by the Probate Court of Bristol as administrator of Christian Herrmann late of Bristol deceased. He has filed the required bond. All creditors must file claims with the court clerk within six months from the first advertisement date.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bristol
Christian Herrmann
Charles W Herrmann
United States
Amos S. Gorham
R. I
Photoplay Girls Tale of Love and a Man Haters Club
Marguerite Clark stars in a Clyde Fitch inspired photoplay about a self styled man hater who forms a club with two friends then slowly yields to Cupid. Clara Beranger and Alice Eyton wrote the scenario with Walter Edwards directing. Supporting cast includes Mary Warren Helene Chadwick Harrison Ford.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marguérite Clark
Clyde *Fitch
Vafforms
Clyde Fitch
Cupid
Smén
Clara Beranger
Alice Eyton
Walter Edwards
Hal Young
James C. van Trees
Mary Warren
Helene Chadwick
Harrison Ford
Lee Hill
Thomas D. Peasse
Virginia Foltz
Auto Injuries in New York Reach 25000 in 1917
About 25,000 people were injured by cars and motor trucks in the streets of Greater New York during 1917, according to city injury tallies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Greater
Coco nut utilization patterns in early markets
The article surveys numerous coconut processing methods noting that over eighty distinct methods exist for using coco. It states about eight billion coconuts are cultivated yearly with approximately sixty percent consumed in the East as food, twenty percent processed into oil, and roughly eighty percent reaching markets.
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Eyer
Pall
Irving Bachellor
Chauncey B. Brewster
Charles Cheney
Harrison B. Freeman
Irving Fisher
Charles R. Brown
Dean Vale School of Religion
Arthur R. Kimball
William Howard Taft
Isaac N. Ullman
New Haven Chamber of Commerce
Robert T. Whitehouse
Lawyer
Roger W Babson
Babson’s Statistical Association
Kenyon L. Butterfield
Massachusetts Agricultural College
Francis E Clark
United Society Christian Endeavor
Edward Cummings
World Peace Foundation
W L. Douglas
James Duncan
Granite Cutters’ International Association of America
Augustus Hemenway Forbes
Albert Parker Fitch
Amherst College
J. Malcolm Forbes
Harry A Garfield
Charles C. Jackson
A. Lawrence Lowell
Harvard University
Herbert Myrick
Orange Judd Company
Ellen F Pendleton
Wellesley College
Daniel A. Poling
Ellery Sedgwick
Atlantic Monthly Company
Joseph Walker
Mary E. Wooley
Holyoke College
James F Colby
John B Jameson Ernest M Hopkins
Dartmouth College
Huntley W
Rhode Island
Richard B. Comstock
State Bar Association
Caroline Hazard
Charles Dean Kimball
H C Ide
Samuel Everett Pingree
John Spargo
Roland H. Stevens
Constance Talmadge
Barbara Townsend
Dorothy Mitchell
Barbara
Dorothy
the Liberty Dry Goods Store
A. S. Thomas
Prop. Corner Church and High Streets
Eatonic
Buffington’s
Hope Street
Bowery
N. Y. City
A. Eisenstadt
Belvedere
Bristol, R. I
New England
Henry P. Trudell
Bristol 11
Second ST
Ethel T. Mason Woodmoor
Clark’s Express
Gorham
S Express
J. H. Young
Isaac B. Munro
Garfield Avenue
William W. Franklin & Co
Wood St
Burnside Memorial Building
John ‘Campbell
Cole St
D. Parisi
High ST
Schrafft’s Chocolates
Autocrat Coffee
E. W. Weaver
Pierce Avenue
Providence Domestic Coke
John C. Trudell
Second
ST. Tel
A. J. King & CO
Talbot & Hopkins
Electrical Contractors
Bradford Street
W. O. Talbot
W. S. W. Howkins
Dorchester Mutual Fire Ins. Co of
Boston
E. L. Watson & CO
Industrial Trust Co
Providence
G.W. Simmons Undertakers
E. L.F. Colwell
Telephone
Constitution Street
G. M. Wilbur
Union Street
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