TANK EXPLOSION KILLS DOZENS IN BOSTON MOLASSES DISASTER
Boston on Atlantic avenue near North End Park was rocked by a massive molasses tank explosion. Some 30 people died and at least 60 injured as 2,000,000 gallons of molasses flooded streets, wrecked buildings, and trapped workers and bystanders. Sailors, police, and fire crews battled molasses and debris to rescue victims and recover bodies.
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Nantucket
North End
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Red Cross
Pur- Stan Molasses Co
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Bay State Street Railway Co
Peter McDonough
Fire Department
Magrath
Navy Yard
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Mavy Yard
Curtis
Crowley Con
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Stocks End Irregularly Higher On Strong Tobacco and Oil Demand
New York stock market opened irregularly but moved higher overall with notable gains in American Sumatra Tobacco, United Cigar Stores, and steel shares. Strong buying in oil stocks Texas Company and Sinclair Oil supported gains while some issues like Baldwin Locomotive and Bethlehem Steel showed weakness. Market closed irregularly with bonds steady and oil shares active.
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American Sumatra Tobacco
United Cigar Stores
Great Northern
Mexican Petroleum
Baldwin
Bethlehem Steel
Texas Company
Texas and Pacific
Texas
Sinclair Oil
Corinth’s War Drive Record Set in Third to Fourth Loans
Corinth Vermont reports a notable war relief record with high subscriptions. In the Third Liberty Loan the town subscribed 250 percent of its quota, in the Fourth 180 percent, and it pledged 110 percent of its War Savings stamps and 136 percent in Red Cross drives. For the United War Work campaign Corinth reached 177 percent of its maximum quota.
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United War Work
Arrests Dead Man in Pittsburgh Slip Fatality
In Pittsburgh on January 15 a policeman explained that a man he hauled to the police station was found dead, having slipped on an icy sidewalk and struck his head on a step. The officer noted the victim’s appearance and that hazel, people wear eye glasses for looks.
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Pittsburgh
Rapp
Grain Market Reports Chicago and New York Trading
Chicago and New York market wrap notes mixed grain and pork futures. Corn futures closed higher with January at 137 1 2 and oats up to 67 1 2 with varied bids. pork and lard prices showed declines while spot bids in East St Louis moved for lead and spelter.
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Lord
Ribs
New York
Jead
East St. Louis
March
Civil Service Panel Considers Honor for Veterans Tests
Hartford January 15 the civil service commission will adjust test ratings to grant discharged soldiers and sailors a percentage acknowledging their service The attorney general advised no statute blocks such a change and the commission has informed the governor of its plan to implement it
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Civil Service Commission
Hartford
Frank E. Healey
Stocking Bank Hoax Foiled Then Theft Reported
In Tarentum Pennsylvania on January 15 grocers once hid receipts in beans or stockings to guard against thieves. A customer opened a shop early one day and escaped with a Christmas stocking containing $117. The incident reveals the stocking as a makeshift bank failed.
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Tarentum
Yale Mobile Hospital Unit to Sail From Brest
New Haven Jan 15 The Yale Mobile Hospital Unit commanded by Lieut Col Joseph M Flint is about to sail from Brest. The unit served with the 39th expeditionary force in the St Mihiel sector and set records for operations performed before advancing with the army of occupation. It recently received orders to return to the U S.
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Yale Mobile Hospital
Joseph M. Flint
Brest
39Th Expeditionary Force
St. Mihiel
Army of Occupation
Findlay Live Town Claims 1,126 Residents
Nevada Wyandot County reporters note Findlay, Ohio boasts 1,126 living residents while 1,357 corpses lie in the town cemetery. The odd statistic frames the town as a "live town" with a macabre census flair.
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Findlay
Ohio
Nevada
Wyandot County
Pearl Found in Oyster Sparks Quick Dinner Tale
Former Congressmen Frank Plumley of Northfield, Montpelier Vermont, was dining at a local hotel when his teeth struck a pearl in a spoonful of creamed oysters. The anecdote follows a comment about often unhelpful things people say.
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Montpelier
Frank Plumley
Northfield
Opposition to Big Food Bill Faces Senate Panel
Washington reports strong opposition in the senate appropriations committee to the bill authorizing 100 million dollars for feeding starving Europeans. An amendment demanding a detailed expenditures statement was accepted, with a final vote on reporting the measure reached. Officials urged a speedy report while discussions centered on matched contributions from England France and Italy to the food pool and a potential American relief corporation for Russia.
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Senate Appropriations Committee
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Glasgow
Food Administration
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France
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War Trade Board
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Russia
Agricultural Conference names Scoville permanent chairman
Federal Food Administrator Robert Scoville was chosen permanent chairman at a state agricultural conference in Hartford. The meeting endorsed legislation for farmers, fruit package laws, dairy milk standard changes for Holstein milk, restocking streams, and curbing pollution. Proposals called for a state bureau of markets and possible creation of a state department of agriculture to oversee the board and dairy and food duties.
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General Assembly
Crampton
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Fish and Game Commission
Federal Bureau
State Board of Agriculture
State Department of Agriculture
Dairy and Food
Ford Boats N C First Eagle Ships Delivered Show Imperfections
Washington January 15 The first Ford Eagle boat delivered to the government showed construction faults though the remaining six vessels met specifications Rear Admiral David Taylor testified before the senate naval affairs committee investigating the Eagle program Lodge of Massachusetts argued postwar navy needs fewer Eagle boats Taylor denied laxity in Detroit inspectors stressing they subjected ships to rigid tests and found them passable
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Washington
David Taylor
Senate Naval Affairs Committee
Taylor
Lodge
Massachusetts
Admiral Taylor
Detroit
Oysterless Rhode Island Expected Soon
Rhode Island may join states without oysters as the Oyster Growers' association reports in its annual convention that Narragansett Bay’s pollution has forced grounds to move offshore. The Falmouth Oyster Company plans to take oysters from new beds off Cape Cod this year.
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Providence
Rhode Island
Rhode Island Oyster Growers’ Association
Narragansett Bay
Falmouth Oyster Company
Cape
East Granby Prison Site Favored By Commission
Hartford reports that East Granby is urged as the site for a new Connecticut State Prison. A fifty acre farm near Old Newgate Prison is recommended for purchase. Commission findings were presented to Governor Marcus H. Holcomb yesterday in the 1917 1919 inquiry into prison advisability and cost.
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East Granby
Hartford
Connecticut
Special Commission
General Assembly
Remarry After 26 Years in Boston
Boston, Jan. 15. Divorced 26 years ago John J Cameron and Lillian T Cameron plan to remarry. Cameron has filed marriage intentions. After the divorce he remarried, his second wife died. He is 68 and his bride-to-be is 58.
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Boston
John J. Cameron
Lillian T. Cameron
Cameron
Competents Held Back In Army Quotas Debate
Washington January 15 Representative Tilson of Connecticut charged in the house that many competent officers who otherwise might be discharged are kept in the army to ease the workload of their superiors. The remark highlights wartime personnel practices and the political debate over army staffing.
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Washington
Tilson
Connecticut
Longworth Named for Speakership by Opposition Faction
Rep. Nicholas Longworth of Ohio is proposed as the compromise speaker candidate by opponents of Mann and Gillett. Midwestern members say electing either Mann or Gillett would fail to reflect the sentiment needed to elect a Republican president.
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Nicholas Longworth
Ohio
House
Representatives Mann Or
Gillett
Washington
Congress
Mann
Labor's Demands and a Copper Export Association Formed
Washington reports outline labor demands from the AFL education and labor committee aiming to curb employer interference and secure eight hour days equal wages for women, no wage cuts, and state child labor laws while promoting co operatives and public works as temporary relief. Separately, Phelps Dodge and others file notice with the FTC to form the Copper Export Association under Webb export act with HQ at 60 Wall Street New York.
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Senate Education and Labor Committee
American Federation of Labor
Supreme Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Federal Trade Comission
Phelps- Dodge Corporation
American Smelting and Refining Co
United Metals Selling Co
New York
Calumet-Hecla Minsing Co
Boston
Copper Export Association, Incorporated
Wall Street
New York City
Webb Export Act
Man of 200 Wounds Weds in Cambridge Boston Worded
Edward L. Ferdinand of Cambridge returned from France with nearly 200 wounds and marries Edith M. Atwood in a notably wartime romance. Edith waited for him during his overseas service in a rare postwar Boston event.
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Edward L. Ferdinand
Cambridge
France
Edith M. Atwood
Washington whispers on General Wood presidential bid
The Philadelphia Press notes broad backing for General Leonard Wood as a potential presidential candidate and credits the current administration with advancing his eligibility discussions.
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Washington
Leonard Wood
General Wood
Philadelphia Press
National Baseball Commission Chairmanship Topic at Meetings
In New York on January 15 the chairmanship of the National Baseball Commission dominated talks as the National and American leagues held separate sessions to approve schedules and settle routine matters in anticipation of the joint meeting the next day. Opinions favored a deadlock over the chairman election with Ban Johnson backing Herrmann and John Heydler backing a different candidate. Herrmann refused to commit to withdrawal.
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National Baseball Commission
National Commission
Ban Johnson
Herrmann
John Heydler
City Court Fines for Unlicensed Dog Case
In city court this morning Joseph Sajaska was fined five dollars plus costs for keeping an unlicensed dog. Dog Warden Haling testified the dog was about a year old. Sajaska claimed six months but admitted he did not know the age. He bought the dog five months ago from an unknown seller. Haling noted he had previously confiscated an unlicensed dog from Sajaska about a year ago. Frank L. Sanborn of Portland faced a separate charge for driving with last year’s license numbers. judgment was suspended pending payment of four dollars costs after he explained a delay due to his wife’s hospital call.
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Haling
Sajaska
Sajasks
Frank L. Sanborn
Portland
Middlesex Hospital
Mann Faults Government for Rotten Frauds in Many Places
Representative James R. Mann of Illinois charged in the house that "in a great many places of the government there have been rotten frauds" and said democratic leaders do not dare to investigate as the chamber debated appointing session clerks for house committee on government expenditures.
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Congress
House
James R. Mann
Oflinois
Mann
Very Fortunate. War Service framed by Y M C A leader
Lucien T. Warner of Bridgeport, head of the Y M C A war personnel board, says the Y M C A did not pursue war work for popularity but to serve soldiers. The remark frames a political scene in which a Wal. A dark horse looms as a nightmare to the others.
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Hartford Post
Lucien T. Warner
Bridgeport
Young Men’s Christian Association
Wal
Dr Edwards Olive Tablets Aid Bad Breath Relief
Ad copy touts Dr Edwards Olive Tablets as a vegetable laxative and breath remedy. Claims soothe bowels and liver without griping, offering a safe alternative to calomel. mentions price 10c and 25c and availability at all druggists.
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F. M. Edwards
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