Patriotic Service Flag Rally Praises Wilson and War Effort
Thousands gathered at Holy Trinity Church Georgetown for a service flag raising honoring 190 parish members who joined the colors. Rev De L McDonnell led the event with songs and speeches lauding President Wilson, American readiness, and national unity while comforting mothers of soldiers.
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America
Holy Trinity Church
Georgetown
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Former steel man held as dangerous enemy alien
Otto Kafka once president of Vulcan Steel Products, described as a former Austrian army captain, was arrested as a dangerous enemy alien in New York with internment recommended. He resigned last January after government safety actions, had controlled Vulcan, and sold stock last August. Kafka, born in Bohemia, arrived in the United States in 1946.
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New York
Otto Kafka
Vulcan Steel Products Company
Katha
Vulcan Company
Red Cross Forms Conservation Bureau for War Material
The American Red Cross, at the request of Bernard M Baruch, creates the Red Cross Bureau of Conservation to systematize material saving. The War Industries Board prioritizes conserving platinum and other essentials, and 20 million Red Cross members are enlisted to aid the effort. Robert I. Raymond of Boston has been named director.
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American Red Cross
Bernard M Baruch
War Industries Board
Red Cross Bureau of Conservation
Red Cross
Robert I. Raymond
Beston
Red Cross Bureau
Old Age A Crime Kidney Warning Beetle Haarlem Capsule Ad
Old age signs such as back pain fatigue and rheumatic discomfort signal kidneys failing to remove poisons. The ad promotes GOLD MEDAL Haarlem Capsules as the long standing remedy for kidney and bladder ailments, imported from Haarlem Netherlands and sold by druggists in three box sizes.
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Haarlem
Haarlem Halland
Knitting Bee Aids Army Navy In Central Fork NY
An eighty three year old knitter Mrs FY J Lunaschloss to join a knitting bee in Central Fork New York. She has knit eight hours daily creating sweaters mufflers and helmets for service members. Six blind women compete to knit a four men square for the prize from the Comforts Committee of the Nava League. Mrs Herbert L Satterlee will open the event. Elizabeth Romaine contestant No 214. Mrs John Ames among patrons.
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Central Fork
New York
FY. J. Lunaschloss
Army
Navy
Comforts Committee
Nava League
Herbert L. Satterlee
Elizabeth Romaine
Johm Ames
Prominent Rabbi Does His Bit as Laborer in Shipyard
Dr. Stephen S. Wise, rabbi of one of America's largest synagogues, works as a day laborer with his son James at the Luders Marine Construction Company shipyard in Stamford, Connecticut. He chose this work to aid the government’s war program, starting at seven in the morning and leaving at 4 30 PM.
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Stephen S. Wise
America
James
Luders Marine Construction Company
Stamford
Conn
Wise
Dr. Wise
Glimpses of Washingtonians Visiting in the Metropolis
Special to The Washington Times. New York notes echoing visits by prominent Washingtonians. Former President William Howard Taft stays at McAlpin Hotel on a westbound trip, arranging a stenographer with help from a Navy lieutenant. Art critic G Lonsdale Edmunds reports war impacts on model availability, with many artists in war work. Numerous Washington figures, diplomats, and officials are listed as guests at top hotels in New York, with occasional comments on dining and no-wheat policies.
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Americas
Atlantic
Washington Fist
New York
Willian’ Howard Taft
White House
McAlpin Hotel
Washington
Lieut
R. N. Craft
Taft
Lieut. Craft
Mr. Taft
A&a
Leutenary
G. Lonsdale Edmunds
Mr. Edmunds
Park Avenue
New Jersey
Liberty Loan
Red Cross
MC A
Metropolis
T Gordon
I. Hutchinson
Algonquin
Maj K W. Ney
Arlington
H. W Hall
D C Stearn
The
Albert
J.D Thompson
W. & Wright
Aberdeen
A .S Duany
Lieut F M Tierney
Ansonia
W C Hkipman
J L Morgan
H E Q Barrell
Marseilles
Wilkinson W Russell
M J Russell
G H Stewart
F D. Park
Navarre
H W Allingood
G Bruner
New Strand
C. Carmady
Richmond
S Auerbach
St James
C Diedel
van Courtland
C Saffen
Wellington
J Z Bestt
G F Dudley
Wallich
S Anderson
R Brown
Webster
Arthur W. Stafford
MCA
Food Administration
George C. Brown
Martha Washington Hotel
National Woman's Party declares war on Borah over suffrage
The National Woman's Party announces an intensive Idaho campaign against Senator Borah for opposing the Anthony federal suffrage amendment. Frank Moore says the party backs his opponent and urging action as demonstrators gather near the White House to press Congress to act before recess. Speakers include Lavinia Dock, Else Hill, and Rev Olymma Brown.
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National Woman's Party
Borah
Idaho
Frank Moore
Washington
Moore
Tom
United States
Rochambeau
Lafayette
White House
Lavinia
Dock
The
Red Cross
Else Hill
Ebenezer Hill
Connecticut
Olymma Brown
Wisconsin
Piney Branch Center to host evening entertainment night
Piney Branch Community Center will present another entertainment night at West School starting at 7 30 p m Music by the Community Band singing by Mrs Newton Baker and an address by Mrs Isabelle Geddes Smith Mrs Henry Blunt McFriere will preside D Henry B McCracken of the American Red Cross and George D Strayer of the National War Savings Committee urged better distribution of war work funds and discouraged street canvassing for subscriptions. several other items include camp meetings and a Zionist event with details on dates venues and attendees.
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WN Street
Catholic Women’s War Service Committee
Host Name Society
Brather McDonnell
William Curtin
Behm
Piney Branch Community Center
West School
Newton . Baker
Isabelle Geddes Smith
Henry Blunt McFriere
Henry B. McCracken
American Red Cross
George D .Strayer
National War Savings Committee
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Germany
Miltonnell
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Louis. Raemarkers
Conyright
Rell
Hamel Yank
Kaiser
Herbert L. Satterlel
John Ames
Stephen
Stambord
Vgesenderwosp
Loula Long Combs
Woodley Lane
C E Wagner
C G Edgar
Sixteenth Street
Biltmore
Charles Nagel
Department of Commerce and Labor
Truman G Palmer
Henry T Oxnard
Ineut Edward Jackman
Hotel Helmon
R G Fratt
W K Sixsmitth
HF. Holbrook
O. L. Sorensen
Arthur
Peacock Alley
the Waldorf
Benjamin Gordon
Leland C Talbott
Maie H W. Williamson
John T. Stewart
B. Ellis
Charles A Douglas
E. M. Case
J. C. Anderson
Alonzo Q. Bliss
Alonzo O Bliss
B . Stitt
Claude D Smith
R J. Firestage
R. Peoples
Harold Braddock
E B Johns
Warren Roberts
F. C. Snyder
Miey A E George
E. O. Bird
B M. Clark
C. Wi Weller
J. Selinger
C. W. MacMiallen
C. E. Weiss
Mises K. O'Brien
C. J. Mooney
J. W. Stokes
Mis. L. L. Deptre
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J. H. Hecht
Culbertson
J. B. Densmore
J. W. Staggers
W. A. Travis
S. W W. Sellinger
G. A. Reter
W.F. Anderson
A. V. Brooke
George
Israel
H. J. Atkinson
H. J. Mooro
J. B. Henderson
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Adi. J. Forret
Vanderbilt
Edouard E. de Billy
French High Commission
Price Collier
Sara R. Price Coller
Tuxedo Park
Knickerbocker
Fifth Avenue
John Wanamaker, Jr
Myron T Herrick
Cleveland
Ohio
Ritz
Bar Harbor
Park Avenue Hotel
H B Noble
M W Brien
A B Mustain
J N Andrews
Artand
James William Bryan
T Waterman
E WM Stanford
E L Dunlop
John W Conroy
Ralph Conroy
Adrian Kurtyn
G Lonsdale Edmunds
R. W Lafton
George A. Billings
Capt Neson L. Bump
Leonard E Tilden
Washington, D. C
Hotel
Seville
Lawrence Richards
Albert Richards
Alice White
W D Eakin
C B Hurst
H Graham
Charlotte Reyes
Gendrow
Charles B Brenner
Frank W Hackett
Paris
H St. N. W
Shoreham Hotel
Serge & Jersey
Y. M CA
Washington Grove Camp Merting
Hairy Ss Funes
Hairy Farmer
John Rdwards
Charles F Boss, Jr
Young Peoples
Mountain Lake Park
James M Garay
Moody Bible Institute of Chicago
Walter K. Weyer
Palestine
Louis Anderson
Las Mieht
Bey
Emergences Hospital
Kred “Willis
Camp Humphress
Forth Street
Southeas
Wake Reed Hospital
Omeisis
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