Wharves Schedule Broadcast at Noon Today
The Monitor at Eastern avenue wharf and the Samoset at Eastern avenue are listed for noon. The Ossipee at Northern avenue bridge and the Don Juan de Austria at Northern avenue bridge also set for noon. Machigonne N and Mayflower at Appraiser's wharf noon. Admiral N at Northern avenue actus bridge and Adelante T at T wharf noon. Halcyon at Commonwealth pier 10 30.
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the Monitor
Eastern Avenue
U. S. S. Ossipee
Northern Avenue Bridge
U. S. S. Samoset
Don Juan de Austria
Machigonne N
Mayflower
Appraiser’s
Admiral N
Actus
Adelante
T Wharf
Halcyon
Commonwealth Pier
Guardian leads Mt. Vernon welcome in harbor procession
The Boston police boat Guardian was first to greet the Mt. Vernon on arrival from overseas. It sighted the liner two miles off Graves at 12:20 and escorted the ship to President Roads where an anchorage was set. Captain Patrick F. King and Inspector Morris Wolf, both aboard, sought their soldier sons aboard the vessel.
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Guardian
Mt. Vernon
Paul Wolf
Hayes Healing Honey Promises Quick Cough Relief
Advertising notice for Hayes Healing Honey claiming to stop tickle throat and heal chest cold symptoms. Includes offer of free O Pen- Trate Balm for chest colds head colds and croupia with every bottle. Price listed as 0.5 cents.
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Hayes
Price
Delousing plan at Devens to send 600 men home
CAMP DEVENS April 4 Tomorrow night over 600 men aboard the Transport Mt. Vernon will be deloused and sent home. A 105 men per hour sanitation plant with three shifts, 36 workers per shift, and 40 minutes per man will process the crowd. Sleeping tents, eight field kitchens, and rail facilities prepared for quick turnover. Visitors barred until delousing complete. General Cole headquartered at camp. Reveille at 6 A.M. and retreat at 4 30 P.M.
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Devens
Mt. Vernon
General Cole
Engineers Train Happy at Front 11 Months in Every Fight
The 101st Engineer Train, formed by Lt. Schuyler R. Waller from Lowell, served 11 months at the front with the American Expeditionary Forces. The unit, mostly New Englanders from Greater Boston, assisted the 101st Engineers with entrenching tools and wire work. Three were killed and 11 wounded in service.
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Mt. Vernon
6Th Regiment
101St Engineer
Schuyler R. Waller
Lowell
G Company
Waller
101St Engineers
1011St
American Expeditionary Forces
New England
Mount Vernon Flotilla Welcomed by 8000 at Castle Island
More than eight thousand people gathered at Castle Island led by John W. Lillis to greet the Mt. Vernon. About two thousand South Boston school children joined in the welcome as the ship passed the main channel and the cheers from sailors in khaki rang along the shoreline. The crowd formed from the early morning hours waiting for the flotilla to pass.
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South Boston
John W. Lillis
Castle Island
Mt. Vernon
Escort flotilla greets Mt. Vernon departing island crowd
The large hydroplane skimmed near the troopship as it sailed past the fort at 2 10 with the crowd swelling to cheers. Friends on the island waved a warm farewell, echoing the same sentiment as the earlier crowd.
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Mt. Vernon
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B. F. Cheatham
104Th Infantry
William H. Stiles
Eg W. Hehe
Alex L. Kirches
Sidney C. Hardwick
Cheatham
Southard
Chaptain Allen Evans, Jr
Edward J. Gussie Urth
Ditadel Lveantry
Mrs. Connelly
Richard
Wakefield
Hale
Richard K. Hale
William E. Southard
104Th
Hamilton K. Horsey
J. H. Allen
B. J. Cheatham
Passaga
Apremont
Nujel Laboratories Standard Dilco
New Jersey
Broadway
New York
Dept
Portland
Boston
Austin
War Department
Walter W
K Company
Chateau Thierry
26Th Division
Little Building
Mass
Beach 2801
Beverly Rantoul
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