Welcome Home Boston Sends Off Returned Soldiers by Harbor
A festive greeting unfolds as the Monitor escorts the Mt. Vernon into Boston Harbor. Governors Coolidge and Bartlett join Mayors Peters Clarke and others in cheers doughnuts cigarettes and kisses from waves of civic leaders and a Boston wife Thelma Bunnell ignites the crowd with a moving display for her husband Colonel Bunnell while officials praise Captain Fredock and Mate Bates for handling the vessel.
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New England
City Boat Monitor
John N. Bartlett
New Hampshire
Coolidge
Peters
Charles B. Clarke
Portland
Moisse Verrette
Manchester
N. H
Adams
Springfield
Albert Hislop
Portsmouth
N. I
Melvin Breath
Chelsea
Francis J. W. Ford
Boston
Monitor
Thelma Bunnell
George W. Bunnell
101St Engineers
Mrs. Bunnell
Municipal Committee
Eastern Avenue Wharf
Mt. Vernon
Thomas F Sullivan
Freeman Dodge
101St Military Police
Dodge
Way Department of the
Sullivan
General Cole
Francis J.ogan
Edward lLogan
Governor Coolidge
Bartlett
Wood
Fredock
Edward W. Bates
Halcyron UI
Hdwards
Major Osborn recalls Armistice and two front tours
Major John F. Osborn of the 101st Engineers, wounded at St Mihiel, describes two months touring the front after the Armistice and the devastation at Lens. He recounts the armistice moment, the ceasefire silence, and the mood aboard the ship bound for home.
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Major Osborn
101St Engineers
Battle Front
John F. Osborn
St. Mihiel
Boston
Cambridge
Osborn
Peace Commission
Lens
Great Homecoming Welcome For 26th Division Veterans
A Boston harbor flotilla greeted the Mt. Vernon returning Yan kee Division heroes from France. Mayors governors and war service leaders joined bands, flags, and ceremonies as General Edwards and other officers were sought for welcomes aboard the Halcyon II and Monitor. Citizens packed the waterfront while mothers and sweethearts aboard the ships cheered home their fighters.
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General Cole
Mt. Vernon
Edwards
Theis
Maine
Boston
Boston Harbor
New England
Halcyon II
General Edwards
Ossipee
Monitor
Sullivan
Guardian
Commonwealth Pier
Pan
Olive Tablets Claim Liver Help for Digestive Relief
Suffering stomach upset pills fail to fix digestion according to ads. Dr Edwards Olive Tablets claim to stimulate the liver and bowels to normal function easing indigestion without griping or pain. Sold in 10c and 25c boxes by all druggists, olive color tablets act as a vegetable remedy.
Three Cheers for General Cole Amid Monitor Voyage
Governor Bartlett of New Hampshire orders three cheers for General Cole as the Monitor nears the eastern avenue wharf. Mrs. Roger Wolcott, widow of former Governor Wolcott, attends as a distinguished guest aboard the ship and salutes her son, Captain Oliver Wolcott.
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General Cole
Bartlett
New Hampshire
Monitor
Eastern Avenue
Mt. Vernon
Roger Wolcott
Goveror Wolcott
Oliver Wolcott
Twins in the 101st Engineers Reunite in Boston
The Powers brothers, both 29 and from Springfield, arrived in Boston with the 101st Engineers on the U S 5 Mt Vernon. They sailed and served together since 1917, promoted to corporals simultaneously, and were almost inseparable on the French front repairing bridges, roads, and trench shelters.
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Tom
John
101St Engineers
Powers Brothers
Boston
U. S
Mt. Vernon
Springfield
First Corps
Dack
Chaplain OConnor Glads He Is Wife-less On Ship
The chaplain surveyed spectators on the pier then in the officers’ HQ on the transport told officers it must be hard for them to miss their wives and declared he is glad he has no wife.
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Tack Conolly
101St Field Artillery
Corporal Conolly
Boston Press Club
Congressman Carter
James A. Harbord
Chateau Thierry
Stars and Stripes
Conolly
O'Connor
Sickness Report Aboard Mt Vernon Voyage
Colonel John H. Allen of the 6th Division reports very low illness on the Mt Vernon during the voyage to the country. He notes 24 sick with one dangerous pneumonia case, six mild influenza, and four pneumonia cases, praising the ship’s sanitation. An advertisement for Adamson's Cough Balsam appears.
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John H. Allen
Mt. Vernon
Allen
Governor Coolidge Hails Mount Vernon Return of 26th Division
Governor Coolidge returned to the State House after witnessing the Mount Vernon arrive with 26th Division units. He praised the cheering soldiers, praised their condition and spirits, and said their homecoming strengthens American citizenship to uphold civilization and peace.
101st Engineer Band First to Enter No Man's Land
Members of the 101st Engineers band, the first authorized by the government, served during the 18 months of campaign with the engineers. They faced heavy artillery fire, boosted morale with lively music, claim to be first at St Mihiel after capture, first after Vendon downfall, and first to play in No Man's Land after the armistice.
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101St Engineers
St. Mihiel
Vendon
No Man's Land
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Mr. Vernon
Gov. Bartlett
Gen. Cole
Charlie Cole
Cole
Gen. Edwards
Code Kisses
Hugs
Ant
Arthur I. Bartlett
The
1St Engineers
Col. Bartlett
McDonald
McLaughlin
Moriarty
Collins
Lane
John C. Leggatt
Alexander Whiteside
Thomas F. Sullivan
William C. Hayes
104Th Regiment
William P. Hayes
Paul Norton
Joseph C. Allen
Lewis R. Sullivan
Governor’s Council
Stevens
Frank B. Welch
Thomas B. Sanders
Bullseye
Fitzy
John F. Fitzgerald
Verdun
France
Army
Navy
New England States
Waleyon II
W. A. Hallstrom
Department of the Northeast
Hallstrom
Tieutenant
Fred Newey
Hewey
William Lynn
Sagamore Avenue
Irving Rich
Lambert Avenue
John Noyes
Washington Ave
Nue
Charles T. Mason
Tarkway
Chester Lotewell
Sagsmore Avenue
William Tarvey
Washington Avenue
Wart Stardsfield
Willian
O'Brien
Imist Engineers
Broadway
Alexander Galsworthy
Earl Norse
Dr. Edwards
Powers
Chaplain O'Connor
Adamson
So-Co-ny
Standard Oil CO. OF
New York
Paine
Rocker
Paine Furniture Company
Arlington Street
Boylston Street
Standard Oilcoury
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