26th Division Plans Move in Two Sections for Parade
The Northeastern Department announced complete plans for the Yankee Division mobilization for the grand review on April 25. One half will reach Boston the day before and stay in armories and halls, while the rest from Camp Devens arrive on parade day and proceed from trains to starting points.
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Boston
Camp Devens
Northeast Department
Devens
Horticultural Hall
Charlestown
Cambridge
South Armory
Commonwealth
East Armory
First Corps Cadets
Boston billets for Yankee Division parade set
Northeast Department officers arrange Boston lodging for the Yankee Division before and after the parade. Armories and Horticultural Hall host detachments, with kitchens replaced by civilian cooks. Decorations will cover every house along the march with allied flags.
Military police patrol Fitchburg establish provost guard
Fitchburg April 9 The 26th Division military police went on duty here tonight establishing the provost guard to oversee order and security in the area.
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Fitchburg
26Th Division
Maine Boys Send Thanks to Boston Camp Devens
The 103d Infantry Supply Company sends a letter through the Boston Post thanking Boston for the warm reception as they landed at Commonwealth Pier. Written by First Sergeant William M. Whalen of Bangor, Me, the message expresses gratitude and states Boston will continue supporting the Yankee Division. the letter was signed by every man of the command.
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Camp Devens
Boston
103D Inenfantry
Commonwealth Pier
Boston Post
William M. Whalen
Bangor
Fitchburg men return home from war zone duty
For the 76th Division police unit, two Fitchburg overseas men Alfred Bothner and Harry Tapply were reassigned to duty in their home city after 19 months in France. They expected bootlegger activity and did little real work, while the remaining 34 Fitchburg men in the 26th military police were sent to other cities in the camp zone.
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76Th Division
Fitchburg
Alfred Bothner
Harry Tapply
France
26Th Military Police
Quibbles Over Peace Bet After St Remy Dugout Jest
In Camp Devens April 9 four infantry soldiers from Headquarters Company 108th say a joke bet made in France in 1918 should stand only if a peace treaty is signed before July. Sergeant Walter Clinton now insists the bet is void unless hostilities end before July as the others predicted.
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Camp Devens
St. Remy
Walter Clinton
Lynn
Headquarters Company
108D Infantry
George E. Barlow
Methuen
Clinton
State Street
Boston
Ladd Sweetland
Foster J. Tuell
Dennysville
United States
Gets-It Corn Remedy Claims Pain Free Peel Off
An advertisement touts Gets-It as the sole painless method to remove corns and calluses. It pitches the product as the only genuine corn peeler that delivers a pain free peel off.
Delousing success as returning men escape cooties
At Camp Devens on April 9 the sanitation plant processed all arriving soldiers. One man in 500 has lice and only one cootie was found on any single man. Doughboys joke they brought back the pests as mascots, while officials call them pests. Sixty six lice have been steamed and drowned here, a notable record for a division just back from France.
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Devens
Sanitary Process Plant
France
Mongolia
Northeastern Department
Camp Devens
Edwards
War Department
Brest
City to honor Fitchburg men with July Fourth welcome
Arrangements are planned to welcome Fitchburg’s 2500 soldiers and sailors returning home by the Fourth of July. A big reception is planned with informal entertainment for all, including those who are wounded, and a reception to the Fitchburg men in the YD April 19 has been abandoned.
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Daniel W. Lane
Fenway Park
Fitchburg
Mongolia Brings Mass Army Artillery to Camp Devens
Troops aboard the Mongolia prepare to depart New Haven under official escort with Governor Beeckman of Rhode Island and 50 Yankee Division officers. The ship carries 400 Auxiliary of the 102d Field Artillery and is en route to Camp Devens. Medical updates note Colonel Richard K. Hale’s pneumonia and several wounded or ill soldiers under hospital care in Connecticut.
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Edwards
Hale
A. S. Pendleton
Weisel
A. A. Maybach
Dowell
James L. Howard
Stanley Washburn
Daniel Willard, Jr
Lee Thomas
Red Cross
Coolidge
Peters
Beeckman
Rhode Island
New Haven Pier
Northern Avenue Bridge
Actus
Austria
Machigonne II
Ossipee
Flags of the 26th Division Decorated With Ribbons
Major-General Hale leads the 26th Division in decorating the division flags with ribbons bearing fronts where it fought Chemin des Dames Bouck second battle of the Marne St Mihiel Troyon and Verdun. Boston ceremonies April 22 and pass through Boston April 2.
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Chemin Des Dames
Bouck
Pneumonia Strikes Four in 102d Division at Camp Devens
Four young men at Camp Devens base hospital are on the danger list with acute pneumonia. The patients are Joseph Blanchard of Lowell and Frank Kosky of New Haven from the 102d Infantry Supply Company, H C Baker of Malden from B Company 101st Engineers, and Corporal Louis Edwards of Quincy, a division member, admitted April 5. Physicians report their conditions critical and under observation.
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Camp Devens
Joseph Blanchard
Lowell
102D Infantry
Frank Kosky
New Haven
H. C. Baker
Malden
101St Engineers
Louis Edwards
Quincy
26th Transports and Battalions Sail From Brest
Transport columns sailing from Brest list new arrivals set to reach Boston in mid April. Units include 51st Artillery Brigade HQ Brigadier General John H. Sherburne and staff, Second Battalion HQ, detachments, medical and supply detachments, and several field artillery batteries. Additional ships carry units of the 101st and 102d/103d Artillery, machine gun battalions, signal, and ammunition trains. Battleship New Jersey also believed sailing from Brest with 101st support units aboard.
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Brest
Boston
51St Artillery Brigade
John H. Sherburne
101St Field Artillery
102D Field Artillery
103D Field Artillery
101St Ammunition
101St Field Signal Battalion
48 Hour Week Set for New York Silk Mills
The War Labor Board today ruled unanimously for a 48 hour work week in the New York metropolitan silk mills. The decision affects about 110000 workers in 468 mills across the district.
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New York Silk Mills
Washington
War Labor Board
Metropolitan
New York
Sweden Seeks US Loan for Crown Facility
Stockholm April 9 Representatives of the Swedish government have conferred with American minister Ira N. Morris on the potential of securing a loan from the United States. It is estimated that more than 100,000,000 crowns are desired.
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Stockholm
Ira N. Morris
United States
Harbor Strikers to Confer Again on Settlement Offer
New York officials of the Marine Workers' Union say the strike committee will meet tomorrow with the harbor owners' association to receive a new settlement proposal described as the best yet. The talks follow ongoing harbor strike activity and aim to resolve the dispute.
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New York
The
Marine Workers’ Athliation
Tte Beat Owners’ Association
Missions to Get Release of Polish Prisoner
A French mission leaves Warsaw to secure the release and care of Polish prisoners of war in concentration camps in Jugoslavia Bulgaria and Turkey. A similar mission will soon go to Italy to oversee repatriation of Polish prisoners there.
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Warsaw
Jugo-Slavia
Bulgaria
Turkey
Italy
Obituary notices list multiple Boston area deaths
A long obituary list from Charlestown to Revere records April deaths. Entries name the deceased, ages where given, and funeral details including dates times and church or burial places. Clerical listings include Bridget Brahan, John Briggs, John Casey, Rose Chambers, Mary Christian, Frances Cottrell, Michael Foley, Annie Hayes, Carrie Holbrook, Ira Huggan, Thomas Hurley, Charles Kittredge, William Laughrey, Timothy Leary, Hillen Lord, Joseph MacDonald, John McNamara, Louis Metcalfe, Thomas OShaughnessy, John Peterson, Josephine Peterson, Jane Prudder, Mary Rattigan, John Riordan, William Roth, William Schmidt, Sarah Smith, Thomas Tansey, Agnes Tedford, Richard Teevan, Mary Terry, Elmer Towne, James Whittington, Solomon Winer with funeral details.
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Manchester
N. H
Casey
John I. Casey
Hingham
Mass
John H. Logue
Washington St
St. Paul’s
Charles Christian
George A. Hibbard
James W. Christian
Concord Reformatory
Cottrell
Boston
Frances M
Arthur J. Cottrell
Jay St
Gate of Heaven
Taunton
Foley
Roslindale
Michael M
Catherine J. Foley
Martin
Newburg 5&T
Church of the Sacred Heart
Ashland St
Police Dept
HAYES
Annie
William Hayes
Barnes
Second St
St. Vincent's Church
Holbrook
Carrie A
Fred Holbrook
Roxbury
Waterman Chapel
Huggan
Brighton
Ira M. Huggan
Hurley
Thomas
Elizabeth Hurley
Finley
Church of Our Lady of the Presentation
Kittredge
Nedham
Charles Prentice Kittredge
Everett
Parkinson St
Needham
Glenwood Cemetery
Laughrey
Saranac Lake
N. Y
William A. Laughrey
St. Mary’s Church
Waltham
Lord
Canton
Hillen Frances
James L. Lord
Walnut St
MacDonald
Watertown
Joseph
Katherine MacDonald
Spring
Chestiu St
Salem
Church of Mar
Immaculate of Lourdes
Peterson
John P Peterson
Reading St
West Duxbury
Josephine C. Simmons
Henry R. Peterson
Ashbod
Prudder
Jane Gertrude
Monahan
James H
Mary A. (Hendrick) Monahan
Strathmore Road
St Aidan’s Church
Rattigan
Mary Fane
Campbell
Jobs J. Rattigan
Main St
Hugh
St Patrick's Church
Auto
Riordan
John
Rebecca Riordan
Steele
St. Columbkille’'s
Elm St
St. Ambrose Church
Tansey
Cambridge
Thomas F
Elizabeth Tansey
Trowbridge St
St. Paul's Church
Tedford
Agnes
Bradford
Tremont St
Tieevan
Richard Teevan
John F
Marion Teevan
Wells
Hemenway St
Calvary
Tperry
Dorchester
Mary
David Terry
Winer
lIn
Solomon
Ida M
J. K. Winer
Allen St
Montvale
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A. G. Greenlaw
Far West
Thomas Allen
Germany
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Treves
Bowie
Liberty Loan
New England
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Windtie Beem
Ieee
United States Leather Co. of
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American Steam Gauge & Valve Mfg. Co
Camden St
Commonwealth Avenue
Massachusetts Avenue
Maine Boys
Lynn Sergeant Balks
E. Lawrence & Co
Chicago
Richard K. Hale
Brookline
Tweldstein
Joseph A. Balls
East Windsor
Conn
George H. Beckwith
Waterbury
Austin Harlow
Weathersfield
Fusco Arcangelo
Hartford
William Olive
Farrington
Warren Morse
Winifredian
Patricia
New Jersey
C.L Gore
Canada
Tremont Street
Beach
Sweden
U. S
Brooklyn
Bayer
Classified Department
Sean
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