Readable War Time Novels and Upbeat Adventures
The reviewer surveys recent novels by William J. Locke Alice Cholmonde lay and others noting The Red Planet Christine Bromley Neighborhood Where Your Treasure Is Helen of Four Gates Martie the Tenconquered The Inner Door Erewhon and more. It highlights vivid portraits of wartime themes and social life with strong interest in character and narrative craft.
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Lane
William J. Locke
Wellingsford
Mars
Flanders
France
Leonard Boyce
Locke
Red Planet
Europe
Bromley
Macmillan
Alice Brown
America
New England
Ellen Brock
Ellen
Larry Greene
Alan Sullivan
Riviera
Lohmer
East Boston Man Drowns Off Dredger
Harry Fenton aged 49 from East Boston fell from a dredge in the Pines river at the Point of Pines Revere and drowned. He worked on a dredge owned by F E Burnham of East Johnston.
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Boston
Harry Fenton
Pines River
Point of Pines
Revere
Fenton
Pone Street
East Boston
F. E. Burnham
East Jonston
Boston Heat Toll Increases With Six More Deaths
The heat wave in Greater Boston claimed six additional lives and caused two more prostrations. Cooler morning weather brought relief, while activity resumed across industries and city streets. The report lists seven named victims, with one unidentified man described in detail. Municipal weather outlook predicted fair conditions with little temperature change.
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Boston
190 More Die From Heat In New York
New York Aug 3 The Board of Health reports 533 deaths in the city for the 24 hours ending noon with 190 attributed directly to the heat as relief arrived with a cooler temperature after three days of extreme heat.
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New York
Board of Health
Page Honored By Plymouth Amid War Anniversary Visit
Plymouth England greeted Walter H Page the American ambassador and Mrs Page with a flag bedecked town and a guard of honor. The ambassador inspected troops and dined with Viscount Astor at Hever Castle while plans for a luncheon military display and patriotic demonstration were announced for the following day.
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Plymouth
Eng
Walter H. Page
Page
Guard of Honor
Queer Shots Wound Boy In Quincy Yard
A nine year old boy, Arvo Aalto, was wounded in multiple flesh wounds by an unknown shot in his Quincy yard. Doctors could not determine the type of shot and found no remaining pellets. Police and doctors were puzzled by the incident as they treated the boy and sought the weapon charge details.
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Arthur Guy Empey
West
Cheyenne
Wyoming
America
South
New York
Cavalry
Europe
France
Broadway
London
the Somme
Arvo Aalto
Quincy
W. L. Sargent
Confessions Heard from 1800 Massachusetts Guard Soldiers
Cardinal O Connell ordered 40 Catholic priests to Camp M Guinness Framingham to hear the confessions of more than 1800 soldiers from the Ninth Regiment Field Hospital companies and the Ambulance Corps during a day of religious visitation and a dress parade in their honor.
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M’guinness
Framingham
Ninth Regiment
Ambulance Corps
Massachusetts National Guard
Cardinal O'Connell
Boston
Mass Service Led by Ninth Regiment Priests at Chapel
At sunrise tomorrow the entire regiment will parade to the chapel for an outdoor military mass celebrated by Rev Father Michael J O Connor chaplain of the Ninth Regiment assisted by multiple priests from churches in South Boston Roxbury and Washington DC. The mass will include holy communion for the troops. Bugler McCarthy will wake the men and the regimental band will lead the procession. The visiting clergy include Mer J J Chittick and many Jesuit and Pious orders from local churches and colleges in Boston Cambridge Roxbury Georgetown College and St Marys North End among others.
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Michael J. O'Connor
Ninth Regiment
Father O'Rourke
Father O’brien
SS. Peter and Paul’s Church
South Boston
O'Connor
Mer. J. J. Chittick
Church of the Most Precious Blood
Hyde Park
C. J. Donovan
Roxbury
J. J. McQuaid
C.ss.r
Joseph Pp. Turner
C. SS. R
Thomas G. Raynor
Theodore Noonan
Stephen Sweeney
C. P
Augustine Cotter
The
Mission Church
Eustace
John Duran
William E. Murphy
S. J
Boston College
J. I. J. Corrigan
South
Boston
Alexis
Walter
Blessed Gabriel
Brighton
Mather Charles A. O’brien
St. Mary's Church
Lynn
Joseph Connolly
Five Barely Escape Death In Newbury Bridge Crash
Five people narrowly avoided serious injury when their automobile plunged over the bridge from Newbury to Rowley. In the car were Samuel B. Willis of Somerville and his wife plus three other passengers. The car struck the railing then toppled into rocks below. all occupants escaped with only scratches.
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Newbury
Rowley
Samuel B. Willis
Hudson Street
Somerville
New Officers Named for Christian Science Institutions
Edward A. Merritt, C. S. B., elected to the Christian Science board of directors. William P. McKenzie, C. S. B., named editor of the Christian Science Journal Sentinel and Der Herold. John R. Watts, C. S., becomes manager of the Publishing Society. David B. Ogden and Lamont Rowlands elected trustees to succeed McKenzie and Merritt. Merritt, a Marquette native and 1887 Massachusetts Metaphysical College graduate, has long served in multiple church roles.
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First Church of Christ, Scientist
Christian Sccience Publishing Society
Edward A. Merritt
Christian Science Board of Directors
William P. McKenzie
Chrstian Science Journal
Christian Science Sentinel
der Herold der Christian Science
John R. Watts
C. S
Christian Science Publishing Society
Ohio
Christian Science Board of Lectureship
Mother Church
Merritt
Cleveland
Navy Secures Week's Quota at Tremont Street Offices
The navy recruiting office filled 11 sea service vacancies with a flood of applicants while the army lags and the Marine Corps, though small, nears full war strength. General Clarence R. Edwards and staff visited Squantum camp to push for expansions and improved efficiency.
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Navy
Army
Marine Corps
Tremont Row
Plattsburg
Navy Office
Tremont Street
Sam Katz
Clarence R. Edwards
Charles J. Glidden
Aviation Department
Squantum
Edwards
Buried Loot Bared in Field on Belmont Street
Sixteen steam radiators unearthed in a Belmont street field in Somerville last night by Patrolmen McGrath and Doolin. Boys digging spotted two radiators and alerted Lieutenant Carter. A patrol wagon and officers retrieved the remaining fourteen. The radiators were stolen from a Belmont street house about four years earlier by John Greenicks, who was employed on the project, arrested, but bailed and disappeared.
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Belmont Street
Somerville
McGrath and
Doolin
Carter
John Greenicks
Boyle Receives Thorough Summer Boxing Defeat
Eddie Shannon of Frisco dominated Phinney Boyle of Lowell in twelve rounds at the Commercial A. C. Boyle used backhands and elbows, while Shannon’s left jab and sharp right hooks controlled the bout. In the semi final Johnny Donovan defeated Howard McRae in twelve rounds, and Tommy Shea stopped Tony Vatlan in seven of ten.
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Eddie Shannon
Frisco
Phinney Boyle
Lowell
A. C
Boyle
Shannon
Will
Johnny Donovan
South Boston
Howard McRae
Cambridge
Donovan
Tommy Shea
New Haven
Tony Vatlan
Brighton
Vatlan
Bathhouse plea for East Boston soldiers relief
East Boston resident William H. Hearn urges Mayor Curley to open a bathhouse near Leyland Pier No 2 to ease heat stress for local soldiers and youths. He notes past facilities on Border Street and Jeffries Point were removed due to unhealthy dredging work linked to new docks.
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William H. Hearn
Lamson Street
East Boston
The
Highway Commission
Curley
Leyland Pier No. 2
Kronprinzess
Cecilie
Hearn
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