Sunday Tabernacle Construction to Begin on Huntington Ave
Actual work on the Sunday Tabernacle to be built on the site of the old American League baseball grounds on Huntington Avenue will start tomorrow with ground breaking ceremonies at 2 o'clock in the afternoon. Joe Spiece, Billy Sunday’s official builder who recently completed the Detroit Tabernacle, was due to arrive yesterday but did not appear. he is expected today to take active charge of the building operations.
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Huntington Avenue
Joe Spiece
Billy Sunday
Detroit
Ground breaking ceremony for tabernacle set with prayers and songs
The program for the ground breaking will be simple with prayers remarks by prominent movement figures and Billy Sunday hymns. The officiating clergyman is to be announced today. Allen C. Emery as general committee chair and Hon. W. E. Blodgett former mayor and sub committee chair will address the gathering.
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Allen C. Emery
W. E. Blodgett
Woburn
Sights Submarines Off Coast of Maine
A motion regarding the presence of submarines off the Maine coast is continued from the first page. The report notes patrol activity near coastal regions with naval sightings and official responses under review.
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Maine
Submarine Sighting Off Maine Coast Stirs Coast Guard
Coast Guard sailor Dunn reported glimpsing two strange vessels near Cross Island at 8:30 AM, one larger and one smaller, both resembling submarines. Other ships and lighthouse officials offered no confirmations as Bremen or Deutschland were ruled out by harbor captains and Navy statements.
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Lowell W. Dunn
Cross Island
United States Coast Guard
Maine
Dunn
Post
Bay of Fundy
Coast Guard Service
Small
Sarah L. Davis
Cc. B. Clark
Machinsport
Petit Manan
Navy Department
Boston
Portland
Coast
Boys Save Man From Drowning At Arlington Heights Reservoir
Two boys heard a cry for help while on their way to the Arlington Heights reservoir near the Arlington line in Lexington yesterday. Richard H. Griffin, 16, of 39 Tanager Street, Arlington Heights, helped reach the man who was struggling about 100 feet from shore opposite The Point.
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Arlington Heights
Arlington Line
Lexington
Richard H. Griffin
Tanager Street
the Point
Daring Rescue: Griffin and Barry Save Drowning Man
Grif fin Griffin, fully dressed, swam to a drowning man off the point and grabbed him as the man clung to him. James Barry, removing part of his clothing, joined the effort and they brought the man ashore. The swimmer credited the two Arlington Heights youths, who escaped unharmed, with saving his life.
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Griffin
James Barry
Arlington Heights
Barry
Ford Still Still Seeks Peace Through Ford Still
Professor Emily Balch of Wellesley College, currently America's lone delegate to neutral nations talks in Stockholm, visits Boston en route to Detroit to report to Henry Ford. She expects Ford to return to Stockholm to push peace plans and notes progress toward constructive world peace negotiations.
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Henry Ford
Emily Balch
Wellesley College
Stockhholm
Boston
Ford
Detroit
Miss Balch
Michigan
Stockholm
Fifth Company Coast Artillery to Train at Wakefield Range
The Fifth Company Coast Artillery Corps of Chelsea will conduct a five day tour at the Wakefield range starting next Sunday. Afterwards the unit moves to Fort Andrews for a ten day joint coast defence exercise under Captain F. R. Robinson at the Chelsea armory.
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Wakefield Range
Coast Artillery Corps
Chelsea
F. R. Robinson
Wakefield
Two Held for Grand Jury in Theft Case
James McCann and Joseph Collins were held for the grand jury yesterday by United States Commissioner Hayes on a charge of larceny from passengers on the steamer Ransom B. Fuller. They were arrested Saturday on the steamship’s arrival from Portland and committed to East Cambridge jail in $600 bail.
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James McCann
Joseph Collins
United States
Hayes
Ransom B. Fuller
Portland
East Cambridge
Miss Emma Page Arrest Linked to Chelsea Missing Pair
Miss Emma Page 35 of 25 Hanover Street Lynn was arrested in Lynn yesterday by Special Officer Isbister of the Chelsea police. She had disappeared last Wednesday with Violet Landphere 24 of Chelsea.
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Chelsea
Emma Page
Lynn
Hanover Street
Violet Landphere
Isbister
Woman Arrested in Chelsea Kidnapping Case
The child Violet was returned to her mother Mrs. Bertha M. Landphere of 27 Williams Street Chelsea. Miss Page, a friend of the mother, will be arraigned in court this morning on kidnapping charges. She had been taking Violet to the beach for afternoons and said she loved the child. Chelsea police note she changed her Lynn address to avoid detection. Violet appeared happy to be home, though she had been in Miss Page’s care.
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Lynn
Chelsea Court
Violet Landphere
Chelsea
Bertha M. Landphere
Williams ‘Street
Miss Page
Violet
National defense bills near final action in Congress
Washington Aug 7 The navy bill faces remaining disputes over the big construction program and personnel increases while the army bill conference report is complete. House members will be recalled next week to vote on naval building and personnel provisions after Padgett plans to submit the conference report and seek action.
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Washington
Congress
Conference
Army
Padgett
House
Eugene S Hinckley of Wakefield dies at age
Wakefield resident and longtime park commission chair Eugene S. Hinckley died yesterday. He served Wakefield rattan works for over 50 years and was a trustee of Wakefield Savings Bank and the Methodist Church. Funeral at his home tomorrow at 2 45 pm with burial at Lakeside Cemetery.
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Eugene
War Department Officer to Defend Colonel in Habeas Case
Judge Advocate Samuel T. Ansel left Washington for Boston to defend Colonel Warren F Sweetser commander of the Framingham military camp in habeas corpus proceedings brought by Alexander M Emerson the Boston trooper who charges unlawful detention for military duty at the camp.
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Samuel T. Ansel
War Department
Washington
Boston
Warren F Sweetser
Framingham
Alexander M. Emerson
Sweetser
Judge Dodge delays Emerson habeas corpus ruling in Framingham camp
Judge Dodge planned a habeas corpus for Emerson but, at the request of US District Attorney Anderson, will hear Judge Advocate Ansell first. A Thursday release is unlikely. an appeal to the Circuit Court of Appeals will follow, with Emerson’s detention argued unlawful under the new national defence act and the Dick act.
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Dodge
United States District Court
Emerson
United States District Attorney
Anderson
Advocate Ansell
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Framingham
Lodger Accused After Purse Theft Attempt
Miss Marguerite Cahane of 328 Tremont street was mugged when lodger Ernest L. Scott tried to snatch her purse as she opened it for a nickel. He struck her with the revolver butt and was held in 1000 bond for a hearing in one week.
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Marguerite Cahane
Tremont Street
Ernest L. Scott
Noted Kansas City couple feted at Nahant anniversary reception
Former United States Senator and Mrs William Warner of Kansas City Missouri were honored at a Nahant Hotel Tudor reception last evening by over 100 friends for the th anniversary of their wedding an annual Nahant visit by the couple is noted along the north shore.
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United States
William Warner
Kansas City
North Shore
Nahant
Tudor
Wilson Won’t Speak in Maine Campaign
President Wilson will not address the Maine state campaign ending Sept. 11 but may write letters and participate in other ways. The decision came at a conference with Democratic leaders Vance C. McCormick and Homer S. Cummins. William J. Bryan is likely to skip Maine but speak elsewhere later. no itinerary for him yet.
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Washington
Wilson
Maine
Vance C. McCormick
Democratic National Committee
Homer S. Cummins
William J. Bryan
Democrats plan early nationwide campaign with broad outreach
Democratic leaders met with the President to map a campaign launch soon after September 1 if Congress remains in session. They aim for extensive state campaigns, a strengthened Republican challenge, and an active effort to win women voters with a New York women's bureau planned and speeches scheduled in Hodgensville and St. Louis.
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McCormick
Cummings
Democratic National
Democratic Campaign Committee
California
Charles E. Hughes
Two New Cases of Infantile Paralysis Reported
The Boston Board of Health reports two fresh infantile paralysis cases one in South Boston on Third Street and one in Dudley. A 19 month old boy arrived in Boston without required health certificates after traveling from New York. State authorities confirm Burton Murdock of West Main Street as the Dudley case.
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Third Street
South
Boston
Dudley
City Board of Health
Curley
South Boston
New York
New York Department of Health
United States Public Health Service
State Board of Health
Burton Murdock
West Main Street
Massachusetts Soldiers Demand Civilian Summer Wear
Weather fair in El Paso as Massachusetts citizen soldiers tire of khaki and crave civilian clothing. The local city notes a second wave of civilian summer wear appears as Bay State militiamen have exhausted area shops and issued SOS requests to manufacturers for fresh supplies.
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EL Paso
Tex
Massachusetts
Bay State
Cactus Clearing Near Camp Site by Western Massachusetts Troops
More than a thousand western Massachusetts soldiers attacked cactus and mesquite to clear 45 acres for a new Second Regiment camp at Columbus New Mexico. They cleared two thirds by nightfall while facing prickly brush and wildlife, with no serious injuries reported as police reserves watched the lines for safety.
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Columbus
N. M
Massachusetts
Soldiers swap khaki for civvies and plot El Paso strolls
Officers and men in the Bay State units begin a Federal physical exam in uniformed discipline. Many purchase civilian clothes for evenings off, then head to El Paso to stroll the sidewalks. Meanwhile, shoe fitting and a camp expansion plan unfold as engineers lay out new facilities and a semi permanent camp.
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el Paso
Pennsylvania
Bay State
Sweetser
Logan
Ninth
L. and C
W. W. Reno
Regular Army Medical Corps
Massachusetts
Samuel K. Gilmore
K. B. O’reilly
B Company
Fifth Regiment
Camp Cotton
Boston
New York Strike Settled After City Mediation
The surface railway strike in New York is settled as directors of the New York Railways and Third Avenue Railway accept a settlement plan proposed by Mayor Mitchel and Oscar S Straus. Strikers’ representatives agreed, with normal service to resume tomorrow morning on ratified lines.
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New York Railways Company
Third Avenue Railway Company
Mitchel
Shonts
New York
Second Avenue Railroad
Richmond Light & Power Company
New York & Queens Company
Mr. Straus
Frederick W. Whitridge
Third Avenue Company
Edward A. Maher
City Hall
Greater New York
New York Raiways Company
Oscar S.straus
Public Service Commission
Medford Boy Struck by Auto Injuries Reported
John Lyons five, son of Thomas Lyons of 47 Ship Avenue Medford, was severely hurt when an auto owned by Charles H Chase of 79 Cushing Street Waltham struck him on Riverside Avenue Medford. Eyewitnesses say he jumped from an ice wagon into the path of the car, suffering concussion and multiple contusions. He was treated by Dr Walter F Burke and returned home with recovery expected.
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John Lyons
Thomas Lyons
Ship Avenue
Medford
Charles H. Chase
Cushing Street
Waltham
Riverside Avenue
Walter F. Burke
Rumored Turkish Cabinet Fall Reported from Rome
An Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Rome says unconfirmed reports claim the Turkish cabinet has fallen. The reports originate in Rome and have not been verified.
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London
Exchange Telegraph Company
Rome
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Ansell
U. S
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Quebec
Ste. Anne de Beaupre
Colpitts
Washington St
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Forest Hills
Shadow Lawn
N. J
Hodgensville
Lincoln Memorial
St. Louis
Edward J. Dunn
T. E. Hedlund
Army of Police
Eighth Regiment
Brown
Signal Corps
Red Eye
W. W. Patch
Beacon Street
Field Hospital Company
Garret F. McGourty
Pleasant Street
Massachusetts Ambulance Company
Adjutant-General’s
Dental Corps
John H. Sherburne
Charles H. Cole
Walton S. Banker
Worcester
Neal Institutes
America
Neal
Neal Institute
Newbury ST
Back Bay
Medford Boy
Farley & Macneill
Big Value
Federal Street
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