Devens Camp Sees Surge of Visitors and Training
Aug 14 Devens Camp reports heavy turnout with over 2060 automobiles and 10,000 citizens visiting the Citizens' Military Training Camp and Vermont National Guard. Colonel F C Booles praises progress of 1200 New England boys as two governors prepare to review state guards this week and Maine troops begin two weeks of intensive training under Colonel Harry Biglow.
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Devens
Citizens’ Military Training Camp
Vermont National Guard
F. C. Booles
Mark L. Hersey
New England
Caleel Booles
Hartness
Vermont
Baxter
Maine National Guard
Maine
Harry Biglow
Chief Buffalo Bear Seeks Indian Day Honors
Sioux chief from South Dakota visits Boston this week to ask President Harding to set aside an Indian Day honoring American Indians who served in World War I. Chief Buffalo Bear and Princess Buffalo Bear appear at Bowdoin Square Theatre to tell the Sioux service story.
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Buffalo
Bear
South Dakota
Boston
Harding
Buffalo Bear
Bowdoin Sq
Lynn Motorists In Auto Collision
Lynn motorists Mr. and Mrs. Edmund St Phelan and their son and Miss Crowley of Re vere were cut and bruised this afternoon when their automobile collided with a car driven by Thomas Toher of Providence.
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Barnstable
Edmund St. Phelan
Lynn
Miss Crowley
Revere
Thomas Toher
Providence
Boston Girls Enter Nazareth Novitiate in Kentucky
Five South Boston girls including twins from Nazareth High School will join the Sisters of Nazareth novitiate in Nazareth Kentucky next month. Two others leave for Alleghany New York to enter Franciscan orders and two local men begin priesthood studies. Names and ages of the five Nazareth entrants are Ruth and Dorothy Devine Esther Noonan Mary Crump and Katherine Hayes.
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Nazareth High School
Sisters of Nazareth
Nazareth
All@hany
N. Y
Ruth
Dorothy Devine
Thomas J. Devine
East Fifth Street
Mary Crump
O Street
Esther C. Noonan
Alleghany
Margaret O'Leary
Mercer Street
Catherine Porter
Dorchester Street
Philip Fuce
East Second Street
Poughkeepsie
Matthew Carolan
Bridget, Carolan
Gates Street
Somerset
Devine
St. Fulalia
Marie Omas
Notre Dame Order of Waltham
Esther Novan
St. Agnes’ School
Gate of Heaven
Mt. St. Joseph Academy
Katherine Hayes
South
Boston
Nazareth, Ky
Ruth Devine
Woman confronts husband during Tremont Theatre stunt
Mrs. Tombes, 25, described years of neglect and abuse by her husband, actor Mr. Tombes. She walked on stage during a Saturday performance to demand money, received a bottle of whiskey and a note, then was escorted off by police. She urged him to provide her lawful allowance and said she would trouble him no more.
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Helen
Andy
Mr. Tombes
Woman Fatally Hit By Car in Brockton Trolley Corridor
In Brockton on August 14 Lizzie A. Drake 1267 Belmont Street stepped into the path of an electric car at 9 45 am and was fatally injured just hours after the spot mirrored a prior fatality nine months earlier when her husband Charles E. Drake died at the same location.
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Brockton
Charles E. Drake
Lizzie A. Drake
Belmont Street
Brockton Hospital
Phineas and the Motor Car rural romance by Porter
Eleanor Porter writes a short story for the Boston Sunday Post Magazine about a rural love tale where Cupid uses a motor car with effective results. The piece blends light humor with a sentimental mood and explores romance in a small town setting.
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Phineas and the
Cupid
Eleanor Porter
Next Boston Sunday Post
Tragic death hints at premeditated act in Drake case
Mrs. Drake reportedly suffered mental anguish after her husband’s death on November 11, 1920. Drakes death deemed accidental as he waited for a car and was struck by misstep. The wife’s mind was said to be troubled for years, and she went out this morning toward a planned walk before the incident.
Motorman recounts collision near Marshall Corner
Motorman G A Stiles and a fellow operator testified that Mrs Drake stepped from behind a pole onto the track as the car moved at a fair speed. He blew the whistle and tapped the gong but she did not move, and the car struck. The witnesses say she had been observed in the area moments before.
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G. A. Stiles
Marshall Corner
Signor Pug Tale "Fade Out" Set for Boston Post Magazine
Mildred Cram authorizes full printing of the "Fade Out" Signor Pug story in the upcoming Boston Sunday Post Magazine. The feature promises a complete narrative by the noted writer, expanding the magazine's literary offerings.
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Mildred Cram
Boston Sunday Post
Bee alarmed passengers prompts crash in Swansea
Providence Aug. 14. Frederick J. White of this city drove his car into a stone wall and overturned it in Swansea after a bumble bee flew into the tonneau alarming women passengers. Five occupants were slightly injured.
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Providence
Tonneau
Frederick J. White
Swansea
Mass
Wall Torn Away Damaging Machine Incident
A wall was torn away and the machine sustained damage in the incident. Affected area details and cause are not specified. No injuries reported in the brief note.
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