Night rider wounds Northampton private at rifle range
Private Perley R. Penniman of I Company, Second Regiment, Northampton, was shot in the calf by a mysterious night rider near the rifle range six miles from camp in Columbus New Mexico. Private Frank A. Sullivan aided by binding a tourniquet, and Penniman rests in hospital with the outlook for recovery.
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Columbus
N. M
Perley R. Penniman
Northampton
Penniman
Frank A. Sullivan
Medical Department
I Company
Thomas J. Hammond
Tres Hermanas Mountains
Pengiman
Archie Moore
Moore
Hayes
Second Regiment
Hammond
Pennimin
Night Attack Near Outpost Spurs National Guard Action
A night shooting wounded Penniman and sparked a rapid medical response as troops chased a lone rider through desert terrain. Major Beckman investigated fresh horse tracks and high-heeled boot marks, while machine gun motorcycles from Springfield demonstrated rapid fire utility during a camp disruption and a jackrabbit hunting incident with Arkansas militiamen.
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Alfred G. Beckman
Northampton
Penniman
I Company
Chase
Springfield
Ernest Burger
Deming
National Guard
Delaware Regiment
Arkansas
Friends of Irish Freedom Thank The Post Letter
A note from FP J Horgan on behalf of the Massachusetts State branch of the Friends of Irish Freedom thanks the Post editor for courtesy and consideration in the news column. The letter, dated from the executive committee, expresses appreciation and signs with clerk initials.
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Massachusetts
Friends of Irish Freedom
J. Horgan
Mass
F. IL
Captain Hanley Dies at Home. Veteran Boston Police Leader
Captain John J. Hanley, a 37 year Boston police veteran and 16 year Roxbury Crossing commander, died yesterday at 7 Abbotsford street after a long illness. He retired on half pay in 1915 and was 66. Funeral Monday at his home with a 10 o'clock requiem mass at St Mary of the Angels Church.
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John J. Hanley
Boston Police Department
Roxbury Crossing
Abbotsford Street
Boston
Hanley
O’meara
St. Mary of the Angel's Church
Traveller shy on Cape facts stows aboard Sachem
David Morrison a 22 year old listed as an Orleans native and American citizen by claim holds at the immigration station in Boston after arriving as a stowaway on the British steamship Sachem. He cannot prove citizenship and faces possible return to England. Morrison says he has been globe trotting for three years.
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Boston
Cape Cod
David Morrison
Orleans
Mass
England
Morrison
False Boston Post baby contest scam targets Dorchester mothers
A man claiming to work for the Boston Post tried to recruit Dorchester mothers for a prize baby photo contest charging $2.50 per dozen pictures. The Post staff says it does not operate a photography business and knows nothing about this man.
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The
Boston Post
Dorchester
the Post
First Bay State Death On Border Amid War News
Thomas J. Fox a 37 year old Attleboro private in I Company Fifth Regiment died after two appendicitis operations at Fort Bliss. The death marks the first Bay State troops death on the border. He had served nine years and was popular in his company.
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Tex
Thomas J. Fox
Attleboro
I Company
Bay State
Fifth
Fox
Rollins
Jacobs
Joseph H. McNally
Boston
Watertown
Ninth
McNally
Fort Bliss
General Sweetser
Massachusetts
Logan
Ninth Regiment
Columbus
N. M
Hays
War Department
Bay State Cavalrymen
Fox dies. Fifth Regiment to conduct military funeral
Fox a Foxborough jeweler and former corporal dies in El Paso after hospital illness. His enlistment papers name Walter Barrows as the death contact. brother Michael Fox is in South Attleboro fire department. The Fifth Regiment plans a military funeral with escort to the railroad station led by Chaplain H Lyman Rollins. Another New England trooper, Parker W Miller of Rhode Island Cavalry, had died earlier of scarlet fever.
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Fox
Walter Barrows
North Attleboro
Michael Fox
Fire Department
South Attleboro
Fifth Regiment
H. Lyman Rollins
The
Fifth
New England
el Paso
Parker W. Miller
Rhode Island Cavalry
Loring Jacobs
F Company
Thief Takes Life Savings in a Hotel Theft
Brockton police investigate after Charles N. Nichols 70-something lodger at Hotel Greyson withdrew 700 from a bank and kept it in his trousers. The money was stolen while he slept in his room on High street. Nichols planned retirement after decades of factory work.
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Brockton
Charles N. Nichols
Greyson
High Street
Mr. Nichols
Nichols
Japan Holds Full Share in War Effort Dr Morton Prince Says
Boston neurologist Dr Morton Prince arriving at Nahant says Japan has given a full share in the war effort and will soon see Germany broken. He notes Japan’s prosperity munitions boom and dominance in Pacific shipping while supplying Russia with vast munitions and expanding wealth.
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Japan
Germany
Morton Prince
Boston
Nahant
Orient
Dr. Prince
Russia
Pacific
Japanese powers shifted aims in war early rumors
Dr. Prince quoted a Japanese statesman saying Germany misread Japan's 1914 posture. Japan feared backing the wrong side but now believes Allied victory likely. Japan aided England and Russia, reassuring Russia it could relinquish Asiatic troops. Japan seeks to crush German influence in the East and maintains cordial ties with the United States as 1913 frictions fade.
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Japan
Dr. Prince
Germany
Russia
England
Russi
Pacific
Far East
East
Prince
United States
California
Woman Leaps From Auto After Harassment in Boston
Mrs Grace Best 28 Dartmouth Street leaped from a hired auto on Huntingon Avenue near Massachusetts Avenue last night to escape annoyance. She was injured severely and taken to City Hospital in serious condition with brain concussion. The car’s other occupants fled. driver Albert Dosch remained and reported a party of two men and a woman had invited Mrs Best for the ride.
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Grace Best
Dartmouth Street
Huntington Avenue
Massachusetts Avenue
City Hospital
Albert Dosch
Dosch
Clark's
Washington Street
Mrs. Best
Lynch seeks probe into Middlesex apportionment
Representative John H. Lynch demanded an official inquiry into the Middlesex first representative district apportionment as illegal and alleged a printed report of county commissioners minutes circulated before the meeting. He urged Attorney General Will to investigate the apportionment process.
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Middlesex
John H. Lynch
Attwill
Lynch
Boston inspectors plan Bar Harbor trip for check passers
Inspectors Dorsey and Haggerty of the Boston police travel to Bar Harbor Maine to retrieve R. W. Rogers and James M. Nesmith arrested there for passing worthless checks at the Copley Plaza Hotel in Boston yesterday.
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Boston Police
Bar Harbor
Boston
R. W. Rogers
James M. Nesmith
Mavern Hotel
Copley Plaza
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