Fake express driver seized after tire thefts in south end
Edward R. Parker alias Edward R. Thomas, 27, from Somerville, was brought to police headquarters on larceny charges for taking tires and tubes worth over 0. He allegedly posed as an express messenger, worked a Shawmut avenue stable, and used fake signs and receipts to steal from five South End dealers last month.
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Edward R. Parker
Edward R. Thomas
South End
Thomas
Auburn Street
Somerville
Shawmut Avenue
Express
Bates
South to ship food cargoes to Gulf ports
Diversion of virtually all export food shipments to Europe to Gulf and south Atlantic ports is planned as a wartime measure. The Shipping Board will appoint a general traffic director, likely Benjamin Winchell, to run the program with shippers, owners, and port authorities. Plan aims to ease East congestion and improve railroad efficiency by winter.
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Washington
Gulf
South Atlantic
Europe
Shipping Board
Benjamin Winchell
Chicago
Union Pacific Railroad
Colby to Maintain Football This Fall Following Naval Academy
Colby College in Waterville Maine announces football will be played this fall in line with President Wilson and the Naval Academy at Annapolis. Robert L. Ervin, the graduate manager of athletics, made the statement.
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Waterville
Robert L. Ervin
Colby
Wilson
United States Naval Academy
Annapolis
Knights of Columbus plan camp fund for soldiers
Colonel P H Callahan outlines how Massachusetts New England and national troops will benefit from a 3 million war camp fund. Cantonments will receive 35 000 per camp for recreation chaplains and comforts with 200 chaplains to be sent to France at a cost of 250 000 and early construction already 440 000 spent.
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Massachusetts
New England
Great National Army
France
Knights of Columbus
P. H. Callahan
Louisville
Boston City Club
United States
Callahan
Ayer
Knights
Busy's Lassie Wins Poughkeepsie Race
Busy's Lassie owned by Barton Pardee of Atlantic City New Jersey and driven by Walter R Cox won The Knich race in Poughkeepsie New York on August 2.
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Busy’s Lassie
Poughkeepsie
N. Y
Barton Pardee
Atlantic City
N. J
Walter R. Cox
Knich
Trot Race Decide Winner After Tied Heat
In Erbocker's 2:07 trot for a $5000 purse in the grand circuit, the event ran four heats. After the third heat Wasy's Lassie and Brescia were tied, forcing an additional heat to determine the winner amid a sharp contest between Day Q and Trampbusy.
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Erbocker
Wasy
Lassie
Brescia
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