Back From War With Hero Cord Arrives at Camp Devens
Camp Devens receives a group of scarred and maimed veterans from French battlefields as the 100 wounded surge with five citations each. Names and addresses of returning soldiers from 104th to 157th units appear, including James V Ripley of Somerville and Corporal Martin J Gordon of South Boston, amid notes on French medical aid and delayed Massachusetts pay.
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Camp Devens
France
Wiley
104Th
Jess
James V. Ripley
Central Street
Somervette
Lowell
6Th Massachusetts
Chateau Thierry
St. Mihiel
Massachusetts
McCain
Discovering an Asthma Cure Claim by Local Chemist
Advertises a home remedy by D. J. Lane of 532 Lane Bridge St Marys Kansas. He offers a postpaid 1.25 bottle to testers who report cure within ten days and promises payment only if it cures. No money required. readers urged to send name and address for a bottle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. J. Lane
Lane Bridge
St. Mary’s
Kansas
Lane
Demobilization starts as 121 soldiers discharged today
Names include R. J. socket, Fred Hart, James Foster, Patsy Ereminto, Robert B. Lumsden, and others from the 644th Aero Squadron, 102d Infantry, First Engineers, and First Division. On Wednesday 2000 additional men will be rushed through the demobilization machine as vessels near Boston and New York carry returning troops home with bands serenading the arrivals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
New England
7Th Division
Collins Applauded at Dorchester Meeting
President Walter L. Collins of the City Council, a re election candidate, spoke to a large Dorchester crowd at the Crescent Club in Bushnell Hall. He criticised the current contract system for waste collection and urged Mayor Peters to have the public works department take over the work. He reviewed improvements he helped secure in Dorchester during his term. the address drew hearty applause.
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Walter L. Collins
Crescent Club
Dorchester
Bushnell Hall
Collins
Asn
Peters
Public Works Department
Hingham Treasurer Hearing Delayed in Abington
Edward W. Jones town treasurer of Hingham was arraigned in district court on larceny charges for $9000 of town funds. Lacking counsel he could not plead and the case was continued to Wednesday. He was released on $16,000 bail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abington
Edward W. Jones
Hingham
Thomas IT
Butterman
Torchy Turns the Trick in Sewell Mord Story
Torchy Pulls the Deep Stuff will appear in next week's Boston Post Sunday Magazine. The entertaining piece by Sewell Mord adds to his reputation as a household name in fiction writing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston Post
Sewell Mord
Funeral marked by leaders for Rev Daniel Waldron chaplain
Prominent religious business and political figures attended the funeral of Rev Daniel W Waldron longtime House chaplain and head of City Missionary Society. Attendees included Lt Gov elect Cox and several Representatives. Interment was private at Pond Street Cemetery. A resolution for a permanent memorial was filed with Rep Clem Kimball. Washington dispatch notes army discharge authority for officers seeking to leave service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daniel W. Waldron
House of Representatives
City Missionary Society
Benjamin A. Willmott
Immanuel-Walnut Avenue
Arthur & Johnson
Cox
Ware
Clemn James W. Kimball
House
Chaplain Waldron
London to Australia Airplane Service Planned
Australian commercial and financial interests plan a London to Australia air route via Sydney and Port Said. A survey is funded, and a civil aerial transport committee report envisions future airline competition with telegraph and rail. It cites five hours London Paris, one day London Turin, 12 days London Calcutta, and 15 days to Johannesburg.
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London
Dec
Australia
British Empire
Sydney
Port Said
Civil Aerial Transport Committee
Telegraph
Post Office
Paris
Turin
Calcutta
Johannesburg
South Africa
Government Air Service
Air Ministry
Funeral for Rev Joseph B Swaim at Mt Auburn Chapel
The funeral for the Rev Joseph B Swaim of 1% Brattle Street Cambridge will be held at 2 o clock this afternoon at Mt Auburn chapel. Swaim 68, active in literary and educational circles, former editor of the Watchman and former president of the New England Baptist Library Association. Born Worcester class of 1873 Harvard degree. Survived by his wife and three sons.
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Joseph &. Swaim
Brattle Street
Cambridge
Mt. Auburn Chapel
Swaim
the Watchman
New England Baptist Library Association
Worcester
Harvard
Claremont
N. H
Providence, R. I
Athol Overseas Veteran Back Home
Athol December 9 Mr and Mrs John Keppler rejoice at the homecoming of their son Carl Keppler a member of E Company 14th Infantry He was in many big fights and was among the first in his company to capture a prisoner He was decorated for valor after being lost in No Man's Land for several days and returning with a captured German
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Athol
John Heppler
Carl
E Company
14Th Infantry
Keppler
No Man's Land
Tie
Y M C A War Work in England Reported at Meeting
Reverend J M Barnett spoke on YMCA war work in England at a gathering of Congregational ministers held in Pilgrim Hall yesterday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
J. M. Barnett
Pilgrim Hall
Worcester Nurse Dies in London
Worcester, Dec. 9. Word received today of the death in a London Red Cross hospital of Nurse Miss Aurelia Wyman, daughter of Mrs. Marshall N. Goosid, who died yesterday from pneumonia resulting from influenza. It is the second death in this family in the past year, all members of which have dedicated themselves to war work, Miss Wyman's brother, Lieutenant Horace Wyman, having died of pneumonia.
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Worcester
London
Red Cross
Aurelia Wyman
Marshall N. Goosid
Steamer Currier Sighted Mines in Atlantic
Philadelphia reports from the government hydrographic office say the steamer Currier was sighted at 7 30 a m yesterday near latitude 9 83 north longitude 9 457 west. The sighting was relayed to the Philadelphia branch and confirms mine presence in the area.
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Philadelphia
Government Hydrographic Office
Currier
Evangelical Name Change Debate At Boston Sunday School Union
A decision vote split on replacing Evangelical with Protestant in union by laws to allow Unitarians membership. Secretary opposed the substitution while about a dozen supported it. Meeting held at Skingsley Hall last night. Delegate Kellogg urged against the change, noting belief in Christ’s divinity. Professor O W Warningham spoke on The Year That is Ahead and defended Kellogg’s stance, citing Jesus Christ’s manhood.
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Boston
Warningham
Kellogg
Jesus Christ
Cecilian Guild Bazaar Dec 16 At Coplesy Plaza
Cecilian Guild officers will run a city children charity bazaar on Monday December 16 from noon to six at Coplesy Plaza. Luncheon tea served. Miss Agnes Fitzgerald to preside at the general table. Other club officers include Mrs Arthur Grimes Mary Cline and Alice Hurley.
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Cecilian Guild
Coplesy Plaza
Agnes Fitzgerald
The
Cit
Arthur Grimes
Mary Cline
Alice Hurley
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Ees
Devens
Martin J. Gordon
Fourth Street
101St Infantry
Leicheprey
Floyd J. Warner
Albany
N. Y
30Th Infantry
Beecher White
Island Falls
102D Infantry
Bolick Tanski
New Britain, Conn
Francis W. Maley
Wwairhaven
James Mooney
Ith Infantry
Portland
104Th Infantry
Somerville
Mass
Wartin J. Gordon
West Infantry
Pourth Street
South
Michael W W.ford
Springfield
George H. Coyle
Providence
R. I
Albert A. Lease
Ith
Ar, T
Willliam H. Vance
505Th Field Artillery
Holman Street
Attleboro
Mags
Louis Vallan
1Éth Coast Artillery
Stamford
Conn
Salvatore Dimara
Ansonia
Frank ‘“Wible
Mate Flovder
Warner
30Th
Charles Hemance
Glen Falls
William McIlwaine
New Canaan
Stanley Shacwiski
508Th
Vernor R. Dutton
Service of Supplies
Bristol
Charles H. Luce
20Th
Eee
Okeh” Fr
Peabody
Torchy
Emerson Records
Cnel
L Small
Victor
Columbia
Timerson Records
Silk
Mr. Waldron
War Department
Washington
Army
Rev. J. 8. Swaim
Dame, Stoddard CO
Rodgers
Washington St. Franklin
Evangelical
Sunday School Union
E.T Slattery
Tremont ST
Mrs. X
Keap
Atents
la Touraine
W.S. Quinby Company
Chicago
la Touraine Coffee and Teas
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