German Tidal Wave Sweeps Over Russia
Reports from Berlin claim massive capture at Rovno including 1353 guns 120 machine guns 4000 to 5000 motor cars and trains with about 1000 carriages loaded with grain and war matériel as Bolshevik surrender hésitates amid ongoing clashes on multiple fronts with Allied forces pressing at Lorraine and in the Middle East.
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Berlin
Rovno
Petrograd
von Fichborn
Moon Island
Esthenia
Leal
Gulf of Riga
Pernigal
Lemzal
Wenden
Wolmar
Dvinsk
Pinsk
von Linsingen
Berlin Reports Captures In Russia War Material
Berlin reports capture of 425 officers 8700 men 1353 guns and substantial war material in the eastern war theatre as per today’s official statement from the army group in Russia. The communiqué outlines gains against enemy forces and highlights arms losses.
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Berlin
Army Group of
Kaiser may demand release of czarina
Amsterdam reports rumors that Bolshevik authorities may be forced by the Kaiser to release the ex-Czarina and her husband and children and send them to Berlin.
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Kaiser
Czarina
Amsterdam
Berlin
Cross Country Run At East Boston Today
The Orient Heights Yacht Club hosts a 10 mile cross country run this afternoon starting at 2 pm from the yacht club. The shoreline course around Winthrop marks the club’s first annual event open to all East Boston residents with many prominent former school and college track athletes entered from Noddle Island.
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Orient Heights
Elevated Men Vote to Strike on Monday in Boston
The Boston Elevated street car workers vote to strike if demands for higher wages and relief from overcrowded, heatless cars are not met. Two meetings drew thousands at Fay Hall and Wells Memorial, with leaders and union officials pushing for a strike by midnight Monday if needed.
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Fay Hall
Dover
Washington Streets
Wells Memorial
Washington Street
Matthew J. Higgins
Boston Street Car Men’s Union
Beacon Hill
Tion
Shine
Brush
Dexter Hall
Higgins
William J. Timmins
Union
Timmins
America
Division 589
Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employees of America
Boston
Elevated Letter Warns Union Over Strike Vote
The Boston Elevated Rail way Company in a Feb 21, 1918 letter to Carmen’s Union officials says it has received no notice of a strike vote and urges continuity of service. It details prior meetings since 1917 on wage and schedule changes and questions a union press statement about allegedly pressuring the company.
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Matthew J. Higgins
Wm. J. Timmins
Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employees of America
Division
Boston
Massachusetts
Carmen
Boston Elevated Railway Company
Mahon
J. H. Reardon
International Executive Board
Carmen’s Union
Learned
Messrs
Neal
Ching
Special Aecess Commission
Public Service Commission
Street Railway Committee
Committee On
Metropolitan Affairs
James J. Storrow
M. C. Brush
Public Utilities Aid Backed by Wilson Increases Likely
With President Wilson's approval the Federal Railroad Administration plans to interest itself in those needing financial aid. The measure anticipates possible increases in fares or rates as part of the public utilities relief effort.
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Seral Railroad Administration
McAdoo
Rald Roads
Publi
Federal Railroad Administration
Bay State Engineers Reported as Wounded
South Amboy New Jersey reported missing in action November 30 and buried December 3. Private Clifford Hy Wilson of Waltham Massachusetts died from pneumonia in the same dispatch.
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Bay State Engineers
South Amboy
N. J
Clifford Hy, Wilson
Waltham, Mass
Pneuemonia
Private Fay Reported Wounded After Rifle Cleaning
Private John J. Fay aged 28 son of Mr and Mrs Alexander Fay of 27 Clayton avenue South Medford was reported wounded in a telegram from the adjutant general's office yesterday. In a letter his mother said he hoped to use his rifle for combat and mentioned a sweater made by his sweetheart. Fay arrived in England with the first American troops and was photographed with them on parade in an English city.
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John J. Fay
Alexander Fay
Clayton Avenue
South Medford
Adjutant General's Office
Enlisted in July Melrose Soldier George W Sterling
George W Sterling of 1069 Main street Melrose Highlands enlisted last July and went overseas in A Company Fourteenth Railroad Engineers. He was a former Melrose High baseball captain and rover on the hockey team. He lived with his parents and has a wife and a two year old son George M Sterling aged 21.
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George W. Sterling
Main Street
Melrose Highlands
France
Fourteenth Railroad Engineers
Melrose High
Sterling
Simeon W. Sterling
George M. Sterling
Pneumonia Fatal Ends Young Massachusetts Soldier in France
Clifford H. Wilson a 22 year old member of F Company Fifth Massachusetts Infantry of Waltham died of pneumonia in France. He served at the Mexican border with the Fifth Regiment and later transferred when the unit merged into the Ninth and became the 101st Infantry. His parents reside in Texas and he left Waltham to stay with W Andrews a milk farmer on Dale street. He leaves a brother Charles Wilson of Waltham.
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Clifford H. Wilson
France
Fifth Massachusetts Infantry
Waltham
Ninth Regiment
101St Infantry
Texas
W. Andrews
Dale Street
Charles Wilson
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Russia
Lorraine
New Zealand
Polygon Wood
Flanders
Jerusalem
Jericho
von Seydler
Austria
Wilson
United States
Ate
Wales
Shane Ak Aika Ale
Eoixa Et Sevneerleaneeaeteale
Eevreicaeeriene
E. Boston
Shine Presents Motion
Thomas F. Shine
Amalgamated Association of Street and Ehlectric Railway Employees of America
W. D. Mahon
Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Employees of America
Mr. Mahon
Detroit
Carmen's
W. B. Fitzgerald
Fitzgerald
Seereseas
Washington
Fed
Melrose High School
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