Parents to Get War Crosses for Two Massachusetts Men
Posthumous Distinguished Service Crosses awarded to the parents of two Massachusetts officers. Lieutenant David B. Putnam of Boston and Captain Lester S. Wass of Gloucester will receive the honors on Boston Common from General Edwards, with Putnam's mother and Wass's father named as recipients.
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Camp Devens
Massachusetts
David BE. Putnam
Hemenway Street
Boston
Lester S. Wass
Cleveland Street
Gloucester
Putnam
F. G. Putnam
Wass
I. A. Was
Copper magnate Charles K Lipman dies in New York home
New York on July 2 reports major copper figure Charles K Lipman died at his residence. He long chaired mining interests linked to the Guggenheim brothers and shaped industry leadership.
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New York
Charles K. Lipman
Guggenheim Brothers
Costly Bay State blaze at Quincy power house hits 50,000 loss
A fire at the Bay State railway power house in Quincy destroyed $50,000 worth of irreplaceable apparatus and endangered about a dozen firefighters when a 200-foot tower collapsed. The blaze threatened 12,000 tons of coal in a pocket and men towed the Annapolis coal barge free, saving the vessel as flames lit the sky.
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Bay State Railway
Quincy
Annapolis
Baltimore
Fishermen To Strike In Boston Gloucester And Portland
After failed conciliation, several thousand fishermen will walk out today in Boston Gloucester and Portland. Vessels in port will stay, and soon arriving boats will be laid up after unloading their catches.
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Boston
Gloucester
Portland
Puritan Maidens Love Tale and Nantucket Tea Gift
Two era pieces unfold: a Boston fishing strike stalls over minimum prices with union leaders warning a 10 am walkout and a Nantucket letters recount a century old romance. Ruth Starbuck Wentworth recalls cousin Nat’s voyage, China tea, and a wedding age tea party in a vivid colonial memoir tone.
Ruth Starbuck Wentworth Recalls Nantucket Tea Bride Tale
Ruth Starbuck Wentworth narrates a Nantucket tea ceremony and dinner with Uncle Nathaniel and Captain Morris. She reflects on family opinions about marriage, tepid acceptance from Aunt Esther, and her wish to await parents consent before becoming the captain’s wife aboard his ship.
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Nathaniel Starbuck
Boston
China
Nathaniel
Nathan
Aunt Mehitable
Aunt Esther
Grandma
Nat
Captain Morris
Macy
Edward Starbuck
London
Content
Lieutenant Macy
Wilds
Nantucket
Starbuck
Wentworth
Esther
Aunt Content
Morris
Miles Standish
Nathaniel Starbucks
Starbucks
Malden Man Grows Fig Tree in His Back Yard
Luigi Frassica of Mills Street, Malden, grows two fig trees thriving in New England wind and cold. One tree has 16 figs, the other 14, nearly ripe and to be picked in a few days.
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Malden
Luther Burbank
Luigi Frassica
Mills Street
Italy
New England
Frassica
Christina Frassica
Prince Square Named for Boston Aviator Norman Prince
Mayor Peters approved naming the area in front of the Old K building Prince square in honor of Norman Prince the Boston aviator killed in action. State House at Devonshire and State Streets will receive the new signs installed by Colonel Thomas F. Sullivan public works commissioner.
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Peters
State House
Devonshire
State Streets
Prince Square
Norman Prince
Boston
Thomas F. Sullivan
Bay State Lt Thomas G Coleman Wins Croix de Guerre
Weymouth born Lieutenant Thomas G Coleman, now with ROTC, has been notified as a Croix de Guerre recipient. He recently returned from anti aircraft service in France and is a nephew of Roxbury District Fire Chief Gaffy.
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Camp Devens
Bay State
Thomas G. Coleman
Weymouth
Coleman
France
Gaffy
Roxbury
Notre Dame Sisters Serve Firemen After Building Fire
Sisters of Notre Dame at the Parochial School of the Church of the Assumption in East Boston served Engine Company 40 firemen hot coffee and light luncheons after a stubborn attic blaze at 45 Seaver Street. The three story building burned for more than an hour before firefighters gained control.
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Engine Company 40
Boston
Seaver Street
Church of the Assumption
Notre Dame
Ingine Company 40
Pershing Abolishes Military Censorship
Paris July 2 General Pershing ordered immediate abolition of military censorship. Censorship of dispatches from correspondents with the American army and of soldiers letters and telegrams will end tonight.
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Pershing
Paris
Pershin
America Army
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Atlantic Avenue
Long Wharf
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Ruth Starbuck Wentworth
Saratoga Springs
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Lydia Ann
Ruth
Captain’s
Grandmother
Virginia
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H. P. Hood & Sons Dairy Experts
Notre Dame Sisters
Irving Bachellor
Joseph Hergesheimer
Louise Closser
Hale Franklin P. Adams
Katharine Newlin Burt
William H. Ham
William Hope Hodgson
Timothy Smith Co
Washington St. Roxbury
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Specia
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