Baseball and camp life flourish at El Paso militia camps
Regiments in Massachusetts camps organize baseball teams with battalion and brigade competition. Recruits head to the border from South Framingham. Camp Cotton and Camp Pershing see extensive improvements in tents, camp exchanges, officers clubs, and housing as officials plan for acclimation and reduced dust.
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el Paso
Sweetser
Boston
Boston National League Baseball Club
Massachusetts
Massachusetts Cavalry
Artillery
Pershing
Bay State
Camp
Framingham
Cavalry
Signal Corps
South Framingham
W. L. Emery
Honolulu
Witchburg
Camp Pershing
Closson Emery
F Battery
Young Emery
Emery
San Francisco
James Parker
Brownsville
George Meade Parker
Francis Parkman
Highth
Delia Lane
Lane
Father O'Connor
Fifth
Camp Cotton
Robbins
George T. Latimer
H Company
A. P. Coleman
Andrew J. Carr
Urgent appeal for funds for soldiers families relief
An urgent appeal was issued by the Massachusetts Volunteer Aid Association after a finance committee meeting. The fund cannot cover weeks of need. a letter to Ninth Regiment members stresses continuing relief. Many families face hardship after loyally supporting soldiers, some pawning wedding rings to survive. Volunteers quietly aid neighbors, avoiding stigma and duplication with other groups. Donations for transportation and investigators are urgently needed.
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Massachusetts Volunteer Aid Association
Ninth Regiment
James J. Phelan
Association
Volunteer Aid Association
Boston
Association For Aid
Minard's Liniment Ad Promotes Quick Relief for Outdoor Sports
Advertises Minard's liniment as a pure stainless antiseptic for immediate use to prevent soreness and lameness in tennis golf and other outdoor sports widely used this season.
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Minard
Relief groups face dwindling funds in Boston aid drive
Officials report 274 total applications to the Massachusetts Volunteer Aid Association as 56 cases from city officials are referred. 48 grants are approved, averaging about $7.50 per case, with relief temporary and needing further support. A poignant case involves an elderly woman whose son, her sole breadwinner, has gone to the border leaving a mother, an orphaned grandchild, and another dependent in a four person household.
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Massachusetts Volunteer Aid Association
Kilby Street
Association For Aid
Pittsburg Infantile Paralysis Quarantine Issued
A case of infantile paralysis was reported to the health department in Pittsburg today, prompting a close quarantine. It is the first case this year. 138 cases were listed in 1915.
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Pittsburg
Health Department
Infantile Paralysis Precautions in Bay State Cities
Health officials warn of infantile paralysis spreading through Boston with fever stomach complaints nasal discharge and limb pains. Precautions include isolation of patients removal of textiles from rooms and carbolic disinfection while authorities monitor trains and cooperate with New York to prevent outbreaks.
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Bay State
Ton
New York
Boston
Brooklyn
Monkeys to help solve infantile paralysis puzzle in New York
Twenty monkeys will be shipped from Washington to New York to assist experiments by the local health department and the U S public health service. The aim is to identify carriers of infantile paralysis as New York reports a decrease in new cases and deaths.
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Brooklyn
Bronx
Queens
Emerson
Greater
New York
Washington
C. H. Lavinder
United States Public Health Service
Appeal for Nurses Seeks Red Cross Help in Polio Fight
New York health officials call for hundreds of Red Cross nurses to combat infantile paralysis. Dr Emerson urges strict reporting of cases. authorities close reading rooms and restrict theatre access as part of conservation measures. A city quarantine was deemed impractical.
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New York
American Red Cross
Emerson
Association For
Boston Sees Heat Wave with 90 Degree Spikes
The city endured a record heat day with temperatures hitting 90 degrees after a morning climb and brief southeast wind shifts. Albany and Philadelphia also logged high readings, while Boston recorded one heat prostration on Beacon Street Mall. Mary Donald, 23, was taken to Relief Hospital after collapsing.
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Boston
Albany
N. Y
Philadelphia
Portland
Mary Donald
Harrison Avenue
Beacon Street
Relief Hospital
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Colonel Graves
A. E. Little
Lynn
Perry
Son
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Lyman Rollins
Arthur A. Hansen
Waltham
M Company
George Evans
Somerville
T. E. P. Stillwell
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George Crockett
Red Cross
George Keenan
Bay State Ambulance Company
Bay State Medical Corps
Ninth Regiment Associates
George C. Lee
Ralph B. Nettleton
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A. Lawrence
Lowell
Frances R. Morse
Katharine Phelan
Caroline I. Phelan
M. Priscilla Phelan
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Henry Stafford
F. W. Morey
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T. M. Leary
Elizabeth Wheeler
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the Post
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Americas
Plato
Price Eeerer
Board of Health
Mallory
Massachusetts Avenue
Noguchi
Rockefeller Institute
Anheuser-Busch
St. Louis
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