Massachusetts Boys Miss the Sunday Visits of Girls at El Paso Camps
Massachusetts troops at Camp Pershing and Camp Cotton endure a quiet Sunday with religious services led by Father Couper Chaplain Murray Stewart and Chaplain Rollins. Officers consider bringing wives to El Paso while soldiers host a 120 voice Harvard Glee Club choir and plan hikes and inspections amid heat, dust storms, and early border duties.
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Massachusetts
el Paso
Robert Apthorp
Massachusetts Artillery
Miss Williams
Newton
Framingham
Apthorp
Camp Pershing
Roger Swaim
Field Artillery
Father Couper
Murray Stewart
Winchester
McCall
Paul Blackmer
Harvard Glee Club
W. J. O'Connor
Ninth Regiment
William Mahoney
Lawrence
Rollins
O’connor
Edwards
Sweetser
Ladies’ Special Aid Society
Barrett Wendell
Camp Cotton
Mt. Franklin
Fort Bliss
George Keenan
Ambulance Company
Louis Geelering
Theodore Fendell
Stephen Muirhead
Bay State
E. J. Woodward
William F. Merritt
Charles E. Palone
Massachusetts Field Hospital Outfit
Hospital Company
Camps
Cotton
Plant Juice touted as universal herbal remedy in ads
An advertisement claims Plant Juice, a herbal stomach remedy, has shown great success in major cities. It touts quick relief for nervous and digestive debility, cites a Boston testimonial from Mrs. Mary McClennen, and notes the Plant Juice Man at Houghton & Dutton Drug Department explaining its merits.
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Mary McClennen
Boston
Union Avenue
Houghton & Dutton
Massachusetts Men Refuse Discharge Request at Columbus Camp
Colonel Hays says none of the Massachusetts militiamen with dependents will seek discharge under Secretary Baker protection. Troops, including B and C Companies, remain at Framingham and across the continent, with no expected resignations despite advancing rains and the rainy season. Chaplain Danker endorses recreational baseball for soldiers far from home. Catholic men seek confession with a visiting priest. Private Talbot opens barber chair in Greenfield unit. no illnesses reported.
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Columbus
N. M
Massachusetts
Baker
Hays
Framingham
Bay State
Walton S. Danker
Worcester
O'Connor
Samuel H. Marcus
American International College
Springfield
Mass
B Company
Torrential Rain Floods Outposts Camp as Soldiers Take Shelter
Night rains inundated the Second Regiment camp sending rivers through tents and cots. Captain Harry Doane of Orange Massachusetts was among the worst hit as water breached the camp. Cheers greeted the relief, then protests rose over continued rain and muddy conditions. Col. William C Hayes joked about his wooden tent floor as officers hurried to move cots.
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Harry Doane
Orange
Mass
Col
William C. Hayes
Arlington Boys Brigade in Camp Chelmsford Mass
Two Arlington Boys' Brigade companies are in camp at South Chelmsford Massachusetts undergoing wartime style conditions to ready volunteers for national service. Captain Cyrus W Wolffer commands the camp ensuring preparedness for the country’s call.
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Arlington Boys’ Brigade
South Chelmsford
Mass
Cyrus W. Wolffer
Arlmont Golf Club Schedules Summer Tournaments
The Arlmont Golf Club outlines a spring to summer plan with Saturday afternoon play for eight weeks. Members are noted as active and a cemetery tournament was won by Charles Holmes in the first event held on the club links.
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Arlmont Golf Club
Charles Holmes
Rescue of 2000 Canoes on the Charles River
Canoeists numbered over two thousand crowded the Charles River yesterday afternoon and evening. One accident occurred near Fox Island in Waltham when two non swimmers toppled their craft and were saved from drowning by Metropolitan Park Police Officer Edward F. Roche.
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Charles River
Fox Island
Waltham
Edward F. Roche
Metropolitan Park Police
Police raid on Waltham craps game arrests 11 men
Twenty officers from Belmont Watertown Waltham and Metropolitan Park police raided a craps game in Waltham just over the waterline yesterday afternoon and gathered 11 men.
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Belmont
Watertown
Waltham
Metropolitan Park
Second Massachusetts Men Growing Beards
In Columbus New Mexico on July 9 the Second Massachusetts regiment prepares to ship motor truck trains to Mexico. Beards have become common among drivers and guards as protection against wind sand and sun during weeks on open trucks in desert and mountain routes.
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Columbus
N. M
Johnny
Massachusetts
Mexico
General Pershing
Casas Grandes Valley
Colonia Dublan
Cruces Canyon
Pershing
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William Quinn
KE Company
Paul Butler
Welch
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McGoffee
Gallagher
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Bowles
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O’connell
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L. G. Bryan
E. L. Bryan
Francis Logan
Colonel Logan
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Silsbee
Bay State Artillery Regiment
Douglas Lawson
Thomas W
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G Company
Eighth
Massachusetts Regiment
Texas
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C. J. Jeffers
Philip T. Lane
Thomas J. Cobey
George A. Walton
Stuart P. Wise
Wise
Massachusetts Cavalry
Post
W. M. Allen News Bureau
Mrs
T. E. Hedlund
Back Bay
The
Willys-Overland Company
Toledo, Ohio
U.S.A
Massachusetts Avenue
Massachusetts Militia
L. E. Hanson
Woburn
Fifth Massachusetts
First Corps of Cadets
G. F. Baifley
Hyde Park
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Crack Field Artillery
James L. Walsh
Brookline
General Funston
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Pew Square
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Felix Martin
Tommy Levine
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World’s Film Corporation
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Sears Allen
ED Howard
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George A. Lyons
Harry Holman & Co
Williams & Segal
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Ralph Dunbar
Boylston ST
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Billie Burke
Gloria
Loew's
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Tuins
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Wm. Fox & Paramount
Brian In
Charlie Chaplin
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Copley Square
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Little Mary Sunshine
Mme
Olga Petrova
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Andre Maquarre
Copley-Plaza
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State St
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G. S.S. Co
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Edw. W. Dixon
Provincetown
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Dorothy Bradford
Atlantic Avenue
Cape Code 8. Co
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Scituate
Long Wharf
State Street
Tel
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Majestic Theatre
RED Sox
Chicago Fenway Park
A. Shuman & Co
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