Drowned soldier saved bridge at El Paso river bow
Private Clyde H. Gardner of Lynn Massachusetts drowned in the Rio Grande near El Paso while trying to save a footbridge from logs. A second private from Staten Island also drowned as ten others fought the current. Gardner enlisted May 13 and was bugler orderly at Fort Bliss.
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Clyde H. Gardner
Pacific Street
Lynn
General Electric Company
Rio Grande River
el Paso
Staten Island
N. Y
Gardner
Fort Bliss
Fort Slocum
South End Man Run Down By Street Car
William E. B. Thideau of 30 East Canton Street was struck by a street car last night and injured fatally. The accident happened opposite 1475 Washington Street when Thideau stepped from behind a south bound car into the path of an oncoming vehicle.
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South End
William EB. Thideau
East Canton Street
Washington Street
Thideau
Royal Rebels Besieged After Retreat Into Pekin
July 10 Tientsin dispatch reports imperialist forces under General Chang Hsun, driven from near Fentai with heavy losses, now inside Pekin. Republican troops surround the city gates while Chang Hsun, after initial retreat to the Temple of Heaven, shelters his forces within the Imperial City. Police and gendarmerie chiefs demand his departure or face attack.
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Pekin
Tientsin
Chang Hsun
Imperial City
Fentai
Temple of Heaven
Orangemen Plan Outing in Greater Boston
The annual field day of the Orangemen of Greater Boston will be held at Caledonian Grove West Roxbury on Thursday July 12. Proceeds fund a home for aged members widows and orphans. An unusually fine programme of track and field sports is planned with suitable prizes offered.
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Orangemen
Greater Boston
Caledonian Grove
West Roxbury
Root Sees New Hope in Russia Plans for Aid
Petrograd July 10 The American commission led by Elihu Root completed a month long survey of the Russian situation and expressed confidence that Russia will emerge from internal turmoil. Root said the mission accomplished its goal and found no incurable malady in democracy noting days of trouble are common in democracies and praising Russia for law, local self government, and the need for money and transport while offering assistance.
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Petrograd
Elihu Root
Root
Associated Press
Russia
Bible Inspired Altercation Lands Man in Court
John Allen told Judge Keating and a jury in Superior Criminal Court yesterday that an inspired clash over a Bible led him to strike Patrolman William J. Higgins with a club and to slash with a two edged razor before Higgins felled him. Allen denied wounding the officer and said he acted in self defense and sought peaceful escape through a rear window.
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John Allen
Judge Keating
Superior Criminal Court
William J. Higgins
Billy
Belabor
Higgins
Porter Street
Allen
Cobbler with modern machinery pledges leather savings
MILWAUKEE July 10 A cobbler using modern machinery is the key to conserving the leather supply, says J P Martin president of the National Leather Shoefinders Association in convention here He notes that widespread half soling would save thousands of tons of hides annually and that shoe prices would stay high for the foreseeable future.
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Milwaukee
Wis
J. P. Martin
National Leather & Shoefinders' Association
Martin
Fitzgerald Agency Commissions Reported at 63936.93
Edwin Scott Morse testified before the Finance Commission that the total commissions earned by the Peter J. Fitzgerald agency from March 1914 to March 1917 amounted to 63936.93. Morse stated about 90 percent of the business came from the city or contractors with city contracts.
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Insurance Agency
Peter J. Fitzgerald
Finance Commission
Edwin Scott Morse
Fitzgerald
Checks Missing Highlight Fitzgerald Transactions
Testimony shows 44433.48 drawn from Fitzgerald accounts by Peter J. and Edwin P. Fitzgerald with 33982 lacking canceled checks. Peter J. Fitzgerald admitted unsure of Edwin's use of 2650, while Daly denied payments to Mayor Curley in 1915 1917 and refused to produce his business books as the Finance Commission plans to review Daly records later.
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Morse
Fitzgerald Agency
Peter J. Fitzgerald
Edwin P
Fitzgerald
Finance Commission
Henry F. Hurlburt
Hurlburt
Edwin
Frank J. Carens
Old South Trust Company
John P. Whalen
Edwin P. Fitzgerald
Francis L. Daly
Democratic City Committee
Curley
Daly
Jamaica Plain
Daly Plumbing Supply Company
Vice Squad Is Again Active In Boston
The Boston police vice squad, famed for arrests in the vice den case, resumed operations yesterday targeting illegal narcotic users and peddlers across the city. Numerous arrests occurred, and one man received a six month sentence in the House of Correction. A final roundup of young girls as witnesses is expected before Thursday as photographers identify more models linked to the white slave traffic case.
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Boston
Vice Squad
House of Correction
Pemberton Square
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Army
Pekin Palace
Tieniees
Suipknots
Wonger
United
The
United States
Nobby
Usco
Nebby’ ‘Chain
Usco’ ‘Plain
Gilchrist
Georgette
House OF Ade
Zed Lisle
Boston Storage Warehouse Co
Mass
Westland Avenues
Back Bay
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