General Edwards visits Devens Camp Massachusetts National Guard
Major General Edwards tours Devens Camp with Brigadier General Logan and regiment commanders. He inspects troops, observes maneuvers, addresses companies, and hosts a reception. He praises the 101st and 104th regiments morale and notes the promise of younger soldiers. Nine homing pigeons fail to return from the day’s test flight.
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Devens
Ayer
Massachusetts
51St National Guard
Edwards
Logan
Massachusetts National Guard
Westwood
South Boston
General Edwards Hears Radio Demonstration At Camp Tour
During a camp visit with the 104th Infantry Headquarters unit, General Edwards expressed keen interest in a radio demonstration. He heard a message from Headquarters Company to him, then tested wireless communication noting radios solve frontline to division liaison. He praised radio for enabling protected links across five miles and underground dugouts.
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104Th Infantry
Edwards
Boston Post
France
Maison
Flo
Rill
Newsboy Scholarship Helps Malden High Graders
Malden Evening News Editor Frank A Bayrd offers a $200 Newsboy Scholarship for a Malden High graduate to cover freshman year expenses at a New England college. Applicants must have sold or delivered the News for at least one year during school days. selection by the Mayor and the News editor.
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Frank A. Bayrd
Malden Evening News
Bayrd
Thornton Jenkins
Jenkins
Malden News
Malden High
New England
F. A. Bayrd
Chaplain of Maine Receives $109 in Gold at Veteran Gathering
Newburgh New York July 11 Monsignor John F Chidwick chaplain of the battleship Maine when it exploded in Havana Harbor received 109 in gold at the annual encampment of the New York State Department United Spanish War Veterans. The gift honored his service to the organization.
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Newburgh
N. Y
John F. Chidwick
Maine
Havana Harbor
New York State Department
United Spanish War Veterans
Chidwick
South End man found guilty of illegal liquor sale
Jacob Raditch of 394 Shawmut Avenue South End was convicted by Judge Dowd in Central Court yesterday and fined 50 dollars for illegal liquor sale. A second bribery count against the arresting officer was dismissed for want of prosecution.
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Jacob Raditch
Shawmut Avenue
South End
Dowd
Central Court
Massachusetts to Form Full National Guard Division
Massachusetts will complete a full guard division at Camp Devens within six weeks. Brigadier General Edward L. Logan becomes division commander as major general, with the 51st Infantry brigade led by Colonel Thomas F. Foley succeeding Logan. A new 188th Infantry will join the 181st to form the 62nd Brigade under either Foote or Murphy, with other colonelcies and reorganizations in process to place the division, named the 2th Division, Massachusetts National Guard, in Boston area headquarters.
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Massachusetts
Edward L. Logan
51St Infantry
Camp Devens
Thomas F. Foley
101St Infantry
Logan
51St
188Nd Infantry
181St Infantry
62Nd
Alfred E. Foote
State National Guard
Commissioner of Public Safety
John D. Murphy
Natick
Foley
Arthur W. Desmond
Boston
Arthur Hanson
Waltham
Albert C. Gray
Medford
101St Engineers
182Nd Infantry
2Th
Massachusetts National Guard
Greater
Charlestown
Rich
Ard C. Hale
National Guard
War Department
Family of Five Missing From Waltham Home
State police investigate the disappearance of Albert DeGraffe 26 and wife 24 and their three children Robert 4 James 8 and Helen 5 months from their Waltham home three weeks ago. Neighbors and local merchants report no contact or debt left behind.
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Fred Kirlin
Waltham
Albert DeGraffe
Robert
James
Helen
Mystery Vanishing of Devine Family Stuns Town
In Waltham a driver for Hathaway Bread Co. and his family vanished three weeks ago leaving a note to Berry Furniture Co. with no signature. Neighbors report no activity, while police find only a lease note and no trace of the missing couple, their debts unpaid except for an automobile.
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DeGraffe
Hathaway Bread Company
Venina
Waltham
Arthur Devine
de Graffe
Lynn
No Collection Game Sunday Stipulated by Cambridge Park Board
North Cambridge Columbus Club may not collect money at its Sunday baseball game at Russell Field after Cambridge park commissioners granted the permit. City Solicitor Nelligan will render an interpretation of collections under Sunday baseball law.
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North Cambridge
Mayor plans safety film to curb auto streetcar dangers
Mayor Curley seeks cooperation from Boston Elevated Railway and insurance firms to finance The Slaughter of the Innocents a public safety film. The project aims to educate children about motor vehicle risks, with scenes set in Boston streets and parks this summer as part of a safety first campaign. Funds include at least 8000 dollars for production and 5000 dollars from insurers, plus 1800 from the Elevated trustees.
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Curley
Boston Elevated Railway
Boston Insurance Companies
Atlantic City
Boston
Dana
Elevated
Board of Trustees
Schutte Granted Reprieve for New Trial Possibility
Governor Lake of Connecticut granted Emil Schutte a reprieve until October 24. Schutte, of Haddam, was scheduled to be hanged July 21. The reprieve follows a defense plea for a second trial citing new evidence and an indiscreet juror.
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Hartford
Conn
Governor Lake
Emil Schutte
Schutte
Elusive Louis Jones Sentenced for Drug Activities
The elusive Louis Jones of Flagg Street South End is sentenced to 26 months in the House of Correction for his drug business. Judge Dowd rules the institution offers suitable opportunities for contemplation and reform. Jones appears overwhelmed by the decision.
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Louis Jones
Flagg Street
South End
Man Identified After Death in Charlestown Doorway
A man found unconscious in a doorway at 922 Main Street Charlestown on Monday died later from a cerebral hemorrhage at Haymarket Relief Station. He was identified yesterday as Mathew Howard 54 of 29 Kenwood Terrace Lynn by his nephew John F How ard of the same address.
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Main Street
Charlestown
Haymarket
Mathew Howard
Kenwood Terrace
Lynn
John F. Howard
Amoskeag plans to open more departments soon
The Amoskeag Company in Manchester New Hampshire plans to reopen additional mill departments. Overseers and second hands recalled from temporary duty at the Coolidge Mill hint at next Monday morning operations resuming. About 150 looms expected to be running by tomorrow as weavers move from the West Side Mill to the Southern Division.
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Manchester
WN. H
Amoskeag Company
Coolidge Mill
Amoskeag
West Side
Roosevelt Hotel to Rise 1200 Rooms in New York
United Hotels Corporation plans a 14 story, 1200 room Roosevelt hotel on a full block site between 45th and 46th streets bounded by Park Avenue and Madison Avenue. The New York Central tracks will pass through the basement as they enter Grand Central Station across the street.
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New York
United Hotels Corporation
West 4Th Street
45Th and
4Th Street
Park Avenue
Madison Avenue
New York Central
Grand Central Station
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Homer’s Optical Department
Shelltex
William S. Shaffer
Optometrist
Bromfield St
Andrew J. Lloyd Co
Newsboys
Malden
Chaplain OF
Norton
101St
State
18St
Worcester
104Th
Springfield
Russell Field
Noyes
Tremont Street
MR. Jones
Roosevelt
Palm Beach
Shreve, Crump and Low Company
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