Nomination Notification Ceremony Set for Hughes at Carnegie Hall
The nominating notification for Charles B. Hughes will occur in New York at Carnegie Hall July 1 at 8 p m. Chairman Harding and Willcox announced after a meeting with Hughes. Roosevelt and Taft likely invited. public access if seats remain after invited guests are accommodated.
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New York
Charles B. Hughes
Carnegie Hall
Harding
Committee On Notification
Hughes
Willcox
National Committee
Colonel Roosevelt
Mr. Taft
Mystery of Anna Gilman Will Faces Probate Delays
Research into Anna K Gilman s death and a 1897 will reveals she once lived in England and left a will claiming over a million dollars while disinheriting relatives. No probate petition has been filed at East Cambridge Probate Court since the will was deposited June 3 1897 and later taken from its envelope by an unnamed visitor.
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Anna K. Gilman
East Cambridge
England
Mystery Wakefield heiress leaves kin just one cent
Mrs. William I. Coon of Wakefield recalls Miss Gilman who in an unusual will leaves relatives only one cent each. The will, drawn by attorney Hubbard B. Mansfield, names two witnesses and notes Miss Gilman’s supposed wealth of 300000 from her own estate and large sums in her father and brother's estates. The maker later lived in England after leaving Wakefield.
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William I. Coon
Wakefield
Miss Gilman
England
Winthrop, Boston
Sterling
Anna May Burke
Thomas F. Burke
Washington Avenue
Winthrop
William J. Mahoney
MASS TROOPS TEST MOTOR GUNS ON 140 MILE RUN
Captain James L. Walsh led five officers 19 enlisted men and 15 motorcycles with machine guns from Columbus New Mexico to El Paso Texas for a test reconnaissance. The group reported to General Bell and will return by a different route after repairs. Two cars dropped out and two others were crippled by bad roads. The run covered 140 miles and aimed to evaluate motorized weapon carriage.
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EL Paso
Tex
James L. Walsh
United States ‘Army Ordinance Department
Columbus
N. M
Bell
Walsh
Prisoners of War Problem in Britain and Germany
London July 13 Baron Newton under secretary for foreign affairs outlined in the House of Lords how 20 000 German prisoners are used in timber camps quarries road making and other duties and how others were sent to France under The Hague Convention. He said Germans had repatriated some British prisoners to Russian territory and that American embassy officials in Berlin were barred from visiting camps. He cited failed efforts to employ more than 30 000 interned aliens in Britain and warned that without a wiser spirit the war could end with thousands still behind barbed wire demoralized and ill.
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London
Baron Newton
House of Lords
France
Germany
Berlin
Lord Newton
Great Britain
Kellogg Widow Ophelia Kellogg Prayers Friday
Ophelia L widow of Eusebius Allan Kellogg dies in city. Prayers at home 51 St Stephen's St Friday July 14 at 7 pm. Burial Cedar Grove Cemetery Flushing. L. lL
Night Alarm Drills by Bay State Troops Impress Officers
Bay State soldiers completed a night turnout without lamps, each company ready for action and inspected by Colonel Graves and Lt. Colonel Perry. The exercises, first of their kind for the regiment, highlighted footwear readiness and rapid regrouping as crews faced dusty Texas winds and sandstorms at Camp Cotton Pershing.
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Graves
Perry
Cotton
Pershing
Massachusetts
Bay State
Sweetser
Border Patrol
A, E
Southern Pacific
el Paso
Great Northern
G@ Company
Guggenheim
New Mexico
Stover
Connecticut Girls Best Kissing Soldiers at Danbury Depot
Ray mond C. Sherman, a new recruit in Company F, writes from New Haven that at Danbury CT crowds lined the depot to kiss soldiers. He recalls East Syracuse NY and Framingham stops as crowds kissed them, noting Nutmeg State girls kissed “no less than 500” each stop, leaving him exhausted.
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Pittsfield
Danbury
Conn
William Sherman
Lanesboro
Raymond C. Sherman
Framingham
New Haven
Syracuse
N. Y
City health census planned by July by Mahoney officials
Dr Francis X Mahoney commissioner of health announced a city wide illness census to begin July 17. About 300 Metropolitan Life agents will visit 50 000 families to record health, illness type duration care seeking and home or hospital treatment for all members. The effort aims to cover about 27 percent of the population with a view to measuring overall city health.
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Francis X. Mahoney
Mahoney
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company of
New York
Boston Health Department
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