Massachusetts Blue-Blood Field Hospital Joins U S Army
Field Hospital No 2 of Massachusetts it is mustered into federal service as Field Hospital No 51. Major Charles R. Morgan commands the unit comprising 66 enlisted men and 5 officers all recruited from universities. The camp draws hundreds of sightseers as training and enlistment plans unfold across the state.
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Camp Whitney
Massachusetts
United States Army
Charles R. Morgan
Massachusetts National Guard
Grey
Smugglers, sandstorms, and camp life near the border
At Camp Pershing El Paso Texas on July 16 Major Donovan's Ninth Battalion chased fifteen smugglers including two women trying to ferry food hides and ammunition across the Rio Grande. The day brought a 102 degree heat, a Texas Tommy dust storm, a shower cooling the air, and a 12 to 12 tie in a Ninth versus Twenty third Regulars six inning game.
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EL Paso
Texas
Massachusetts
Donovan
Ninth
Rio Grande
Bay State
Camp Pershing
John J. Barry
Father O’connor
Camp Cotton
Ninth Regiment
Cavanaugh
Measley
Fisher
Gallagher
Mahan
Laughlin
Bowles
Fitzgibbon
W. Kink
Deefield
Collins
Hughes
J. W. Mahoney
Lawrence
Tommy Bowles
Boston
D Company of the Ninth
Col. Logan
Paul J. Campbell
Frank P. O'Neil
Patrick E. Gavin
Joseph Hughes
Dorchester
Edward D. Crowley
Roxbury
William D. Kennealley
William Martell
South Boston
John Riley
Joseph L. Plouffe
Jamaica Plain
William DeCroix
Cornelius J. Driscoll
Company C
Worcester
Emmet Guards
Danny McCormick
Outpost Fortunes and Mass at Camp Pershing
General Sweetser’s outpost line faced guards and smugglers as Corporal John Maroney halted the general for inspection. Clinton Company led by Captain Connolly and Lieutenant Densmore manned six outposts with dozens of privates and corporals. Masses were held across camps by Rev. O Connor Father Couhal Chaplains Rollins Edwards and Dewart with large soldier crowds. moving picture teams filmed the Mass at Ninth Massachusetts.
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General Sweetser
John Maroney
K Company
Clinton
Clinton Company
Peter F. Connolly
Edgar Densmore
James F. Duane
Ralph Tyler
John Hastings
John O’toole
George Sheberl
L. Ford
Ed Gannon
Chester Boynton
George Dugan
Michael Scheffield
John O’malley
John A. Grady
Asa Gordon
Edward Grady
Ernest Hopman
Herbert Hamilton
Alfred Kitter
Albert Gunter
Martin O'Toole
James Mohan
William Young
Thomas Maybury
Walter Gunter
William Roach
Hugh Hanna
Walter Armstrong
Michael Tierney
Howard Cummings
Paul Devaney
Thomas Wallace
William Carlise
William Baer
Camp Cotton
M. J. O’connor
Ninth
Father Couhal
Camp Pershing
Rollins
Edwards
Murray Dewart
Massachusetts Artillery Regiment
Michigan
Pershing
J. H. McDade
Eighth Regiment
Double Fire Strikes Watertown Restaurant on School Street
Watertown fire crews battled two blazes in the Derderian brothers restaurant on School street and Dexter avenue within two hours. Patrolman Vernon Brown rushed to the scene after an explosion, saving six family members in the adjoining tenement. The Chittick family fled unharmed as investigators consider no link between fires. Loss estimated at about 3500 dollars.
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Watertown
Derderian Brothers
School Street
Dexter Avenue
Vernon Brown
Fred Chittick
Chittick
John O’hearn
Three Arrests In Payroll Hold Up
Three young men were arrested yesterday on suspicion of involvement in the payroll holdup and robbery in South Boston last Saturday. Samuel A. Campbell, a salesman for the Colonial Can Company, was the victim. Police withheld the suspects' names.
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South
Boston
Samuel A. Campbell
Colonial Can Company
Second's Recruits Arrive at Camp on the Border
Second Regiment recruits numbering 538 reached their destination on the border this afternoon and paraded into camp to a brass band. As they began pitching tents under a bright sun, dark clouds gathered signaling an imminent storm. Veteran details were rushed to assist with tent setup as the weather turned threatening.
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Columbus
N. M
Recruits Brace Flood Barrage After Rain Soaks Camp
Troops arriving at the border pitched tents under a driving downpour with a handful of shelters. Cooks prepared a hearty supper as recruits, tired from a week on trains, slept on soaked ground. One man was hospitalized in Batavia after an outstretched hand injury. The guard halted the train to trap two suspected smugglers on the roof of a coach.
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Duncan Stewart
Arthur Haynes
Michael J. Dee
Framingham
Missouri
H. A. Whalen
Batavia
N. Y
Plains
Militia Held Up In Camps As War Dept Orders Delay
The War Department ordered all department commanders to delay moving National Guard units to the border until fully equipped and organized. The move reverses an earlier urgency and affects about 25,000 men in camps amid the Mexican situation.
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Washington
War Department
Large National Guard Presence at the Border Report
The War Department confirms about 100000 National Guardsmen at the border, plus 60000 regulars and 60000 reservists, stating no additional Guardsmen are needed until fully equipped. Draft plans are denied. Despatches say food supplies are adequate and General Trevino reports troops moving south to guard lines against bandits.
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National Guard
War Department
Funston
Trevino
Guerrero-San Borja
Santa Rosalia
Chihuahua
United States
Godspeed for U-Boat Deutschland in Baltimore scene
In Baltimore on July 16 the submarine Deutschland had no loading and workers painted her hull. Religious services led by Rev Otto Apitz were held aboard the Neckar for Deutschland and Neckar crews, described as a Godspeed for the submarine crew. Senators Alden Smith, Thompson, and Swanson inspected the Deutschland that day.
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Baltimore
Neckar
Otto Apitz
Deutschland and Neckar
United States
William Alden Smith
Michigan
William P. Thompson
Kansas
Claud A. Swanson
Virginia
Man Knocked From Train by Overhead Bridge Near Newton
James Wiley age 29 of 332 Centre Street Jamaica Plain was riding a west ward bound Boston & Albany freight train when he collided with the Centre Street bridge Newton and was knocked off. He was taken unconscious to Newton Hospital with scalp wounds and other injuries.
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Boston & Albany Road
James Wiley
Centre Street
Jamaica Plain
Newton
Newton Hospital
Desperate Battle With Maniac at Newburyport Hospital
Herbert P. Rowe a 28 year old Newburyport patient admitted with insomnia and melancholia attacked nurses and staff in a hospital room. He fought Miss Myrtle Oakes Miss Pearson and Miss Manwell before police and Dr Worcester contained him and he was taken to Danvers Hospital for the Insane.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herbert P. Rowe
Newburyport
Rowe
Worcester
Myrtle Oakes
Miss Manwell
Dr. Worcester
George W. McLaren
Edward Hammond
Mr. McLean
King Constantine Narrowly Escapes Fire At Royal Chateau
Greek King Constantine fainted during a residential fire that destroyed the royal summer residence at Tato. Soldiers rescued him from danger as flames trapped him. the forest blaze on Barnes Mountains near the chateau remains burning but under control.
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Athens
Paris
Constantine
Tato
Barnes Mountains
German Dirigible Arrives in Constantinople
Constantinople greets a Schuette-Lanz type German dirigible bal loon and great enthusiasm follows its arrival in the Turkish capital yesterday as reported from Amsterdam via London.
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Amsterdam
London
Constantinople
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Wilson
Morgan
William N. Tenney
Walter H. Young
Harold F. Parker
Robert F. Souther
Brookline
Cambridge
Sixth Infantry
Third Provisional Regiment
War Office
Commonwealth
Kitchener
England
John R. McGinnis
McGinnis
RH. White Co
du Barry
Lucille
Mowbridge
California
Sunset
New Orleans
Leary
Coolestaho
Milk Street
Washington Street
Meas
Mass
A. J. Poston
Washington, D. C
Battery A
Hooper
Dono Minot
Phil Lovett
Edward J. Dunn
Bran
Kellogg’s
The
Kellogg Food Company
Battle Creek, Mich
T. E. Hedlund
Miltoa
Godspeed
Overland
Connell & McKone CO
Massachusetts Avenue
Willys-Overland Company
Toledo, Ohio
U.S. A
Ae Model
Back Bay
F.e.b
Toledo
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