Fatal double tragedy in Newton cellar wife shot then husband
James Coulter 44 of 28 Green Street Newton killed his wife Margaret after a long quarrel then shot himself in the cellar. Their four children aged 4 to 15 were asleep. The eldest son James 15 and a milkman found the bodies. Police cite unwarranted jealousy and hallucinations as triggers. Previously Coulter faced an assault charge in Newton Police Court last November.
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Walter
Sherman
Outing Program Aims at Lexington Park Event
Boston Woven Hose and Rubber Company of Cambridge plans a Saturday afternoon outing at Lexington Park featuring a baseball game as the main sport on the sports list.
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Lexington Park
Boston Woven Hose and Rubber Company
Cambridge
Second Camp Sites Revised for Officer Training Camps
Washington reports a War Department revision of second officers' training camps plans. Nine camps will open August 27, replacing eight, with Fort McPherson, Fort Logan H Roots and Fort Riley removed. State quotas reassigned across Plattsburg Maine Vermont Massachusetts Rhode Island Connecticut New York and parts of Pennsylvania.
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Pastor Pleads For War Prohibition In Newton
The Rev. Edward T. Sullivan of Holy Trinity Church Newton urges action to restrict or end war activities. His pleadings stress moral duty and universal peace amid ongoing global conflict.
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Edward T. Sullivan
the Holy Trinity Church
Newton
Minister Urges Total Prohibition At St Pauls Cathedral
A sermon last night at St Pauls Cathedral called for total abstinence from liquor during the war. The pastor argued that full prohibition would be a duty of patriotism and loyalty and would set a good example for soldiers.
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St. Paul's Cathedral
Easterners Overpower Cal Tennis Team in Plainfield
In Plainfield New Jersey the East defeated California on clay courts at Plainfield Country Club. H A Throckmorton beat W M Johnston 6 3 8 6 while Throckmorton and F B Alexander edged Johnston and Karl Behr 2 6 6 2 9 7. Molla Bjurtfeldt defeated Miss Mary Browne 6 1 6 4.
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W. M. Johnston
San Francisco
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Throckmorton
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Karl H. Behr
Molla Bjurstedt
Mary Browne
Pacific Coast
New England National Guard Readies 26th Division
The New England National Guard, nearly 40,000 strong from six states, assembles on Wednesday by presidential call to form the 26th regular army division. Massachusetts contributes about 16,000, with 10,000 answering the midweek muster and 6,000 already in federal service, including the Ninth, Sixth, Second and First Corps Cadets engineers regiments.
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Ayer Junction
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Maine
Department of the Northeast
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Bay State
War Department
National Guard Units Readied as New England Muster Begins
Nationwide draft mobilization moves forward with Massachusetts leading the muster of New England units into the 26th division. Armies prepare camps from Framingham to Boxford as officials expect rapid provisioning and transfer to Charlotte, North Carolina for training.
Elks War Fund To Aid Hospitals Families And Disabled
New York July 22 The $1,000,000 war fund raised by the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks will support base hospitals behind the lines care for families of soldiers and help disabled men learn new trades. John K Tener chair of the Elks war relief commission announced this in a report to the Grand Lodge after a conference with H P Davison of the American Red Cross. The 400,000 Elks members will be asked to contribute the fund.
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Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks
John K. Tener
War Relief Commission of the Elks
National League of Baseball Clubs
Grand Lodge
H. P. Davison
American Red Cross
Five Dodge Injured In Auto Accident Near Harvard Dorchester
Rare luck spared two women a man and two children when an automobile owned by Albert R. Houghton of Jamaica Plain collided with a heavy in-bound electric car on Washington Street near Harvard Dorchester. The crash toppled the cars but all occupants escaped injury and the cars suffered only minor damage.
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Chestnut Street
Jamaica Plain
Washington Street
Harvard
Dorchester
Diamond Harry dazzles Nantasket Beach in seaside spectacle
Armed with perfume sprayer and pink jeweled garters, “Diamond Harry” West of Greendale Massachusetts arrived at Nantasket Beach yesterday. Loaded with 72 cm diamonds and flashy accoutrements he drew crowds as the Atlantic Ocean needed a ballyhoo man to attract attention. The new spectacle headline of the day, Diamond Harry, was the main feature of the scene.
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Butch” McDevitt
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Greendale
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New York
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Mass
Nantasket Beach
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