Second Brigade Holds Sham Battle Before Break Camp
SOUTH FRAMINGHAM July 23 The Second Brigade closes its week long duty with a sham battle to test endurance. Major Eldridge Eighth Regiment leads a mobile force toward Southboro and clashes with Colonel Donovan Ninth and Colonel Penns Eighth. Thomas Clifford of G Company Ninth is wounded by a blank cartridge. others faint from heat. No winner declared as umpires report to General Whitney.
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South Framingham
Eldridge
Eighth Regiment
Signal Corps
Ambulance Corps
Southboro
Donovan
Pen
Perrin
Whitney
Major Eldridge
John Barry
Ninth
Vollley
Thomas Clifford
Veterans Cadets visit Second Corps camp in East Boxford
A large crowd witnessed the Veterans Cadets at the Second Corps camp in East Boxford today. A special Salem train brought them and companions, arriving at noon and returning at 9 pm. Morning drills and guard mounting preceded a shower, after which officers inspected and paid muster before the battalion parade drew cheers from spectators.
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East Boxford
Second Corps
Salem
Farjeon the Novelist Dead at 69 in Hampstead
Benjamin Leopold Farjeon, noted novelist and former editor, died suddenly at his Hampstead home aged 69 from a ruptured blood vessel. Survived by widow Margaret and four children. Born wanderer, early writer, first book Shadows on the Snow, later editor in Dunedin and author of Grif Joshua Marvel Blade O Graigs Hendon's Heart and Bread and Cheese and Kisses.
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London
Benjamin Leopold Farjeon
Hampstead
Margaret
Joseph Jefferson
America
Farjeon
Dunedin
New Zealand
Grif
Joshua Marvel
Blade O’ Graigs
Hendon
Closing session of United States League convention
The 11th annual convention of the United States League of Local Building and Loan Associations held its closing session yesterday from 9 am to 2 pm James McKay of Ohio opened with a talk on The Ohio Idea of What Building and Loan Associations Should Be Cc Bentley of Grand Island Neb discussed how far to drift from the original concept warning against using nonmember funds or lending to nonmembers J J Stoddard of Columbus read on The Status of Building and Loan Associations as Financial Institutions Thomas J Skuse of Brooklyn urged bonding officials publicity and advertising Other speakers included J W Sutton Judge I H C Royse C O C Hennessy George L Skinner and F A Currier The next convention will meet in July at Sault Ste Marie Mich Resolutions thanked Governor Bates the Massachusetts League ex-Governor Brackett and Boston press An excursion down the harbor was planned for this morning.
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United States League of Local Building and Loan Associations
James McKay
Ohio
Building and Loan Association
Cc. F. Bentley
Grand Island
Neb
J. J. Stoddard
Columbus
Thomas J. Skuse
Brooklyn
J. W. Sutton
Michigan
I. H. C. Royse
Indiana
C. O. C. Hennessy
New York
George L. Skinner
Albany
F. A. Currier
Fitchburg
Sault Ste. Marie
Mich
Bates
Massachusetts League
Brackett
Press of
Boston
Norcross Work Continues Despite Company Troubles
Norcross Bros Company continues construction on the State Mutual Life Assurance building at 50 Congress Street with no delays. At Charlestown navy yard, work on two government contracts remains on schedule, with employees working normally. The firm holds a $167,855 contract for a large sawmill and spar shed at the navy yard’s far end.
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New State Mutual Life Assurance
Congress Street
Norcross Bros. Company
Charlestown Navy Yard
Navy Yard
World's Biggest Battleship Launched by Princess of Wales
The battleship King Edward VII was launched at Devonport by the Princess of Wales. Attending were the Prince of Wales and other dignitaries. The ship measures 16,350 tons, 425 feet long, with 18,000 indicated horsepower and a 800 man crew.
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Princess of Wales
London
King Edward VII
Devonport
Prince of Wales
Princess Henry of Battenburg
Lords of the Admiralty
King Edward
Louisiana
Newport News
Connecticut
New York
Roberts to visit United States in autumn if duties permit
A London dispatch says reports of a British cabinet veto on a Lord Roberts US visit are inaccurate. The cabinet has never definitively blocked the trip, and Roberts states he will go to the United States in autumn if his duties allow.
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London
United States
Lord Roberts
Liberty Bell Junkets Objected To
Philadelphia July 23. City Councils warned that any future plan to send the Liberty bell on junketing trips will trigger injunction proceedings. Heirs of John Wiltbank of Germantown claim the bell is not city property but the personal property of the descendants of a man who took the relic as part payment of a debt owed by Philadelphia.
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Philadelphia
John Wiltbank
Germantown
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