New England Units Suffer Heavy Losses in Early Marne Fighting
Official casualty lists show New England soldiers in the 101st to 104th regiments and the 102d to 104th divisions killed or wounded during the opening days of the Marne push. Names from Lowell Somerville Roslindale and other towns appear among the fallen and wounded, with several family notices and flag at half mast in Lowell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New England
New
101St Engineers
Francis M. McOsker
Andrew Street
Lowell
101St Infantry
Lowell High School
Frank Lyons
M Company
Coral Street
Paul R. Lund
C Company
101St Field Battalion
Signal Corps
Joseph Lund
The
Evangelical Church
New Bedford
Bartlett Street
Winter Hill
Somerville
Vermont World War I Casualties List Includes Gardner Jordan and Others
The article notes multiple Vermont soldiers reported killed or missing in France during World War I. Cor granul LeRoy W. Gardner of Worcester and Washington Academy alum, 31, died after marrying before departure. Corporal Walter V. Jordan of Danville, 102d Machine Gun Battalion, cited for heroism. Corporal Albert H. Downing of East Boston died of wounds. Private Henry Leo Bouret of Natick, first Natick death in France. Corporal Raymond E. Parsons missing in action. Private Ernest B. Nickerson wounded in action near Northampton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Quincy
Thomas D. King
104Th Machine Gun Battalion
Centre Street
Old Sixth Regiment
10Th Machine Gun Unit
Young King
104Th
Whiton
City Hall
LeRoy W. Gardner
France
Edward Gardner
Dennisville
Washington Academy
Machias University
Worcester
C Company
104Th Regiment
Walter V. Jordan
Danville
Young Jordan
Albert H. Downing
East Boston
H Company
101St Infantry
Corporal Downing
Everett Street
East
Boston
Henry Leo Bouret
L. Company
Natick
Napoleon Bouret
Avon Street
Massachusetts
Corp
Raymond E. Parsons
L Company
23D Infantry
Charles A. Parsons
Ware
Ernest B. Nickerson
Thomas A. O'Callaghan
Dudley St
North
Cambridge
B Co
Everett St
H Co
Leon F. Burgess
Hampshire St
Holyoke
D Co
Avon St
L Co
British Armed Cruiser Marmora Reported Sunk By U Boat
The British admiralty announced that an armored cruiser named Marmora was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine, with ten crew members missing and presumed dead. A British torpedo boat destroyer also ran ashore and later sank, thirteen crew missing and presumed drowned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Admiralty
Labor Dept Mediates Millville Strike Talks
James A Sullivan of Boston for the Department of Labor conferred with Woonsocket Rubber Company officials and striking bootmakers on July 26 to seek an agreement. The workers demand a 25 percent wage raise and abolition of the bonus system.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Millville
James A. Sullivan
Boston
Department of Labor
Woonsocket Rubber Company
Women’s Nerves Strengthened by Lydia E Pinkham Reminder
Winona Minnesota woman Mrs Albert Sultze reports relief from long standing nervousness after using Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. The ad claims forty years of helping conditions like displacements inflammation irregularities backache and nervous prostration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winona
Minn
Lydia FE
Pinkham
Lydia E. Pinkham
Albert Sultze
Olmstead St
New England Men Listed as Casualty and Wounded
A memorial list names New England servicemen with designations for killed in action wounded or missing. Entries include Frank A. Harrington Me thuen L Co 103d Inf Earl C. McGrath Lakeport N H B Co 103d Inf, Walter V. Jordan Danville Vt 102d Mach Gun, and others from 101st 103d and 104th units across Massachusetts New Hampshire Vermont and Maine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New England
Frank A. Harrington
Methuen. L Co
Earl C. McGrath
Lakeport
N. H
Joseph L. Cotillard
Presque Isle
Samuel Nelson
Blanchard St
Roxbury
D Co
Eng
Lester V. Grocott
Myrtle St
Melrose
F Co
Harry W. Washburn, Jr
Main St
Springfield
B Co
Stanley Hill
Massachusetts Ave
Lexington
Dartmouth
American Field Service
Lindsey E. Belknap
Atkinson St
Bellows Falls
A Co
Paul F. Reddy
Bernard St
Dorchester
Allen B. MacMurphy
Burlington, Vt
Peasant Rebel Forces Advance in Ukraine as Kiev Falls
London reports a large peasant uprising in the Ukraine with seventy five thousand disciplined troops and officers advancing against German forces. Detachments withdraw toward Kiev as peasants seize arms and move on.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Ukraine
Kiev
Endicott Grants Raise to Bunkers Only
Henry B Endicott executive manager of the Massachusetts Public Safety Committee as arbitrator in the coal trimmers dispute between Maritime Coal Company and employers yesterday declined wage increases except for those working off the bunkers below deck performing bunkering. He awarded an increase from 60 to 67 12 cents an hour.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry B. Endicott
Massachusetts Public Safety Committee
Maritime Coal Company
Derailed on Bridge of Flames at Hancock Bridge
A Boston and Maine passenger train from Keene derailed on a burning wooden bridge near Eastview station in Hancock New Hampshire around 3 PM. Two trainmen were injured and about a score of passengers suffered slight injuries as three coaches burned. traffic on the Worcester Nashua and Portland division was halted pending repairs. Engineer George Hoyt survived a high speed crossing of the flames at 85 mph. wrecking crews worked through the night to clear the wreckage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hancock
N. H
Boston & Maine
Keene
Eastview
F. D. Wyman
Clarkson Welcome
Worcester, Nashua & Portland
Japan Accepts U S Proposal to Aid Czecho-Slovaks in Siberia
London reports an official announcement that Japan will assist the Czecho-Slovak armies in Siberia under the American proposal. The mission aims solely to aid the Czecho-Slovaks, not threaten Russian sovereignty, and all Japanese troops will withdraw after the objective is met.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Siberia
London
Japan
Associated Press
Russia
Provisional Siberian Government Restores Duma Independence
A Reuters dispatch from Pekin dated Tuesday reports the Omsk based provisional government has assumed supreme authority in Siberia and proclaimed Siberian independence. It annuls Bolshevik decrees and re-establishes the Siberian Duma and seeks approval from the Vladivostok government.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Siberian Duma
London
Omsk
Siberia
Reuter
Pekin
Vladivostok
Irish trust in President Wilson affirmed by order
The Ancient Order of Hibernians national directors adopted a resolution at Atlantic City praising President Wilson for fairness in the Irish question. They express faith in his judgment and in his support for self-determination for small nations, hoping for just handling at the war's end.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlantic City
N. J
Wilson
Ancient
Order of Hibernians
Ireland
Hog Island shipyard plans 2400 ships yearly
In Philadelphia diplomats, Edward Hurley and Charles Schwab toured Hog Island, the United States Shipping Board yard. Schwab said at full capacity the yard would build 1200 steel ships yearly and 1200 wooden ships, totaling about 10 million tons. Currently 937 ships are under construction, with the first launching on August 5 and six ships scheduled for August release.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
United States Shipping Board
Hogg Island
Edward N. Hurley
Charles M. Schwab
Emergency Fleet Corporation
Hog Island
Lusitania Talk Work of Dr Hale
Deputy State Attorney General Alfred L Becker said Dr William Bayard Hale, head of the German information service in America, prepared Dr Bernhard Dernburgs May 1915 Cleveland speech justifying the Lusitania sinking and leading to Dernburgs expulsion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Bernhard Dernburg
Cleveland
United States
William Bayard Hale
German Information Service
America
Alfred L. Becker
German Propaganda Links Exposed in 1915 Conspiracy Probe
Testimony in the Justice Department inquiry ties Hale Rumely and Viereck to German agents during the lead up to U S involvement in the war. Hale says Dernburg introduced Rumely to him in 1915, with Viereck’s letters intercepted before America's entry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Information Service
Becker
Hale
Dernburg
Cleveland
New York Evening Mail
Dr. Dernburg
Attorney-General
Germany
George Sylvester Viereck
Fatherland
United States
Viereck
Rumely
Dernsburg
Heinrich Albert
Teutonic Propaganda
Broadway
The
German Information Service
Carl A. Fuehr
Mail
New York
John Bowser Held for Grand Jury on Shell Case Theft
John Bowser of Abington appeared before the United States District Court charged with larceny of 12 shell cases from Liberty Manufacturing & Munitions Company. He was arrested on a federal warrant and held for the grand jury.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Bowser
Abington
United States District Court
Liberty Manufacturing & Munitions Company
Army Casualty List Totals 98 in July Report
The army casualty list for today records 98 names including 21 killed in action, four died of wounds, six died of disease, six wounded severely, six missing, and one prisoner. The report reflects the current wartime toll.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Harrington
Methuen
L Company
108D Infantry
Frank T. Harrington
Charles A. Harrington
Harrington
Panama
Washington
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England
101St Artillery
Otis E. Soper
Otis Edmund Soper
E Company
List Engineers
George E. Soper
Summer Street
Soper
Prospect Hill Congregational Church
St. Paul
New Hampshire State College
T. J. A. O’callaghan
Thomas O’callaghan
Dudley Street
Thomas J. A. O'Callaghan
103D Infantry
8Th Regiment
Seaman O. Wilbur
Roslindale
Seaman M. Wilbur
Brookdale Street
Rossindale
Charles Sumner School
Arthur McOsker
George McOsker
Liberty Street
Sergt
Joseph H. Worthy
Martin Brick
Philip Chalifoux
Old ‘Fighting Ninth
Harry Spritz
Lawrence
Spritz
Camp Devens
104Th Infantry
Samuel J. Whittaker
Fall River
102D Infantry
H. Grafton Murphy
Alice C. Murphy
Messervy Street
Salem
E Battery
101St Field Artillery
Claudius Ralph Farnsworth
Providence
John P. Farnsworth
Farnsworth
Moses Brown School
Harvard College
Massachusetts Field Artillery
National Guard
1St Field Artillery
Earl O. McGrath
William H. McGrath
Elm Street
McGrath
1034 Infantry
New Hampshire
Sheridan Guards
Concord
Church
Our Lady of the Lakes
Lieut. MacMurphy
N. W. MacMurphy
Burlington
Red Cross
Plattsburg
Vermont
C. Wilbur
University of Vermont
Peter Beaudry
Northampton
Portland
War Industries Board
Autocar Company
Ardmore, Pa
Marmora
Peninsilar & Oriental
Belfast
Orange St
Liberty St
M Co
Andrew St
101St Inf. Corp
Bartlett St
Coral St
Messervy St
E Batt
F. A
Seaman
Wilbur
Brookdale St
C Co
Centre St
Mach
Gun Batt
104Th Inf
Signal Corps. Corp
101St F. A. Corp
Edgar P. Black
Munroe Ave
R. I. A Batt
26Th Sanitary Co
Missing IN Action Corp
Raymond Ff. Parsons
Ware. L Co
Inf
HMNS
Endicott
U. S
Irish Trust
Schwab
Lusitania
DR. Hale
SHELL
Connor
Brookside Creamery
Brookside
Henfield
Young America
York State
Texas
St. Charles
Northfield
W. S
Globe
la Touraine
Ria
John T.connorco
Food Administration
Nature
Bellans
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