New England Casualties Rise As 26th Division Reinforces Fight
The official casualty list shows increased losses among New England troops in the 101st 102nd 103rd and 104th Regiments as they pressed Germans near the Marne in July Aug. Among the wounded and killed are Pvt Otis Soper Somerville Pvt Thomas O Callaghan Cambridge Pvt Seaman Wilbur Roslindale Pvt Thomas King Quincy and Pvt Francis McOsker Lowell among others.
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New England
New
Roslindale
Seaman O. Wilbur
C Company
101St Engineers
Seaman M. Wilbur
Brookdale Street
Charles Sumner School
Samuel J. Whittaker
Orange St
Fall River
A Co
Arthur McOsker
Liberty St
Lowell, Co
Francis M. McOsker
Andrew St
Lowell, Hendar
Joseph H. Worthy
Bartlett St
Lowell
M Co
Frank Lyons
Coral St
H. Grafton Murphy
Messervy St
Salem
E Batt
F. A
Philip Chalifoux
Seaman C. Wilbur
Brookdale St
C Co
Thomas D. King
Centre St
Quincy
Mach
Gun Batt
Freight plan targets max daily tonnage per truck
Fourth directive requires routing every truck to carry as many tons per day as economically possible. Empty trips must be minimized to boost efficiency and reduce wasted mileage.
Vermont Soldiers Reported Killed and Wounded in France
A roster from the University of Vermont Class of 1917 lists Corporal LeRoy W. Gardner killed in action in France at 31, and Corporal Walter V. Jordan of Danville VT reported killed after notable bravery. Corporal Albert H. Downing of East Boston dies of wounds, and Private Henry Leo Bouret of Natick MA dies of wounds. Corporal Raymond E. Parsons is missing in action. Private Ernest B. Nickerson, wounded in action, is identified by foster parents in Northampton.
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Frank Harrington
Methuen
L Company
108D Infantry
Frank T. Harrington
Charles A. Harrington
Harrington
Panama
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
Raymond E. Parsons
23D Infantry
Charles A. Parsons
Ware
Ernest B. Nickerson
1Th Infantry
Peter Beaudry
Northampton
Portland
Thomas A. O'Callaghan
Dudley St
North
Cambridge
B Co
Corp
Everett St
H Co
Leon F. Burgess
Hampshire St
Holyoke
D Co
Henry Leo Bouret
Avon St
Natick
L Co
British Armed Cruiser Marmora Sunk by Submarine
The British armed cruiser Marmora was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine Tuesday per the British admiralty. Ten crewmen are missing and presumed dead. A British torpedo boat destroyer ran ashore Wednesday and later sank. thirteen crewmen are missing and presumed drowned. Naval records show no Marmora cruiser. may refer to the Peninsular & Oriental steamer Marmora of 10,509 tons, built in Belfast in 1903.
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London
Admiralty
Marmora
Belfast
Labor officials seek settlement in Millville strike
James A. Sullivan of Boston for the Department of Labor met with Woonsocket Rubber Company officials and strike committee representatives today to mediate an agreement. The workers demand a 25 percent wage increase and abolition of the bonus system.
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Millville
James A. Sullivan
Boston
Department of Labor
Woonsocket Rubber Company
Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound Adverts Nervous Women
Winona Minnesota woman Mrs Albert Sultze reports relief from long standing nervousness after using Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. The ad claims decades of use and lists conditions it allegedly supports including displacements inflammation and backache, promoting the product as a standard remedy for women’s health issues.
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Winona
Minn
Lydia FE
Pinkham
Lydia E. Pinkham
Albert Sultze
Olmstead St
New England Boys on Casualty List
A war casualty and wounded list names numerous New England servicemen from companies and battalions of the 101st to 104th Infantry and related units. Entries include home towns such as Lowell, Lawrence, Somerville, Fall River, and Providence, with statuses ranging from died of wounds and died of disease to severely wounded and missing in action. The roster also notes a Dartmouth unit with the American Field Service and other embedded details on service branches and regiments.
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101St Engineers
France
Lowell
Ukrainian Peasants Advancing on HMS London
July 26 report says seventy five thousand Ukrainian peasants with officers and instructors push against German forces, detachments retreating to Kiev. Peasants are well armed and advancing on Kiev with formidable scale.
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London
Ukraine
Kiev
Endicott Grants Raise to Bunkers Only
Henry B. Endicott the executive manager of the Massachusetts Public Safety Committee acted as arbitrator in a dispute between coal trimmers of the Maritime Coal Company and their employers. He declined wage increases for most workers but granted bunkers below deck performing bunkering work a rise from 60 to 67 1 2 cents an hour.
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Henry B. Endicott
Massachusetts Public Safety Committee
Maritime Coal Company
Derailed Boston & Maine Train After Bridge Fire Near Eastview
In Hancock New Hampshire on July 26 a Boston and Maine passenger train from Keene derailed while crossing a burning wooden bridge a quarter mile north of Eastview station. Two trainmen were injured along with about twenty passengers who sustained minor injuries as three passenger coaches burned.
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Hancock
N. H
Boston & Maine
Keene
Eastview
Train wreck on Worcester Nashua & Portland line injures crew and passengers
Engineer George Hoyt drove a burning engine through a fire struck trestle as the Worcester Nashua and Portland division of the Boston and Maine derailed. Baggageman E D Wyman had a crushed hand and express messenger Clarkson Welcome injured his back. Passengers were jolted and several suffered minor burns as they fled through smoke and flames from the damaged bridge and burning cars. A wrecking crew later removed the wreckage.
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E. D. Wyman
Bag-Gageman
Clarkson Welcome
Express
Worcester, Nashua & Portland
Boston & Maine
George Hoyt
Barning Bridge
Japan Accepts U.S. Proposal to Aid Czecho-Slovak Armies
London report states Japan will assist the Czecho-Slovak armies in Siberia under an American proposal. The mission aims to help Czecho-Slovaks without threatening Russian sovereignty, with all Japanese troops to withdraw once the task is finished.
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Siberia
London
Japan
Associated Press
Russia
Provisional Siberian government reestablishes Duma
The Omsk provisional government has assumed supreme authority in Siberia and proclaimed Siberia’s independence. It annuls Bolshevik decrees and reestablishes the Siberian Duma, requesting approval from Vladivostok authorities.
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London
Omsk
Siberia
Reuter
Pekin
Siberian Duma
Vladivostok
Irish Trust in President Wilson Endorsed by AOH Directors
Atlantic City July 26 The national directors of the Ancient Order of Hibernians adopted a resolution expressing confidence in President Wilson. They credit him with supporting self determination for small nations and praising his statesmanlike grasp of Ireland’s history and national aims.
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Atlantic City
N. J
Wilson
Ancient
Order of Hibernicians
Ireland
2400 Ships Every Year At Hog Island Shipyard
Philadelphia July 26 diplomats from Central and South America were shown Hog Island the world’s largest shipyard by Edward N Hurley and Charles M Schwab. Schwab said capacity would yield 1200 steel ships annually and the same number of wooden ships of 3300 tons each. 97 ships are under construction with the first to be launched August 6 and six more towed in August.
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Philadelphia
United States Shipping Board
Hogg Island
Edward N. Hurley
Charles M. Schwab
Emergency Fleet Corporation
Hog Island
Lusitania Talk Work of Dr Hale
New York July 26 The speech by Dr Bernhard Dernburg at Cleveland in May 1915 defending the Lusitania sinking and leading to his expulsion from the United States was prepared by Dr William Bayard Hale, head of the German information service in America, according to Deputy State Attorney General Alfred L Becker.
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New York
Bernhard Dernburg
Cleveland
United States
William Bayard Hale
German Information Service
America
Alfred L. Becker
Probe Links Hale Rumely Viereck to Dernburg in War Propaganda
Testimony from a German propaganda inquiry notes Hale and Rumely connected to Dernburg at Broadway offices of the Fatherland and German Information Service. Dr Hale says Viereck attended sessions with Rumely, and there was talk of purchasing another New York daily before the 1915 mail purchase.
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Information Service
Becker
Hale
Dernburg
Cleveland
America
Department of Justice
Howard A. Rumely
New York Evening Mail
Germany
George Sylvester Viereck
Fatherland
United States
Viereck
Rumely
Heinrich Albert
Teutonic
Broadway
The
German Information Service
Carl A. Fuehr
Mail
New York
Army Casualty List Totals 98 With Actions and Statuses
Washington July 26 report shows 21 killed in action 4 died of wounds 6 died of disease Wounded severely W missing 6 prisoner 1. Total 98.
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Washington
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England
101St Artillery
Otis E. Soper
Otis Edmund Soper
E Company
George E. Soper
Summerstreet
Somerville
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
1Th
104Th Machine Gun Battalion
Centre Street
Old Sixth Regiment
104Th
Young King
Whiton
City Hall
Andrew Street
Lowell High School
George McOsker
Liberty Street
M Company
Sergt
Coral Street
Martin Brick
Bartlett Street
Old ‘ Fighting Ninth
Harry Spritz
Lawrence
Spritz
Camp Devens
104Th Infantry
024 Infantry
Alice C. Murphy
Messervy Street
E Battery
101St Field Artillery
Paul R. Lund
101St Field Battalion
Signal Corps
Joseph Lund
Evangelical Church
New Bedford
Winter Hill
Claudius Ralph Farnsworth
Providence
John P. Farnsworth
Farnsworth
Moses Brown School
Harvard College
Massachusetts Field Artillery
National Guard
11St Field Artillery
Earl O. McGrath
William H. McGrath
Elm Street
Lakeport
McGrath
New Hampshire
Sheridan Guards
Concord
Church
Our Lady of the Lakes
Lieut. MacMurphy
Allen B. MacMurphy
Burlington
Red Cross
Plattsburg
Vermont
War Industries Board
Autocar Company
Ardmore, Pa
H Otis E. Soper
O. Wilbur
University of Vermont
01St Infantry
Napoleon Bouret
Avon Street
Massachusetts
NEW England Boys
Casualty
Frank A. Harrington
Methuen. L Co
Earl 0. McGrath
101St Field
Signal Corps. Corp
101St F. A. Corp
104Th Inf
Edgar P. Black
Munroe Ave
R. I. A Batt
26Th Sanitary Co
Joseph L. Cotillard
Presque Isle
Samuel Nelson
Blanchard St
Roxbury
Eng
Lester V. Grocott
Myrtle St
Melrose
F Co
Harry W. Washburn, Jr
Main St
Springfield
Stanley Hill
Massachusetts Ave
Lexington
Dartmouth
American Field Service
Lindsey E. Belknap
Atkinson St
Bellows Falls
Te & Co
Paul F. Reddy
Bernard St
Dorchester, A Co
Inf
Burlington, Vt
Missing IN Action Corp
Raymond FE. Parsons, Ware. L Co
HMS
Endicott
Bridge OF Flames
U. S
Irish Trust
Schwab
Lusitania
DR. Hale
Shell
John Bowser
Abington
United States District Court
Liberty Manufacturing & Munitions Company
ARMY
Connor
Brookside Creamery
Brookside
Henfield
Young America
York State
Texas
St. Charles
Northfield
W. S
Globe
la Touraine
John T.connorco
Food Administration
Nature
Bellans
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