Roxbury June Bride Ilise Burlen Weds Herbert Rogers
Roxbury guests from Boston and Dedham gather for the June 9 wedding of Miss Ilise Burlen daughter of Election Commissioner Melancthon Burlen at the Hotel Somerset. The ceremony is by Rev. William H. Lyon with maid of honor Rachel Burlen and attendants from Belmont Brookline and Somerville. Best man is Dr Frank N Rogers with ushers including Joseph Rogers Charles Gustave Rogers Jay Renton and others.
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Roxbury
Boston
Dedham
Ilise Burlen
Melancthon Ware Burlen
Waumbeck Street
Herbert Rogers
Harvard
Charles H. Rogers
Somerset
William H. Lyon
Brookline
Burlen
Rachel Ware Burlen
Jay Rogers Benton
Belmont
William Gray
Raymond Webster Harris
Somerville
Rogers
Frank N. Rogers
Manchester
N. H
Joseph Rogers
Charles Gustave Rogers
Jay Rogers Renton
John Arnold Curtis
Clarence Hathaway
Robert Preston Frye
Harold Capen
Germany Calls Up Last Reserves For Landsturm
The Reichsanzeiger in Berlin publishes an order to summon all first-class Landsturm members not yet drafted. Bavaria is excluded. German men in Germany must report June 8 to 10 and Germans abroad should report as soon as possible.
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Amsterdam
London
Reichsanzeiger
Berlin
Landsturm
Bavaria
Germany
M. E. Rogers
River St
Cambridge
Mass
Mary Curtis Clark
Bickerstaff St
Boston
Charles H. Chase
Newton St
Faneuil
Wintertown Arsenal
Huntington Ave
Mechanics
Mgr Supple Celebrates 25 Years in Priesthood
More than 1000 people gathered at St. John's Church Roxbury for a mass marking the 25th anniversary of the ordination of Right Rev Mgr P J Supple. Distinguished clergymen relatives and boyhood friends attended.
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St. John’s Church
Roxbury
Mgr
P. J. Supple
Mass Honoring Monsignor Supple Draws 200 Mt Pleasant Knights
About 200 Mt Pleasant Council Knights of Columbus attended a solemn high mass led by Grand Knight James J Logan. Monsignor Supple celebrated with 25 priests from the archdiocese and a large procession of clergy and monsignori.
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Mt. Pleasant
St. Hugh's Church
Mgr. Supple
Robert H. Bryden
Mr. Bryden
Frederick Drew
Joseph Lyons
Elizabeth Flynn
John F. Cummins
Church of the Sacred Heart
Roslindale
Mer. Supple
Mgr
Peter Rowan
St. Peter’s Church
Meeting House Hill
Dorchester
Arthur J. Teeling
St. Mary’s Church
Lynn
John T. Mu
John M. Chmielinski
South Boston
Patrick Coleman
Swampscott
James J. McCarthy
St. William’s Church
John H. Powers
St. Stephen's Church
North End
George A. Lyons
Church of Our Lady of Lourdes
Jamaica Plain
F. J. Kenney
St. Margaret's Church
Alexander Hamilton
Campella
James J. Hamilton
Whitman
Charles J. Lyons
Boston College
Church of the Immaculate Conception
James J. Lynch
C. SS. R
Mission Church
Roxbury
Boston Fire Leader Praises Father John’s Medicine
Thomas P. Lally a retired Boston Fire Department lieutenant says a two month bronchial cold and cough were relieved quickly by Father John’s Medicine. He adds the remedy built him up and cured him. Signed by Lally of Roslindale Massachusetts.
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John
Thomas P. Lally
Boston Fire Department
Father John
Fletcher Street
Roslindale
Mass
Italian dirigible bombs Pola and Monfalcone wrecks
Italian air and naval actions reported with official details. An Italian dirigible bombed Pola railroad and naphtha depots while destroyers hit Monfalcone shipyard. French gains north of Arras and other battles across the front. Russian advances on the San River and Polesien areas noted.
Austrian War Office bulletin on Russian and Italian fronts
The War Office reports in the Russian theatre no major engagements on the San and east of it while fighting continues near Przemysl and the upper Dniester. In Italy an Alpine regiment repelled a fortifications attack on Lavaronne plateau and patrols repelled a hostile entrenchment near Paneveggio. On the Karfreit frontier heavy artillery battles proceed east of Karfreit.
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Vienna
London
Austrian War Office
San
Przemysl
Stry
Lavaronne
Paneveggio
Prebazzo
Carinthian
Karfreit
Caporetto
Kern
Vesthal
Italian Aviators Bombarded Naval Base in Bold Raid
The report describes Italian aviators dropping bombs on a naval base west of Trent amid continuing Eastern and Western Front fighting. Russian forces claim advances along the front from the Dnieper to Galicia, forcing Austro German retreats and capturing thousands of prisoners and artillery. French forces gain ground north of Arras as German lines weaken northeast of Ypres with renewed Allied pressure at St Julien and surrounding sectors.
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St. Julien
Daily Mail
France
Ypres
Italian Dirigible Raids Pola and Bombards Monfalcone Shipyard
An official Italian statement reports a dirigible raid on the Austrian base at Pola damaging the railroad station and arsenal while a destroyer flotilla bombarded the Monfalcone shipyard. The raid left a large fire at Pola and destroyed several flour boats without Italian losses.
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Rome
Paris
Ministry of Marine
Pola
Monfalcone
French Claim North Arras Progress and Trenches Taken
Paris reports British and French forces advance north of Arras On the Souchez to Carency road the Malon mill and German trenches from the mill to the sugar refinery at Souchez were captured About 60 prisoners taken In the Labyrinth region after repulsing a counterattack Our forces also held back a German attack near Notre Dame de Lorette and added two machine guns on May 30 31
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Pola
Rome
Monfalcone
Arras
Paris
Souchez-Carency
Malon
Souchez
Neuville St. Vaast
Neuville-Roclincourt
Berlin
Carency
Malon Mill
le Pretre
War Office
Yser
le Pretre Forest
Notre Dame le Lorette
Trenches Reinforced at Avi Burnu Despite Allied Opposition
Constantinople May 2 official war office statement says Allied efforts to stop reinforcement of trenches captured at Avi Burnu failed. Anatolian batteries bombarded Seddul Bahr positions. enemy gaps on May 2% were being filled. No other major actions reported.
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York
Sorborg
London
Stry
Vienna
Lavaronne
Avi Burnu
Constantinople
Anatolian
Seddul Bahr
Victor Emmanuel
Berlin
War Office
German Statement on Western Front Actions North of Arras
Berlin reports French attempts north of Arras and in Le Pretre Forest repelled with high losses to the enemy. Bavarian and Rhine regiments hold Neuville Roclincourt line. Dammerkirck railway viaduct destroyed again. Ostend coast battery says down an enemy aviator. Eastern and southeastern fronts see no major actions.
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Berlin
London
War Office
Arras
le Pretre
Neuville-Roclincourt
Ostend
Belgium
Dammerkirck
Przemys
Gallipoli Action Yields Turkish Rout and British Casualties
British report heavy fighting on the Gallipoli peninsula ends in a rout of Turkish forces with about 2000 Turkish casualties and 300 British casualties. The announcement comes from London dated May 31.
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London
Gallipoli Peninsula
British and Turkish losses at the Dardanelles May statements
A dated war bulletin reports Turkish casualties of at least 2000 and British losses of 3800 amid May operations at the Dardanelles. It describes Turkish attempts, counterattacks, and a French gain of a redoubt on the left flank as troops held positions and artillery repelled further assaults.
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Dardanelles
Russians gain advantage in San and Vistula fronts
Petrograd reports the battle on the San near Przemysl favors Russia. Between May 12 and 24 Russia captured 19 000 enemy troops, including 209 officers and 18 617 soldiers. Russians crossed the Lubaczowka, seized Monasterz, while forces between Jaroslau and Radymno were driven back. On the Dniester front 7 000 prisoners and 30 guns taken with a disorderly retreat by the enemy.
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le Pretre Forest
Berlin
Dammerkirck
San River
Lubaczowka
Monasterz
Petrograd
Shavk
Pilica
Upper
Vistula
Jaroslave Radymno
Dniester
Canada
Montreal
Cunarder Aquitania
Mersey
New
Shavli
Krovno
Pet
London
San
Przemysl
Kovno
Pillicaa
Galicia
Girl Detective Traces Theft Arrest In Tremont Street Case
Laura Seavey of Cambridge acted as sleuth for six months leading to the arrest of Louis Landau of East Boston in a Tremont street theatre. Landau, accompanied by a young woman, is accused of stealing two diamond rings from Seavey last winter.
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Laura Seavey
Cambridge
Louis Landau
Boston
Tremont Street
Landau
Landau Arrest Linked to Jewelry Theft Claim
Miss Seavey says a man named Landau introduced himself under another name last November and promised a department store job. On the way to the store she says he jumped from the car with her rings worth 80 dollars, later arrested on a John Doe warrant after following them into Tremont Street theater.
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Miss Seavey
Landau
Tremont Street
Anderson
Brown
Paris Street
East
Boston
Portland Street
Machine Gun Squad Escorts Quincy Veterans on Cemetery Tour
The new Quincy machine gun squad of the Sixth Massachusetts Infantry acted as escort to Paul J. Revere Post G A R on a cemetery tour. Lieutenant Downs commanded the squad as 603 Civil War graves were decorated by veterans. Public exercises at Adams Academy featured Major Campbell Commander Hanson and Rev M C Ward.
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Quincy
Sixth Massachusetts Infantry
Paul J. Revere
Downs
Adams Academy
Campbell
Mark B. Hanson
M. C. Ward
British steamer Dixiana torpedoed off Ushant. crew saved
The British steamer Dixiana, 2147 net tons, was torpedoed at 11:30 Saturday morning while en route from Savannah to Swansea. After the attack the crew borrowed a Greek steamer to Cardiff, where they were landed. Two crew members were injured by debris from the explosion. The ship, formerly Putney Bridge, was built in 1891 and owned by the Dixiana Steamship Company of Brunswick, Georgia.
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London
Ushant
Savannah
Swansea
Wales
Cardiff
Brunswick
Havre
Long
Port Talbot
Dixiana Steamship Company
F. D. M. Strachan
Brunswick, Ga
Putney Bridge
West Hartlepool
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