Dorchester Plans Grand Day with Ronan Park Dedication
Dorchester marks Dorchester Day with ceremonies across Rowan Park Blake House schools and Franklin Field. Ronan Park will be named for Monsignor Peter Ronan with a 10 am flag raise 1 pm prize drill 150 silk flag 2 pm dedicatory address by Mayor Curley ex Mayor Fitzgerald to speak and a late banquet at Ronan Hall
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Dorchester Driving Club
Edward Everett Square
Savin Hill Playground
Neponset Playground
Gibson Playground
Ronan Park
Ronan Hall
Harvard Corps Given Review
The Harvard Reserve Officers Training Corps received its first War Department review as Lt. Ross from Washington observed the daily routine and praised the corps. The rating from this report will determine semi official recognition and potential eligibility for officers commissions for members.
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War Department
Ross
U. A
Washington
Marines Coin New Slogan Drives New England Enlistment
Recruiting rose again as June 5 registration was said not to bar enlistment in any branch. Stations in New England expected continued applicant increases for Army Navy and Marine Corps ahead of the draft, with men able to choose their war duty before conscription.
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Navy
Marine Corps
New England
Navy and Army Recruit Boost as Draft Nears
The Marine Corps promotes a draft slogan Come on in out of the draft as registration day June 5 approaches. Masters and committees nationwide prepare for a surge of recruits, with actual mass orders likely after September. At Tremont Street navy station a mother reports three sons in service and Navy enlistments soar with 646 in May and 143 in the past week. The Army records two new enlistment peaks with over 100 slated for Monday and 45 recruited yesterday.
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George
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Naval Reserves Deployed to Bumkin Island from Marblehead
Thirty reserves were sent from Marblehead naval station to Bumkin Island in Boston harbor. One hundred forty sailors stay aboard the training ship at Marblehead Neck until quarters on the island are finished. A battalion of reserves visited Judge William C. Loring at Pride's Crossing for a holiday event.
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Boston Harbor
Old Eastern Yacht Club
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President Wilson joins Confederate Veterans camp
Richmond Virginia June 1 President Wilson has been elected an honorary member of the A. P. Hill Camp of Confederate Veterans of Petersburg The camp will act as his personal escort in the reunion parade in Washington next Thursday
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Washington
Plan cuts WWI training camps to sixteen cantonments
The War Department trimmed the planned 32 training camps to 16 for the forthcoming mobilization of a half million men in September. Many troops will be housed in tents, with four sites already chosen American Lake Washington Atlanta Ayer and Wrightstown. Guard units in the eastern region will be drafted by July 15 and tenting expanded as needed to meet mobilization timelines.
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Atlanta
Ayer
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Wrightstown
N. J
Benziger
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Features of New Army Plans to Date
Call 500000 to colors in September. Training in 16 camps instead of 32. Tents to be used instead of bar racks. National Guard formation in 16 divisions. Guards in Eastern States join federal armies July 15. Best equipped to be made ready for duty abroad. Police work guarding bridges and shops to be kept up.
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National Guard
No Clear Process Outlined for Guard Duties and Cantonment Build Up
Over 60,000 guardsmen are deployed to police work guarding bridges factories and structures. Building 82 cantonments requires miles of roads water sewer and power lines and more than 2000 buildings per camp plus railroad links. Officials say simultaneous construction of 82 cities would overwhelm resources and disrupt commerce.
Sweets er and Edwards Talk
General Sweetser met with General Edwards for an hour to discuss routine State troops and the federal war district. President Ban B Johnson of the American baseball league offered a box at Fenway Park for the champions to watch games, though war time may delay baseball this season.
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General Edwards
Federal War District
Ban B. Johnson
American Baseball League
Fenway Park Grounds
President Brush Defines A Piker In Flag Raising
President Matthew Brush of the Boston Elevated spoke at Albany Street during flag raising exercises. He urged workers not drafted to stay at their posts and aid in transportation and logistics. Ten year old Helen Achorn of Newton raised the flag at the mast head.
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Albany Street
Helen Achorn
Newton
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Biographies and travel books shine in spring reading
The review notes Henry David Thoreau by Frank B. Sanborn as a vivid Concord portrait and timely a century after Thoreau's birth. It praises Mary S. Ware's Old World Through Old Eyes travel letters and H. G. Wells God the Invisible King for earnest faith, with practical home guides by Embury, Dean, McMahon, and Kittredge offering design, management, and kitchen ideas.
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Lover
Putnam
Mary 8. Ware
God
Macmillan
H. G. Wells
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Century
Mabel Hyde Kittredge
Boyd Cable Trench Warfare Books for Sale
Noted trench warfare author Boyd Cable presents vivid fighting scenes in France. Books include Grapes of Wrath Action Front and Between the Lines. Available for sale everywhere through FE P. Dutton & Company New York.
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Boyd Cable
France
Action Front
FE. P. Dutton & Company
N. Y
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