Odd Fellows Hold Memorial Services at Mt Hope Cemetery
About 500 members from nine Greater Boston lodges gathered at the Odd Fellows monument in Mt Hope Cemetery to honor 55 departed Brethren since last year’s service. Lt Gov Channing H Cox urged living members to live without regret as they remember the deceased. Wreaths were placed, prayers offered, proclamations read, and taps sounded across the cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
I. O. O. F. Gors
Greater
Boston
Mt. Hope
Odd Fellows
Channing H. Cox
The
S. K. Walker
P. G
I. O
Siloam Lodge 2
Donald A. Macdonald
Commonwealth Lodge 3
Four year old dies after 35 foot fall at home
Mary Glode four year old daughter of Mr and Mrs Joseph Glode of Allston fell from an open railing on a rear third story piazza hitting the yard below. She died about ten minutes later from a fractured skull after the accident involving her sister Katherine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Glode
Joseph Glode
Linden Street
Allston
Katherine
Retreat of Belgian Army Follows Antwerp Fall
General French explains how Allied forces were distributed to cover the Belgian retreat after Antwerp fell. The British move north continued as French details the positions and actions shaping the retreat amid war office concerns and Franco British coordination.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Antwerp
War Office
London
French
Marshal Joffre
British and Dominion Cavalry Push Through Belgium Front
Field Marshal French recounts Allied cavalry advances from Thourout to Ypres from the 11th to the 15th. Conneau and Mitry’s Cavalry Corps push back German units. Allenby’s force advances north and northeast, seizing Mont des Cats and driving enemy lines to Lys region. Gough’s Second Cavalry captures Mont des Cats and later Bailleul, while Pulteney’s Third Corps seizes ground near Bailleul and Meteren and secures positions east of Lyss. The Belgian retreat continues as Fourth Corps aids the withdrawal and signals with recon to Lys.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thourout
Conneau
Vermelles- Richebourg-Vieille Chapelle
Mitry
Vieille Chapelle and
Estaires
Allenby
Wallon-Cappel
Hazebrouck
Merville
Wytschaete-Messines
Gough
Mont Des Cats
Jager
de Lisle
Morris
Mount Noir
Boeschepe
Berthen
Dranoutre-Messines
Warneton
Kemmel-Wytschaete
Werwick
Lys
Menin
Third Corps
Hasbrouck
Abbeville
St. Omer
Pulteney
Bailleul
Bleu
Vieux Berquin
Meteren
Bailleul-Neuve Eglise
Rawlinson
Antwerp
Capper
Ghent
Aeltre
Thielt
Roulers
Ypres
Byng
Kemmel
Ypres Battles Describe Kemmel Ground Gaining and Belgian Retreat
The account details Allied and German movements around Ypres with Kemmel high ground captured and vital but difficult terrain hindering artillery and motor logistics. It notes Belgian forces withdrawing behind the Yser, French troops at Dixmude, Nieuport, and a Cassel division arriving at Ypres, plus German concentrations near Menin and Courtrai.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Menin
Courtrai
Kemmel
Ypres
Ostend- Dixmude-Furnes-Nieuport
Yser
Dixmude
Nieuport
Cassel
Antwerp
Bruges
Roulers
Lys
Ghistelles-Roulers
Bethune
Smith-Dorrien
Annequin-Point Fixe-Festubert- Vieille-sur-Chapelle-Fosse
Burleson Orders Review as National Telegraph Strike Fears Grow
Postmaster General Burleson ordered a review of differences between Southern Bell and its employees in Atlanta amid looming telegraph and telephone worker walkouts. Union leaders press for action, with a mass meeting signaling a noon strike unless Atlanta operators are reinstated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Southern Bell Telephone Company
Atlanta, Ga
Burleson
M. Bethel
Wire Operating Board
New York
S. J. Konenkamp
Commercial Telegraphers' Union of America
Post Office
Bell System
American Telephone & Telegraph Company
Western Union and
Postal Systems
Atlanta
Cunard Lines Suffer Heavy Losses in War Totals
A Cunard Line statement reports 45 ships representing 389 853 tons were lost during the war across Cunard and allied lines. The list names ships from Cunard Anchor Commonwealth Dominion Brocklebank and Well and notes 56 percent of prewar tonnage. Government troop movements delay full passenger resumption.
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Cunard Steamship Company, Ltd
Allied Lines
Sir Alfred Booth, Bart
Cunard
Lusitania
Franconia
Laconia
Ivernia
Carpathia
Andania
Alaunia
Ascania
Ausonia
Altonia
Verria
Caria
Thracia
Lycia
Feltria
Folia
Flavia
Aurania
Valeria
Vandalia
Vinovia
Volodia
Perugia
Caledonia
California
Cameronia
Tuscania
Transylvania
Tiberia
Commonwealth and Dominion
Mazere
Port Nicholson
Port Adelaide
Port Hardy
Port Campbell
Port Curtis
Port Kembla
Brocklebank and Well
Assyria
Camberwell
Oran
Istria
Malakand
Matheran
Mallard
Springwell
Two Aviators Die in Airplane Collision Crash
In a crash two aviators were killed. Corporal Kelleher, 23, and Katzman, 21, died in the collision. A lieutenant’s brother, Corporal Kelleher, was aboard the plane that struck them.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kelleher
Katzman
Corporal Kelleher
Planes crash near Yale Bowl strike Westville casualties
A three plane formation returning from Wallingford to lay wreaths on Major Raoul Lufbery collided near the Yale Bowl. One plane crashed on a Westville lawn. a second hit Pratt Field backstop. the third landed safely. Coroner Mix investigates deaths of Lieut Keleher and Corporal Katzman and subpoenas Lt Loullot.
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Westwood Road
Yale Avenue
Westville
New
Pratt Field
Yale Bowl
Camp Vail
New Jersey
Raoul Lufbery
Wallingford
Mix
Keleher
Corporal Katzman
Corporal Keleher
John P. Loullot
Katzman
Loullot
Zaborn
Germany
Miller
Mineola
New Haven
Windsor
Conn
Eight exemption boards prepare honor roll lists
Eight of the 26 exemption board headquarters in the city will open tonight to compile honor roll lists of soldiers sailors and marines from the districts in preparation for monuments in wards. Ward 8 at 300 Charles Street lists Shattuck Bruce and Powell. Ward 3 at Charlestown Trust Company lists White Mullin and O Brien. Ward 7 at 461 Columbus Avenue lists Conlon Phelan. Ward 9 at South Boston Municipal Court lists McFee Jenkins. Ward 10 at South Boston?
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Charles Street
Henry L. Shattuck
J. B. Bruce
Benjamin F. Powell
Charlestown Trust Company
William E. White
Luke Mullin
John F. O’brien
Columbus Avenue
William Conlon
James Phelan
South Boston Municipal Court
J. Otis McFee
George O. Jenkins
South Hoston
Court Building Tonight with Boston Exemption Board
Ward II opens tonight in the Dorchester Municipal Building with J A Murphy and John Hanson heading the committee. Exemption boards at Edws Everett square and the Abbury Court House prepare name tablets while Boston women push a drive to raise 150 dollars for memorials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Hanson
J. A. Murphy
Comitee
Ward UU
Edws
Everett Square
Jar C. Gillispie
Frederick A
Boston
Sleeping for Health promises better rest and productivity
A sales pitch extols the value of sound sleep for health and efficiency. It promotes a book titled Sleeping for Health, claiming it shows sleep's nature and how to achieve it, with a $2 offer and a thirty day money back guarantee. It urges readers to obtain the book by mail immediately.
Mrs May Columba’shealth Revived by Vegetable Compound
Mrs May of Columbia Pennsylvania reports weakness back pains and limited mobility improved after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She endorses the tonic effects of roots and herbs and notes widespread female testimonials supporting its benefits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lydia E. Pinkham
Columbia, Pa
Mrs. Extra- Reth May
Columbia
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Billie Burke
Allen
Plattsburg
Metropolis
Nationalpany
Nettie
Ronny
National ‘Biscuit Company
N.B.C. Graham
Bar- 1
France
N. B
Graham
Marshal French
Boston Post
New York Herald
United Kin
K. P
O. M
Chase &Sanborn’s
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Sunday Post
Cunard Line
Ftoat
Yale
Jordan Marsh Company—The Mercantile Heart of
New England
Jordan Marsh Company
Sapa
May
Gouraud
T. Hopkins & Son
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