Quiet Day At Camp Alger As Ninth And Sixth Attend Service
CAMP ALGER Va June 6 Special to the Post The Ninth and Sixth Massachusetts regiments spent a quiet Sunday with divine services dress parade and field leisure. Congressman Fitzgerald spent the night in camp and rode with Major Grady. Chaplain Murphy preached urged duty honesty and obedience. Soldiers enjoyed swimming skirting snakes and a shaded mass altar while Father Tracy and others visited. A mascot horse and a variety of visitors filled the camp with activity as officers planned recruiting in Boston.
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Murphy
Missouri
Illinois
Dude Regiment
Joseph Tracy
South Boston
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Dunn Loring
Albert Cottle
Charlestown
Washington
Boston
Congressman Fitzgerald
Grady
Keefe
Murray
J. R. McLean
Hayes
Chaplain Murphy
Major Magurn
Keating
Rogers
Hanagan
Sullivan
McNulty
Senator Mason
South
Doherty
Mathew T. A
L. Society
Father Mathews
John S.blagdon
H. J. Murphy
V. P. McKenna
John Costello
J. H. Miltnea
Joseph Manning
Company D
Philadelphia
Bunker Hill
Sixth's Boys Rough It Roughing It During Outpost Duty
Third Battalion posted as division outpost guard for twenty four hours. Many from Hors visit the regiment. Most companies receive dainties from home. Chaplain Dusseault preaches an eloquent sermon.
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J. J. Valentine
South Framingham
E. Kelley
Washington
William O. Upham
Francis Vinton
Southbridge
John O. Haskell
George J. Emmons
Concord
Byron
Stoneham
Brooks
Bruce Evans
F. Cardoza
Ea L
Dusseault
Hors
Mengor G. H. Priest
Compliments 20 Mass Tampa Fra June 5 Da vis on volunteer camps
Richard Harding Davis writes to the New York Herald about defects in volunteer camps visited yesterday. He notes lack of rain trenches and proper drainage, causing blankets to rest on sand and dew moist ground. He praises Seventy first New York and Clark's Second Massachusetts for proper camp standards.
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Fra
New York Herald
Richard Harding Davis
New York
Greene
Clark
Massachusetts
Health in the Army Tampa Fifth Corps Health Rules
In Health in the Army Tampa on June 5 the fifth army corps completes health rules for Cuba campaigning. Lt Col Rope publishes instructions urging climate adaptation without medicines and stresses leaky water, unripe fruit, boiled water, light clothing, and hygiene to prevent tropical diseases.
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Fifth Army Corps
B. K. Rope
Campeten
Cuba
Ciba
Tropics
First annual field day of American Irish Historical Society
The American Irish Historical Society plans its first field day on the 30th inst at New Castle NH with Hon John B Linehan coordinating. Headquarters at the Wentworth Hotel. A wreath will be laid at General John Sullivan’s grave in Durham. Attendees include Governor Ramsdell, Col A F Howard, Rear Admiral Belknap, and leaders from major universities and embassies.
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United States
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Bowdoin
Harvard
Yale
Brown
Columbia
Cornell
Morse Is Dead Ex-Congressman Elijah Morse Dies at 57
Canton June 5 Ex-Congressman Elijah A Morse died at his home after months of illness aged 57 He founded a blacking business that grew from a 15 year old craftsman’s trial to a four acre factory employing about a hundred men He served four terms in Congress and was a philanthropist with strong Republican ties His wife Miss Vining of Holbrook and three sons survived him
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Elijah A. Morse
Samuel Morse
Dedham
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Holliston
Old
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Boston
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Cape
United States
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Fourth
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Prohibition Party
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Congress
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Holbrook
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Worcester Academy
Norton Female Seminary
Congressman Morse
Seattle
Wash
John Ford
Jamaica Plain
Ford
Corporal Stewart Buried At Somerville
Corporal Clarence Stewart of Company IM, Eighth Regiment, died at Chickamauga Park and was buried at Woodlawn Cemetery after services at his aunt Mrs. Katherine Stewart in Somerville. Rev. George W. Bicknell and Rev. W. C. Barrows led the rites with pallbearers from the unit and Post 139. The notice ends with an advertisement for American Wringer Company repair services.
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Company IM
Eighth Regiment
Chickamauga Park
Katherine Stewart
Gilman Street
Somerville
George W. Bicknell
Charette's fine record amid Spanish prison ordeal
Lowell honors George Charette a Merrimac crew gunner's mate now in a Spanish prison awaiting exchange after enlisting in 1884 and serving on ships from the Wabash to the San Francisco. His sister and parents reflect on his fourteen years of fearless service and cautious bravery.
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AlIl
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Merrimac
Dauntless
Charette
Alexander Charette
Gershorn Avenue
Washington
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Key West
New York
Havana
San Francisco
Ted
George
Keyest
Henry
Vicksburg
Mr. Franken
Chicago
Admiral Walker
Spanish squadron seen near Madagascar amid naval race
A Barcelona despatch says on May 27 a Spanish squadron of three cruisers and three protected vessels was sighted off Madagascar heading north. Bets of 50000 exist on Admiral Cervera's squadron's location, with Cuban waters or the Philippines as possible destinations. San Juan reports say Admiral Sampson bombarded the town with 700 shells, Spain suffering seven dead and seventy wounded, with damage to the governor-general residence and barracks.
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Madrid
Barcelona
Madagascar
Lyceum Club
Cervera
Cuban
Philippines
Navy
San Juan
Porto Rico
Sampson
Hobson's daring exploit at Santiago praised by London papers
London papers hail Naval Constructor Hobson for the Merrimac raid at Santiago de Cuba with high praise. The Times notes gallantry by a small volunteer band and suggests Santiago's destruction is imminent, while doubts arise about the Merrimac fully blocking the channel as some American reports claim.
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Hobson
Santiago de Cuba
the Times
Santiago
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