Boston High Schools Hold Graduation for 2338 Graduates
Graduation exercises across 17 Boston high schools awarded 2338 diplomas after four years of study. Schools reported counts including Girls High 264, English 310, Dorchester 328, Roxbury 165, East Boston 126, South Boston 131, with various specialties and post graduate or industrial certificates.
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Boston
Igh
Normal
Girls’ High
Boston Normal
Mechanic Arts
High School of Practical Arts
High School of Commerce
Public Latin
Brighton High
West Roxbury High
Hyde Park High
Charlestown High
Dorchester High
Boston Clerical
East Boston High
South Boston High
Roxbury High
350 Citations for Decorations in 26th Division
A corps of workers completed at headquarters the 350 men of the 26th Division cited for deeds of heroism on the western front. Captain Jean B. Le Mellour, former French liaison officer, will return to France this week to present them to the French government for Croix de Guerre recommendations.
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Jean B. le Mellour
France
Provost Guard in Boston Disbanded
The Boston provost guard ended last night as the last local war conscripts were discharged. Colonel Thomas L. Brewer of the 56th Infantry left Boston duty to join General Edwards' staff as inspector of small arms practice. The 125 regulars of the 36th Infantry will be sent to Camp Devens and Fort Ethan Allen Vermont.
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Boston
Thomas L. Brewer
56Th Infantry
Geenral Edwards
36Th Infantry
Camp Devens
Fort Ethan Allen
Slayer of three men gets chair in New York
Gordon Fawcett Hamby, who shot and killed De Witt C. Real during the East Brooklyn Savings Bank hold up, is sentenced in Brooklyn Supreme Court to die in the electric chair at Sing Sing the week of July 28. A sanity commission will assess his mental state. Hamby defended his actions as compelled robberies.
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New York
Gordon Fawcett Hamby
de Witt C. Real
East Brooklyn Savings Bank
Supreme Court
Brooklyn
Sing Sing
Fawcett
Hamby
Cecil B. McCoy
Anna Martin Ralston
Ireland Must Have Home Rule Editorial Address
An editorial by Herbert A. Kenney in the South Boston Inquirer extols home rule for Ireland. It argues Irish devotion to homeland, cites Chateaubriand on love of country, and frames homesickness as nostalgia linked to national identity.
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Herbert A. Kenney
South Boston Inquirer
Ireland
Thessaly
Esquimaux
Chateaubriand
God
Cromwell
Alsace-Lorraine
France
Strassburg
Belgium
David
Goliath
Germany
England
Finn
Carson
Ulster
Georgia
South
Wilson
Justice Cohalan
New York
Lagan
Cardinal O Connell presses Irish freedom in public address
Halan at Mechanics' building reports that the platform stood bare of leaders who benefited from Irish heritage as Cardinal O Connell bluntly pressed the Irish question. He says it is not old fashioned to seek freedom for a race and notes Protestants and Catholics alike.
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Halan
Mechanics’ Building
Cardinal O’connnell
Irish Birth and Blood Rally for Freedom in America
The Boston Post discusses Irish identity in America, praising the Irish for unity and courage. It notes Governor Walsh, Irish leadership in adversity, and Ireland’s allies in America, while asking what has become of the great Irish spirit amid modern pressures.
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Boston Post
America
Prussian Assembly
Ireland
Walsh
Washington
Wolfe Tone
Robert Emmet
Versailles
Island of Saints
Pew
Parnell
Cardinal O'Connell
Cohalan
Logan
Irish in America and the memory of Ireland in peril
A passionate wartime style exhortation warns that Irish in America must remember Ireland and its sufferings. It condemns forgetting ancestors and faith, referencing Cromwell and the trials endured for fidelity to belief.
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America
Ireland
Cromwell
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