Dover shipbuilder sells car after crash and fine
Everett H. McBabe of Dover says he earns 200 a week as a shipbuilder. He sold his 1100 car for 100 to William T Barrett, police driver, after crashing into a telegraph pole on the Newburyport road. Judge Bruce fined him 100 for speeding and 5 for drunkenness. He then offered to sell the car, and Barrett bought it.
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Everett H. McBabe
Dover
N. H
William T. Barrett
Malden
McBabe
Newburyport Road
Bruce
Barrett
Miss Driscoll and John H. O Neil Wed at St Ann's Somerville
Miss Katherine A Driscoll of 25 Arthur Street Somerville and John H O Neil a Roxbury merchant were remarried yesterday at St Ann's Church Somerville by Rev Francis J Butler. After a reception at the bride's parents home they left for a wedding trip and will reside on the Jamaica Plain parkway upon return.
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Katherine A. Driscoll
Arthur Street
Somerville
John H. O'Neil
Roxbury
St. Ann's Church
Francis J. Butler
Mrs. O'Neil
Jamaica Plain Parkway
Ayer Army Troops Join U S Guard at Fort Adams
June 27 at Camp Devens the first delegation of domestic service only draftees left for Fort Adams Newport R I to join the reorganized United States Guard. They were declared unfit for overseas service and departed amid cheering and waving to their former comrades.
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Camp Devens
Fort Adams
Newport
R. I
United States Guard
D. S. O’s to Guard Home Front as War Mobilizes Units
The D. S. O s will perform home guard duties replacing State guards after mobilization. Draftees from Massachusetts and Maine are scarce. 700 from New Hampshire were expected with 400 from Vermont. About 1500 aliens were naturalized in a Y M C A auditorium, while 12 officers report to Harvard for summer training camp. Major Ralph Lowell now commands a new development battalion at the depot. Shotguns joined the 24th Infantry in Connecticut units.
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Massachusetts
Maine
New Hampshire
Vermont
Harvard University
Harvard
Francis D. Harrigan
Dorchester
Ross Whittier
Milton
James W. Burrows
Lynn
New York
Edward L. Kickham
Brookline
John 8. Wiley
Bayside
L. I
Edward C. Shephard
Cambridge
Morrill Wiggin
H. C. McDuffy
Boston Troop Mortar Platoon Sets Quick Shot Record
The 04th Infantry trench mortar platoon led by Lt Thomas J Fitzpatrick of Portland Mey wins a cup from Captain J E L Warren for rapid fire and accuracy. Private Patrick Tierney fired 12 shots in 45 seconds in a shell hole to destroy an enemy machine gun nest, with 11 hits. In speed tests the unit fired 15 shots in 17 seconds. Nearby, two privates Robert B Lee of Lynn and U S Grant of Boston in C Battery of the 101st Field Artillery share a bank under Sgt Malcolm Cox of Danvers with Corporal Lynch of Danvers, descendant of Thomas Lynch signatory of the Declaration of Independence.
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Charles FP. Bacon
Boston
Patrick Tierney
101St Field Artillery
Robert B. Lee
Lynn
U. S. Grant
Grant
Kentucky
Lee
North
Malcolm Cox
Danvers
Corporal Lynch
Thomas Lynch
North Carolina
Bennington Rumor Clarifies Private Osterle’s Home
Local residents in Bennington question a War Department casualty listing for Private George J. Osterle. The telegram directing his message to 112 Union Street Burlington seems incorrect, as no Osterle family resides there and no such address exists. Osterle, a former underwear knitter, lived with his mother in Bennington and served in the First Vermont Regiment before transferring to France.
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Bennington
George J. Osterle
Burlington
War Department
Union Street
Osterle
Vermont
France
20 Killed In Mine Blow-Up In Virginia Minn
Steam shovel crews dug through the Sliver open-pit iron mine debris after a blast killed many miners. Fourteen were confirmed dead, one body recovered, and more than a score were missing or injured as 450 men worked when a dynamite explosion reportedly sparked by lightning occurred.
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Virginia
Minn
Here
Boy Killed In Germantown Truck Accident
Eight year old Bernard McAttee son of Mr and Mrs Bernard S McAttee of Oak street Dedham was crushed to death last evening when the milk truck owned and operated by Edward O Toole backed near a tree on Carroll street Germantown just over the Dedham line Authorities report the boy was believed to be riding on the rear of the truck at the time of the tragedy.
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Bernard McAttee
Bernard S. McAttee
Oak Street
Dedham
Edward O’toole
Westwood
Carroll Street
Germantown
McAttee
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