Bigger Fee for Trucks Is Favored
Colonel William D Sohier chair man of the Highway Commission testified before the roads and bridges committee in support of a bill to raise heavy truck registration fees. The proposal would lift charges from 3 to 20 dollars per ton over five tons per truck and aims to reflect road damage by heavy vehicles.
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William D. Sohier
Highway Commission
Committee On Roads and Bridges
Sohier
Massachusetts
New York
Connecticut
Whitman
Quincy
Boston
Plymouth
Fort Sill Wounded Fire School Instructors Head Home
Thirty five members of the School of Fire at Fort Sill Oklahoma arrive at Camp Devens March 28 wounded by shell shock and hearing loss. One officer and 34 men from New England are awaiting discharge after serving as instructors for American artillery troops who fought overseas.
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Camp Devens
Fort Sill
Okla
New England
United States
New England Battery Veterans At Fort Sill After War Service
More than 20 months of daily barrages by 34 New England artillery men ended with armistice day. They fired about 300 three inch shells daily, endured shell shock and hearing loss, and received ongoing Fort Sill treatment. Most are Massachusetts natives, many from New England, now under medical care and vigil by comrades.
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Field Artillery
New England
Massachusetts
Fort Sill
Massachusetts Men Recalled as Instructors for Artillery Units
The passage lists Massachusetts soldiers attached to crack artillery regiments who, despite shell shock, were kept at the school of fire to serve as instructors. Names include Amos C Delbone James J Hanlon Emil Kosh George Lavoie Preston C Brown Hugh Armstrong Michael Botto Hagop Kayalan Francis J Madden Walter Robbins Cleveland Spencer Nedhle Zanes Walter Robbins Theodore Marchand Walter G Wallace Joseph L Charroe Henry B Wall Arthur L Renneil Timothy Tunstall Joseph H Voissard Robert L Wright George R Hudson Ernest F LaCroix Arthur F Lavigne Thomas F Connors Francis J Stack and Robert Pagman, noted as the prize winning gunner of the 11th Field Artillery.
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Cleveland Spencer
Nedhle Zanes
Walter Robbins
Theodore Marchand
Walter G. Wallace
Joseph L. Charroe
Henry B. Wall
Arthur L. Renneil
Timothy Tunstall
Joseph H. Voissard
Robert L. Wright
George R. Hudson
Ernest F. LaCroix
Arthur F. Lavigne
Thomas F. Connors
Francis J. Stack
Robert Pagman
11Th Field Artillery
Coolidge Urges Greek Independence Day Tribute
Governor Coolidge calls Massachusetts citizens to honor Greece on its 98th anniversary of independence. He asks flag flying on private buildings with the U S flag. The piece contrasts state observances with a prize song contest in the Sunday Post.
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Coolidge
Greece
Massachusetts
United States
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le Sts
Ciunki Youll
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United States Food Administration
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Blue Cross
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Wisconsin
Wilbur
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Formosa
Squire
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SWIFT
Golden Gate
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Hes
MN Dept
M. D
APPI
Tee
Fish Dept
Haddock
Young America
Lily Brand
Fla College
Oie
Charlie Chaplin
Boston Wholesale Millinery Co
Blake Building
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