Tales of the 26th Division at Belleau Wood
The author recalls five months on the front with the 26th Division ending in July during the Chateau Thierry and Belleau Wood actions. After a planned regrouping was canceled, troops moved through Lucy le Bacage, into a ravine, then into Belleau Wood where sniper fire and casualties shaped a harrowing ascent to the objective, the narrator losing his return ticket as a sniper’s bullet.
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Chateau Thierry
Bois de Belleau
Lucy-ie-Bacage
Belleau Wood
United States
Pansies Replace Tulips as Public Garden Display
Pansies have supplanted tulips in the Public Garden as the display flower. The multi colored blossoms are at their best and have attracted many visitors in recent days. The shortage of tulip bulbs from Holland due to postwar shipping limits explains the change, yet visitors praise the pansy display for its grandeur and beauty.
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Holland
Sleeper Conductors Protest New Hours in Boston
Boston members of the Order of Sleeping Car Conductors vote to protest a railroad administration order on hours and wages. They argue the eight hour day is violated and call the award unfair, noting a calendar month of 300 working hours and averages of 10 hours daily or 12 hours in a six day week, exceeding other train workers.
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Boston
Order of
Railroad Administration
Death of Rev Ruben Kidner D D longtime Trinity assistant
The Rev Ruben Kidner D D longtime assistant at Trinity Church and former St Andrew s Church Cham bers Street pastor died at Massachusetts General Hospital after a stroke He was 71 or 72 born March 18 1848 in Bristol England he studied at Boston Latin School and Harvard class of 1875 and earned at Episcopal Theological School 1878 He began at Church of the Ascension Ipswich led First Parish Peabody then Trinity s assistant He is survived by son Dr Frederick Clinton Kidner Harvard 1900 and Harvard Medical School 1904.
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Ruben Kidner
Trinity Church
Harvard
St. Andrew’s
Chambers Street
Massachusetts General Hospital
Kidner
Bristol
Eng
Boston Latin School
Episcopal Theological School
Cambridge
Church of the Ascension
Ipswich
Peabody
Trinity
Frederick Clinton Kidner
Harvard Medical School
Asked 2-bits, got 3 months from Central Court
John Cullen, known to locals as a beggar with a tubercular claim, faced Central Court for moral turpitude and vagrancy after trying to solicit a quarter from Officer Mooney. He argued he had money at home but no time, and was sentenced to state farm for three months.
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John Cullen
Top
Mooney
Cullen
Central Court
John
State Farm
Coolidge credited with ending telephone strike
Governor Coolidge receives full credit for scoring the bullseye and securing the final settlement of the telephone strike. William H. O'Brien, chief of the telephone and telegraph department of the Public Service Commission, issued the statement yesterday. He attacks Postmaster General Burleson and telephone officials for criminal disregard of business interests in Massachusetts and New England.
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Coolidge
William H. O’brien
Telephone and Telegraph Department
Public Service Commission
Burleson
Telephone Company
Massachusetts
New England
Lassies to Be Honored Today on Boston Common
All Boston will honor two Salvation Army lassies this afternoon at 1 on Boston Common. Major-General Edwards will preside in the presence of state city army and navy dignitaries and thousands, including infantry and the 101st Regimental Band, praising Gladys and Irene McIntyre for bravery under fire. Also to be saluted are the mother of Lieutenant Judson Martell of Somerville and Lieutenant-Colonel Flint of New Haven with Corporal Edward F. Murphy of Worcester.
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Boston
Salvation Army
Boston Common
Edwards
Army
Navy
101St
McIntyre
Gladys
Irene
Argonne
Judson Martell
Rogers Avenue
Somerville
Flint
New Haven
Edward F. Murphy
Worcester
Distinguished awards to Mrs Martell and Corporal Murphy
To Mrs Martell and Corporal Murphy the coveted distinguished service cross will be awarded. Lieutenant Colonel Flint will receive the Distinguished Service medal, an honor which has never before been conferred on any man in Boston.
No Truth In Rumor Of Nash Merger
Nash Motors Company president W Nash of Kenosha Wisconsin states there is no possibility of a merger with other large firms. He notes Nash would pursue expansion independently if needed and would expand under the Nash Motors Company control. Three factors for lasting success are good financing a good factory and a strong organization. He asserts Nash possesses these essentials and expansion depends on its own energy, not on joining with other established companies.
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Co. W. Nash
Nash Motors Company
Kenosha
Wisconsin
Nash Company
Nash
Army Athletes Train for Paris Championships
One hundred fifty soldiers of the American Army of Occupation will depart Coblenz for Paris to train for the American Expeditionary Force track championships. The group includes Sergeant O'Brien who ran 100 yards in 14 seconds, Corporal Irmieson a quarter and half mile specialist from Millrose A. C., Private William McGurn from the University of California as a shot putter and javelin thrower, and Sergeant Higgins from the University of Missouri as a javelin thrower.
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Paris
Soldier beer purchase leads to three month sentence
Frank Bart of Roxbury was charged in Central Court yesterday with buying a bottle of beer for a uniformed man out of service. Sergeant McTiernan ruled the act illegal given the surrounding circumstance of loitering. Judge Sullivan imposed three months with an extra term for an old probation case. appeal was noted.
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Frank Bart
Roxbury
Central Court
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Reuben Kidner
Ademson
U. S. Army
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