Barrage Exercise At Devens to Simulate No Man's Land
Devens Massachusetts May 27 Real barrage fire will be used this week in a school for field and staff officers. The 602d Engineers have built trenches tunnels and wire entanglements to imitate western front conditions for a large demonstration of near real battle without actual combat. About 200 new recruits joined the depot brigade with 23 000 men in the 76th Division and gaps remain in the 302d and 308d infantry regiments needing around 1000 men.
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No Man’s Land
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A. K. Lyman
Massachusetts
Boston
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Marlboro
Tewksbury
Funeral today for William Donaldson contractor and Mason
The funeral for William Donaldson, long time contractor and prominent Mason, will be held this afternoon at his home 690 Blue Hill Avenue Dorchester. He died Sunday in his year and leaves his wife and two daughters Mrs A W Godfrey of Dorchester and Mrs A B Brown of Everett.
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Blue Hill Avenue
Dorchester
Donaldson
Washington Lodge of Masons
Mt. Vernon
Joseph Warren
A. W. Godfrey
A. B. Brown
Everett
PUTS BLAME UPON IRISH
Sir George Adam Smith told Congregational Club members that responsibility for failing to achieve home rule rests with the Irish themselves. The Scottish speaker, proud of his heritage, said he did not favor Irish home rule and recalled Britain’s invitation to Ireland’s parties to hammer out a plan, noting they failed to agree.
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Scotland
Wales
George Adam Smith
Congregational Club
Benjamin A. Willmott
Great Britain
Empire
Ireland
Meeker Memorial Library Dedicated at Harvard Crimson
The William H. Meeker Memorial Library was dedicated last night as a gift to the Harvard Crimson. It honors W. H. Meeker a former Crimson president who died in action while serving as a corporal in the Lafayette Escadrille.
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William H. Meeker
Harvard Crimson
Harvard Daily
Crimson
W. H. Meeker
France
Meeker
The
Lafayette Escadrille
Woman Found Dead by Gas At Home In Brockton
Louise Kelley 56 of 191 Spring Street Brockton was found dead from gas asphyxiation in her home. Medical Examiner A H Paine ruled suicide with despondency listed as the cause.
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Louise Kelley
Spring Street
A. H. Paine
House Ends Busy Two Sessions In Two Sessions
The House, in two sessions totaling nearly four and a half hours, disposed of many measures. It killed tax relief for railway companies, extended the Boston Transit Commission, passed the true name bill with hotel room registries, and supported state takeover of the Massachusetts Agricultural College.
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Boston Transit Commission
Massachusetts Agricultural College
House advances multiple measures in third reading dialogue
The House moved several bills toward third reading including selling the South Boston drydock to federal or private entities and dissolving Massachusetts Agricultural College into state control. A rule-suspension motion failed and a Public Service Commission size bill passed engrossment. The Bay State Street Railway item was postponed. A fish investigation report was urged to the attorney general and a district attorney’s salary was set at eight thousand dollars.
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Sawyer
Public Service Commission
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Allen
Newton
Boston Fish Market Corporation
Oe Niece
Bay State Fishing Company of
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Pelletier
Americans Rout Huns and Drive Them From Positions
Pershing's communique reports that in Picardy hostile infantry penetrated two American lines after heavy artillery prep but were repelled by counter attacks with Americans entering the enemy trenches. A strong hostile raid was repulsed in the Woevre and German gas shells fell on Lorraine. American aviators shot down a hostile aircraft. The day was quiet in other sectors.
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Woevre
Lorraine
Expeditionary
Letter from General Edwards Lost by Boston Framer
Major-General Clarance B. Edwards wrote to Lieutenant William H. Drohan praising his service with the 101st Regiment and regretting his departure from France. The framer, after receiving the letter with a portrait for framing, reported the document mislaid or lost three weeks ago. Drohan and his sister Mrs. P. H. Graham strive to recover the letter and its value to him remains high.
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William H. Drohan
101St Regiment
Drohan
France
Boston
P. H. Graham
Harvest Street
Dorchester
General Edwards
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