Song Drills Start at Camp Devens Today
Vernon Stiles the noted tenor arrives by War Secretary Baker to teach the 76th Division troops to sing as they fight. On Friday 4 PM 1000 infantry from Boston’s 1st Regiment and the 302d Infantry will receive their first singing lesson on Infantry Hill with songs like Pack Up Your Troubles and Where Do We Go From Here. Stiles aims to train mobs not choruses and plans large singing groups across the cantonment in two weeks. Miss Margaret Wilson may aid. Heating progress promises steam for one regiment by Oct 15.
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Vernon Stiles
Stiles
Baker
76Th Division
Boston
Infantry Hill
Europe
M. B. Stewart
Margaret Wilson
Washington
Folly to Let a Man Drink Druggist Promotes Secret Remedy
An Cleveland druggist Brown touts a home remedy called tescum to cure alcohol addiction without the drinker’s knowledge. Advert claims a woman can covertly dose a husband to kill the craving, promises success in weeks, cites testimonials, and offers a money back guarantee through Houghton & Dutton Co. and other druggists.
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Brown
Cleveland
Ohio
Houghton & Dutton Co
Columbus Day Not Observed at Camp Devens
Camp Devens announces no leave or visitors on Columbus Day. Lieutenant Colonel M B Stewart, chief of staff, says only national holidays are observed and training continues as usual.
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Soldiers of the National Army
Stewart
Heat and drill intensify at Camp Devens as quotas lag
The 392d Infantry and S01st Regiment near full heat installation in base hospitals begins by Oct. 17 with a start on the 15th two days early. Massachusetts still short 355 men of its 8 percent quota with 62 more from Division 13 due midweek. Training standardizes cantonment drills using live guns while Columbus Day leaves are canceled. Two Boston regiment members face a general court martial for theft, and visitors to the cantonment are being restricted after regimental exchange break-ins. The Liberty Loan drive kicks off at Camp Devens with officers contributing over 8000 by nightfall.
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301St Infantry
Divisions Board of
Brighton
Back Bay
Board of
Massachusetts
J. M. Wainwright
Division
Boston
War Department
M. B. Stewart
302D Infantry
1St Infantry
Maine
New Hampshire
Heavy Field Artillery
Remount
Shirley Road
Camp Devens
E. K. Massee
Price of Coal Remains About the Same in New England
A New England price fixing plan will keep coal costs steady. Community fuel committees will be appointed to oversee enforcement across the region, ensuring no rise or drop in price.
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Down
New England
Storrow Sees No Radical Change in New England Coal Prices
Mr Storrow told a Post reporter he expects no radical shift in coal prices for New England under Garfield price plans. He noted a temporary 30 percent over 1915 margin but said local community fuel committees will set prices after hearings with citizens and dealers.
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Mr. Storrow
Post
Big Boston
Garfield
Greater Boston
Washington
National
Storrow
The
New England
Tell Tale of U-Boat Barbarity
An American port report details tales of sinking 14 steamers near the Spanish coast. John Cairns and Charles Skinner, survivors from the British schooner George Ewart, arrived from the Mediterranean with others after leaving St. John’s Newfoundland on August 18 carrying dried fish to Gibraltar.
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John Cairns
Steward
Charles Skinner
George Ewart
Mediterranean
Cairns
Skinner
George Lake
St. John’s
Newfoundland
Gibraltar
Ewart Sinks After Collision with Unknown Iron Vessel
Early Sept 19 the Ewart, hove to in heavy seas, was struck by an unidentified iron sailing ship and sank. Survivors rowed for 11 hours to the Spanish coast where Germans later waved farewell, then departed as the submarine sank a nearby British steamer.
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Ewart
Hunsbridge Sinks After Battle and Raider Shelling
A London freighter named Hunsbridge of 3424 tons sank after a drawn battle with a submarine off the Azores Cadiz run. Half the crew perished as a shell hit deck fuel stores and a fire broke out. The carpenter was listed as missing while many survivors were saved with a Mediterranean British stronghold nearby.
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Loser
Virginia
Mediterranean
Hadar Pasha
Azores
Cadiz
Reichstag Delays Helfferich Salary Approval
In Berlin and Copenhagen reports the Reichstag defers the salary appropriation for Dr. Karl Helfferich as vice chancellor and sends the measure back to committee. The debate sparks dissatisfaction and a rising push among majority parties to back a no confidence vote proposed by Radical Socialists.
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Reichstag
Karl Helfferich
The
Vorwaerts
Lieutenant Shot During Liquor Raid Near Camp Wadsworth
Lieutenant Randall H. Mattson of the New York National Guard was wounded leading a raid on a house near Camp Wadsworth suspected of contraband liquor. He shot the alleged proprietor William Sands five times as Sands fired on the detachment. Sands is not expected to survive. Authorities from military and civilian sides cooperated with city police to crack down on illicit liquor sales near the camp.
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Spartanburg
D. C
Randall H. Mattson
New York National Guard
Camp Wadsworth
William Sands
Mattson
Revere Man Escapes House of Correction
James Mc Carthy of Revere escaped from the House of Correction in New Bedford. He climbed a window to the chapel roof then into the garden and over the high wall, with no capture reported by nightfall.
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Revere
House OF Correction
New Bedford
James McCarthy
Island Belle Bought for Experimental Steamboat Work
The passenger steamer Island Belle, currently in service around Portland harbor Maine, has been purchased by the American Whale Engine Company of Portland for experimental use. The firm plans to install a new oil burning engine hoped to revolutionize steamboat business. The vessel will be moved to the Portland company today for removal of old machinery and installation of the new propulsion system.
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Island Belle
Portland Harbor
Maine
American Whaley Engine Company
Portland Company
South Boston Plans Liberty Loan Session
To promote the second Liberty Loan in South Boston a public meeting is set for this evening with 100 representative citizens from the Peninsula district. The South Boston Trust Company, active in the first loan, will host and President Joseph A. Maynard will preside. The 100 include leading medical and legal professionals, clergymen, and patriotic business men.
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South Boston
Peninsula
South Boston Trust Company
Joseph A. Maynard
Trust Company
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Copenhagen
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