Soldiers Help Ayer Firemen Inerial Fire Rescue
National army soldiers aided Chief William Telky and Ayer firemen in stopping a blaze at Berry's lunch on De Pot Square. An explosion started the fire, flames shot from windows, and the building suffered extensive damage. Soldiers laid hose lines, a second alarm brought extra apparatus, and the cantonment unit joined the effort. The fire consumed the lunch room and damaged adjacent stores. authorities urged bond support in the aftermath.
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Ayer
National Army
William Telky
Telky
Beatty
Berry
Depot Square
Ayer Junction
Cantonment Department
Clampdown on Camp Ayer Visitors and Censorship Rules
Ayer Camp tightens regulations for visitors at Devens and tightens photographic censorship after reports Germany spread false Army rumors through New England. Rumor spread that two Connecticut recruits who assaulted a corporal were executed, but they are alive and await trial with possible long prison terms.
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Devens
Germany
National Army
New England
Berlin
Connecticut
Sweeping ban on cameras and visitors to cantonment
Regulations will bar all cameras including those of parents sweethearts and photographers. Tintype artists will be prohibited as well as taxicabs buses and automobiles under consideration. Newspaper photographers require direct approval from authorities. Captain Burleigh maps the new rules while Maj Gen Hodges aims to halt peddlers preying on soldiers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Theodore E. Burleigh
Malden
Burleigh
Camp Restrictions and Draft Notes From 1915 Cantonment
Officials announced limits on visitors with cameras at the camp and required permits from the Secretary of War. Reports on Lowell and Boston liquor control prompted talk of a provost guard for Lowell, while New England draft rejections slow the first quota. Official training school plans and various cantonment activities, including camouflage work and a 14 year old recruit, were outlined.
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Lowell
Boston
O'Donnell
Hodges
301St Light Field Artillery
Haffner
A. R. Crowell
Beverly
John Francis Grady
Grady
Robert Koshland
Depot Brigade
Johnny
Dedham
Mable G. Filmore
John
Fire destroys Rope Walk plant in Hingham
A three story brick plant of the Rope Walk Company on Central street Hingham was burned last night with a loss of $50,000. The cause is unknown. The plant was engaged in a large amount of government work.
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S. P. Carpenter Military Supply Company
Clinton 8
Masseck
Liberty
Maine
New Hampshire
203D Field Artillery
A. S. Corklin
302D Field Artillery
Norman Harrower
Rope Walk Company
Central Street
Hingham
Liberty Bond Appeal Warns Germans Lurking
An urgent wartime notice urges readers to support Uncle Sam by purchasing Liberty bonds, warning that German invasion cannot be stopped by money alone and urging citizens to stand with the government.
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Uncle Sam
Ten Die In German Bombing Raid On Nancy
The war office reports ten people killed and 49 wounded in a night raid on Nancy by German air forces. Earlier in the week French forces destroyed or forced to land 25 German airplanes.
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Nancy
Paris
War Office
Man Claims Home Recipe Cured Him Of Drinking
Carl Smith of 615% St Grand Avenue Los Angeles declares he cured himself of alcohol use using a home recipe. He says two expensive treatments failed before a mixture of water muriate of ammonia Varlex Compound and pepsin taken three times daily stopped his liquor desire.
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Carl Smith
St. Grand Avenue
Los Angeles
Calif
Smith
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