Croix de Guerre awarded to Lexington athlete Sergeant Currier
Sergeant Ralph Currier of A Company 11th United States Engineers earned the Croix de Guerre for bravery as a stretcher bearer under heavy shellfire in No Man's Land. A Lexington High School baseball captain and Minute Boys member, he trained at home as his family in Lexington receives the news.
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Multiple Death Notices Across Boston Area Prompt Funeral Plans
Birth and death notices from Sept 12 1920s Boston region list numerous individuals by surname including Baril Bell Briggs Carr Darrah Dermady Donahue Flynn Guenther Harrington Hall Holland Howell Johnstone Kane Keenan Kendall King Lawrence McCabe McGinley McHugh Moloney Nilson Oberg Pawlowski Roberson Sargent Shind Smith Stadig Sullivan Thayer Thompson Tierney Tobey Wiseman Wright with funeral details, locations, and relatives invited to attend.
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Edward W. Kinsley
Darrah
Dorchester
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Frank W
Lula BE
Sargent St
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Somerrille
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Ellen M. Dermady
Atherton St
St. Mary's Church
St. Mary’s Cemetery
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Somerville
Annie M
Martin James A
Gertrude Power Foley
Clement Ave
West Roxbury
Sacred Heart Church
Grady
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Florence F
Michael J
Bridget Grady
Ruddy
Circuit St
Guenther
Jamaica Plain
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Paul W
Augusta Guenther
Chestnut Ave
Harrington
Groton
Conn
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Michael and
Mary Powers Harrington
Fall River
Philip Halloran
Cotton Ave
East Braintree
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Hall
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Huntington Ave
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France
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Cecilia A. Holland
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Fort Banks
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Chelsea
James Brinton Johnstone
Oak St
Reading
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Elizabeth
Joseph Wene
Dedham
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Rishon
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Harvard Ave
Allston
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Payson Ave
Ester
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Arthur E. Lawrence
New Edford
T Payson Ave
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M'Cabe
Boston
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Gloucester
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Stephen McGinley
Princeton
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Brookline
James Jr
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Haley
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Mathildi B. Oberg
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Seg F
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In Loving Memory Jennie Holmes Wallis
Obituary notice for Jennie Holmes Wallis who died September 18 1917. Her husband Henry Walls and niece Katherine Rourk White honor her memory with a brief tribute.
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Football is Shelved by Officials in War Time
Chicago Sept 12 The War Department request to bar full schedules by campuses with student army training corps put football suspension in play for many colleges. Stagg argues football builds officers and cites Minnesota and Wormer as examples. Abandonment would cause heavy financial losses offset by other sports.
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Universities Plan 1918 Football Cancellations Amid War
Midwest colleges including the Big Ten and Missouri Valley prepared 1918 football schedules but faced a War Department request to abandon intercollegiate play. University of Chicago officials stated student military training would occupy 14 hours weekly plus 42 hours of study, leaving no time for football under the program. Coach A A Stagg expressed surprise at the decision while understanding the military need to train officers.
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Missouri Valley Conference
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War Department
David A. Robertson
Judson
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Boston Latin Loses Leader Ahead of Football Season
Captain Gus Malley leaves Boston Latin for Boston College High, leaving coach Fred J. O'Brien without a returning captain. Jim Hamm, the lone letterman, leads workouts at Columbus Avenue playgrounds and is expected to be named captain. English High also loses its captain-elect Cy Spencer, with Ted Roamer acting captain for now.
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Gus Malley
Latin
Boston College High
Malley
Jimmy Merrill
Exeter Academy
Fred J. O’brien
Jim Hamm
Fred O’brien
Columbus Avenue
Hamm
English High
Cy Spencer
Mhdward
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Roamer
Lexington High to field girls' hockey team this season
Lexington High School will form a girls field hockey eleven for the upcoming fall campaign. A meeting of candidates is called today to discuss plans. The team, captained by Miss Madeline Viano, has held the state title for several years, with a schedule including Arlington High School contests.
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Lexington
Madeline Viano
Arlington High School
First Honors To Anderson In Winchester Open
The three day Winchester Country Club open amateur tournament began with 125 players. John Garfield Anderson of the Siwanoy Club, New York, shot 81 to lead medal play though he blames poor putting for a potential 76. G. M. Brooks of Winchester won the best net with 72 after 84-12-72. Thayer of Wollaston and Page of Winchester tied for second best net. Match play starts this morning with rounds continuing today and plans for semi finals and final tomorrow.
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Siwanoy Club
New York
Anderson
Massachusetts
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Winchester Club
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Wollaston
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Arlington High Girls Field Hockey Selects Candidates
Arlington High School again fields a girls field hockey eleven this fall. Manager Miss Loraine Cooledge announced 409 candidates reported at Spy Pond Athletic Field for the first practice next Monday afternoon. Captain is Miss Marion Wing. First game likely Saturday Oct 26 against Malden High School in Malden.
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Spy Pond
Marion Wing
Malden High School
Malden
Food price list shows sugar and staples in bulk
A historical grocery price list lists flour corn meal rice and staples with varied per pound and per hundred weight pricing. Prices for sugar adjust to new rates while some dealers still offer old stock at 44 4c per pound before depletion.
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War garden yields freak squash from Natick home
Charley Baldwin and his brother G B Baldwin brought a twin specimen of summer squash from their Natick war garden. The pair have cultivated a large plot this year and gathered many odd vegetables return from the garden with pride.
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G. BE. Baldwin
Charley
Natick
Twenty Two Nationalities Register in Ward 5
Twenty two nationalities were represented yesterday by registrants visiting Ward 5 selective draft board. Chairman Adolphus M. Burroughs said 7237 registered that day and evening. Of these, 64 were Mexicans 11 New Zealanders 411 Chinese 186 inmates of Charles Street jail and 904 attendants and patients at Massachusetts General Hospital.
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Ward 5
Adolphus M. Burroughs
Charles Street
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