Massachusetts Rhode Island troops begin entraining for home
Field Hospital Company No 1 the first Bay State unit to start packing and depart El Paso with cheers from men as Rhode Island ambulance company and Troop B cavalry also move north tomorrow. Officials expect all remaining Massachusetts and Rhode Island troops to be ordered home in the coming days.
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EL Paso
Tex
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Bay State
Cavalry
Wilson attends sister's funeral as he heads to Shadow Lawn
President Wilson came to Columbia for his sister Annie Howe's funeral then left for the summer White House at Long Branch New Jersey. He toured areas of his boyhood including relatives and the Columbia Theological Seminary as throngs watched.
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Columbia
S&s. G
Wilson
Margaret Wilson
Grayson
White House
James Woodrow
Tommy
Columbia Theological Seminary
Runaway touring car narrowly escapes five Somerville children
Five children under age six escaped serious injury after boarding a stationary touring car at 37 Porter Street Somerville. The car started and rolled down a steep hill crossing electric tracks and crashed into a fence on Elm Street.
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Somerville
Porter Street
Elm Street
Hebrew Trades Vote for Sympathy Strike in Support
The United Hebrew Trades with about 200 000 members voted to join a sympathetic strike if urged by the Central Federated Union. In New York city negotiations collapsed and leaders announced a strike call for Thursday that could involve roughly 700 000 workers across several crafts.
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New York
United Hebrew Trades
Carmen
Central Federated Union
Mitchel
Transit strikes loom as unions vote and talks stall
The Central Federated Union of New York and allied locals have issued a call for strikes with referendums underway in many unions. Theodore P. Shonts of Interborough Rapid Transit and New York Railways says the firms will not confer further. Mayor Mitchel plans talks with a Chamber of Commerce citizens committee and Merchants' Association as discussions with labor leaders continue without a settlement.
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Central Federated Union of New York
Central Labor Union of
Brooklyn
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Bronx
Westchester
Yonkers
Theodore P. Shonts
Interborough Rapid Transit Company
New York Railways Company
Shonts
Mitchel
Oscar S. Straus
Public Service Commission
Citizens’ Committee
Chamber of Commerce
Merchants’ Association
Germany’s First Confession of Defeat Timestamped
The report from Berlin quotes a press paragraph admitting German troops retreat to preserve lives at the cost of territory. Allied forces capture Florina in Macedonia while Bulgarian forces retreat toward Monastir, threatened by a tightening Entente ring.
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London
Germany
Berlin
Florina
Macedonia
Monastir
French win Monastir gate at Florina in bold assault
A French assault captured Florina the southern gate to Monastir at ten this morning ending a day and night of furious fighting. Bulgarians routed west and southwest of Monastir as Serbs crushed defense lines and stormed both Bulgarian positions. Despatches from Athens late tonight report Bulgarians surrounded by Franco Serbian forces.
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Monastir
Athens
Reuteris Saloniki
Lake Ostrovo
Runaway car endangers children on steep Porter street hill
A small auto with three Jackson children sped down a 600 foot hill while two leaped and escaped. Mrs. Murphy halted an oncoming electric car by waving her hat, preventing a collision. Lillian Jackson 3 suffered an forehead abrasion. others were shaken but unhurt.
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Lillian Jackson
Porter Street
Margaret Murphy
Armen Mangurian
Manchester
N. H
North End Firemen Move to Paving Yard for Remodel
During remodeling at Engine 8 house on Salem Street, the apparatus will be kept in the North End paving yard. Mayor Curley approved the plan last night.
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Salem Street
North End
Curley
Mayor Promotes Film Show Amid Call for Help
The article notes a film project titled Where Are My Children with negatives costing 7000 dollars. It claims officials leveraged the mayor to promote screenings while efforts to find buyers stalled for weeks and months before public interest grew.
Four Roofers Strike at Tabernacle Grounds
Four roofers quit work at Billy Sunday’s tabernacle on Huntington Avenue after James Moriarty of the Sheet Metal Workers Union Local 17 was denied entry by the watchman W. C. Manning. Moriarty signaled workers to walk out. the men stayed out pending assurances against future exclusion. Workmen called the dispute a misunderstanding likely to be resolved quickly.
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Billy Sunday
New Tabernacle
Huntington Avenue
James T. Moriarty
Sheet Metal Workers’ Union, Local 17
W. C. Manning
Manning
Moriarty
Keng
Red Sox Surge to Lead in Final Game
Boston faces Chicago in a key final game as the Red Sox climb into the lead. Mays starts for Boston with Dauss lined up to oppose him, shaping a decisive matchup against the White Sox and Tigers for top position.
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Mays
Boston
Dauss
Bread prices rise in Greater Boston loaf by loaf
Bread prices will advance from 5 to 6 cents per loaf this week. A Boston bakery sparked a statewide trend as major baking companies indicate the rise due to higher ingredient costs and greater overhead and labor expenses.
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Greater
Boston
Boston Bakeries Face Rising Prices and New Leaf Sale
The Boston bakery manager says his firm paid $5000 monthly for the past year to secure business and slow growth, awaiting changes. He believes a 6-cent leaf could resolve the situation and expects his company to announce a price increase in days.
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Boston
Return Drum to Richmond
Blood stained drum captured 450 years ago from the Thirteenth Virginia Regiment was brought back to Richmond by Worcester Continentals survivors. It will be presented tomorrow at the Confederate Museum to the Confederate Memorial Literary Society with Adjutant General Adams and mayors of Worcester and Springfield in attendance.
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Virginia
Worcester Continentals
Massachusetts
Confederate Memorial Literary Society
Confederate Museum
White House
Adams
Mayors Wright
Worcester
Stacey
Springfield
Seaman Arrested After Street Shooting Chase
William Sienke a 28 year old seaman on the collier Corea was arrested near City Hall after a midnight shooting attempt on Joseph P Sheehan of Danforth Place Cliftondale Witnesses described a pursuit through Tremont and School streets with Sienke firing a revolver but missing Sheehan Police subsequently disarmed Sienke and jailed him on assault with intent to kill charges
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Corea
Joseph P. Sheehan
Danforth Place
Cliftondale
Sienke
City Hall
Sheehan
Tremont Street
Bosworth Place
Tug Fails to Find Bremen At New London
The tug T. A. Scott Jr. searched for a German submarine all day and again at 8 p.m. with Eastern Forwarding Company aboard. Newspaper men followed in a power boat, believing the Bremen or another German submarine merchantman may arrive soon, despite reports of loss.
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Conn
T. A. Scott, Jr
Eastern Forwarding Company
Bremen
T. A. Scott
Mays to Face Dauss Today in Sox Battery Shift
Chicago report notes Mays and Thom as to form the Red Sox battery against Dauss with lefty hitters ready. Shorten likely to start in center field as part of planned lineup adjustments.
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Mays
Dauss
Chicago
Red Sox
Thomas
Red Sox top White Sox in final clash at Comiskey
Boston defeats Chicago 4 to 3 at Comiskey Park as Carrigan's champions reclaim league lead after Tigers fall to Philadelphia, lifting Boston in the pennant race with renewed confidence and championship hopes.
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Carrigan
Red Sox
Detroit
Comiskey Park
White Sox
Tiger
Philadelphia
Boston
Rivalry Drives Carrigan's Men to Demon Hardness
In the closing contest with the Chicago team the long hostility between rivals flared. with nearly every American League hand supposedly against them, Carrigan's players responded with unusual exertion and fought like demons.
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Chicago
Carrigan
City and Town Protest 6-Cent Bay State Fare Change
Beverly and Swampscott joined a protest against the Bay State street railway 6-cent fare schedule yesterday. City Solicitor Guy C. Richards filed a protest alleging the Public Service Commission ruling in the original fare increase fight was not followed in the new schedule.
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Beverly
Swampscott
Bay State Street Railway
Guy C. Richards
Public Service Commission
Today’s anniversaries and historic events listed
The record notes key dates such as the Battle of Chickamauga in Georgia in 1863, the Prussian siege of Paris beginning in 1870, and the death of President Garfield in 1881, marking significant historical milestones.
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Chickamauga
Paris
Garfield
Forecast For Boston And Vicinity This Week
Forecast for Boston and vicinity calls for fair weather Tuesday and Wednesday with warmer conditions on Wednesday. Gentle westerly winds. Washington forecast notes fair skies for New England and eastern New York Tuesday and Wednesday with rising temperatures Wednesday.
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Boston
Vicinity
Washington
New England
New York
Weather and Scores Reported by Thompson's Spa
The report lists temperatures and scores with multiple garbled figures. It notes an average temperature yesterday as 61 and references prior averages around 70 for the same date last year. The fragment mentions the Mets and various numeric values in a confused sports/weather blurb.
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Thompson's Spa
Baseball scores and rain delays in late games
Scores from multiple games across leagues with results for Boston, St Louis, Philadelphia, Chicago, Brooklyn, Cincinnati, New York, Pittsburg, and Detroit. Notices include rain delays affecting New York and Cleveland, and a ninth inning call for Cincinnati Brooklyn game.
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St. Louis
Philadelphia
Chicago
Brooklyn
Cincinnati
New York
Pittsburg
Detroit
Washington
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