Little Storm Causes Light Damage Across Boston Area
A powerful thunderstorm swept over Greater Boston with West Roxbury and Lexington houses struck and washouts in Dedham and Hyde Park. The storm caused limited damage, burning several telegraph lines, minor train and streetcar delays, light rainfall, hail in some areas, and a temperature drop of eight degrees.
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Boston
West Roxbury
Lexington
Dedham
Hyde Park
Death of New Hampshire Judge Chamberlain
Chief Justice Robert N. Chamberlain of the New Hampshire Superior Court died yesterday in a Boston hospital after a serious operation. A New York native, he had long practiced in New Hampshire and was named in January to succeed Chief Justice Robert G. Pike following Pike’s death.
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Robert N. Chamberlain
New Hampshire
British Exempted Men Sought by Exemption Board
At a meeting of the general citizens committee at 44 Bromfield street J B Patterson chairman of the exemption board outlined that among 379000 registered Massachusetts men 106000 are aliens. In Lawrence only 1200 were called for quota with 38 not exempt, many exempted for British birth. Patterson aims to extract alien exemption names from draft lists for British authorities and seeks volunteers to copy them.
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General Citizens’ Committee
Bromfield Street
J. B. Patterson
Exemption Board
Massachusetts
Lawrence
Patterson
Boston
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