Tenement Children Enjoy Heart Gladdening Gambol On Myrtle Beach
Myrtle beach hosted about 100 Stepney branch children from the New York East Side Settlement House. They rode down in a hired auto truck in two loads and spent a day swimming, eating watermelon, and playing with swings and sports equipment on the shore. Mothers and older girls joined, while Miss Ferma Douglas, Miss Roberta Gresmer, and Max Weissgran aided supervision. Mrs. Prescott of New York funds and directs support, planning adoptions and care, with eight years of Stepney branch activity.
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Myrtle Beach
Stepney
New York East Side
M. A. Beveridge
Mount Vernon
New York
Ferma Douglas
Roberta Gresmer
Prescott
Max Weissgran
Shelburne Prescott
Park Avenue
New York City
Wheeler and Howes Co Manager Enters Service
James WW Coughlin long time manager of Wheeler and Howes Coal company has been drafted into US service He will depart with Second Division selectives for Camp Meigs Washington DC on Monday leaving his Grove street home and family behind in this wartime notice
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James WW. Coughlin
J. J. Coughlin
226
Grove Street
Wheeler & Howes Coal Company
United States Service
Second Division
Camp Meigs
Washington, D. C
Official Report Cites Mitchel Plane Accident Cause
Washington July 12 official report states Major John Purvey Mitchel died at Gerstner Field Louisiana from failure to buckle his safety belt and a swift snap of the plane during a glide. The board ruled death in line of duty not due to his misconduct.
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Washington
John Purvey Mitchel
Gerstner Field
Louisianna
War Department
Mitchel
Hiss
Yellow Ticket to Be Given Men Who Must Change Jobs
The yellow ticket marks military age and essential work under selective service. Massachusetts has begun sorting draftees into essential factory roles under work or fight. Bridgeport awaits the July 1 order effect as draft boards require accountability from men called in. Refusal to comply moves a man to class 1-A. Rev Henry E Kelly left for Camp Zachary Taylor for chaplains training.
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America
Massachusetts
Draft Boards
United States Employment Bureau
Bridgeport
Language Course For Soldiers In Separate Unit At Devens
Camp Devens Mass in Spainia conducts a new development battalion training soldiers with flat feet and poor English in four month language courses plus a possible two month postgraduate option. The program aims to rehabilitate otherwise rejectable troops into fit for any unit or discharge them for lack of progress. Colonel Byroade arrives after a long regular army career.
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Camp
Devens
Mass
Spania
Alexander Smart
Army
Camp Devens
Tast
Byroade
Fust
Palmer Begins Probe of German Stock in U S
New York July 12. Suspicions by A Mitchell Palmer enemy property custodian that German owned stock in three allied chemical companies in America was sold to Americans at low prices prompts an inquiry led by Merton E Lewis New York attorney general. Investigators seek to learn if stock transfers concealed German control and may lead to seizure of Roessler and Hasslacher Niagara Electric and Perth Amboy Chemical.
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New York
A. Mitchell Palmer
Germany
America
Merton E. Lewis
Frankfort
United States
Allied Chemical
Palmer
Roessler and Wassjlacher Chemical Company
Niagara Electric Chemical Company
Niagara Falls
Perth Amboy Chemical Company
Perth Amboy
N. d
Frankfort Re
Interc
Atecih
Tv Wireless
W O. A. Hamann
Roessler and
Hasslacher
Niagara Electra
Perth Amboy Chemicals
Alfred I. Becker
Niagara Chemical
Myr. Beckers
Gereman
Hamann
Niagara Fi
Insurance Men Sell $8,000 in War Stamps
Metropolitan Life Insurance employees report almost eight thousand dollars in thrift stamp sales over two weeks as a campaign to fund a free building job. The drawing for the prize is set for Paradise Lawn Stratford tomorrow at 4 p.m. with sales continuing up to the drawing. Bridgeport's sales lagged while statewide figures rose to a total of over ninety one thousand dollars.
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Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
Paradise Lawn
Stratford
C. Wilbur White
Bridgeport
Private Burns Arrives For Service Overseas
Private William Burns, son of Joseph Burns of 36 Hough avenue, reports a safe arrival in France for overseas service. He left May for Fort Slocum and traveled via Anniston Alabama to Newport News, Virginia. He was a partner in Burns and Son meat market at 579 East Main Street.
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William Burns
France
Joseph Burns
Hough Avenue
Burns
Fort Slocum
Anniston
Ala
Newport News
Burns & Son
East Main Street
Christian Union Picnic At Beardsley Park Today
Emanuel branch children of the Bridgeport Christian Union at Lafayette and Gregory street plan a picnic at Beardsley Park. They will depart the branch at 9 24 p m.
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Christian Union
Emanuel
Bridgeport Christian Union
Lafayette and
Gregory Street
Beardsley Park
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Stepney Branch
Fresh Air Farm
Connecticut
Shy
Fairfield Ave
American Hardware Stores
Faigtfield
Middle St. Ad
Wheeler and Howes Co
James W. Coughlin
Ka Og
C. M. Clearance
C. M
Ials
Trance
Palm Beach
Caesar Miscuma
Aesar Misch Stores
Golden ‘Bull
Ain C. M
At. C. M
Iaon
Imu
BR. V. D. Union Sui
Svla
Caesar Miscu Bes
Robert Knwablin
Patraimhan Collonari
James Coughlin
Joseph T. Coughlin
Fuel Administration
MR. Kelly
Henry E. Kelly
St George's Episcopal Church
Camp Zachary Taylor
Louisville, Ky
Norwich University
New Haven
Venice
Tintorette
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