Columbus Day Activities Day For Boy Scouts
Columbus Day activities for the city Boy Scouts will be held at Seaside Park on Saturday with a 1,000-strong rally. Events include first aid relay water boiling knot tying and various carries and races for points toward troop prizes, plus a patrol parade and stamp selling and Liberty bond sales under territorial constraints.
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Boy Scouts
Seaside Park
Commodore Longfellow
Charles Moran
Meir
Fifth Mysterious Barn Fire at Sanford School
A large barn at J. S. Sanford’s Sanford School in Redding Ridge burned to ashes on Monday afternoon. The loss included farming machinery, wagons, hay, and two full silos. only embers and twisted metal remained. Origin unclear, Sanford absent at the polls when flames began. Neighbors formed a bucket brigade. firemen saved livestock. Loss estimated in the thousands. This is the fifth barn fire at Sanford with origins still a mystery. Died in Theatre. Mrs. Thomas Lubberty’s telegram reported her nephew Thomas Barron died of Spanish influenza in Chester, Pa. Barron, formerly of Bethel, was 22. Burial plans not yet settled, to be in Bethel’s St. Mary’s cemetery.
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Bethel
J. S. Sanford
Sanford
Redding Ridge
Redding
Thomas Lubberty
Thomas Barron
Chester
Barron
Rethel
St. Mary's Cemetery
Broker's Son Alive Despite Reported Death
Springfield, Oct. 9. Mistake in identity. Charles Tifft alive and improving, son of the city bond broker, previously reported dead at Camp Taylor. The confusion arose from influenza cases at the camp. Also from Gutava casualty list: wounded F Morgan New Bedford Mass H H Dimpock Dartmouth Mass R Fothergill New Bedford Mass J M Crichton Boston Mass W Lee River Mass C Byrne Boston Archibald Roxbury Mass Killed W Hadley Andover Mass Died of wounds Lance Sergeant A MacMian Saco Me W Kaene Boston.
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Springfield
Mass
Charles Tifft
B. T. Tifft
Taylor Sky
F. Morgan
New Beedford
H. H. Dimpock
Darthester
R. Fothergill
New Bedford
J. M. Crichton
Boston
W. Lee
All River
C. Byrne
Archibald
Roxbury
W. C. Hadley
Andover
Lance Serjeant A, MacMian
Saco
J Kaene
Carpet Beaters Rampant in the Land
A garbled line notes widespread activity described as carpet beaters rampaging across regions, with no clear details on location people or dates. The fragmentary text offers no verifiable names or events to confirm a specific incident.
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United Dept. Stores, Inc. Cor
Golden Hill Streets
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