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Pershing Stops at Concord Junction En Route to Boston
General Pershing, en route from Camp Devens to Boston, paused in Concord Junction to buy candies from the Jones sisters. The item notes various local visits, relocations, and events including Dartmouth student Robert Charles starting his junior year and the Massachusetts Prison Officers' association naming Capt. Michael J. Dee as a delegate to the Jacksonville Prison Congress in late October 1921.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. Jones
General Pershing
Camp Devens
Boston
Jones Sisters
W. ‘I. Park
Fort Pond
Robert Charles
Dartmouth
George Miller
Massachusetts Reformatory
A. M. Baillie
Providence
R. S
G. M. Mills
Pawtucket
R. L
William Jennes
Marian Derby
Boston School of Physical Education
William Dickenson
Maple Street
A. B. MacLeod
W. H. Kingman
L. F. Jewett
Marshalj.Witherell
James Dunlope
Mitchem
Rodney
Ralph Hewitt
Edwin Whitney
Whitney Studios
Jimmie
Association Hall
Ladies’ Union
West Concord
Massachusetts Prison Officers’ Association
Michael J. Dee
Jacksonville
Florida