Homeward Mount Vernon Arrives as Troops Entrain for Devens
Major General Hale and the 26th Yankee division arrive aboard the Mount Vernon at Commonwealth Pier Boston. Crowds greet them with bells, whistles, and flags as four destroyers escort the transport. The troops will not land until tomorrow then proceed to Camp Devens amid a city and state welcome led by Governor Coolidge and Mayor Peters.
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Harry C. Hale
Vernon
United States
Mount Vernon
Camp Devens
Broad Sound
Coolidge
Peters
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Navy Yard
America
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George H. Shelton
101St Infantry
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Connecticut
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101St Engineers
Asport
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Brest
France
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Second
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First Corps
Maine Field Artillery
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104Th Infantry
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Massachusetts Infantry
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Cape Cod
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Allied reinforcements to Russia amid Bolshie drive
London reports American troops are being sent to northern Russia to Murmansk to bolster Britons facing a critical front. Bolshvik forces plan another push on Archangel. More British troops are expected to arrive by month end to relieve those under pressure.
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London
Russia
Murmansk
Archangel
Five charged with murder go to jury in Manchester case
In Hartford on April 4 the fate of Bessler Klein Miller Nuess and McDonnell, charged with the murder of William F Madden in Manchester on January 30, went to the jury shortly before noon in the Criminal Superior court. Judge Donald T Warner spent over an hour and a half delivering his charge. The five prisoners sat in tense attention as the court outlined the state's claims for first degree murder.
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Bessler
Klein
Miller
Nuess
McDonnell
William F. Madden
Manchester
Criminal Superior Court
Donald T. Warner
Allies in Russia Not Cut Off Report Denied
Paris April 4 General Tasker H Bliss of the American peace delegation said there is no confirmation here of a Daily Mail report that American and allied troops on the Archangel front in northern Russia have been cut off and threatened with annihilation by the bolsheviks. British officers said they did not know the report’s origin or reason for publication.
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Paris
Tasker H. Bliss
London Daily Mail
Archangel
Russia
Bela Kun Report Denied In Amsterdam April 4
Amsterdam reports deny a Munich claim that Bela Kun the Hungarian bolshevik foreign minister sought to advance influence there. The denial clarifies no such action by Kun occurred.
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Bela Kun
Amsterdam
Hungary
Munich
Ireland Debated as MacPherson Calls for Occupation
London April 4 in the House of Commons Ian MacPherson in his maiden Irish secretary speech urged continued military occupation to curb outrages and Sinn Feinism asserting self determination is impossible under the Sinn Fein movement. He backed Carson on housing and education plans and said Ireland can be prosperous once freed from terrorism. Devlin mocked Carson and argued partition might be accepted as a local fix, but a convention solution remains the only real path.
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London
House of Commons
United States
Ian MacPherson
Ireland
MacPherson
Sinn Fein
Edward Carson
Ulster
T. P. O Connor
England
America
Robert John Lynn
Commons
Belfast
Ieland
Joseph Devlin
Sir Edward Carson
Rip van Winkle
Sir Edward
North
Margaret Carnegie to Marry Ensign Roswell Miller
Miss Margaret Carnegie daughter of Andrew Carnegie, reputedly the world’s richest heiress, to wed Ensign Roswell Miller U S N R. They obtained a marriage license for April 22 likely at the Carnegie country place in Lenox Massachusetts. Miller, son of the late Roswell Miller, has Navy service and earlier ambulance corps work.
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New York
Margaret Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie
Ensign Roswell Miller
Carnegie Country Place
Lenox
Mass
Miss Carnegie
Ensign Miller
Roswell Miller
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway
Carnegie
1St Street
Skibo Castle
Scotland
Miss Spence
School For Girls
Scully Miss Carnegie
Trans Atlantic Flight Hope Looms For Next Week
St John s Newfoundland April 4 favorable meteorological reports raise hope that Harry Hawker will attempt a trans Atlantic flight late next week in a Sopwith plane with Mackenzie Grieve as navigator Work began today on the plane at the aviation field in St John's Aviator Morgan preparing a flight in a Martinside plane is said to be en route on the Sachem and may begin about April 15.
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N. F
Harry Hawker
Atlantic
Hawker
Mackenzie Grieve
Morgan
Sachem
Waterbury Gets Train Relief
Waterbury, April 4. After a lengthy effort to upgrade rail service, the New Haven road announced a new schedule for the New York Waterbury and Hartford route, effective May 5. An eastbound train will depart New York at 1:45 PM, reach Waterbury at 4:18 PM, stopping at Bristol Plainville New Britain and Hartford, arriving in Hartford at 5:20 PM. Return service between Hartford Waterbury and New York is assured.
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Waterbury
Chamber of Commerce
New Haven
New York
Hartford
Bristol Plainville
New Britain
Strike Riot at Forstmann Woolen Mills in Garfield
In Garfield on April 4 a riot at the Forstmann and Guffman Woolen Mills grew as Passaic deputies guarding the plant fired, wounding one striker who allegedly attacked with a blackjack. Strikers hurled stones at the deputy posts. windows broke and several arrests were reported.
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Passaic
N. J
Forstmann and Guffman Woolen Mills
Garfield
Reds Lose On Allied Front In Bolshevzerki Sector
London reports an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Archangel stating Bolshevik forces attacked the allied front on Wednesday with heavy Red losses. Partial details are unclear due to damaged wording but indicate significant Bolshevik setbacks.
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London
Bolsheviki
Bolshevzerki
Archangel
Breakers in Peace Talks Drive Italian Demands
Paris April 4 Italian circles press for Orlando withdrawal from big four as cards alleged to be stacked against Italian claims. Lloyd George says only frank talks sustain Anglo French ties and pledges sacrifices made for France security. He recalls British soldiers’ sacrifices to secure France's peace and independence.
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Lloyd-George
England
France
iItalians
Paris
Orlando
Lloyd George
Clemenceau
Petit Parisien
Cloyd George
Great Britain
Telephone Strike Looms Over New England Phone Union
Bridgeport reports a planned joint protest to Postmaster General Burleson by telephone operators across New England over alleged union discrimination by Southern New England Telephone Co. four operators who struck in Bridgeport were not reinstated and other cases of perceived union officer discharge in Hartford are cited.
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Bridgeport
Burleson
New England
Southern New England Telephone Co
Connecticut
Theresa Sullivan
Boston
Miss Sullivan
Moore
New Haven
Hartford
Divorce rulings in New Haven split cases and critique
In New Haven Judge Keeler granted a divorce to Lester P. Barlow from Ruby M. Barlow over infidelity citing the non-production of a co-respondent. He dismissed Ruby’s cross claim and also refused a divorce for William Gay from Delores S. Gay. He condemned both marriages as sordid and contentious. In New York a Mann Act case against Reuben Cohen proceeded in Brooklyn with witness Sarah Cantor testifying about alleged travel to Chicago.
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New Haven
Keeler
Lester P. Barlow
Ruby M. Barlow
Albert Porter Bradstreet
New York
Reuben Cohen
Brooklyn
Sarah Cantor
Springfield
Mass
Cohen
Chicago
Martial Law Declared in East Prussia Dispatch Says
A Berlin dispatch reports martial law in Sensburg East Prussia after actions by German government troops and Sparta cides. Machine guns and hand grenades were used by both sides. The government of Wuertemberg issued orders following a series of events.
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East Prussia
Amsterdam
Sensburg
Berlin
Gove
Wuertemberg
Thousands of U S Troops Dock in New York Harbor
New York on April 4 received more than 5,000 Army officers and men arriving from France aboard the Arrizonian Roma and Frederic. The Roma led the way with 875 personnel, followed by the Frederick with 1,563 aboard. The Arizonian, from Bordeaux, carried a large contingent including multiple aero squadrons and infantry units. The E A Luckenbach and El Oriente were due, with the Wilhelmina expected to dock at Hoboken by midnight.
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New York
France
Roma
Frederic
Marseilles
Frederick
Brest
337D
Arizonian
Bordeaux
Fifth Corps Artillery Park
19Th Aero Squadron
21St Aero Squadron
30Th Aero Squadron
33Rd Aero Squadron
43Rd Aero Squadron
172Rd Aero Squadron
174Th Aero Squadron
101St Aero Squadron
257Th Aero Squadron
640Th Aero Squadron
32Nd Aero Squadron
E. A. Luckenbach
Bordeux
159Th Infantry
Short Calendar Session In Middletown Superior Court
Twelve short calendar cases before Judge Reed. several actions continued or settled. Pleading ordered in Bryant v City of Middletown. final accounts approved and receivers paid. divorces continued. naturalization day set for next Tuesday. several jury and civil cases scheduled through April. likely no more business this term.
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George C. Bryant
Middletown
E. L. Foree
Middlesex Banking Co
Silas A. Robinson
Lyman A. Mills
George W. Treischman
Joseph Fiaia
Joseph Janacek
Henry J. Nettleton
W. L. Davis
Middletown Trust Co
Margaret G Gaffney
Arthur E. Wakeman
Violet E. Wakeman
Charlotte E. Otis
Margaret Mary Dineen
Michael Dineen
Maria Lombardo
Sebastiano Lombardo
Selden Sir Clark
Goodrich
Markham
Samuel Thompson
Henry Isaacs
Twe
Paul Korstkoski
Wladislaw Niemiec
Kitty Isidore Bissell
George C. Ingham
Jarvis E. Brooks
Joseph Cannata
Francesco Tuccio
Gasper Mascaro
Governor Signs Bills Amid Connecticut Actions
Hartford April 4 Governor Holcomb signed a large batch of bills. The measures authorize the centennial observance of the state legislature safeguard workers on building sites incorporate Stamford Gas and Electric increase salaries for Waterbury city court officials transfer 3 million dollars from the state civil list to the sinking fund.
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Hartford
Holcomb
Connecticut
Stamford Gas & Electric Co
Waterbury
Husband kills wife and attorney then kills self in Hoquiam
Sidney M Heath 32 prominent local attorney his client Louise Sedgewick 21 and A A Sedgewick 55 are dead after an assault by the husband in the wife s attorney office in Hoquiam Washington April 4 The husband committed suicide after the killings Sedgewick a tuberculosis victim his wife had begun divorce proceedings
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Hoquiam
Wash
Sidney M. Heath
Louise Sedgewick
A. A. Sedgewick
Sedgewick
Pershing praises quartermasters for duty well performed
General Pershing declared in a War Department release that both officers of the quartermaster department of the A. E. F. may return to America with the knowledge of duty well performed Brig Gen John M Carson oversaw overseas quartermasters and was cited in the statement Washington April 4 message plus war department release praising their service and readiness to come home
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Qaartermasters
Weill
Washington
Quartermaster Department
America
General Pershing
John M. Carson
Quartermaster Corps
Overseas Forces
War Department
British Occupy Varna After Bolshevik Outbreak
London reports British troops have occupied Varna Bulgaria following a Bolshevik outbreak in the city A dispatch from Athens cites the British action as part of ongoing Allied efforts in the region with no further details provided.
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Varna
Bulgaria
London
Athens
Assignment of 42nd Rainbow division to early convoy
The War Department announced the assignment of the entire 42nd Rainbow division to an early convoy with sailing dates not yet set. Officials said about three weeks typically pass between announcement and embarkation, and noted previous plans to have shipping available this month. Also moved to early convoy were bakery companies 388 and 398, Evacuation Hospital No 8, Air Service Casualty Company No 4.
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Washington
Rainbow
War Department
General Pershing
Air Service Casualty Company No
Enthusiastic Banquet For A. Bandquet Company A Sixth Infantry
Local Guardsmen gathered at the Arrigoni Hotel for a Banquet of Company A Sixth Infantry C S G. Major W R Markham of this city and Major Frank J Brainerd of Portland were guests. After the meal patriotic speeches stirred the crowd. New armory plans boosted enlistments as several veterans could not reenlist. Officers praised the quality of new volunteers joining the ranks.
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Arrigoni Hotel
Co. A. Sixth Infantry C. S. G
Arrigoni
W. R. Markham
Frank J. Brainerd
Portland
Call for Wilson to explain peace ideas and limits
Paris reports the London Daily Mail urges President Wilson to clearly state his peace principles and their practical application amid strained Allied diplomacy. The piece says publics abroad have lost touch with him as open diplomacy is sought, while Lloyd George’s and Clemenceau’s stances test their working dynamic.
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Paris
Wilson
London Daily Mail
Lord Northcliffe
Lloyd George
Clemenceau
Mail
Tax On Club Dues Regulations Issued
Washington April 4 regulations on the tax of membership dues to social athletic and e sporting clubs now effective were issued by the commissioner of internal revenue. The tax is ten percent of initiation fees over ten dollars and ten percent of active resident dues over ten dollars. The regulations state that a club’s purposes activities and name determine its character for taxation.
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Washington
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Whitewash for Kaiser inquiry branded a farce
Berlin reports via London say the Schucking commission, formed to investigate crimes of the former German government, delivered a verdict seen as a eye wash for the allies and exoneration for the Kaiser era. The twelve aging members are accused of usurping an international court and clearing Captain Fryatt's killers.
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Kaiser
Berlin
London
Germany
Prof
Schucking
Fryatt
Girl Divorces From Aged Husband In New York
Mrs. Katie Wolf Hart, 19, was granted a separation from her wealthy husband James H. Hart, 87, by Justice Benedict in Brooklyn’s supreme court. She had been a factory girl and manicure before marriage. The court ordered alimony of 175 dollars monthly and free use of the home. Hart must pay all trial expenses.
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New York
Katie Wolf Hart
James H. Hart
Justice Benedict
Supreme Court
Brooklyn
Hart
Eight Killed In Train Mishap Near Melbourne Wash
Hoquiam WashingtonApril 4Ten men crew of nine five killed outright four critically injured may die after runaway logging train derailed plunging down ravine near Melbourne Wash One man escaped by leaping from cab as engine left tracks.
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Hoquiam
Wash
Digh
Melbourne Wash
Holcomb Heads to Boston for 26th Division Welcoming
Hartford April 4 Governor Holcomb departed at 3 PM for Boston to take part in welcoming the first returning soldiers of the 26th division. His executive secretary followed to coordinate with the arts committee.
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Holcomb
Boston
Hartford
26Th Division
President Wilson Battles Illness in Paris Conference
Paris April 4 President Wilson is confined to bed with a severe cold and intermittent fever following a heavy work load since arriving in France. Admiral Grayson reports rest will aid his recovery and that daily bulletins will be issued. Lloyd George denies dissensions with French, while rumors of Anglo French alignment surface in Parisien interview.
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France
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England
Lems
Allied medical teams aid troops on Archangel Murmansk fronts
In April reports from London describe reindeer and action dog teams used by British medical corps to assist troops on the Archangel and Murmansk fronts in Asia. First aid is hindered by snow and ice, with Colonel Moss detailing that patients are placed in sheepskin with hot water bottles to allow treatment without exposure.
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Russia
London
Archangel
Murmansk
Insia
Moss
International aeronautic mission to draft peace convention
Washington reports an international aeronautic mission of the Parish peace conference will be charged with consideration of questions for the conference and drafting a time of peace navigation convention. The mission head is Col Pauline of French military aeronautics with American members Rear Admiral Harry S. Knapp and Mr M. M. Patrick aboard.
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Washington
International Aeronautic Mission
Col Pauline
French Military Aeronautics
Harry S. Knapp
M. M. Patrick
Field Secret Hartford Announces State Stamp Work Director
Mrs. R. Bissell named state director for they nes stamp work. Herbert H. McCormick of Manchester takes field crest work in public service state. He will direct charity work across all institutions.
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