The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1918-02-21
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70 death Al Nlhur} Mass ~
he 9,,e one, lad been pIa,ps Il
marche,
A four-'ooi faI unused Ae eat
af samuel rcaMc white a, work y
a Rockland Me shpylrd T. Was
! 20 wears old
Western Names oWr #ctt
the ilh artillery said gena 'ae A.
Portland and 10000 persons sac ne
farewell parade ~ the $50 ehn
ki.clad sons Of the Pine Tree .ate
>non to leave FOR over here
Negro women or Grentrt Boston
are organizing INTO units - raise
fund, for the necessary comfort, Tor
negro soldiers in Tie sctyirc - The
United States
Stephen e Wheeler - Superin
tendent Of The Wiu>tcd Coua police
department for ten vear, died of
Brght's disease
Jonathan Y stanton professor
emeriiuS Of Greek n, Raes college
and one of the best known educators
In New England died ~ his home
AZ Lewiston. Me. In his Sith year
Mrs Viola veo -, choiubefmaid
was held for The grand Jury IA bonds
of $1,000 nj Springfield Mass after
pleadiug guilty to charge Of arson
She admitted having set nine fires
For the first time IN sixteen years
cargo of European coat reached
Boston It came aboard u British
steamship tons Of '-frum
Wales
Despondent over family troubles,
Frank u Hight 49, a prominent
and wealthy Bangor Me man. shot
himscl: IN that city dying instant.
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More than 100 persons were driven
iIto a storm at Boston bl lire of
mysterious origin which started IN
big four-story wooden structure
occupied by manufacturers Of gun
carriages for the United States war
department, and makers Of electrical
goods
BY ninth inning" rally Of The
labor unions OF Boston the drive 20
secure 5000 mechanics 10 build ships
for Uncle Sam was made success.
Frank Il Shea. II. who recently
lost a son and daughter by death
and who disappeared from Brairtrcei
Mass, after saying that his bereove-
ment was more than he could hear.
was found dead In a stretch of wood.
land
Two hundred see1 Of the GWpe Cod
Cold Storage company wharf, Prov
incetown, Mass. was destroyed by
ice driven into the harbor by south
east storm. The loss is nearly $1,000
Boston women. who have become
"acclimated," so to speak TO the
short skirt, are 10 ignore any AT
tempt Of fashionable leaders to
lengthen these garments for tie sea
son.
Only seventy-three of Bostor's pub |
lie school buildings will he open this |
week. The authorities had hoped 10 |
open ia of the 26G buildings. but |
there is fuel for only seventy three. |
In one weeks campaign the Rhode |
Island public service reserve en-
rolled $500 men for shipbuiding. or
800 in excess of the state quota
John II. Williams. "a, rounded oui
his fifty-third year as a letter car
rier in the Boston postal service lie
served In the Civil war
Boston leads all other cities in The
eastern division in the number en-
listed by the British and Canadian
recruiting mission
The senior class at Smith college
voted TO give up commencement fes
Iivities next June AMI 10 forego the
usual senior dramatics, as war
economy measure.
The town OF Gerlln, Conn :, with
1900 population, has answered lie
Of Berlin, Germany, by
sending niDety-one men 70 France 10
SIGHT against the kaiser
Joseph s. Chase. 81. veteran
and beekeeper, died nc
Mass whore he had lived
iince 1865
j w Bailey. authority on prisons
md prison management and former
secretary OF the Massachusetts prison
commission, died AZ Somerviile
jass He was born a, Terry y
] /, in 1864
The sudden breaking up u the ice
n Dorchester and Pleasure lays
boston harbor imperille1 The lives
i eight boys who were saved QBly
fter desperate struggle by The pa.
Ice
Thomas G White was unanimous
: nominated for mayor 81 Lewiston
ie., at the Republican caucus
Macmillan Fischer proprietor "
'larks hotel, Boston GleG i volun
airy petition In bankruptcy. with Ia !
iliues 81 s94 g37.
L. G. Page and others purchased !
he Boston Evening Record from
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