Aground off Nantucket
The six-master Edward J. Lawrence and the five-master Fuller Palmer were hauled from a dangerous shoal in Nantucket sound late Sunday night by the revenue cutter Acushnet. The Lawrence was…
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Arthur Kief and John Shea, recently returned from overseas service, have received their honorable discharge, and arrived home yesterday. Kief wears a wound stripe. At Chateau Thierry, on July 18, in the battle of the Marne, he was blown up by a high explosive shell, and laid for thirty-six hours unconscious in the shell hole where he fell, supposed to be dead. It was a week later that he regained consciousness in a hospital. He spent seven months in different hospitals, and when be returned to his company in January last, the fighting was over.