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The Bemidji Daily Pioneer., December 08, 1919, page 1 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86063381/1919-12-08/ed-... has a photo that shows a similarly decorated vehicle, with caption "Soldiers carrying caskets into the chapel in Hoboken, N. J., where the services were held for the 103 American soldiers who died in Russia. The bodies were brought back on the army transport Lake Daraga." Although the photo may not represent the same event, it suggests that the street may be in Hoboken.

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Pier A headhouse on River Street, Hoboken NJ - compare this LOC HABS/HAER photo of it in its final days www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/hh/item/nj1014.photos.112...

Probably this occasion on November 13, 1919: "NATION HONORS MEN KILLED IN RUSSIA; Funeral Services Held in Hoboken for 103 Soldiers Slain Fighting Bolsheviki. WADSWORTH PRAISES DEAD Coffins Draped In American Flag and Covered by Wreaths of Flowers." query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9F05E3DB1F3BEE... The article describes the bodies being brought from Archangelsk, Russia aboard the army transport Lake Daraga to Pier 4 in Hoboken, NJ, a funeral ceremony on the pier, then a procession to a mortuary where the bodies could be claimed by families.

See also chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030193/1919-11-13/ed-... The New York evening world account., with photos. The article identifies the five men standing under the gate in this photo, military chaplains, by name.

poor Vaterland, barely in service and then lost. She was not a much loved ship though she had a long and generally successful career after the war with the US as as SS Leviathan

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