Prins Maurits Sinks With All Hands Feared Lost
Wireless reports from the Algonquin say the Prins Maurits sank off Cape Hatteras after signaling “sinking fast.” The Dutch steamer, 1328 tons, with 40 to 45 crew, left New York for West Indian ports with four passengers aboard.
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Royal Dutch West Indies Company
Algonquin
Cape Hatteras
Prins Maurits
Clyde Steamship Company
West Indian Ports
Turk’s Island
H. J. Vandersoot
Hamburg
F. T. Wallace
Philadelphia
C. Minot
Hayti
la Roche
Wilmington
Marlboro Man Ends Life by Fire at Home
Marlboro April 4 Rudolph Moreau aged 46 of Broad street deliberately threw himself on a lit gas stove fully dressed. Found unconscious 15 minutes later his clothing burned and flesh charred. He died soon after at Marlboro Hospital.
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Marlboro
Rudolph Moreau
Broad Street
Marlboro Hospital
Rescues End Toll Of Easter Blizzard At Highland Light
After a 12 hour night struggle with the breakers three coastguard crews saved the final 15 men from wrecked barges Tunnel Ridge Mannheim and Coleraine lashed to masts through a gale and surf. Cape Cod lifesavers hauled mariners ashore one by one using the breeches buoy as the storm claimed a graveyard toll.
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Highland Light
Tunnel Ridge
Manheim
Coleraine
New England
Cape Cod
Cape
Moon Phases and Evening Sky Objects For April
Today's dates and celestial events list the last quarter on April 6 the new moon on April 14 with first quarter April 22 and full moon April 29. Evening star Saturn and morning stars Venus and Jupiter are noted along with sunrise and sunset times and anniversaries.
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Saturn
Venus
Jupiter
Ireland Cheers Guards on Recruiting Tour in Dublin
A band of the Irish Guards arrived in Dublin on a recruiting tour and was enthusiastically cheered as it marched to the Mansion House. The unit was warmly received by the Lord Mayor and sheriffs amid performances of St Patrick's Day tunes.
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Dublin
Irish Guards
Ireland
Mansion House
New Washington Subway Opens with Smooth Opening
Thousands passed through the new Washington station yesterday as the transfer point opened without the usual confusion. The Cambridge subway passages and entrances proved simple to understand, and officials expect little education will be needed for the public to use the new station.
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Washington
Cambridge
Fair Warmer Forecast for Boston and Vicinity
The forecast calls for fair and warmer conditions in Boston on Monday with unsettled conditions Tuesday likely bringing showers. Winds become moderate and variable then shift to the south as the period progresses.
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Boston
Washington
New England
Weather Log Fragments With Temperatures and Times
A fragmentary weather log lists times from evening and night with temperatures and averages. Entries show 6 p.m. 9 p.m. and midnight readings, plus yesterday’s average 36 and last year's 36 with 21 24. The readable data lacks full context or location.
Redmond Reviews Irish Volunteers Unite Against Common Foe
John E. Redmond led a parade of 25 000 Irish National Volunteers and said more than 50 000 nationalist and Ulster volunteers who had been divided were now fighting together on the Continent or prepared to do so.
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John E. Redmond
Irish National Volunteers
Ulster Volunteers
Watch Out at Park Street
Park Street crowds rushed down stairs to trains despite megaphone warnings from staff. Passengers repeatedly entered the trains on the left-hand track amid the confusion.
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Park Street
Great Ring Battle Today in Havana Betting Even Odds
Experts expect a close title fight in Havana with betting 6 to 5 on the champion. Both fighters show confidence and defiance while a scene of baseball practice is recalled with Ma Sunday in the background.
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Havana
Johnson Willard World Heavyweight Title Fight Looms
In Havana the world champion Jack Johnson and challenger Jess Willard brace for the 45 round title bout with odds near even. Promoters expect receipts surpassing 130000 dollars as both fighters rest and refuse liquids before the ring. Johnson plans to sail to Martinique afterward depending on the result.
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Havana
Jack Johnson
Jess Willard
Johnson
Willard
Jeffries
Martinique
France
South America
Easter crowds flood Billy Sunday campaign in Paterson
About 30 000 people gathered at Billy Sunday's Paterson tabernacle for the Easter Day opening of a seven week religious crusade. Twenty thousand filled the building, while 10 000 stood outside as Sunday delivered a fiery sermon likened to a human dynamo amid an atmosphere of citywide excitement.
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Billy Sunday
Paterson
Tabernacle
N. J
Philadelphia
$135,769 For Hub Harbor
Washington lists New England river and harbor projects funded from a $30 million congressional allocation. Secretary Garrison announced allocations after War Department engineers trimmed initial estimates from $53 million. Items include Boston $135,769 and several Rhode Island, Maine, Connecticut projects with small to midrange sums.
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Congress
Commerce and Navigation
Garrison
War Department
New England
St. Croix River
Maine
Portland
Boston
New Bedford
Fairhaven
Mass
Fall River
Harbor of Refuge
Point Judith
Pawcatuck River
Conn
Thames River
Connecticut River
Hartford
Branford
Housatonic River
Night watchman shoots self guarding shop fight
Night watchman Arthur C. Pettingill of the Sexton Can Company on Cross street, Everett, wounded in the left hand when a stranger leaped from dark factory recesses. In the scuffle the pistol discharged during grappling, the intruder fled amid confusion after the shot.
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Arthur C. Petting
Sexton Can Company
Cross Street
Everett
Pettingill
Death of Slater Manufacturing Supt Anthony Moore
Anthony Moore superintendent of Slater Manufacturing Company's Pawtucket mill died suddenly in Fall River. He had previously served as superintendent at American Thread Company mills in Holyoke.
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Fall River
Anthony Moore
Slater Manufacturing Company
Pawtucket
R. I
American Thread Company
Holyoke
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