Destroyer Walke Breaks Speed Record on Provincetown Run
The Walke, a Fore River built destroyer, shattered its prior 29 3 4 knot record by 3 4 knot reaching 30 1 2 knots in one hour 30 minutes. Captain Kemp ordered 14 nozzles out of 19 for the test run amid misty weather then clearing. Chief engineer Edwards said fuel and water consumption stayed within guarantee and the meter indicated 14,000 horsepower, 2000 above the guarantee.
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Walke
Fore River
Provincetown
Joseph I. Kemp
Co. B. Edwards
Crest launches as Bay State Fish Co. trawler Foam and Ripple sister
Barbara Cole eight year old daughter of Harrison I. Cole of South Weymouth christened the Crest at Fore River works. The steam trawler, built for the Bay State Fish Company, is a sister ship to Foam and Ripple and will serve the company.
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Fore River Works
Bay State Fish Company
Barbara Cole
Harrison I. Cole
South Weymouth
Barbara
Donald
Weymouth
Foam
Ripple
Mr. Cole
Post Offices to Close Sundays in Boston District
Postmaster Mansfield plans to shut down post offices in all 20 Boston district cities and towns on Sundays, part of a nationwide movement. This action would halt Sunday deliveries and public services across the district.
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Mansfield
Boston
Boston Clergy Back Sunday Mail Deliveries Cut Plan
Letters from nearly 500 respondents with only three opposing support the change. Clergymen from denominations across Greater Boston commend the measure for limiting Sunday mail. The postmaster plans to restrict general Sunday deliveries, allowing only special delivery where needed.
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Greater
Boston
William H. O'Connell
William Lawrence
W. F. Mallalieu
Leopold A. Nies
The
Evangelical Alliance of Greater Boston
Frederick W. Hamilton
Tufts College
Alexander Mann
Trinity Church
Clifford P. Smith
Church of Christ Scientist
George W. King
People’s ‘Temple
Dean Hodges
Episcopal Theological Seminary
Cambridge
Park Square Trust Outlines Plans for Street Extensions
A Park Square Real Estate Trust pamphlet reveals plans to create foot access between Providence and Boylston streets near Arlington Street if June 1 decisions delay. Trustees propose widening St James Avenue to 100 feet, with potential 40-foot frontage cuts on Hotel Westminster and Hotel Ludlow, and may fund a 100-foot extension if city widening occurs. They also describe a six story Park Square building at Providence Street and Columbus Avenue housing a vaudeville theater for about 2000, to be operated by the William Morris Company. designs are not yet complete.
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Park Square
Westminster
St. James Avenue
Ludlow
St. James
Arlington Street
Berkeley Street
Copley Square
Providence Street
Columbus Avenue
William Morris Company
Woman in Newport Attempts Self Immolation
Mrs Mary A Fitch poured kerosene on her clothing and set it alight in Newport Rhode Island today. A son put out the flames and she was taken to a hospital in critical condition with fears she may die. She had been confined to an insane asylum in 1909 and released last December.
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Newport
R. I
Mary A. Fitch
Train Held Up by Masked Man Near Munich Indiana
A masked man armed with a revolver robbed ten passengers in a vestibuled coach on a westbound Big Four train near Munich Indiana. He took about $300, fired several shots as he fled, dropping off the rear platform as the train slowed near the city. authorities pursue suspect.
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Munich
Ind
Big Four
Fuller Michaelis wedding celebrated in Garden City Cathedral
Miss Sidney Clare Morgan Michaelis daughter of the late Major Otho Michaelis and Mrs Kate Michaelis married Gilbert Edmund Fuller at the Cathedral of the Incarnation Garden City. The ceremony was by the Very Rev Dean Moses with organist William Woodcock. The quiet wedding had no invitations or reception and the couple plans an extended Europe tour before settling in Boston.
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Fuller-Michaelis
Sidney Clare Morgan Michaelis
Otho Ernest Michaelis
Ordnance Department
Kate Woodbridge Michaelis
Cambridge
Mass
Garden City
S. J
Gilbert Edmund Fuller
Harvard
Springfield
Boston
Cathedral of the Incarnation
John Robert Moses
William H. Woodcock
George W. S. Michaelis
Kathleen Alfred Michaelis
Frederick W. Fuller
Mrs. Fuller
Europe
Amerika
New York
Mr. Fuller
Raymond & Whitcomb Company
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Destroyer Walke
ught-Year-Old Gun
Melvin Williams
Greater Boston
Gale & Kent
Tailors
96 Court Street
Gale & Kent’s
Court Street
Okeeffe
O’keeffe
Boylston St
Train
England
GSSS
France
Daucator
At, & Pai
Cice
BOC
Barney & Berry
P.N
Thompson
Etra
Treacy
Appleton & C
Dss
Madras
Aark
Copenhagen
de Washburn
California
Portieres
Sheffield Steel
Las Bnew c
Lepe
Finnan Haddie
Oeer
Austria
Hamburg
Seyi
Beree
Blue Chambray
Bingham
Bere
Decora
coloni _ittern
Fc Homam
van Camp
Slade
Panama
Mien
Abel
Sas
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