Grand Trunk to Launch Twin Screw Steamers for Providence Line
Grand Trunk plans two new twin screw steamers for a night passenger service between New York and Providence. The vessels, connected with the New England system including Southern New England and Central Vermont, will mainly carry passengers with some express freight. Target speed is 20 miles per hour.
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New York
Providence
Grand Trunk
New England
Vermont
New York Providence
Record Cargo of Potatoes Arrives Aboard Armenian from Liverpool
More than 43 000 bags totaling 115 400 bushels of potatoes arrived on the Leyland line steamship Armenian from Liverpool. Cargo valued at 174 500 dollars with 24 000 dollars in customs due. The ship also carried 38 cabin passengers including Dr. Carl O'Brien returning from study in Vienna.
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Leyland Line
Liverpool
Europe
Consignees
Uncle Sam
Great Britain
Carl O’brien
Vienna
Catholic Total Abstinence Union convenes in Lynn
Arrangements for the 33th annual convention of the Catholic Total Abstinence Union of Boston are complete. Delegates from affiliated societies will meet in St Marys Hall West Lynn, following a solemn high mass at St Marys Lynn celebrated by Rev Mgr Arthur J Teeling. The main event will be the election of the new board of officers.
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Catholic Total Abstinence Union of
Boston
St. Mary’s Society
West Lynn
St. Mary’s
Lynn
Mgr
Arthur J. Teeling
Concursus to Settle Rector at St. Thomas Church Jamaica Plain
A call is issued for a Concursus to fill the permanent rectorship of St. Thomas Church Jamaica Plain, vacancy created by the death of Rt Rev Mer Thomas Magennis. Circulars have been sent to all pastors with necessary qualifications inviting eligible entrants.
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St. Thomas’ Church
Jamaica Plain
Mer. Thomas Magennis
New 332 Foot Steam Vessels Planned For Transocean Voyage
The ships measure 332 feet long and 66 feet wide, steel built to English Lloyds standards. They are fireproof and unsinkable with double bottoms and watertight bulkheads. Propulsion comes from two triple expansion engines driving twin screws. Comfort and safety for passengers are emphasized with a large dining room, two private dining rooms, three passenger decks, and about 500 first class berths, including enamelled iron and brass beds.
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Lloyds
Minister Sued for Ten Thousand Dollars in Hyde Park
James Rooney files a $10,000 damages suit in circuit court accusing Rev. William H. Dewart of Christ Church Hyde Park and Mrs. Elizabeth Dewart of conspiring to cause his discharge from a motor company by false statements to company officers. Rooney says he suffered substantial damages.
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William H. Dewart
Christ Church, Hyde Park
Elizabeth Dewart
James Rooney
Rooney
Big Crowd Watches Downtown Blaze
About one thousand people gathered on Fulton Street to watch firefighters battle a stubborn blaze on the top floor of the five story brick building housing the New England Grocery Co at 117 119 Fulton. The fire started from an unknown cause and the flames were confined to the top floor after strenuous work. Damage by fire and water is estimated at 1000 dollars.
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Fulton Street
New England Grocery Company
Order for Books in Rubber Company Probe
George W. Martin, foreman, petitions Judge Dodge to compel Warren B. Wheeler, Stillman Shaw, and the firm’s attorney Romney Spring to produce Wheeler & Shaw books for the North American Rubber Company case. Judge Dodge to hear at 9:30 with AUSA Garland and special counsel Peyton Gordon present.
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Warren B. Wheeler
Stillman Shaw
Wheeler & Shaw, Inc
North American Rubber Company
Federal Grand Jury
George W. Martin
Judge Dodge
United States District Court
Romney Spring
Wheeler and Shaw
Dodge
United States District Attorney
Garland
Peyton Gordon
United States Attorney
Panamanians Protest U S Purchase of Colon
Panamanians express strong opposition to a rumored U S purchase of Colon for four million dollars. A mass protest meeting was planned but canceled after President Arosemena denied the report.
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Colon
United States
Ex Mayor Green Recovering After Hip Injury
City Hospital reports ex mayor Green resting comfortably with a mending hip. He remains unable to sit up and expects to be out among friends in about ten days to two weeks.
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Green
Palma Found Guilty of Manslaughter in Jan 7 Killing
Raffaele Palma, the Italian youth who shot Giovanni Megna on Sunday afternoon January 7, was found guilty of manslaughter. The jury deliberated after 1 p.m. and convicted him of the lesser charge after accepting his self defense claim. The maximum penalty is 20 years and sentence is set for Monday.
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Raffaele Palma
Giovanni Megna
Palma
Megna
Patrolman Clarke Discharged After Trial Board Punishment
Patrolman Thomas F. Clarke of the Roxbury Crossing station was discharged by order of Police Commissioner Stephen O Meara after a three captain trial board recommended 210 hours of punishment duty for neglect of duty on the night of March 28. He did not pull on duty calls from 11 10 p m to 1 a m and failed to report at 1 15, ending his tour, until 2 5 a m.
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Thomas F. Clarke
Roxbury Crossing
Stephen O’meara
Clarke
Wireless station planned near Montauk Point after steamer Ontario fire
In Westerly Rhode Island on April 11 the New England Navigation company begins a new wireless station on the shore road to serve its New York to New England freight line. The station will sit between Point Judith and Scott Wrecking Company at New London, opposite the spot where the steamer Larchmont was lost five years ago and across the sound from Montauk Fellt where a wreck is smouldering once more.
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Westerly
R. I
Ontario
Montauk Point
Shore Road
New England Navigation Company
New York
New England
Point Judith
Scott Wrecking Company
New London
Larchmont
McNamara Brothers Pleased Over Investigation Status
In Indianapolis on April 11 Herbert Hockin of the International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers said the McNamara brothers are pleased with how the dynamiting investigation is proceeding. He had just returned from a conference with the brothers in San Quentin prison and clarified they are not pleased about prison but about the investigation's failure to implicate the Iron Workers Union.
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Indianapolis
McNamara Boys
Herbert §. Hockin
John J. McNamara
International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers
McNamara Brothers
San Quentin
Cal
Iron Workers’ Union
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Morse's
MORSE
Adams Square
Indrews FP Willy
U. S
Waltham Watch Co
Frank A. Andrews Co
Washington St
Col
Commission
T. F. Clarke
Montauk
M’namaras
Hockin
Brockton
Beverly
Hyde
Kennedy
Kuppenheimer
the House of Kuppenheimer
Kuppenheimer’s
Bates Street
Boylston Street
Washington Street
Percy
Worcester
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