Red Sox visit President Taft in Washington
The Red Sox players led by Manager Donovan and Captain Lord met President Taft in the White House at 10 o clock. Ray Collins impressed the President with his remarks on pitching arm effects while Eddie Cicotte drew Taft’s curiosity as the knuckle ball pitcher. Dr Greene’s introduction triggered laughter as Taft joked about the famed trainer.
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Washington
Bd. C
Red Sox
Taft
Donovan
Lord
Ray Collins
Vermont
Ray
Eddie Cicotte
Detroit
Cicotte
Dr. Greene
Greene
Readers Aid Hagarty Family Finds New Home
Post readers rallied to help the Hagarty family of 105 Buttonwood street Dorchester securing a new home at 8 Linden street. Anonymous and a Friend sent dollar contributions while letters from Rockland and Pittsfield arrived with dollar bills. Clothes were also promised for the family.
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Post
Andrew Hagarty
Buttonwood Street
Dorchester
Boys All Carried Dynamite in Somerville Classroom
Investigation into an explosion in a Morse building schoolroom reveals nearly every boy in the class had dynamite cartridges in pockets. The cartridges were given by a Somerville contractor's son and carried in classrooms and at home, some even in baseball pockets.
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Morse
Somerville
Explosion Injures Somerville Student At School Experiment
Harold Elwin an 18 year old pupil in Somerville suffered the loss of his right thumb and forefinger when a dynamite cartridge exploded during a class taught by Mrs Caroline Ball Other pupils carried cartridges in their pockets and the incident prompted a school investigation Elwin was taken to Somerville hospital where doctors expected a grave prognosis but he improved with a disfigured right hand permanent Elwin lives with J S Bennett at 197 Highland Avenue Somerville after his parents died.
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Harold Elwin
Caroline Ball
Elwin
Young Elwin
J. S. Bennett
Highland Avenue
Somerville
Langford Still Unmarked After Ketchel Bout in Philadelphia
Sam Langford arrived in Boston after boxing Stanley Ketchel in Philadelphia at the American A C. He declared he took a slow start to gauge Ketchel, then outboxed him in the fourth and throughout the last rounds, saying Ketchel landed only a hard stomach punch and showed no marks himself. Langford expected a California rematch but said he was seeking Ketchel.
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Sam Langford
Stanley Ketchel
Philadelphia
Boston
A. C
Langford
New York
Ketchel
Strike Ends in Sydney Cape Breton Coal District
The Cape Breton colliery districts saw an end to the strike as the United Mine Workers of America called off the labor action. The development dates from Sydney New South Wales? No, Sydney Nova Scotia. The announcement marks a return to work for miners and a step toward resumed production.
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Sydney
N. S
Cape Breton
United Mine Workers of America
Reception Given Winthrop Pastor
Parishioners and townspeople gave a reception to the Rev. J. F. Allen in the parlors of the First Methodist Church Winthrop last night. The Rev. Freder-
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J. F. Allen
First Methodist Church
Winthrop
Freder
Clergy Address of Welcome at Local Service
Rev Allen, recently transferred from Park Avenue Church Somerville to First Methodist, delivered the welcome address at the service. The event featured speakerick H White of the Baptist church.
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Ick H. White
The
Baptist Church
Mr. Allen
Park Avenue Church
Somerville
First Methodist
Son of Village Blacksmith Charles Hancock Dies at 82
Cambridge resident Charles E. Hancock, son of Longfellow’s Village Blacksmith, died at his home on 46 Pleasant Street aged 82. A builder by trade he constructed the Narragansett Hotel in Providence and retired in 1904. He served on Cambridge’s common council in 1878.
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Charles E. Hancock
Cambridge
Longfellow
Pleasant Street
Narragansett
Providence
Mr. Hancock
Weston Crippled Walker Presses On Through Kinderhook
Ostensibly on a cross continental walk from Schodack Center toward New York state, Weston endures a stiff ankle and cold morning. Kinderhook hosts Weston Day with schoolchildren while he rests at the Kinderhook Hotel, then resumes to Hudson with aid from local police and a cheering crowd.
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Kinderhook
Syracuse
New York
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Pitcher
Hagarty Family
Hanan Shoes
Washington St
Winter Street
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Copenhagen
Shepherd
Gale & Kent
Court Street
Clover Blossom Whiskey
Petts-Vogel
Tivoli
Men's Restaurant
Company Street
Reas
Ene
Weston
Mr. Weston
Hudson
James J. Lane
Cruiz
Poughkeepsie
S. & H. Green
Cial Gray
New York Mills
RWEAR
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Rts
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Washington, Hanover and
Elm Sts
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