Sailors Die After Swordfish Attack Wreck near Newport
July 31 report states Captain John Pettipard and three Nokomis crew drowned after a dory was rammed by a swordfish. The dory, pierced through, sank in heavy seas while four other crewmen were rescued aboard the Hester Gray. Nokomis wreckage and two hatches were recovered 60 miles southeast of No Man's Land.
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Newport
R. I
John Pettipard
Boston
Gloucester
L Lafayette
Lafayette
Thomas Frost
Hsther Gray
No Man's Land
Jetsca Be
Orimally
System automatic price reductions risk selling before sale ends
A fragment notes the lot may be sold out before the system of automatic price reductions takes effect. It hints at timing and potential impact on buyers and prices. The text references a mechanism that could cap availability and influence final sale outcomes.
Foss axes Milk Consumers leaders in stark letter
Governor Foss sent a sharp letter to the Massachusetts Milk Consumers Association executive committee, declaring the three members unfit to act and accusing them of deliberate misstatements to influence the Legislature. He demands a retraction or further discussion ends.
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Foss
Massachusetts Milk Consumers’ Association
Association
Eugene N. Foss
Massachusetts
Milk Consumers’ Association
Beacon Street
Boston
Mass
Bradley
Governor clashes over milk committee actions in 1911 letter
Governor E N Foss of Massachusetts accuses the Milk Consumers Association committee of misstatements aimed at influencing the Legislature. He warns that unless the committee retracts, he will not discuss further while noting the issue centers on character, reputation and evidence.
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William L. Putnam
Hugh Cabot
Richards M. Bradley
Barbers Strike in Boston Over New Wage Scale
The first general strike by Boston barbers begins today as workers at at least twenty shops walk out to push a union wage scale increasing pay by one dollar per week.
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Boston
Union Shop Card Drive Faces 283 Signatures
Union executive board and Agent Charles E O Donnell report 283 shops signed for union shop cards with 31 shops still unsigned. O Donnell to visit remaining shops today to obtain signatures or face action. Nine new signers appeared last night amid claims of Master Barbers Association theft of cards. Attorney McIssaacs directed to pursue larceny charges against offenders.
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Charles E. O'Donnell
O’donnell
Dover Streets
O'Donnell
New Master Barbers’ Association
McI Isaacs
Shooting Terror Shocks Natick in July Night
A deranged foreigner opened fire on passers by at the southern end of Natick on South Main street causing panic. Local residents crowded the area as police cordoned off streets while investigators searched for the shooter. No injuries reported by press time.
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Natick
South Main Street
Foreign assailant fires on girls then targets carriage
A stranger on a swamp road attacked four girls including Stacia Walsh and Helen Prendergast, firing four shots and then five more at a passing carriage. The assailant fled as the carriage rider, Frank Coughlan, pulled away. police swarmed the area in a dragnet search.
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Stacia Walsh
South Main Street
Helen Prendergast
Walcott Street
Miss Morrison
New York
William Carey
Frank Coughlan
Coughlan
Natick
VETO BILL UP AUGUST TH LONDON CRISIS MODIFIES TIMETABLE
The cabinet delays the veto bill reappearance to August 7 amid Unionist tensions. Halsburyites and Lansdowne supporters clash over the measure while Balfour seeks a modus vivendi. King George remains at Cowes as whispers grow of a batch of fifty peers before any new Lords division.
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London
Lord Lansdowne
Halsburvites
Alexander Ackland Hood
Lord Standries
Mr. Balfour
House of Commons
Lord Willoughby de Brooke
Lord Jansdowne
Asquith
House of Lords
Polish immigrant Leon Posdena arrives in Haverhill
Haverhill reports Leon Posdena a 19 year old Polish migrant who was deported on arrival in New York two months ago and sent back. He arrived with relatives and may start work tomorrow in the land of promise if he chooses.
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Haverhill
Leon Posdena
New York
Ireland Sweethearts Wed at Last in Charlestown
Mrs. Murphy and Longfield, childhood sweethearts, married yesterday at St. Marys Church Charlestown after a decade of delay due to Longfields large family. Longfield a carpenter, released from the island to wed. vows and pledge taken amid a festive reception.
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Longfield
Wongfield
Immigration Bureau
Harror
Federal Shoe Probe Before Jury Today
A federal grand jury will begin a probe at 10 o clock to determine if United Shoe Machinery Company violated the Sherman antitrust act by unreasonable restraint of trade.
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United Shoe Machinery Company
Federal Grand Jury
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Snow
North Market Street
Maine OX
Pathor CO
Fidelty Bidg
Portland
Blanche
Wilson Bros
Scollay Se
O'S
Bostom
W. B. McDonald
Niobe
Cape Sable
Governor and Milk Association
M. D
OUR
New England
Thayer,mcneil& Hodgkins
West Street
England
Land OF Free
Chickering and Sons
KNABE
Steinway
Mason & Hamlin
Haines Bros
Emerson, Gabler
Chickering & Sons
Tremont Street
Northampton
Mass. Ave
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