Fishermen’s Fleet Reaps Harvest at Wharves and Trains News
A report from the fish pier details 22 sail lining the pier selling mackerel swordfish and other species. Sailors hauled 279 swordfish and 117,000 pounds of mixed fish with haddock cod hake and pollock weighing heavily. Captains Larkin Nickerson Devine and others reported large catches leading to substantial shares for crews. Cretic prepares to sail with notable passengers including Harvard professors and missionaries bound for the Mediterranean and Asia Minor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Georges
Natalie J. Nelson
Albert Larkin
Enos Nickerson
Archie Devine
Sankaty Head
Pontiac
Harmony
Gus Hall
Georgia
New
Arthur James
Mary Emerson
Florida
Bernice
Bessie
Fitz A. Oakes
Lucy Warren
Haddock
Hake
Pollock
Mary
Silveira
F. P. Mesquita
Ladie M
Nunan
Maxwell
Marian
Sentos
Catharine
Ellen
Cretic
Hoosac
Azores
Gibraltar
Genoa
Naples
Albert A. Howard
Herman H. Howard
Harvard College
Charles
Concrete retaining wall bids for Alewife Brook area
Massachusetts Metropolitan Park Commission invites sealed proposals to build concrete retaining walls for Alewife Brook channel in Cambridge Somerville and Arlington. Bids due August 9 1909 with $2000 certified check. pamphlets $2 deposit. Commission may reject any or all bids.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Commonwealth OF Massachusetts
Metropolitan Park Commission
Alewife Brook Channel
Cambridge
Somerville
Arlington
Beacon Street
Boston
Mass
Engineering Department
Commonwealth
William B. DE Las Casas
Edwin A. Curtis
David N. Skillings
Ellerton P. Whitney
Everett
Benton
John R. Rablin
Boston Infirmary Department of Boston
Long Island Hospital
Charlestown Almshouse
Armored Cruisers Arrive Amid Shipping Daybook Entries
MINIATURE ALMANAC reports sun and moon times with high water at 12 45 a m and 1 15 p m. It lists arrivals including United States armored cruisers North Carolina Marshall and Montana with a long string of steamers and barges traveling to and from ports such as Halifax Yarmouth Gloucester and Norfolk. Cleared steamers include Georgian and Crostafels as well as several schooners and tugs bound for ports in the Atlantic and Caribbean. Overnight sailing routes show various vessels heading to Portsmouth Gloucester New York and other harbors.
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Eastern Steamship Co
Bangor
Belfast
Camden
Foster’s Wharf
Rockland
Bar Harbor
Blue Hill
Portland
Union Wharf
International Division
Eastport
Lubec
St. John
Maritime Province
Kennerec
Bath
Boothbay Harbor
Gardiner
Augusta
Washington St
Bermuda
Atlantic Ocean
Bermmuudian
A. E. Outerbridge & CO. Agts
Quebec
United States
North Carolina
Marshall
Montana
Reynolds
Mediterranean
Ransom B
Fuller
Mitchell
N. B
Hkastport
Prince George
McKinnon
Yarmouth
Kershaw
Bond
Norfolk
Harvard
Crowell
New York
Old Colony
Geer
Melrose
Frostad
Baltimore
Sawyer
City of Bangor
Colby
Passaic
Edgewater
N. J
Cheektowaga
Brophy
Vineyard Haven
Bluster
Bustle
Brooklyn
Perth Amboy
Western
Lennon
Guttenburg
Forest Kelle
Sidney
Nemasket
Betts
W. Wells
York
Morris
Cliff
Pierson
Mabel E. Goss
Paschal
Stonington
Lizzie Kee Sullivan
Itaska
Arey
Miillrle
S. E
Dortford
Olympia
Tonopah
Portsmouth
N. H
Chicago
Gloucester
Mass
Ida Cuneo
Sama
Cuba
Halifax
N. 8
Hawkesbury
C. B
Charlottetown
Yarnmouth
N. S
City of
Barkentine
Mabel J. Meyers
Montevideo
Urugay
Helen
Edwin I. Hunt
Savannah
Clara Barton Returns Home to Oxford for Rest and Visits
Clara Barton former Red Cross president arrives at her Oxford summer home for a short rest. She will host guests including Dr. Eugene Underhill founder of the Philadelphia School of Nurses and Miss Lillie Frazier superintendent of nurses, with many prominent visitors invited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clara Barton
Oxford Webster
The
Red Cross Society
Oxford
Eugene Underhill
Philadelphia School of Nurses
Lillie Frazier
Philadelphia
Captain Alfred Ellis of the Halifax Sailor of New Brunswick
Captain Alfred Ellis of the steamer Halifax, plying between Boston and Halifax Hawkesbury and Charlottetown, is 54 and a New Brunswick native. He joined Plant Line 18 years ago as a second officer and became master in 1902. He recalls Havana harbor humor when a vendor’s boat capsized and a dory was ground by the locomotive-like propeller.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alfred Ellis
Halifax
Hawkesbury
Charlottetown
P. KH. I
New Brunswick
Boston
Ellis
West Indies
Plant Line
Post
Havana
Local Vessels Complain as Boat Loses Wares
Onlookers aboard and at the wharf found humor in a boat’s lost wares, while the crew mourned the missing cargo. The incident drew attention from dockside crowds and passing observers.
Turret Bell Survives After 1906 Gale Wrecks Island Fleet
In Charlottetown P E I August 3 a report notes the steamer Turret Bell, barely floated and after nearly three years idle, can still move under her own steam from St Peter's Harbor where she was stranded.
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Charlottetown
Turret Bell
St. Peter’s Harbor
Methuen Man of 103 Dies
Methuen Aug 3 John Thompson 108 died at Nevins Home for Aged People. Born in Scotland he came to the United States in 1812 at age six. He learned dyeing and held a steady post with Amoskeag Mills in Manchester New Hampshire. He drank moderately and smoked a pipe. no serious illness until a recent slight hemorrhage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Methuen
John Thompson
Nevins
Thompson
Scotland
Amoskeag
Manchester
N. H
Pilgrims Await Millennium At Ballinamallard
In Ballinamallard County Fermanagh over 2000 cooneyites hold continuous prayer awaiting the millennium. Pilgrims arrive from across the country and baptisms occur daily in the river while many converts sleep outdoors on a leader’s farm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dublin
Cooneyites
Ballinamallard
County Fermanagh
Death of Electrician on New Jersey in Chelsea
R. J. Russell, 24, a first class electrician on the battleship New Jersey, died of typhoid fever at the U S Naval Hospital Chelsea. The illness was contracted at Provincetown during the recent epidemic. Russell joined the navy from Boston and is survived by his mother and sister who were with him at his passing.
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New Jersey
R. J. Russell
United States Naval Hospital
Chelsea
Provincetown
Russell
Navy
Boston
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Oston
Fannie E. Burrage
Stella N. Loughridge
Clara Richmond
Caesarea
Asia Minor
Co. Ro Willard
Mary T. Tracy
8. S. Smith
Marsovan
Turkey
Crepit
Coop
Globe Loan Company
Siegel
Iadies
god&Su Tt
Soul & CO
Washington Street
Ason Financial
Legal Ates
SON. Financial Co
Sayuare
Gordon
FP. O
D. H. Tolman
Devonshire St
A. P. Browne
Milk St
Albee’s
Hanover St
Pierce Arrow
Packard
Thomas
Jamaica Plain Motor CO
Jamaica
Sherer Annes
the Post
FOSS
Park Hotel
Lawrence
Boston Finance CO
Court St
Inc
Kilby Inv. CO
Kilby St
State St
Mercy
Mon
To & P.m. Employees Discount CO
Tremont St
Beiggs CO
Wash’n St
Franklin Loan CO
School St
Hf. Elwood
Briggs & May
Ames Bldg
Workingmen’s Loan Association
Robert Trent Paine
Beacon St
McNamara
R. F. Russell CO
Hay
van Dam
Rbeacon St
Hutchinson
Prospect St
Cumb
Tremont
Troston
N.E
Renee
Thomas Snow & Son
Compton and Tremont Sts
Castle Sq
West End
Rie Gees
Adelman Weachsbd
Winnisimmer St
Tel
M. HA
M. Hatch
Heinemann
Eee
Slyh
Se Stokel
Pemnens
Wellington
Visible TV. CO
Typewriter Exchange
Marchand
Dartmouth
Pemshiee
Youlden, Smith & Hopkins
Cunard Line
Queenstown
Liverpool
Saxonia
London
Paris
Ivernia
Campania
Lusitania
Carmania
Mauretania
Cunard
Marconi
Adriatic
Pannonia
Carpathia
Cunard Co
Cunard Steamship Co., Ltd
YALE
India Wharf
Wiske Wharf
Newport
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Battery Wharf
Balto
H. Maynard
Maritime Provinces
Newfoundland
Nova Scotia
Princerthur
Long Wharf
J. F. Masters
N. E
Uptown
Dominion Atlantic
Merchants & Miners
Europe
Beekman Tourist Com
Washington Sta
H. Marta Holmes
United Candy CO
Leon ST
Abe
Court St. It
Commercial Street
Public Library
Ryder
William B. Rand
Florinda B. Higgins
Lewis J. Bird
Bromfield St
Temple Place
Lewan
Watertown
Winter St
GEO, Ormsby CO
Wig Makers
Hale Workers
Moore & Co
Dudley St
Neponset
Wolfe
Boylston St
Intervale St
Rox
Foster St
Brighton
Papeerhanging
Simon
Green St
Stamford St
Creat Ym
Spizer & CO
Billerica St
Eterman
Northampton St
Appeli
Leverett St
Lenox Jewelry CO
KE. J. Courtney CO
B. Clapp
A. J. Hall
Huntington Ave
Chickering
Steinway, Hallet & Dares
Sanaa Boe
Alberts
Hough's Neck
W. A Dunham
Water St
W. A. Dunham
Revere Beach
Oak Island
Briggs
Madeira
Spain
Mediterranean Orient
White Star Line
Hoosack Tunnel
Warren & CO
Newton N
South Hampton
Lake Nagor
O. A. Knowlton
West Acton
Marc
New England
Marks & Chester
Renner
Max Keezer
Bow St
Harvard Sq
Quincy Sq
Hawley Engineering School
P. Q
Finlayson
O'Brien
Gilkes
Galen St
Master Plasterers' Association
U. S. Marine Corps
Goodyear Gstitchers
Lincoln St
L. Q. Whith Shoe CO
Bridgewater
Mays
Hydr Windlass CO
House
Beacon and Tappan Sts
Brookline
Sumper and Willis Sts
Dorchester
Evc
REID
Naan Ae
D. P. Nichols & CO
Edgewood St
Cleveland
John J. Stephan
McLellan Gt
Fore River Shipbuilding CO
Quincy
Mase
Is. F. Story
Windsor St
Springfield
Iir
Rochester
N. Y
Front St
Weymouth
Warren St
Roxbury
Somerville Ave
Union #q
Singer
Broadway
Regalpe
Papete
Shorey
Washington
Shipping News
Georgian
Admiral Dewey
Port Antonio
Jam
Crostafels
Thea
Orpheum
RED Sox
Detroits
Lindsay Morison
Eleanor Robson
Mary Ann
Keith
MecNaughtons
Howard Truesdell
le Monte Trio
Phil Staats
Bert Jordan
Bowdoin Business
Sing Sing
Vaudeville Moving Pictures
Pictures Globe
Sere
Bass Point
A. G. Fuller
Prop
American Cadet Orchestra
Bass Point House
Theatorium
Relay Theatre
Elay House
H. Brann
Miss Pfay
Boston Orchestra
Gov. Andrew
Gen. Lincoln
Otis Wharf
Atlantic Ave
Nahant Direct
Detroit
Clertiel
Hough’s Neck
Bay Line
Harbor
Revere Beach Boulevard
Joy Line
Dairy
Rolley
Pearl Street
Main
New England Street Railway Club
Taft
Ceatre
Nantasket Beach
Paragon Park
Pemberton
G. P. Cushing
Ilgrims
North Atlantic Squadron
Capr Cod
Bay Ling Wharf
Rowe's
Province
Childdren
Fort Hill
S. A. Moody
King Philip
Edward W. Dixon
Commercial Wharf
M&. War Information
Richmond
Sorensen
Sea North Side Central Wharf
Kimball’s
Seaton
Cohasset
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