Hoodoo Trawler Spray Hits Repeat Collisions Under New Captain
Hoodoo Spray, docked at Bertieson and Petersons wharf in East Boston after a smashed stem, faced a string of incidents in three days. In dense fog at 12 20 Sunday morning it struck the Conestoga tug near Bug Light while outward bound for Georges on a four days cruise. The spray damaged the tug and two barges, then towed and retreated to Boston for repairs. Earlier, a fog collision with the Tancred caused 500 damage. later the Executive was lightly touched. Captain Frank Carro resigned the next day amid the series of accidents on his first voyage with the trawler.
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Bertieson & Peterson’s
Border Street
Boston
Aladelphia & Reading Ocean
Bug Light
Marion
Shenandoah
Silver Brook
Nantasket
Commercial Wharf
Lynn
Newburyport
Spray
Tancred
Louisburg
C. B
Frank Carro
United States
Executive
Carro
John Hall
Albany Centenary Week Celebrations Planned
Albany residents and former residents observe the town centennial with church services and a Wednesday address by J. C. Burke of Lowell Mass. The week will feature multiple events marking the 1806 founding. Nantucket Excursion Next Friday Sees Boston to Nantucket Trip for 2.00 The Aug 10 excursion departs Boston South Station at 8 25 am and returns after a three hour visit with a sail through Vineyard and Nantucket Sounds priced at two dollars.
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Albany
Nantucket
Boston
Hyannis
Atlantic
Vineyard
Boston and Philadelphia Steamship Line
Philadelphia
F. P. Wing
Central Wharf
Fish pier yields slim fresh catch amid fog and high fares
Fleet reports limited by fog with four trips ending sundown yesterday, totaling 265000 pounds of mixed fish including 230000 pounds haddock. Natalie J Nelson tops hauls with 420000 pounds haddock. European liner Cambrian arrives after 12 day voyage from London with 200 tons cargo. Immigration ships Os Canopic and others dock with hundreds of passengers and freight. Lloyds statistics note large 1905 second hand tonnage sales to foreign buyers.
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Natalie J. Nelson
Viola
Cambrian
E. C. Hiscoe
London
Hiscoe
Tloyd
Register of Shipping
Germany
Italy
Japan
Norway
Probate notices from Boston Post solicit administration in 1906
Multiple probate notices involve estates in Suffolk including Mary Hall Elizabeth Fales Margaret Burke and John Murray. Executors named include Silas M Dinsmoor Jacob M Taylor and Richard J Burke with citations to appear in August and September 1906. Other notices appoint administrators and outline demands and payments.
Estate administrator seeks sale of personal property in Massachusetts
A. Dinsmoor as administrator with the will annexed of William G Hall petitions the Probate Court for authority to receive or sell by public or private sale personal property in the Commonwealth including a railroad company asset. The notice sets auction terms and a Boston Post publication date in 1906.
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City OF
Boston
City of Boston
City Hall
Queensberry Street
Audubon Road
James H. Doyle
Jersey Street
Brookline Avenue
NTA
Tremont St
North Grove St
Frust
Cambridge Sts
Trades Unions
North Grovest
John J. Leahy
Commonwealth OF Massachusetts
Suffolk
Mary R. Hall
Keene
New Hampshire
Commonwealth
Silas M. Dinsmoor
Cheshire
Boston & Albany Railroad Co
Boston Post
John W. McKim
Elijah George
Register
Elizabeth J. Fales
New York
County of
Haliburton Fales
Sid Petitioner
Fsquire
Isaac H. Boynton
Harrington
Maine
Rebecca Cgc. Boynton
Washington
Home Savings Bank
North End Savings Bank of
Escuire
Lydia A. Maynard
Walpole
Lizzie M. Maynard
Fitchburg Railroad
Mary Josephine Bumstrad
Cambridge
Middlesex
Elliot White
Charles Pelham Greenough
Brookline
Norfolk
Charles Peay Greenough
Court St
Long Branch
N. J
Massachusetts
William G. Hall
Railroad Co
Shipping News Mini Almanac for August First Week
The August 6 issue lists sunrise and sunset times and day length, with arrivals and sailings of multiple steamers and schooners. Vessels arriving include Cambrian, Prince George, Kanawha, Nantucket, City of Rockland, and Cape Ann among others, with towages for barges to Lynn Newburyport Norfolk and Baltimore. Departures include Boston for Yarmouth, L Herbert Taft for coal port, and several tugs towing barges to Norfolk, Newport News and Delaware Breakwater. Anchored craft include Loring C Ballard Telumah and barges Bear Ridge Preston. Chatham reports the steamer Whitney passing westbound for New York.
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Cambrian
Hiscoe
London
Prince George
McKinnon
Yarmouth
N. S
Kanawha
Johnson
Norfolk
Nantucket
Nickerson
Baltimore
Thacher
Philadelphia
Herman Winter
Crowell
New York
Santiago
Holmes
City of Rockland
Curtis
Bangor
Bay State
Oliver
Portland
Ransom B. Fuller
Blair
Bath
City of Gloucester
Ober
Cape Ann
Godfrey
Gloucester
Conestoga
Hughes
Silver Brook
Lynn
Shenandoah
Marion
Newburyport
Richmond
Snow
Providence
R. I
Kennebec
Parkers’ Flats
Concord
Hewitt
Bala
Delaware
Georges Creek
Kelly
G. C. Co
Washington, D. C
Boston
Old Dominion
L. Herbert Taft
Waltham
Newport News
Darby
Foster
Newport
Gibson
Cardenas
Tipton
Cheektowaga
Perth Amboy
Buffalo
Wireless for Use in Field at Mt Gretna Tests Portable Units
Under Captain G S Gibbs signal work at Mt Gretna Camp in Pennsylvania a test of four portable wireless telegraph outfits for field use will be conducted. Each station weighs about 300 pounds total with a 60 foot mast weighing about 50 pounds. Two mules can carry the full equipment. The mast sections are lightweight and assemble quickly by a small detachment, with ropes used to steady and elevate it and a tent placed at the base to shelter gear.
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Washington, D. C
G. S. Gibbs
Mt. Gretna
Penn
Signal Corps
Life Savers Busy at North End Park
Two accidents at North End Park required Life Savers response. Giovanni di Monco of Roslindale suffered a deep gash near the eye after hitting a sharp underwater object while diving from a raft and was treated at the Relief station. Eight year old John Shahanan was overcome by cramps, rescued by Life Saver Maurice J. Dineen, and taken to the Relief station before returning home. Dineen totals 86 rescues this season.
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North End Park
Giovanni di Monco
Roslindale
Thomas Foley
Ralph Santosuosso
John Shanahan
Maurice J. Dineen
Joiner Street
Charlestown
Dineen
Atlantic Fleet Heads to Rockport for Maneuvers
Newport R I Aug 5 The battleships of the Atlantic fleet commanded by Rear Admiral Robley Evans will leave Newport next Wednesday to resume naval maneuvers off Rockport Massachusetts Admiral Dewey announced tonight The naval court of inquiry into the Illinois Alabama collision will continue on the Illinois with testimony already at 700 pages and more witnesses expected from other ships
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Newport
R. I
Robley D. Evans
Rockport
Masa
Dewey
Naval Court of Inquiry
Illinois
Alabama
Unity and Foresters Hold Large Charlestown Meeting
Branch Unity and Irish National Foresters met at Monument Hall Charlestown with John F Ahern presiding. Captain Richard Trum of the Unity Guards conferred military degrees on 25 members after initiating seven candidates. Visiting members included Thomas Parks Dennis Crimmins Timothy Sullivan David Haggerty.
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Unity
Irish National Foresters
John F. Ahern
Monument Hall
Charlestown
Richard Trum
Unity Guards
Thomas Parks
Dennis Crimmins
Columbia
Cambridge
Timothy Sullivan
Wolfe Tone
Malden
David Haggerty
Thomas Francis Meagher
Boston
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Fiers
Georges
Eastern Steamship Co
Bangor Division
Yester’s Wharf
Rockland
Camden
Belfast
Bucksport
Winteroft
Ark Harbor
Sargentville
Deer Isle
Brooklin
S. W. Harbor
N. E. Harbor
Seal Harbor
Bar Harbor
North Haven
Stonington
Blue Hill
Dirigo
Eggemoggin
Brooksville
Herrick’s Landing
Way Landings
Union Wharf
Boothbay
F. A. Jones
General Agent International Division
Union Harf
Eastport
Lubec
St. John
Calvin Austin
O. EB. Laechler
Albany, VT
J. C. Burke
Lowell, Mass
Legal Loan Co
State Street
Haddock
Cod
Hake
Fannie Belle Atwood
Joseph W. Lufkin
N. B
Canopic
Inman Sealby
Naples
Mediterranean
Azores
Immigration and Customs
Queenstown
Liverpool
Ivernia
Baxonia
Sylvania
Umperia
Chas. P. Sumner
Agt
State St
Merchants ,and Miners Transportation Co. Steamship Lines
Rr m
Aes
M. Graham
Pinet Artery
Washington Street
P. Coria
White Star
Boston-Queenstown
Liverpool Republic
Cymric
Raaton
Romanie
Company’s
India Building
Agamore
Sachem
Michigan
Sagamore
Hoosac Tunnel
Warren & CO
Milk Street
Dominion Atlantic BY. S. S. Line
Long Wharf
Maritime Provinces
Newfoundland
Washington St
Long, Whartroot State
J. B. Masters
WN. E. Sunt
Workincmen’s Loan Association
Robert Treat Paine
Treas
Beacon St
McNamara
Tremont i
Ates
Budding
Bowdoin
Aldun
P. O
Itore
Fu ‘Toa CO
Bankers Loan Company
Kers Loan Company
Court Square
Moston
Front Street
Worcester
WEY Company
State St. 3d
Lina
Aoe
Colonial Loan Co
Milk St
DE Vito
Lewis St
Ward
Perm
John A. Rooney
Building All
S. R. Briggs
Franklin Loan CO
School St
Realty Investment CO
W. T. Salter
Warton
City Loan CO
d&Su
Spooner & Briccs
Devonshire ST
D. H. Tolman
Bromfield St
H3d
Surf
P. O. Box
au-dé&Surf
Margaret Burke
Richard J. Burke
Admr
Lyons & Burke
Barristers’ Hall
John Murray
Jacob M. Taylor
Esquire
Suffolk Supply Co., Inc
d&Surf
Russell
Lenox Jewelry CO
Rere Mass
Grand Atlantic Hotel
Virginia Ave. and Beach
Atlantic City
Steel Pier
Apacity
A. Cheshire Mitchell
New England
H. Duncan
E. Ruddock
Ireson St
Tremont
POST
Needham
Chapin Farm Agency
John L. Eddy
Boston American
Sunnydale
Station
Kennery
A. A. Sawyer
Exeter West Plaistow
N. H
Stokes & Knowles
Realty Investments
Broadway
Brooklyn
N. Y
Aera
Harris
Medford
LAW
Read’s Legal Agency
Shipping News
Miniature Almanac
McDowell
Tailor’s Square
U. S
Mcdowell’s School
Winter St
United Drug Co
Leon St
Roxbury
d&Sutt
United Drug Company
Eastern Teachers’ Agency
iInc
NEW England Confectionery CO
Summer St
South Station
Cottage Park Hotel
Winthrop Centre
Mass
Steam Engineering
Haverhill St
James Coyne
M. E
COYNE
Haverhill
the Post
Eagle Wall Paper CO
West Concord
En Ma - Prr
Roxbury Painting CO
Thorndike St
Stone Bros
Leverett St
Levin
Oneida St
R Ss
Leverett
Enemas
Seerae Spizer & Cooper
Billerica Es
Chond CO
Brighton St
BAY State Dancing School
Heinemann’s Academy
Slyf
Edward Courtney
Somerville
N. M. Hatch
Park Sa
William N. Souther
Guy’s
R. B
A LD. BR. R. Depot
Ek Sq
Mgr
Hingstham
Nantasket Beach
Savin Hill
Dorchester
Maryland St
N. Branner
Everett
Warren St
Pearl St
New York City
Laconia Car CO. Works
Laconia
N. Ae
Sarina
W. A. Moffitt CO
Boston Auto School
Market
HUB Automobile School
Freeport St
TD Plasterers
P. G. L. Hilken
Hotel Essex
Maryland Steel CO
Marine Dept. Ee
Werner Company
Akron
Alberta
Broad St
James Hedrington
Paris St
East
Webster Ave
Typewriter Exchange
Bromfield
SS Lady
Hesidence
Dudley ‘Lst
Berry
Blue Hill Ave
Rox
McPhail and
Emerson
C. C. Allen
Bow St
Harvard
HUB Cycle CO
Hanover St
Astrology
Eee Karana
Wales
Grove Hall
R Winslow
Wabanet
Weinstein
Touraine
Earth
Peabody Medical Institute
Bulfinch Street
Revere House
America
Peabody Medicall Institute
Boston Medical Istitute
Scollay
Sun
Foresters
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