Drexel Claims World Altitude Record in Lanark Scotland
American aviator J Arm strong Drexel reportedly reached 6750 feet altitude during an aviation meet near Lanark, Scotland. Barometer data will be sent to Kew Observatory for instrument verification, with the flight noted for its dramatic ascent and subsequent landing near a farmhouse twelve miles from Lanark.
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Lanark
Scotland
J. Armstrong Drexel
Kew Observatory
London
Drexel
America
France
Brookins
Atlantic City
W. Wright
Paulhan
Bob
Latham
Panathan
Atham
Athan
Aulhan
Wily
Typhoid patient Morrissey found during Framingham search
Framingham residents and police, firemen, and militia searched surrounding woods after James Morrissey, a fever patient, wandered from a hospital. He was located in an adjoining room sleeping in delirium a short time later. Brigadier General Pew received town and hospital thanks for Fifth Massachusetts Volunteer Militia members who patrolled overnight.
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Framingham
James Morrissey
Morrissey
William A. Pew
Fifth Massachusetts Volunteer Militia
Five Die as Car Hit by Chicago and Erie Train
Five persons were killed and two injured when a seven passenger auto was demolished by a Chicago and Erie passenger train in Logansport Indiana tonight. The accident occurred as the car failed to clear the crossing and the train struck it with seven aboard.
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Logansport
Ind
Chicago and Erie
Two Fatally Shot in Race Battle at New York Club
A violent clash at the Douglas Club, a Negro resort on West Twenty-eighth Street, left two men dead and another injured. The fight involved about sixty participants, both white and black, in an affray and hand to hand combat late at night.
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New York
Douglas Club
West Twenty-eighth Street
City Council Violates Charter Over Holiday Pay Orders
Corporation Counsel Babson states in a formal opinion to the Mayor that two recent City Council orders overstep the new charter by directing department heads on pay during G A R encampment and militia camp duty. He argues the council cannot interfere with executive work or hiring and suggests a drafted order could achieve the same ends without violating the charter.
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Boston
Babson
Opposed to Double Track Hearing in Watertown
More than 50 residents crowded a Watertown hearing as remonstrants opposed Middlesex & Boston Street Railway’s plan to double track Main Street unless guaranteed free transfers or a five cent fare to the Waltham line. Company officials argued time savings and regional benefits. the Selectmen took the matter under advisement.
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Watertown
Middlesex & Boston Street Railway
Main Street
Boston
Waltham
Town Hall
P. S. Cunniff
Carl Sylvester
Middlesex & Boston Road
Arsenal
Sylvester
Miss Moorcroft to Make Swim Sunday
Annie Moorcroft known as the Little Iron Girl will swim Sunday from the State bath house Revere to Nahant and back. The event starts at 10 30 in the morning and organizers have devised a flag signaling code to keep spectators informed of her progress.
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Annie Moorcroft
Wonderland
Boston
Bath House
Revere
Nahant
Miss Moorcroft
Seavey resigns as Suffolk School head at Rainsford Island
City Hall announced that Sumner Seavey, head of the Suffolk school for boys at Rainsford Island for 11 years, has resigned due to illness. Trustees named Dr. Charles Rabethge to interim succeed him, with Rabethge serving as physical and athletic director since 1900.
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City Hall
Sumner Seavey
Suffolk School For Boys
Rainsford Island
Children’s Institutions
Charles Rabethge
Seavey
Rabethge
Aviator Lesnin Falls From Plane Near Charleroi
In Charleroi Belgium August 12 aviator M Lesnin fell from his aircraft from about 100 feet sustaining injuries likely to prove fatal.
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Aviator
Charleroi
Belgium
M. Lesnin
Spanish Sonder Boats Arrive for the Races
Three Spanish crown sponsored yachts the Papoose Chonta and Mosquito 2d arrived in Boston on the Henry M Whitney after shipping from Cadiz to race in Marblehead against American yachts. Crews include Javier Pena Francisco Tuton Mariano Amado Doriga and Enrique de Ulbao with Eduardo de Ulbao among others.
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Marblehead
Boston
Henry M. Whitney
Metropolitan Line
Cadiz
Spain
New York
Montevideo
Whitney
Starling
Burgess
Simall
Marklhead
Javier P. Pena
Francisco Tuton
Mariano Amado
Papoose
Manuel Coral
Juan Jose de la Quintana
Victoriana Lopez
Doriga
Enrique de Ulbao
Eduardo de Ulbao
Yachts Selected for Sender Races
Marblehead racing scene features American sonder klasse boats the Harpoon Beaver and Cima as they face Spanish yachts in the President Taft and Governor Draper cups. First race won by Cima, second by Harpoon with Beaver third. Cima leads in overall results with six starts three firsts and a win today. Spanish observers aboard Commodore Clark’s Emerald watch but offer no speed judgments. A strong southerly breeze develops and a six mile triangular second race tests tactics with Harpoon impeding by Demons starboard tack before pulling ahead.
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Marblehead
Charles Francis Adams
E. A. Boardman
C. H. W. Foster
W. Starling Burgess
Cima
Guy Lowell
Charles D. Mower
New York
Sonderklasse
President Taft
Governor Draper
Harpoon
Beaver
Bonivee
F. Lewis Clark
Emerald
Sally XI
Charley Adams
Mr. Adams
Frank Crowninshield
Demon
Harpoon Extends Lead Then Demon Narrowed Gap at Line
Harpoon extended her lead over the Demon to forty seconds but on the reach home the Demon surged, reducing the margin to seventeen seconds at the line. The remaining boats kept their positions as in the earlier race.
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Harpoon
Patten Indicted Again in Cotton Pools Case
New York Aug 12. James A Patten and others previously indicted in June by a special federal grand jury for conspiracy in restraint of trade in the alleged cotton bull pool have been re indicted by a regular federal grand jury. The indictments were sealed and filed two weeks ago but the names were revealed tonight.
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New York
James A. Patten
Beverly Welcomes Senator Dick With Lincoln Pictures Hunt
Senator Charles R Dick of Ohio stirs Beverly friends by seeking copies of two war pictures a Lincoln address to troops and the Stars and Stripes raising in New Orleans both on calendars. Dick plans to campaign for Harding touring Ohio towns, emphasizing a united front for November election.
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Ohio
Beverly
Charles R. Dick
Lincoln
New Orleans
Ohio Sclon
Harding
Warren G. Harding
Marion
Berkshire Hills
Ottawa crack troops visit Boston in September
Major Fitzgerald announced that the Forty third regiment of infantry The Duke of Cornwall's Own from Ottawa Ontario will tour Boston September 3 4 and 5 as guests of the Fifth Massachusetts regiment. The Canadians will march under arms with permission from the Secretary of State and will be entertained by the city for an undetermined extent.
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Fitzgerald
Forty-third
Duke of Cornwall's Own
Ottawa
Ontario
Boston
Massachusetts
Tragic Bar Suicide of 22-Year-Old Lodger
George Austin aged 22 a lodger at 645 Tremont Street shot himself in the head last night about six o clock the bullet piercing his right ear. Police say he had been moody and morose little is known of his relatives.
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George Austin
Tremont Street
Austin
Woman commits suicide in Sanford by chloroform and drowning
Ad die Day, 23, a mill worker, used a handkerchief soaked in chloroform to her face and then plunged her head into a pool by the riverside in Sanford, Maine, on August 12, authorities reported.
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Sanford
Addie Day
Girl Found Dead After Daylong Search Near Mousam River
The body of a girl was recovered this evening after a 24 hour search in which about 100 men and boys participated. She disappeared after leaving work around 4 30 yesterday and is believed to have taken her life shortly thereafter in a secluded part of the Mousam river two miles from the village. The girl's mother Mrs Clinton Day of Mason street is seriously ill with typhoid fever.
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Clinton Day
Mason Street
Mousam River
Boston & Eastern deposits $10,000 for Boston Harbor tunnel
In compliance with a 1910 act, the Boston and Eastern railroad deposited $10,000 with the Boston city treasurer as evidence of good faith before surveys and borings for locating a tunnel under Boston Harbor. The act requires funds to cover Boston Transit Commission supervision expenses. The Governor signed the act on June 15 and the directors filed acceptance the next day.
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Boston & Eastern Railroad
General Court
Boston & Hastern Railroad
Boston Harbor
Boston
Boston Transit Commission
Boston & Eastern
Secretary of State
Colored Boys' Band To Play Here For Orphanage Fund
The Reverend D J Jenkins president of the Orphanage and Reformatory of Charleston S C tours the North with the brass band to raise funds for enlarging and improving the institution for destitute colored children. A service will be held Sunday August 14 at St Paul Baptist Church Tremont and Camden streets.
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D. J. Jenkins
Orphanage and Reformatory of
Charleston
S. C
St. Paul Baptist Church
Tremont
Camden Streets
Watson Appointed Vacation Officer
James A. Watson known as Jerry in political circles, becomes a vacation officer at Charles Street jail. He received the appointment yesterday and started work immediately with a salary of five dollars per month.
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Watson
James A
Jerry
Charles Street
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Hunt
Suffolk
Horsford
Sudkury S9r
BY Harry B. Center
Harmon Wastcoat Dahl Co
Woetherell
Atlas
Cleveland
Pierce
Gillespie
Japan
Underwriters’ Salvage Co
Travers Street
Mass
Joseph A Sone
Gam
Mgr
Ronivee
Saily XI
Lady Sacsee
Patten
Cotton
Colored Boys
Old South Clothing Co
Hanover Street
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