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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1910
Page
3
The Blackington Mills of North Adams offer 1200 styles of worsteds and cheviot suitings in new season shades. The pitch highlights top yarn quality and assures buyers this is the best buy of the speaker’s career. Also notes seasonal fashion shift toward heavier garments as autumn approaches.
A Dorchester blaze at J. A. King’s hay and grain store on Dunbar avenue drove about six families from their homes. Neighbors helped move furniture from two nearby tenements as flames threatened the Cook and Wilson households. Leon Cook sounded the alarm, and firefighters contained the fire within minutes. loss is estimated under $2000 with unknown cause.
After six hours against a southwest wind and Lynn Channel tide, Annie Moorcroft known as the Little Iron Girl finished her eight and a half mile Revere Beach to Bass Point and return swim at Oak Island yesterday afternoon.
Miss Morecroft, fourteen sections of a mile and back, swam from the life saving station to Bass Point and back, cheered by 50,000 onlookers. She used the trudgeon stroke, faced strong tides and wind on the return, and was towed to the bath house by her party including her brother George trainer John McLean and Commodore Thomas Willis. Elsie Ackroyd previously completed a similar feat.
West Point cadets present a "3 in 1 and Wild West" show at Camp Hawkins during summer encampment. The program features rough riding cowboy sports and military evolutions described as the most awe inspiring and thrilling ever witnessed on the West Point plateau.
The program featured Colonel William Bison a nod to a famed West promoter with whiskers like a top cavalry officer. Professor Heinrich and Captain Carlos wowed with a trained horse Oh Bee Anna and dog Cupid while spectators noted real West Point officers Captain Henry and Captain Charles resemble the performers and Cupid’s bond with Captain Charles is noted.
In Wilhelmshaven on August 14 the former German battleships Weissenburg and Kurfuerst Friedrich Wilhelm were delivered to the Turkish navy and set sail for Constantinople under Rear Admiral Koch with 26 Turkish officers aboard.
More than 200 Catholic men and women from across the archdiocese travel from Boston by train to Auriesville New York to honor Father Jogues. The journey is led by Rev James McCool with Father Gasson unable to attend. The group includes prominent Boston civic figures and college alumni. They arrive near Albany then proceed to Mass on the hill of torture and stations of the cross at the shrine. They plan three or four days in New York with extensive religious services today.
In Doual France Aug 14 German papers demand reprisals after a French aviator accidentally crossed the frontier last Thursday. Leblanc, a cross country flight contestant, refused to shake hands with a German officer who sought to congratulate him.
In Old Orchard Me the Rev A B Simpson of New York raised 61500 for the Christian and Missionary Alliance during a two hour session on August 14 pledges 46627 were collected in 30 minutes and 14873 more later bringing the total to 61500. He says this will be his last collection due to disagreements with a late month religious gathering. Volunteers for foreign missions were pledged from 202 people.
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