Two Alarm Fire In Watertown Draws Crowd At Prentiss Street
A large crowd gathered as a second fire alarm sparked fears of a major blaze in East Watertown. The prior blaze at 59 Riverside Street, owned by Tony Donato and occupied by Donato and Patrolman Thomas Sheridan, burned briefly with $1000 loss from water damage. Fire Capt Fallon and Callman Butler were overcome by smoke but revived.
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Watertown
East Watertown
Prentiss Street
Riverside Street
Tony Donato
Thomas Sheridan
Sheridan
Michael Fallon
Engine 3
George Butler
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Mayr
Purifiers Found Guarding Shores Cast Up by Sea
For two weeks along Jersey and Long Island shores thousands of mysterious phials with white powder have washed ashore. Children have found them and hurled them at rocks causing small explosions, prompting warnings and investigations.
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New York
Associated Press
Jersey
Long Island
Phials of War Purifier Found Washed Ashore Coastwide
From Sea Girt New Jersey to Coney Island and Long Beach beachgoers gathered glass phials washed ashore and wove theories about their origin. Chemists identified contents as calcium hydrochlorite used to purify water during the war not poison or drugs. Authorities could not explain how two years after fighting ended these sealed vacuum tubes returned, with theories ranging from submarine wrecks to currents, until the idea of ocean currents carrying bottles cast overboard from ships gained plausibility.
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Sea Girt
N. J
Coney Island
Long Beach
United States
Bremen
Gaelic Sermon At Warrenton Street Church
The Rev John MacPhail of Leechburg Pa will preach in Gaelic at the Scotch Presbyterian Church Warrenton Street Sunday morning The Rev Chester Wood pastor of the Stoughton Street Baptist Church resigns to join Baptist Foreign Mission Society sails from San Francisco Saturday to work with West China Union University in Chester The Rev Frank W Hodgdon supplies the Union Congregational pulpit Sunday morning W A McFawn leads evening services Forrest Purl directs the Christian Endeavor meeting on Prayer Social and Individual Value.
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John MacPhail
Leechburg
Scotch Presbyterian Church
Warrenton Street
Chester Wood
Stoughton Street Baptist Church
Baptist Foreign Mission Society
San Francisco
West China Union
University of Chester
Frank W. Hodgdon
Union Congregational Church
Columbus Avenue
W. A. McFawn
Forrest Purl
Christian Endeavor Meeting
England to America story wins O. Henry contest
Margaret Prescott Montague’s "England to America" has won the O Henry story contest and will be published in the Boston Sunday Post Magazine next. The award highlights Montague’s narrative craftsmanship and the magazine’s literary prestige.
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England
America
Margaret Prescott Montague
Next Boston Sunday Post
Nature's Remedy Indigestion Relief
A promotional note extols Nature's Remedy NR Tablets as a mild, thorough digestive aid that cleanses the stomach liver bowels and kidneys better than laxatives. It claims quick relief and a money back guarantee, urging readers to buy locally through a seller or dealer.
Four Naval Academy Veterans Reunite Aboard Constitution
Four members from the class of 1860 of the United States Naval Academy met at the Charlestown navy yard aboard the Constitution. Rear Admiral Charles B. Clark Captain Windom Mayo Captain Ira Harris and Colonel James Morgan shared tea and memories recalling the academy’s origins sixty years earlier. Two fought for the Confederacy and two for the Union with Mayo and Morgan siding with the South and Clark and Harris staying loyal to the North.
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United States Naval Academy
Charles B. Clark
Windom Mayo
Ira Harris
James Morgan
Charlestown
Navy Yard
Academy
Constitution
Mayo
Morgan
Clark
Harris
Notable Naval Officers Honor Constitution Crew Lineup
Rear Admiral Robison hosted a luncheon at his home for four distinguished officers including Captain A C Watson and Lieutenant Commander W L Deyo. Governor Coolidge arrived to a 17 gun salute. The article notes many officers from the class of 1960 who served in the Spanish American War and Civil War era vessels and campaigns.
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Robison
Navy Yard
Clark
A. C. Watson
W. L. Deyo
George L. Selfridge
Boston
Naval Academy
Massachusetts Naval Militia
Academy
Oregon
Cape Horn
Mayo
Norfolk
Morgan
Egypt
Army of
United States
Australia
Harris
Fort Fisher
Bogota
N. J
Coolidge
Manila Bay
Santiago
Constitution
Washington
Remarkable Prize Story in Boston Sunday Post Magazine
Margaret Prescott Montague author of Uncle Sam of Freedom Ridge writes England to America a prize story to be printed in the next Boston Sunday Post Magazine.
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England
America
Margaret Prescott Montague
Sam
Freedom Ridge
Boston Sunday Post
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Army
AOI
Lstietol
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A. H. Watson
Governor Coolidge
Charles E. Clark
W. R. Mayo
Jordan Marsh Company
Kold
Cae
Ory Ton OO
New England
Amherst, N. H
Horace Greeley
The
New York Tribune
OCONY
Old Amherst
New Hampshire
Sag Harbor
Guery Gallon Yan
Standard Oil CO
Johnson, Vt
Arthur Mudgett
Berman
Jack of All Trades
Amy Shonfo
Cemete Hill
Mudgett
Rr. Caldwell
Crosa
C. M. Newton
Dayton
Ohio
Naveres
Vth
Callech
Spence
Pat
Peu
Ita
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