New England Woman Climbs 20,000-Foot Peak
Miss Annie S. Peck, Providence native and renowned climber, reportedly sets a world mark by scaling Mt Sorata in Bolivia at 20,000 feet. Rhode Island supplied support for the expedition. Peck, a Michigan University graduate, teaches classics at Purdue and Smith colleges and is also described as an artist musician and capable homemaker.
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Miss Peck
Sorata
Bolivia
Orizaba
Mex
Shasta
Cal
Iatterhorn
Switzerland
Sos
Mt. Toluca
Rhode Island
Esquimaux
Peary
Michigan University
Purdue
Smith Colleges
Old Home Week Festivities Honor New Hampshire Heroes
Old Home week brings thousands to New Hampshire with Chester dedicating a monument to soldier sons. George C. Hazelton delivers the Chester oration as General John C. Black, Colonel Henry O. Kent, Corporal Tanner, Henry W. Burnham and Congressman Sulloway attend. Governor Bachelder opens his series of Old Home week addresses at Rindge. Richmond dedicates a monument marking the birthplace of Eliza Ballou Garfield, mother of President James A. Garfield.
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Concord
N. H
New Hampshire
Chester
George C. Hazelton
Washington, D. C
John CC. Black
Henry O. Kent
New Hampshire Department
Corporal Tanner
Henry W. Burnham
Sulloway
Bachelder
Rindge
Richmond
Eliza Ballou Garfield
James A. Garfield
Metal Men Allege Law Violation On Schools
Sheet Metal Workers Union 17 last night appointed a committee to visit Mayor Collins and the Schoolhouse Commission to protest firms doing schoolhouse work. They charge these firms keep workers on nine hour shifts contrary to contract specifications.
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Sheet Metal Workers’ Union 17
Collins
Schoolhouse Commission
Waiters' Union 80 Reports Full Membership Employed
Business Agent Cornelius Donovan announced that all members are employed. Frank C. McDonough was nominated as international auditor.
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Cornelius Donovan
Tnion 80
Frank C. McDonough
Nashua Mill Shuts Down for Repairs
Nashua Manufacturing Company, Nashua New Hampshire, has ordered a two week mill shutdown for repairs. About 3000 operatives will be idle.
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Nashua
Nashua, N. H
Nashua Manufacturing Company
Oculist-Watter Taken to Jail in Waveway Avenue Theft
James Paine, 24, a native of the Barba does, claimed oculist status with glasses and a diploma. He was arraigned on a charge of stealing a watch from a Waveway avenue room in Winthrop and lodged in Charles street jail until his case. He was photographed yesterday. no record found yet. He previously worked as a waiter at Young's Hotel Boston, the Nevada House, and Crest Ifall before arrest. A watch is said to have fallen from his trousers at arrest, and pawn tickets found on him were sent to New York for lookup.
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James Paine
Barbadoes
Waveway Avenue
Winthrop
Charles Street
Paine
Winter
Colonel Maitland
Maitland
Sutgrove
War Office
Bradshaw
Union committees aid 800 strikers in Boston meeting
A convention of committees from Bakers' Unions 4 and 53 and many others last night backed the 800 striking bakers. The gathering funded Colorado miners and Sall River strikers relief, while various unions announced unit actions and elections, including John Stevens as business agent for Boston Journeymen Free Stone Cutters' Union and several fringe items on carpentry, bricklaying, and garment workers.
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Bakers
L. U
B. T. WU
John Stevens
Boston Journeymen Free Stone Cutters’ Union
Colorado
Sall River
Daniel H. Deegan
Boston Carpenters' District Council
International Auditing and Finance Committee
Milwaukee
Boston Marble Letters’ Union
Boston
State Street
Broad and
Franklin Streets
John Ferguson
Carpenters’ District 6
Bridge and Structural Iron Workers Union
Chelsea
L. A
Cooks’ Union
Bricklayers’ Union
Fall River
Custom Tailors’ Union
Thrilling exploits of a modern Dick Turpin
A narrator and Colonel Maitland dine while discussing the Motor Pirate now terrorizing Salisbury and Plymouth. After dinner Winter drives a powerful Daimler through London’s streets, then a mysterious boat shaped another car shadows and overtakes them. The masked motor robber confirms the chase as the duel escalates.
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Dick Turpin
Knights of the Road
Salisbury
Plymouth
Eay
Maitland
A. O. H. Convention at Holyoke Opens Today
A. O. H. convention opens in Holyoke with candidacy talk centered on Mr. Cummings. A Suffolk county leader, 44, has guided the local order for two years and seeks to keep the fraternal body free of factional disputes while aiding the sick and burying the dead.
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Post
Cummings
Order
Suffolk County
A O H Assembly Opens Conventions in Holyoke
About 159 delegates left Boston for the A O H State convention in Holyoke with many delegates from the ladies auxiliary. Nearly 800 delegates and city officials attended the opening ball at City Hall. Officers will be elected Wednesday as the contest for State president promises to be lively with Matthew Cummings, Daniel H. Toomey, and John J. Rogers in the field. The Massachusetts division by laws will be updated to the new national constitution adopted at St. Louis. The auxiliary meets in Tamperance and lists 12 000 members.
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Ladies’ Auxiliary
Matthew Cummings
Neponset
Suffolk County
Daniel H. Toomey
Springfield
John J. Rogers
Worcester
St. Louis
Massachusetts
John A. Ryan
Boston
Tamperance
Ellen S. Hayes
Abington
Mary McCarthy
Westfield
Eliza Sheehan
Reception of Home Market Club at Mechanics' Building
The Home Market Club engaged Mechanics' Building for its annual reception and dinner in mid November. Senator Fairbanks will attend with likely one or two nationally prominent speakers. The club anticipates Republican success and a jubilee.
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Home Market Club
Fairbanks
Boy Returns 345000 Overpayment to Bank
Louisville Ag 22 Harry B Cassin, a 16 year old bank runner, returned to Southern National Bank a package of bills valued at 361000 instead of 315000 after being given 45000 too much. He explained the error and handed back the excess.
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Louisville
Harry B. Cassin
Southern National Bank
Cassin
First National Bank
President May Save Soldier In Philippine Court Martial
Washington August 2 One of the few sentences of death recommended for an American soldier from the Philippines is found in the court martial proceedings of Private Fred H Scow of Company M Twentieth Infantry. He deserted in Luzon in July 1900 was recaptured then escaped and joined insurgents in Mindoro and was recaptured in May 1902. It is believed the President will commute the sentence.
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Washington
Phillippines
Fred H. Scow
Company M
Twentieth United States Infantry
Scow
Luzon
Mindoro
Highway men steal $1900 from mill manager in Richville
Bert Belmont, manager of the McAllister flour and feed mill at Richville in St. Lawrence County, was attacked by three men near his home last night. They clubbed him with a sand bag and took $1900 in currency. the assailants fled and remain at large.
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Watertown
N. Y
Bert Belmont
McAllister Flour and
Richville
St. Lawrence County
Sweeping Reduction by Penn Railroad
The Pennsylvania Railroad cuts shop time in half for machine shop workers with alternating eight hour shifts. Starting tomorrow, one shift works Mondays and Wednesdays, the other Tuesdays and Thursdays, with the shops closed the rest of the week. Duration of the order is not known.
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Altoona
Penn
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Sued Drugstore Seeks 15000 Conspiracy Damages
Malden August 22 D W Faulkner druggist on Pleasant street sues in restraint of trade against the National Association of Druggists called the East Middlesex Retail Druggist Association Its members include R P Hoagland Drug Company Eastern Drug Company Parke Davis Co H R Grant Everett Ice Cream Co R A Fash Charlestown and the Davis Ice Cream Co Charlestown The writ returnable in Cambridge Superior Court in October seeks 15000 ad damnum
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Malden
D. W. Faulkner
Pleasant Street
National Association of Druggists
East Middlesex Retail Druggist Association
R. P. Hoagland Drug Company
Eastern Drug Company
Parke, Davis & Co
H. R. Grant
Everett Ice Cream Company
Superior Court
Cambridge
Collieries Resume Work in Wilkes-Barre Area
After a week long suspension all collieries of the Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Coal Company resumed work today in Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania.
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Wilkesbarre
Penn
Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Coal Company
Cleveland goes fishing trip with S. L. Powers
Ex President Cleveland is on a fishing trip on Lake Winnipesaukee guest of Congressman Samuel J. Powers. They stay at Philip H. Downes cottage at Meredith Neck. Mrs Cleveland and party ladies cruise the lake in the yacht Gilnockie.
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Meredith, N. H
Cleveland
Winnipesaukee
Samuel J. Powers
Philip H. Downes
Meredith Neck
Sligo Club Elects Officers At Union Park Hall
At the last regular meeting of the Sligo Social Club held at Union Park Hall, officers for the ensuing term were elected. Michael J. Kemmitt is president Joseph Hart vice president Owen J. Lavin treasurer John Merrick recording secretary Stephen Griffin financial secretary P F Hynes corresponding secretary Thomas H Regan sergeant at arms John Tuyons assistant sergeant at arms P K O Lally librarian Patrick Mitchell Michael Hanigan Patrick Bruen trustees.
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Sligo
Union Park Hall
Michael J. Kemmitt
Joseph Hart
Owen J. Lavin
John Merrick
Stephen Griffin
P. F. Hynes
Thomas H. Regan
John Tuyons
P. K. O'Lally
Patrick Mitchell
Michael Hanigan
Patrick Bruen
Dr Sheffield Creme Dentffice in collapsible tubes
An advertisement for Dr Sheffield s Creme Dentffice notes it is sold in collapsible tubes and mailed for 25 cents if a druggist does not stock it. The fragment shifts to a travel scene with Winter and a colonel driving at night under a bright moon, describing a sharp air and clear sky.
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Cricklewood
Winter
Steamer New Brunswick Extends Summer Trips Near Boston
The steamer New Brunswick will run a short supplementary season of special trips from now until about September 15 due to popular demand. Operations will continue around Boston Harbor reflecting the summer excursion boom and extended service through early autumn.
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New Brunswick
Boston Harbor
Eastern Steamship Co Autumn Ex cursions advertised
The Eastern Steamship Company announces special autumn excursions over the International division. Regular trips continue through the season, with excursions from Boston to Lastport Lubec St Andrews Calais St John and Maritime Province points available during the autumn period.
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Eastern Steamship Company
International Division
Boston
Lastport
Lubec
St. Andrews
Calais
St. John
Maritime Province
Nantasket Beach Steamer Season Peaks at Nantasket
Nantasket remains at the height of the season as crowds flock to Rowe's wharf steamers. Thousands board daily, with ships departing hourly in day and evening service to Nantasket. Passengers enjoy band concerts and harbor sails on the last boat of the day.
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Nantasket
Rowe’s Wharf
Sail to Plymouth on the new Old Colony steamer
Visitors can reach Plymouth aboard the Old Colony steamship with daily and Sunday departures from Rowe's Wharf at 10 a.m. The three hour sail travels along the south shore to Plymouth.
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Plymouth
Old Colony
Rowe’s Wharf
Bass Point Shore Dinners and Boston Marine Band At Esplanade
Bass Point enjoys a strong reputation for shore dinners as Larricain's Boston Marine Band performs daily on the esplanade. The sail yields a cheerful scene with lively music and pleasant views along the waterfront.
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Bass Point
Larricain
Boston Marine Band
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U. S
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New York
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