Harvard Squantum Aero Meet Opens With High Hopes
The second Harvard aviation meet at Squantum will begin this afternoon with more than 50 000 in prizes. Attendees include Lincoln Beachey Claude Grahame White Earle L Ovington Eugene Ely Thomas Sopwith George Beatty and Clifford Harmon as pilots ready to fly Bleriot Monoplane Wright Biplane and Nieuport machines. Beachey aims to defend Chicago meet victory while Grahame White eyes speed events and Beachey seeks another altitude record.
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Squantum
England
Old
New England
Tor
Claude Grahame-White
Nieuport
Earle L. Ovington
Boston
Eugene B. Ely
Thomas Sopwith
Grahame-White
Wright
George W. Beatty
Chicago
America
Clifford B. Harmon
New York
Harry N. Atwood
St. Louis
Harmon
Atwood
Farman
Lincoln Beachey
Harvard
George Nolan
Glenn Curtiss
Beachey
Atwood Flight Over Bay Sparks Refund Demands and Legal Risk
Thousands paid to see Charles Atwood end his St Louis to New York flight at Sheepshead Bay but were disappointed when he stopped at Governor's Island. He says he owes no one money beyond a $10,000 prize and recounts heavy personal costs while noting plans for possible litigation over refunds.
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New York
Atwood
Sheepshead Bay
Governor's Island
Sheepshead
Mr. Atwood
St. Louis
Victor J. Evans
Washington Chamber of Commerce
Evans
Albany
Nyack
Walter Lissberger
Atwood Declares Aero Club License Number 33
New York, Aug. 25. Harry N. Atwood says there is no truth to claims he lacks a license. He states he holds one issued by the Aero Club of America, numbered 33 and properly registered to the best of his knowledge.
Atwood’s trip recounts a near crash in flight
In New York on August 25, Atwood reports feeling as fine as a fiddle after starting from Nyack. He explains his biplane’s engine back-fired, catching part of the aircraft in flames, but bystanders quickly extinguished the fire with sand.
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New York
St. Louis
Nyack
Belmont urges wider deeper canal for wartime use
Belmont and Colonel Miller spoke at the Old Colony Club banquet in Beach Belmont New York outlining plans to deepen to nine feet more and widen to 100 feet to enable war fleets to use the Cape Cod Canal. They warned the canal as planned would be unusable by large battleships during war.
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Monument Beach
Belmont
New York
Cape Cod Canal Company
Old Colony Club
Norcross House
J. W. Miller
Canal Company
United States
Colonel Miller
Mr. Belmont
United States Navy
Provincetown
Long Island Sound
Cape Cod Bay
Kong Island
New York City
Cape Cod
Atwood Lands in New York Not Coming to Boston Today
Charles A. Atwood completed a record long distance flight from St. Louis to Governor's Island New York with 20 en route legs totaling 1365 miles. He landed amid cheers from U S Army officers and crowds along the Hudson and said his next long flight may be coast to coast, while promising to deliver letters collected for Boston girls.
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Atwood
New York
Boston
St. Louis
Governor's Island
Nyack
N. Y
Forty-second Street
Governor’s Island
Hudson
United States Army
America
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Atlantic Coast
Walsh Enters Democratic Race for Clerk of Superior Court
Boston political scene shapes up with Chairman Richard M. Walsh declaring for the Democratic nomination against Clerk Francis A. Campbell. Walsh plans to file signatures after noon and is believed to have Mayor Fitzgerald’s backing. Campbell counts ward chairmen and Lomasney opposition. Donovan Kelcher Doyle group backs Campbell. Ex Representative Edward Collins also seeks clerk. A competitive Suffolk county slate includes Cronin, O Connell, Manning, and other nominations for attorney general and councillor seats.
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Richard M. Walsh
Boston Board of Both Trustees
Superior Court
Francis A. Campbell
Walsh
Fitzgerald
Campbell
Joseph P. Lomasney
Lomasney
Donovan-Kelcher-Doyle
Edward Collins
Suffolk County
John
Cronin
Supreme Judicial Court
Walter F. Frederick
James F. O'Connell
Dorchester
John P. Manning
Superior Criminal Court
Henry J
Strike vote expected unanimous in San Francisco
E L Requin president of the San Francisco Federation of Shop Employees of the Harriman lines says a secret vote underway here will be unanimous for a strike. He notes the result will not be made public.
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San Francisco
E. L. Requin
San Francisco Federation of Shop
Harriman Lines
Obituary Notices From Boston Area Aug 24 1923
Funeral notices for Barnes Boyd Buckley Coughlin Cronin Curran Donovan Dunn Fitzpatrick Flannery Harding Lewis McNeil Niles list residence, dates, times, and churches for services across So. Braintree Melrose Roxbury East Boston Quincy and Brookline. Families urged to attend with customary mass offerings and burial plans.
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Barnes
Braintree
Luther RB. Barnes
Thayer Place
Malne
Boyd
Melrose
Charles O. Boyd
U. 8S
Grant Post
Youle Street
Buckley
Waltham
Mary Buckeley
Timothy Buckley
Cushing Street
St. Charles Church
Calvary
Coughlin
Cambridge
Daniel J
Hannah Coughlin
Corkery
Marney Street
St. Patrick’s Church
St. Finbar's Court
Catholic Order of Foresters
Columbia
Irish National Foresters
City Employees’ Union
St. Patrick's
U. N. Society
Cronin
Boston
Thomas J
Hampden Street
Roxbury
South End
St. Patrick's Church
Donovan
Colorado Springs
Col
Fred M
Timothy
Annie Donovan
Bradstreet Avenue
Roslindale
Church of the Sacred Heart
Dunn
Mary B. Meldon
John J. Dunn
Andrew J
Hannah Meldon
O'Donnell
Pcott Place
Prescott Street
St. Paterick’s Church
Dudley Street
Fitzpatrick
Susie V. Fitzpatrick
Calumet Street
Mission Church
Calvary Cemetery
Blannery
Brookline
Neltie V
Patrick
Ann Flannery
Houlihan Avenue
St. Lawrence's Church
Caroline G. Lewis
Simon
Katie Lewis
A. m
M'Neil
Murdock
Olive
Dir
Niles
Rockne le
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Harvard Aviation Field
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Palisades
Jersey
Wlon
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Washington Streets
London Raincoat Co
Aviator
Yonkers
Grant
Riverside Park
Fiftieth Street
Boston Girls
Aviation Club OF
Earle
P. Ovington
Joseph J. Leonard
Ward 22
Harvey N. Shepard
George W. Anderson
Warner
Warner's
Safe Cure
Rochester
John T
Union Street
Greater Boston
Faneuil Hall
Packer
North
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