New Ocean Vessel Mount Hope Seagoing Kraft to Sail
Mount Hope Sagamore and Henry W Cramp to be modern vessels with electric lighting steam heating patent engines windlasses and steering gear They will be 282 feet long 44 feet beam and 21 1 2 feet deep carry 4000 tons of cargo and cost about 100000. Schooners Mary E Palmer and William B Palmer released from Norfolk after navigation law issue and carrying coal to Guantanamo for war vessels. Tug Harry Roussel to be renamed Ariel with new name boards.
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Henry W. Cramp
Mary E. Palmer
Wiliam B. Palmer
Norfolk
Key West
Guantanamo
Harry Roussel
Ariel
Pilot House
Bows
Close the Bath Move Stalls City Bath Funding
The Boston Common Council failed to pass a $13 700 appropriation for bath house improvements after an earlier unanimous board vote. Mayor Quincy scheduled another special meeting to seek loans as the Bath Commission warns the baths may stay shut Friday. A separate welfare measure to fund free carriage rides for sick soldiers was approved with $500.
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Ninth Congressional District
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Turnbull
Frank Coyle
Chemical Company No. 1
United States
Massachusetts Volunteers
Joseph F. Hickey
Ward
Patrick J. Grady
Michael O’connor
Joseph D. Lane
Francis W. Carey
Michael MM. Burke
Navy creates board to review meritorious Spanish War officers
Washington Aug 30 The acting Secretary of the Navy appoints a high ranking board to consider cases of officers deserving reward for meritorious service during the Spanish American War. Members include Rear Admirals Sicard Matthews Norton with Marine Corps Colonel Heywood to sit for Marine cases. The new board aims to correct perceived promotion injustices and avoid further complaints.
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Washington
Secretary of the Navy
Navy Department
Spain
Montgomery Sicard
Naval War, Or
Stategy Board
Edward O. Matthews
Navy Examining and Retiring Boards
Charles 8. Norton
Washington Navy Yard
Charles Heywood
Marine Corps
Soldiers' Home to Aid Cuban War Sick
Captain John G B Adams presides over a plan to allocate two dormitories in Sargent Hall for hospital use and to receive sick soldiers returning from the Cuban campaign. George D W Creasey Superintendent notes readiness to care for up to forty men, in coordination with Elihu B Hayes of the Massachusetts Volunteer Aid Association.
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Board of Trustees
Sargent Hall
Asa
Elihu B. Hayes, Esq
Massachusetts Volunteer Aid Association
War Hero Ensign Powelson’s Wyoming Wedding Dilemma
Ensign Powelson, praised for wartime valor with the auxiliary cruiser St. Paul, sought immediate marriage to Miss Margaret Millar of Wyoming. After delays from the war, a telegram from Montauk Point spurred her to resist a public big church wedding, choosing a private ceremony in Philadelphia instead as a bridesmaid prepares to travel.
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Maine
Havana
St. Paul
Margaret Olivia Millar
Miss Millar
Wyoming
Old Point Comfort
Powelson
Sigsbee
Montauk Point
Big Stone Presbyterian Church
Mrs. Powelson
Philadelphia
Czar Peace Note Sparks Mixed European Reactions
European papers debate the Czar’s peace note with calls for a Copenhagen premiers conference and possible broader talks. Paris ridicules the move as unfriendly to Franco-Russian ties while Hamburg notes a shared German and Russian wish for lasting peace. Spain urges attention to the matter as U S and Europe weigh a wider conference and possible war implications.
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Hamburg
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William
Germany
Madrid
Imparcial
Faure Andmperor William
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United States
Europe
Mediterranean
China Sea
Suffering drove them crazy at sea voyage
James E. McDonald, steward of the City of Macon transport ship used in the war, reports that about 100 Seventeenth United States Infantry soldiers returning from Santiago may become mentally unbalanced. He recalls extreme suffering aboard the vessel with signs of hunger and near starvation driving men to crawl on deck.
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Amesbury
James E. McDonald
Macon
Seventeenth United States Infantry
Santiago
McDonald
Seventeenth Regiment
Tosca Named Secretary for Cuban Military Commission
Ernest L. Tosca, longtime assistant at the Havana consulate and secretary to General Lee, is chosen to accompany the Cuban military commission to Havana as one of its secretaries.
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Washington
Ernest L. Tosca
Havana
Donna Francisca Arrives at East Boston With Jute and Saltpetre
The steel four masted vessel Donna Francisca under Captain J. Simon pulled into Grand Junction wharf East Boston after a 111 day voyage from Calcutta carrying 15 446 bales of jute butts and 193 tons saltpetre. The captain's wife accompanied the crew on the long journey. The ship measures 2163 tons net register, slightly larger than the Sofala under Captain Auld.
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Grand Junction
Boston
J. Simon
Calcutta
Billy Kemp
Juno
Sofala
Auld
Boston Sea News and Theatre Listings Mix of Harbors and Plays
Boston reports on a two week vacation for Boston stevedore Boston and crew changes aboard tug William H. Gallison and French. Fishing fleet unloads 300000 pounds of fish at prices per hundredweight. Steamers and steamship officers noted with honors and recent arrivals. Theatre and local attractions list upcoming shows, cast, and tours around Boston.
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Madge
Old
Kentucky
Germany
Mr. Litt
Berlin
Vienna
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Milwaukee
Newport
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New York
W. J. Ferguson
M. A. Kennedy
Sadie Martinez
Grace George
Merri Osborne
Louisa Eldridge
Julia Arthur
Rosalind
Miss Arthur
Charles A. Bigelow
Hollyn Mostyn
Olive Redpath
Yvande Wallace
Herald Square Theatre
Park Theatre
Boston
Castle Square
John Stetson
Old Globe Theatre
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