City coal offices opened to aid famine relief in Boston
Boston moves to relieve coal famine by opening coal offices in social settlements and city gyms. Demand remains high as crowds queue for fuel. 60 city coal deliveries reach Roxbury and Dorchester. About 2,000 tons lie within 12 hours sail, while pneumonia cases rise among the fuel-poor.
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Boston
City
Cape Cod
Highland Light
Roxbury
Charlestown
Dorchester
Hamlin
Metropolitan Company
South End
Stranger shoots Taylor on Washington Street in fatal double tragedy
In Newark, a stranger shot Thomas B. Taylor in the right thigh then killed H. D. Martin in a suicide after a brief encounter on Washington Street. Taylor, a 57 year old mason, survived. Martin died at the scene. Police reported the assailant appeared insane and was identified by a wallet marked H. D. Martin. NAMEs: H. D. Martin, Thomas B. Taylor. Local hospital and morgue contacted.
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H. D. Martin
Newark
N. J
Thomas B. Taylor
Washington Street
Wilkes Street
Taylor
Martin
Leland Place
Sydney M. Wilder
Columbia Theatre
Wilder
Dover Street
McCarthy
Dedham Street
McQueeney
Melton
C. N. Collamer
Delaware & Lackawanna Railroad
Keith's Theatre
Boston Museum
Umbrellas for Christmas Gifts at Shuman Corner
Christmas umbrellas offered in Japanese Bronze, Box Wood, Congo, Penang, Sterling Silver, Ivory, Pearl, Tiger's Eye, Gun Metal, Buck Horn, and Natural Wood handles. Available for ladies and gentlemen. Priced at $2 to $5. A. Shuman & Co.
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Shuman
Penang
A. Shuman & Co
Crowds at Metropolitan Coal Office Demand Coal Supplies
Long lines form at the Metropolitan Coal Company offices as hopeful customers plead for coal. Clerks offer small quantities and refuse orders exceeding a ton, with dealers H Crafts Sons of Albany Street noting they have limited supply.
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Metropolitan
Metropolitan Coal Company
Messrs. H. Crafts Sons
Albany Street
Four Saved From Helpless Barge After Gale Off Chatham
A Standard Oil barge No 48 and a second barge were torn from a tug’s tow in a northwest gale off Chatham lights. The crew of four were rescued by the fishing schooner Gertrude Captain Publicover after hours of struggling in icy seas. Barge 75 remains missing with rescuers and tugs scouring the bay.
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Standard Oil Company
Chatham Lights
YT Wharf
Gertrude
Publicover
Charles Olsen
de Witt C. Ivins
Charles Peterson
Bayonne
N. J
Chatham
Provincetown
Anton Jorgensen
Trygve Mulwad
Peter Olsen
Wrecked Tug Crew Prisoners Lands in Rockland
Standard Oil barge No. 76 with Captain Herman Oleson and crew was towed to Rockland by the revenue cutter Woodbury after the ocean tug Astral was wrecked on Mt. Desert Rock during a Monday gale. One man was lost from the Astral, while Captain Root and the crew sought shelter and were to be brought in by the Woodbury. The barge crew endured intense cold.
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Rockland
Standard Oil
Herman Oleson
Woodbury
Astral
Root
St. John
N. B
Mt. Desert Rock
Sailed shipmates save crew from frozen wreck off Highland Light
The schooner Patriot rescued Captain R. H. Somerville and six crew members from the abandoned Belle Wooster after it sank near Highland Light. The shipwrecked men faced freezing weather and hunger, with one sailor possibly losing fingers to frostbite. Methebesec, another distressed schooner, was aided by Patriot despite scarce provisions.
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Gloucester
R. H. Somerville
Highland Light
Slade
Patriot
Somerville
Philip Mallet
Silva Comeau
John Richardson
Michael Comeau
Wallace Mallet
Leander Sonia
Harry McClair
Boston
New York
Thatcher
Schooner Nettie Franklin Strands Again Near Shoal
CHATHAM Dec 12 Schooner Nettie Franklin previously stranded on the Rips struck Handkerchief Shoal at midnight last night and was floated off by the Monomoy Point life fit authorities report the vessel remains afloat but attention is drawn to its precarious position and potential salvage efforts
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Chatham
Nettie Franklin
Powers threaten bombardment of Venezuelan ports
War tensions rise as Germany and England threaten to shell La Guaira and Puerto Cabello unless arbitration proceeds. Castro fortifies La Guaira with about 3000 troops, pledging to resist marines and resolve not to yield to force. United States mediation aims to avert war. Curacao dispatch notes residents seeking refuge aboard German and British cruisers Vineta and Ariadne.
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Caracas
Venezuela
Germany
England
la Guaira
Puerto Cabello
Castro
United States
Bowen
London
Daily Mail
Willemstad
Curacoa
Vineta
Venezuela seeks unified loan plan with Britain and Germany
Venezuelan consul Schotborgh described a six month effort led by President Cas tro to gauge foreign creditor sentiment and forge a consolidation of all debts into a single 8 million dollar 1902 loan. The scheme, backed by J and W Seligman and a major French bank, would place an international European controlled bank in charge with customs guarantees and fiscal agents in each port. Negotiations are paused but not abandoned.
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London
Venezuela
United States
Bowen
Great Britain
Germany
Senor Schotbergh
Associated Press
Senor Schotborgh
Castro
J. & W. Seligman & Co
New York
Ised
Cuba and United States sign reciprocal tariff treaty
Havana December 12 A definite treaty of commercial reciprocity was signed at 11 o clock last night by General Bliss and Secretaries Zaldo and Montes It awaits only the signatures of Hay and Queseda and the approval of the two senates to become operative The treaty provides a uniform twenty percent tariff reduction on Cuban products entering the United States and includes a parallel list showing reductions by each side but no material changes can now be made.
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Havana
Cuba
United States
Bliss
Zaldo
Montes
Hay
Senor Queseda
Miss Cox's will makes many large bequests
The will of Miss Mary Sarah Silver Cox of 285 Beacon Street, filed for probate in Suffolk Registry, provides multiple bequests including $15,000 to five cousins, $40,000 to three cousins, $25,000 to an uncle, $10,000 to another cousin, $15,000 to two groups of cousins’ children, and $5,000 to another cousin. Charities receive $5,000 each and $4,000 is left to Charles B. Barnes Jr. and Mary P. Barnes to fund a sewing school at the North End Union in Boston.
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Mary Sarah Silver Cox
Beacon Street
Suffolk
Boston Home For Incurables
Perkins Institution
Massachusetts Hospital For the Blind
Boston Industrial School For
Boston Y. M. Co. A
Charles B. Barnes, Jr
Mary P. Barnes
North End Union
Boston
Snow Forecast For Boston And Vicinity
Snow is expected in Boston and surrounding areas. Saturday brings fresh to brisk north to east winds with additional snowfall. Sunday could see more snow or rain with warmer southerly winds and continued unsettled conditions.
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Boston
Aged Teamster Killed in Roxbury Street Collision
Sayles H. Angell. 70, a teamster for C. H. Robinson, of 121 Kendall street, was struck by an electric car on Roxbury street near Gay at about 10 o clock yesterday. He was pitched head first and died within minutes. The body was moved to City Hospital morgue with Dr. Draper notified.
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Sayles H. Angell
Tremont Street
C. H. Robinson
Kendall Street
Roxbury Street
Gay
City Hospital
Draper
Knowlton's State The Same
Hosea M. Knowlton's condition remains the same. Report from New Bedford on December 12 notes no change in his medical status and no new developments in his case.
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Knowlton
New Bedford
Hosea M. Knowlton
Old Age Reversed by Father John's Medicine Claim
Mr. S. H. Hancock of Kingville, Mass., aged 17, says he felt himself growing weaker and older. After taking Father John's Medicine he feels like a young man again and recommends it to others needing relief from pares and colds.
Venezuela Crisis Doubtful Outcome Faces Foreign Claims
Washington realizes the Venezuela situation is highly doubtful with multiple national claims. If only Britain and Germany claimed Venezuela a solution might arise, but France Italy the United States and possibly others oppose any settlement coerced by Britain and Germany.
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Washington
Venezuela
Great Britain
Germany
France
Italy
United States
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Wellington
Wellington Wild Coal Company
Cambridge
Donovan
Appleton & Grant
Appleton
New England Gas and Coke Company
Standard, Oil Company
Stranger
Cheever Cravats
All
Venezuelan
James H. Duckrey
Mt. Olive Baptist Church
Duckrey
Democratic Party
Tr Church
Massachusetts Avenue
Dockrey
Herbert Wolcott Bowen
Thompson's Spa
A. L. Douglas
Admiralty
Quebec
Canadian Lakes
Tokio
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