Heavy Storm Charges Coast and Sea Threaten Landmarks
A fierce storm battered land and sea with high winds uprooting trees tearing poles and endangering Highland Light. An unidentified schooner sank distress off Round Hill while vessels sheltered in Boston harbor. Debris injuries occurred on Boylston Street as a falling tree injured Newton Crane and another man.
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Bar
Reef
Round Hill
New Bedford
Roadstead
Mabel A. Frye
Boston
Coast Guard
Ossipee
Highland Light
Deer Island
Winthrop
Boylston Street
Brookline
Newton Crane
Beacon Street
Crane
William A. Rolfe
Carter
Unidentified schooner drift perilously near Round Hill
Round Hill near New Bedford faces a drifting schooner in peril as the Acushnet and Sherman fail to reach it before daybreak. The Luella Nickerson breaks from moorings at New Bedford Fairhaven bridge while three coal barges drift to the State pier. Life Savers from Cuttyhunk sail to support rescue if needed.
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Round Hill
New Bedford
Sherman
Acushnet
Anthony Smith
Edward H. R. Green
Hetty Green
New Bedford Tow Boat Company
Luella Nickerson
Fairhaven
State Pier
Cuttyhunk Life Saving Station
Portland Weather Rages as Lines Fail Across City
Heavy rain and a fierce gale disrupts Portland utilities with the Presumpscot River rising to high levels. By 7 PM about 250 local telephone lines and several toll lines are out of service as an inch and a half of rain falls and winds reach 50 miles per hour.
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Concord
Lexington
Portland
Storm shuts Roxbury lights as storm darkens district
A heavy storm caused a cross circuit on electric wires in Roxbury Crossing. Police and patrols used lanterns and flashlights while storekeepers and residents relied on kerosene lamps for roughly two hours. Lights failed from about 5:35 to 7:00 and again from 7:30 to after 8:00.
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Roxbury Crossing
Lenox Street
Harris Leaves Home for Marlboro
William A. Harris secretary of the State Health Association vanished from Bangor after a search began last Saturday night. A telegram reported he had gone to Marlboro Massachusetts and promised to explain everything on his return.
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Bangor
William A. Harris
The
State Health Association
Ralph Whittier
Marlboro
Mass
Parker Club to field strong hockey team this winter
The Parker Club of Lexington plans to play hockey this winter and seeks games with Greater Boston club teams. Alden Kelly, manager, can be reached in Lexington Massachusetts.
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Parker Club
Lexington
Greater
Boston
Alden Kelly
Mass
City hearing on sprinkler law for Boston tenements
The committee on municipal finance will hold a 10:30 a m hearing in Room 460 of the State House on a bill to suspend temporarily the requirement for automatic sprinklers in Boston tenement houses.
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Committee On Municipal Finance
Boston
State House
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City of
Gloucester
Fish City
Cutter
Percale
Madras
Jordan Marsh Company
Storm
Roxbury
Harris
Maine
Scott’s
Ates
Hovey’s
America
TOY Manufacturers OF
U.S. A
Flatiron Building
New York City
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