Cap n Fortier’s daring rescue saves crew on Alert of Gloucester
Eight crewmen reach Boston after surf peril off Newfoundland coast. Captain J F Fortier devised a halyard pendulum to swing sailors to safety as Charles Conrad battled under tow and rose to the rocks. One man, Alexander Grant, perished. the rest walked eight miles to a farmhouse and later traveled to Halifax. The Alert, valued at 30000, owned by Gloucester Captain John Chislhelm, was partly insured.
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Alert
Gloucester
Boston
Halifax
Newfoundland
Charles Conrad
J. F. Fortier
Alexander Grant
Prince Edward Island
Captain Fortier
Marina
Conrad
Simon Perry
Grant
Stevensville
Sydney
N. S
Bruce
Fortier
Frank Ryder
Eugene de Fontaine
James Morash
Gilbert Fisher
Martin Tascan
Duncan Chisholm
Chisholm
Nova Scotia
John Chishelm
Albany to dissolve ice trust in notable New York case
Attorney General Mayer filed a lawsuit in New York County Supreme Court seeking dissolution of the American Ice Company. The complaint claims July 1906 ice prices averaged 4 78 per ton with up to 84 percent wagon sale profits and alleges company control over Maine ice fields and New York ice bridges driving price hikes for independent dealers and poor districts.
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Albany
N. Y
Mayer
Tce Company
Supreme Court of
New York County
Ice Trust
New York
Maine
New York City
Lawyer Beard Files Bankruptcy Petition in U S District Court
Daniel B. Beard a Lynn based lawyer filed a voluntary bankruptcy petition listing liabilities at 3997 and assets at 760. One secured creditor, Mabel Walker of Lynn, holds a 480 claim. Unsecured creditors include Arthur Lyman 200 Tf Emerson Co 807 Earl A Moore 155 C P George 135 Fidelity and Deposit 100 Bartlett Anderson 150 and Lynn Y M C A 100. Assets total 700 including 500 debts on open accounts 150 household goods and 50 a military uniform.
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Daniel B. Beard
Nahant Street
Lynn
Beacon Street
Boston
United States District Court
Mabel Walker
Arthur Lyman
Tf. P. Emerson & Co
Earl A. Moore
C. P. George
Fidelity and Deposit Company
Bartlett & Anderson
Lynn Y. M. C. A
Red Cross Receipts Hit 8.38 Million in 1906 Year
War Department audit of the National Red Cross Society shows 1906 receipts totaling $8,378,207 with $2,381,334 in the treasury. Major voluntary sums supported earthquake relief in California and disaster funds for Japan Vesuvian Valparaiso, among others.
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Washington
War Department
National Red Cross Society
Treasury
Society
California
Vesuvian
Funea
Valparaiso
London Harness Co Display Of European Novelties In Boston
Bostonians can view imported articles from London Paris and other cities at the London Harness Company located at 176 Devonshire and 27 Federal streets. The shop features silver porcelain Carlsbad ware Vienna after dinner sets Black Forest bottles leather goods and pigskin items, offering an almost Regent Street feel in Boston.
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London
Paris
Europe
London Harness Company
Devonshire
Federal Streets
Vienna
Regent
New Bond Street
Heat incident at Sullivan Square hospitalizes three
James Cowan, 64, of 52 Magazine Street Roxbury, was taken to Relief Hospital after being overcome by heat in the boiler room of the elevated road power station at Sullivan Square. Charles A. West, 306 Bunker Hill Street, fell entering the Sullivan Square terminal at 9 20 last night and fractured the large bone of his left leg. James McMahon, found in the doorway of 305 Medford Street Charlestown last night, was also taken to Relief Hospital with exhaustion.
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Sullivan Square
James Cowan
Relief Hospital
Cowan
Magazine Street
Roxbury
Charles A
Bunker Hill Street
James McMahon
Medford Street
Charlestown
Skirt Factory Hosts Banquet for 100 Employees
Glickman and Newhoff skirt manufacturers on Otis Street and Arch Street held a post noon banquet for all 100 factory employees yesterday. Addresses were given by D H T Glickman M Newhoff R Jacobson J Appel H Nicholas M Spirtt B Goodman H Wolfman D D Rubin F P Goldstein N Levison K D Brown I Beltzer B Leventhal and G Sumovich. Mr J Nathan acted as toastmaster.
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Glickman & Newhoff
Otis Street
Arch Street
Messrs. D. HT. Glickman
M. Newhoff
R. Jacobson
J. Appel
H. Nicholas
M. Spirtt
B. Goodman
H. Wolfman
Dd, Rubin
FP. Goldstein
Misses N. Levison
KD. Brown
Pershing Faces Charges After Manila Rumors Stir Washington
Reports from Manila claim charges about Brigadier General John J. Pershing’s moral conduct were sent to the War Department. The allegations center on his alleged relationship with a Filipino woman while stationed on Mindanao. The prompt promotion over hundreds of seniors sparked broad controversy in army circles.
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Washington
Manila
War Department
John J. Pershing
Pershing
Congress
Committee of Military Affairs
General Pershing
Senator Warren
Wyoming
Warren
Roosevelt
Willard
Mindanao
Joaquina Bondo Y Tgnaecio
Per
Savage Removed From City Service In Civil Service Ruling
John K Savage of Dorchester former Republican street commissioner candidate is removed from the city's sewer department by Civil Service Commission ruling. He had served as civil engineer, work limited by civil service five day maximum at a time, and his removal follows the rules.
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John KE. Savage
Dorchester
Savage
Civil Service Commission
Civil Service
James A. Gulivan
Civil Service Commissioners
Propose Registration of All Americans Living Abroad
The naturalization commission urges a nationwide plan to record Americans abroad. It recommends birth certificates from the State Department for native Americans living overseas, annual consular registration, and eventual citizenship oaths at 21. It calls for limited passports and criteria for expatriation, marriage, and child citizenship through parent naturalization.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Naturalization Commission
State Department
United States
Commission
Nursing Mothers and Over-burdened Women
Nursing Mothers and Over-burdened Women In all stations of life, whose vigor and vitality may have been undermined and broken-down by overwork, exacting social duties, the too frequent bearing of children, or other causes, will find in.
Dr Pierce's Favorite Prescription touted for women's health
An advertisement for Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription claims it strengthens and nourishes nursing mothers and prepares expectant mothers for childbirth. It markets the glyceric extract as free of alcohol, lists related products, and invites inquiries to Dr. Pierce in Buffalo New York for more information.
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Pierce
R. V. Pierce
Buffalo
N. Y
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Washington, Hanover and
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DR. Pierce
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