Wireless system considered for U S Navy ships
The Navy Department moves toward wireless telegra phy signaling between ships. Admiral Bradford directs masts of Pennsylvania class cruisers be lengthened and rigging insulated with hemp, to test various wireless systems including Marconi. No system chosen yet, but new ships will be built to accommodate wireless gear. The British navy already uses wireless on many vessels.
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Washington
Navy Department
Bradford
Bureau of Equipment
Pennsylvania
Marconi
Marconi Plans Cape Breton Telegraph Station Site
Marconi arrived at North Sydney aboard the Bruce and discussed a permanent Atlantic station in Cape Breton with Canadian government officials. He favored a site 100 to 200 feet above sea level, with Louisburg or Sydney among suggested locations, and said four months would be needed to ready the station once chosen.
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Halifax
N.S
Bruce
Signor
Marconi
North Sydney
Smith
Murray
Nova Scotia
McKenzie
Cape Breton
Louisburg
Mira
Sydneys
Ottawa
Moxham
Sydney
Newfoundland
Ife
Atlantic
Lion Tamer Injured By Lion At Bostock's Arena
Samuel Stevenson, renowned lion trainer at Bostock's animal arena, was struck by a lion in its cage and may lose his right hand. Treated at St Elizabeth's Hospital by Dr Hibbard Ayer, doctors fear blood poisoning. A severed forefinger cord underscores the severity. Princess Brandon remains comatose after a moccasin bite earlier in the week.
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Samuel Stevenson
Bostock
Animal Arena
Denver
Will
St. Elizabeth's Hospital
Brookline Street
Hibbard Ayer
Stevenson
Bonavita
Brandon
Opposition to Boston Wharf bridge plan rattles business
Boston businessmen oppose Treasurer J B Russell's substitute for the Northern avenue bridge linking the city to South Boston docks. The plan faces rail interference worries from Harbor and Land Commission head Woodward Emery and Jerome Jones, while merchants and trade boards back the current routing.
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Boston
Boston Wharf Company
J. B. Russell
Northern Avenue Ridge
New South
Northern Avenue Bridge
Hart
Boston Merchants’ Association
Boston Associated Boards of Trade
Woodward Emery
Harbor and Land Commission
Jerome Jones
Emery
Devery Charges Dismissed in New York Court
Justice Holbrook dismissed oppression charges against Deputy Police Commissioner Devery at the Court of Special Sessions. The case stemmed from ex-Patrolman Onell who alleged Devery refused to hear witnesses, following Onell’s daylight arrest claim involving a revolver drawn without cause.
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New York
Justice Holbrook
Court of Special Sessions
Devery
Onell
Five Men Plead Guilty in Roxbury Store Larceny Case
James F. Barry John J Murphy David J Kneeland David J Mulvey and Edward J Coote pleaded guilty to entering John J Mulligan store at 1018 Harrison Avenue Roxbury and stealing provisions. They were held for the grand jury in Boston court yesterday. The item also notes the Chicago and North Western railway advertising routes to Omaha and other western destinations with station details in Boston.
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James F. Barry
John J. Murphy
David J. Kneeland
David J. Mulvey
Edward J. Coote
John J. Mulligan
Harrison Avenue
Roxbury
Chicago & North-Western Railway
Omaha
Louix City
Cedar Rapids
Des Moines
Council Bluffs
Nebraska
Wyoming
Colorado
Utah
Montana
Deadwood
Black Hills
California
Oregon
North-Western Line
Washington Street
Boston
Mass General Plans World Finest Out-Patient Wing
Massachusetts General Hospital outlines a new grand out-patient department by Architects Wheelwright and Haven. The L shaped block fronts Fruit street with a 26 by 52 foot street face and a 122 foot courtyard arm, three to four stories high with a 180 seat amphitheatre, linking to wards via ramps. The project targets ready occupancy by June 1903 beside the Eye and Ear Infirmary, sharing centralized access and matching architecture.
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Wheelwright & Haven
Massachusetts General Hospital
Fruit Street
Eye and Ear Infirmary
Harvard Dental School
Frult Street
J. Putnam
White
Charles G. Weld
Gay
George Henry Gay
Massachusetts General Hosps
Revival of New England rum freight ports by schooner Fred A Small
Within months a fleet of square riggers sailed to Africa, reviving rum exports. The schooner Fred A Small loaded at New England docks in South Boston with 20 hogsheads of rum worth 51760 in a 70994 total domestic cargo. The ship carries flour, oil, canned beef, lumber, glassware and other goods. Several vessels, crews, and coal trades are noted along the harbor with updates on ice, buoys, and dock conditions.
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Africa
New England
Fred A. Small
Thompson
Boston
Hamburg-American Steamship Company
Hamburg
United States
Germany
Kelley, Spear & Co
Staples Coal Company
Taunton
Mass
Santiago and Cienfuegos
Agnar
8. F. Stanwood
Yarmouth S.W. Fairway
Muday
The
Post
Atlantic Works
Nathaniel McKay
Aldrich
Aldus
Noddle Island
Robert
James
George
Guilmet
James Woolley
Mary J. Barrett
Southern Port
Malcolm Baxter, Jr
Lynn Ferry
Martha P. Small
Peter W. French
Red Star
Mary F. Barrett
P. Hitchcock
Bruns Wick
Lygonia
Kennebec River
Woodbury
M. J. Soley
W. EB. Wasson
Moneton
N. B
Andon
Ottawa
Shipping News Mini Almanac Evening Tide Details
Shipping mini almanac notes decimal sun rise and set times for December 5 and 27 with daylight length and moonrise. Arrivals include the steamship Bostonian from Britain, arriving December 14 with merchandise to Furness.
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Bostonian
Foot
London
Furness
Four-masted schooner Herbert Taft launched at Thomaston
The four masted schooner Herbert Taft was launched this morning in Thomaston. She measures 221 feet in length with a breadth of 42.7 feet and a depth of 20 feet. Gross tonnage is 1402.75 and net tonnage 1294.68. Captain Walter Willey will command when ready for sea in a few days.
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Thomaston
Herbert Taft
Walter Willey
Four-masted schooner Lyman M. Loud ashore at Sandy Hook
The marine observatory at Sandy Hook reports the four masted schooner Lyman M. Loud from Philadelphia ashore on the point of the hook. The Loud hails from New Haven, Connecticut.
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New York
Marine Observatory
Sandy Hook
Lyman M. Loud
Philadelphia
Hook
New Haven
Conn
Presbyterian creed revision committee reports tentative work
The Presbyterian creed revision committee says it met in Washington from December 4 to 14 and produced a brief statement of the reformed faith and a declaratory statement. A five member subcommittee was named to draft tentative revisions for consideration in Philadelphia in February. The plan is to present the declaratory statement at the next general assembly while delaying full revision until 1908.
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Pittsburg
Penn
William Henry Roberts
Philadelphia
F. W. C. Humphrey
Neck broken in grain elevator accident
William Stewart, 25, a machine helper at the Boston and Maine grain elevator in Mystic wharf, was killed instantly when he leaned over to adjust belting and was drawn into revolving machinery at 20. He died of a broken neck. his body was taken home to West Somerville. His parents, both employed at the same plant, were overwhelmed by the tragedy.
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William Stewart
Boston & Maine
Mystic Wharf
Stewart
Briggs
Highland Avenue
West
Somerville
Archeologists Meet at Columbia University for Institute Session
The Archeological Institute of America opens its general meeting at Columbia University with about 60 members. President John W White of Harvard presides. Dr Julius Sachs welcomes attendees and notes progress in archaeology. Columbia may soon establish an archaeology department. Speakers include Hoppin Rolfe Babbitt Hermance Marquand Hempl Tucker Rogers Shumway Fairbanks von Hach and others.
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New York
The
Archeological Institute of America
Columbia University
John W. White
Harvard
Julius Sachs
New York Society of the Istitute
Joseph Clark Hoppin
Bryn Mawr College
John K Rolfe
University of Michigan
Cole Babbitt
Trinity College
Theodore W. Hermance
Yale
Allen Marquand
Princeton University
George Hempl
Italian Christmas Tree for Italian Quarter Children
Mrs Julia Ward Howe proposed a Christmas tree project by Circolo Italiano for poor Italian quarter children. The tree will be given at Faneuil Hall at 8 o'clock with voluntary gifts. About 50 children will receive clothing books handkerchiefs and other items from members and Miss Hazards Marlboro Street school sent gifts. The festa will showcase Italian color in its programme.
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Circolo Italiano
Julia Ward Howe
Ecircolo
Faneuil Hall
Circcle
B. “Azard
Marlboro Street
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Orion
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Long Cove
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Small
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Calor
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George VP. Rust
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Newburyport
G. M. Hopkins
Haskell, Co
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Gabrielle
Brunswick
Meel M. Parks
la Have
N. 8
Karrimore
Axim
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Childe Harold
Fortuna
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Norfolk
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H. F. Dimock
Scranton
Woboken
International
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Corbin
William E. Cleary
Tunnel Ridge
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Rge Preston
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Ernst T. Lee
Carbon
A. W. Chesterton
Andrew Adams
Portland
Honey Brook
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N. J
Thaxter
Gibson
Portsmouth
Braddock
Heston
Joshua Lovett
Grace
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Kenwood
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Shipping News
L. M. Loud
Presbyterian Committee
Suthrie, Ok
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Andrew Jackson
Vicksburg
Grant
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Ata
Bailey
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J. E. Bishop
Tremont St
Otes
Parisian Remedy Co
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Trannmst
Gordon
Tre- Old
Wilmont St
ALCRA
RR. Adams
DR. Williams
London Hospital
J. E. Frothingham
M.D
Allston St
Cor. Bualfinch
Warren Ave
DR. Longest
R. Loucest
Columbus Avenue
Boston, Mass
Collins
Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons
England
DR. Collins Remedy CO
Berwick Park
Columbus Ave
Hotel Plaza
Arlington
Halwck
DR. Bell
Columbus
Dominion Line
Mediterranean
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Egypt
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State St
Cunard Line
Queenstown
Ivernia
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Alexander Martin
Warren Line
Sachem
Kansas
Sagamore
Hoosac Tunnel
Charlestown
Warren & CO
Mile Street
White Star Line
Celtic
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Cymric
Oceanics
F. O. Houghton &O
Cor
Broad St
Georgia
Southern
Savannah
Simmons & Marsters
T. A
Washington St
B. R. Price
N. FE. A
Atlantic Ave
LE. H. Downing
Merchants’ and Miners’ Transportation Co
Steamship Lines
Providence
A. M. Graham
Battery Wharf
Summer Street
W. P. Coria
Boston and Philadelphia Steamship Line
Wing
Central Wharf
Fiske Building
Holiday Funds
Fickest
Mutual Loan CO
Water Street
Alholland
Winthrop
Tolman
Alger
Boriston St
Amalgamated Copper Coatock
St. Botolph St
Beacon St
HK Wilson Jewelry CO
Tremont Row
KNAPP
Collateral Loan Co
Washington Building
Alberts
Europe
Atlantic Sitipping CO
Lewis
Charles Warren
Bowdoin
Somerset Hotel
Sient
Worumbo Mills
Lisbon Falls
J. L. Allen
Plympton St
Comor Ae Bridge
Massachusetts
Soulll Yan Sq
Kins
Tremont Building
North Cambridge
Casey Hone
Court St
D&sts
Warrenton St
Tremont
Fred'k W. Hobbs
Hollis St
Fred'k WO Hobbs
Ty St
South
Doerchester St
Decatur ST
Crescent Creamery
Dorchester Ave
Virgel L. Wilson
Northampton S T
E. J. Lewis
Harrison Ave
A. Phineas Foster
Shorky
Rooston
Boston Law Syndicate
W. Berman &O
Hanover St
Henry F. Miller
Timnry F. Miller & Sons Piano CO
Boylston St
Prof
Berry
Dudley St
McPhail and
Emerson
Bay State Dancing School
Stoken's
Edward Courtney
N. M. Hatch
Park Sq. Islead
TRADY
Singer
Columbia St
Merrimac St
Massachle Suffolk
Catherin M. Learned
Hillyard
Suffolk
Suffolk Savings Bank
Provident Institution For Savings
South Boston Savings Bank
Boston Post
John W. McKim
Esquire
Elijah George
Register
Commonwealth OF Massachusetts
Middlesex
Ann Dole
Newton
John VP. Dole
Cambridge
Charles J. MelIntire
Shipping
Portland Steamship CO Steamship Gov
Lominton
Long Wharf
Foot State St
Prince Edward
South Shore
J. F. Masters
New, York CO
Joyline
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