Wreck of Palmer Found in Broad Sound After Search
After two days of searching Boston harbor and Massachusetts Bay the five masted schooner Davis Palmer was located in Broad Sound near Graves Light to Grover's Cliff Winthrop. The wreck lies on its starboard side in about eight fathoms of water with no sign of the crew. Captain Leroy McKown and 11 crew members are missing.
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Boston Harbor
Massachusetts Bay
Davis Palmer
Lises
Graves
Grover’s Cliff
Winthrop
Deer Island
Nahant
Leroy McKown
Frank Brown
Eastern Steamship Company
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Winterport
Commissioner’s Ledge
Post
Graves Light
Graves Reef
Newport News
Boston
William T. Sparrow
Sparrow
Captain Sparrow
VESTA
Toledo Youth Hangs Self After Refusal to Fetch Water
In Toledo on December 28 Herman Miller aged 14 son of John C Miller hanged himself in a cellar after he refused to fetch a pall of water for his mother. The incident underscores family distress and tragedy in the city.
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Toledo
Herman Miller
John C. Miller
Storm-Tossed Schooners Reach Plymouth Harbor in Safety
Boston reports of distress signals proved unfounded after a waterfront survey. Several schooners sought shelter here during the great storm with only minor injuries, while Pilgrim wharf required repairs from undermining. The lime schooner unearthed at White Horse Beach and the three-masted Alice P Turner were among notable sights. Captain John Watson described a fierce struggle aboard the Reliance as it returned to port.
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Boston
Brown’s Island
D. H. Craig
Pilgrim Wharf
White Horse Beach
John Watson
Reliance
Howard A. Hunt
Lois V. Charlies
Alice P. Turner
Lois Cappel
Lubec
Massasoit
Steamer Calvin Austin Resumes Boston Saint John Run
The steamer Calvin Austin resumed trips between this port and St. John yesterday, now equipped with complete wireless gear and shore stations in Boston, Portland, and St. John.
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Calvin Austin
St. John
Boston
Portland
Gas Victims Buried in Same Grave in Dorchester
Anne Christine Flyg and Eric Hensen-Hustberg, a young couple killed by gas Christmas morning at 69 Elmo Street Dorchester, were laid to rest in Forest Hills Cemetery in a shared grave. Relatives attended as caskets, identical and surrounded by flowers, were joined in the chapel while Rev. C. F. Johannson conducted the service.
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Anne Christine Flyg
Eric Hensen- Hustberg
Elmo Street
Dorchester
Forest Hills
C. F. Johannson
Swedish Lutheran Church
Emerald Street
Crazed Suitor Ends Life Over Rejection in Sweden
Knud Swanholm aged 23, recently arrived from Sweden, committed suicide by inhaling illuminating gas in his lodgings at 211 West Springfield Street last night. He had been in this country only a year and was distraught over his sweetheart's rejection.
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Sweden
Knud Swanholm
West Springfield Street
Swanholm
Turkish Cabinet Resigns After Grand Vizier Departure
The entire Turkish cabinet quit this evening after Hilmi Pacha the grand vizier resigned earlier in the day. Constantinople dispatches note the political shakeup as the government dissolves its leadership.
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Hilmi Pacha
Steamers Safe after Boston Harbor Storm Trek
The Kronprinz Olav from Louisburg endured a severe gale with 400 tons of water flooding the hold as two derricks collapsed. The ship carried 6400 tons of coal and will discharge at the Coke Works in Everett. In port, Cairnstrath of the Thompson line from St Michaels in the Azores arrived short of coal amid earlier fears of loss. The Ionian from Glasgow landed 160 passengers after missing Halifax’s storm, while Onondaga’s damaged propeller forced repairs and harbor diversions.
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Wreck of Ada K. Damon Reported from Castle Hill Beach
Ipswich reports the two masted schooner Ada K. Damon wrecked on Castle Hill Beach during Sunday's storm. The aged master Captain A. K. Brewster of York Maine asserts there was no loss of life.
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Ipswich
Ada K. Damon
Castle Hill Beach
A. K. Brewster
York
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Long Beach Devastated by Sunday Gloucester Storm
Gloucester December 28 The Sunday storm that swept away ships and houses did not spare the famous Long Beach. The surf washed out several feet of sand and left the dune slope as if cut by a giant shovel. Summer houses sit perched on a cliff edge, ready to topple. News of the erosion drew hundreds to the shore. The storm eased just before further damage, leaving cottages dangerously near the sea.
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Gloucester
Long Beach
Damaged vessel Damon foundering near Castle Hill
The 94 ton Damon, a converted fisherman from Boston, broke up Sunday night after the tide receded. Captain Brewster and his two men waded ashore and later found a house at Castle Hill. The craft was valued at 2600 dollars and was Captain Brewster's sole support.
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Boston
Captain Brewster
Castle Hill
Boston Customs Jump $30,000,000 Record Revenue
The port collected a record customs revenue this year, $30 million higher than last year. Officials attribute the gain to a pre tariff boom in imports ahead of the new duties.
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Boston
Horse Mortally Wounded by Hitching Post Incident
A valuable white horse owned by Warren W. White, a depot carriage proprietor, was killed in Dedham when an approaching snow plow spooked it. The animal reared and fell onto the iron hitching post, which pierced its body.
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Dedham
Warren W. White
Judge orders monthly alimony in two-part decree
Frederick W. Stock Jr. was ordered by Judge Grant of the Probate Court to pay his wife $300 immediately and $150 each month on the first day of every month beginning January 1. The case had been pending for several months and the final order was issued yesterday.
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Frederick W. Stock, Jr
Grant
Probate Court
Sandwich Glass Works Not Damaged by Storm
Reports that the Sandwich glass works were injured by the storm proved incorrect today though the town suffered much damage from the same event.
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Sandwich
Torchy Gains Ground on Shorty McCabe in Sunday's Post
The red headed office boy Torchy presses Shorty McCabe closely in popular favor as he appears in A Whirl With Kazechky in next Sunday's Post.
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Shorty
McCabe
Kazechky
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