Richmond's Roughest Voyage Ends With Port Arrival
The British tramp steamer Richmond captained by W. C. Ballard completed a perilous voyage from Fowey to Mystic, after enduring incessant gales since January 23. Severe seas flooded compartments, damaged the steering, smashed the skylight, wrecked a lifeboat, and flooded the chart room where a chronometer was lost. The vessel discharged 1797 tons of clay at Portland, carrying 2400 tons to Mystic.
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Richmond
W. C. Ballard
Fowey
Eng
Mystic Wharf
English Channel
Adorn
Carlson
Portland
Diapepsin Promises Quick Relief for Indigestion
Readers with stomach trouble are urged to try Papes Diapepsin a 50 cent remedy that digests heavy meals within five minutes relieves heartburn belching and sourness and prevents the need for laxatives. A single case is said to cure a whole family and the formula is printed on the package.
New Trials in Courts Sparked by Judge DeCourcey
Judge Charles A. DeCourcey told Boston University Law School students that frequent new trials are a major evil in courts. He cited cases lingering for years and warned that repeated retrials slow justice and draw public criticism of Massachusetts courts in Boston.
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Charles A. DeCourcey
Boston University Law School
Massachusetts
Boston
Hold Monster Sale of Rugs
Housekeepers and hotel keepers urged to defer purchases until next Monday as the R. H. White Company launches a half price sale of rugs, carpets, linoleums, and matting from the E. L. Ham Company stock damaged by a recent fire. The sale features Wilton, Brussels, Axminster, velvet and tapestry rugs from top manufacturers. Stock includes 1100 large rugs and 3000 small rugs, plus linoleum, oilcloth, matting, and carpet material on the third floor.
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R. H. White Company
E. L. Ham Company
Chauncy Street
New England
Wilton
Brussels
Axminster
Bigelow Carpet Company
Art Looming Mill
W. & J. Sloane
Firth Carpet Company
Alexander Smith & Sons Carpet Company
John Bromley & Sons
Shepley Mills
England
Potter & Sons
Nairn Linoleum Company
Three Years For Shooting Friend
Pasquale Rodulpos was sentenced to the House of Correction for three years after pleading guilty to assault with a revolver. He and victim Simon Manoncuan, fellow Chelsea factory workers, quarreled on December 18 and Rodulpos fired, grazing Manoncuan on the forehead with a nonfatal injury.
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Pasquale Rodulpos
House of Correction
Simon Manoncuan
Rodulpos
Manoncuan
Chelsea
Huge Sugar Cargoes Bound This Way
Five steamers carry sugar from West Indian ports to our shores. Flora from Manzanillo Cuba docks today with 9800 bags. Manx Isles from Chaparra Cuba arrives tomorrow with nearly 30000 bags. Jupiter has 25000 bags from Cienfuegos. Windber from Guanica Porto Rico sails Sunday with 22800 bags and Nanna from Macoris San Domingo with 10000 bags, to be trans shipped to Liverpool.
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Flora
Manzanillo
Cuba
Manx Isles
Chaparra
Jupiter
Cienfuegos
Windber
Guanica
Porto Rico
Nanna
Macoris
San Domingo
Liverpool
New Haven Wins After Long Fight
The New Haven Val idating Commission declares the railroad securities gilt edged and settles a years long dispute by recommending the railroad hold trolley lines and operate electric lighting and power companies. The business must be properly incidental to the railroad's work.
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New Haven
Governor Foss Demands Reform of State Printing System
Governor Foss criticizes the $106000 annual state printing bill as scandalous and calls for a complete revamp. He asks Legislature to dissolve the State Board of Publication and grants to employ an editor to condense reports, cut maps, pictures, and laudatory figures, and speed up reporting.
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Foss
State Board of Publication
Gaudenzi Debuts in Boston Tosca Tonight
Giuseppe Gaudenzi, Bologna native and Law School graduate, makes his Boston debut in Tosca. The tenor has sung at Turin and La Scala and was selected by Mascagni for the lead in Ysabel, signaling a rising international career.
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Giuseppe Gaudenzi
Boston
Bologna
Italy
Law School
Gaudenzi
Royal Theatre
Turin
la Scala
Milan
Russia
South America
Mascagni
Folco
Ysabel
Footbound Chinese woman arrives in Boston in modern fashion
Law Sue, a Chinese woman bound by the traditional foot binding, arrives aboard the Perry from Halifax. Immigration official John A. McCabe orders her detained for investigation while noting she is the wife of Quock Tsue Yen of Sun Kin Lung in New York and mother of two.
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Boston
China
Law Sue
Perry
Halifax
John A. McCabe
Colonel Billings
Quock Tsue Yen
Sun Kin Lung
Pell Street
New York
Mid-Ocean House Destroyed by Fire on Smutty Nose Island
A fire last night on Smutty Nose Island in the Isles of Shoals destroyed the Mid-Ocean House hotel. The loss is estimated at about 5000 dollars. observers from the mainland reported the impact as daylight revealed the ruin. Smutty Nose Island lies about 10 miles from Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
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Portsmouth
N. H
Smutty Nose Island
Isles of Shoals
Mid-Ocean House
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Hold Monster Sale OF Rugs
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Clinton White
William D. T. Trefry
Arthur B. Chapin
Aero Lane
Northampton
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Spring Lane
Viola Lawson
Auburn
C. B. Farnham
Vining Street
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Cleveland B. Farnham
E. Stuart Best
Harvard Medical School
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Army
Miss Lawson
Worcester High School
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