Daring South Boston Rescue of 15 Year Old Arthur Campbell
Five South Boston athletes formed a life chain to reach and save Arthur Campbell, a 15 year old boy, from drowning in Dorchester Bay near the South Boston Yacht Club. James J. Dever led the effort after Burnside, Farrell, Laughlin, and Reynolds formed a human chain, breaking ice to pull Campbell to safety. Campbell was taken to Carney Hospital and later to his home at 550 East Fifth Street.
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South
Boston
Arthur Campbell
South Boston
Dorchester Bay
James J. Dever
Dorchester
Dever
South Boston Life Saving
Navy
Mississippi
Kramer
Munroe Burnside
Bay View Outing Club
Edward IL. Farrell
South Boston A. C
Vincent Laughlin
Boston Latin
George Reynolds
South Boston Yacht Club
Munroe
Campbell
Burnside
Farrell
Laughlin
Reynolds
Carney Hospital
Dover
Campbell Boy
East Fifth Street
Holy Name Feast Observed Across Archdiocese
The Holy Name Society observed the feast with thousands of members in Catholic churches. Mass and vesper services at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross drew over 2000 communicants, with Rev Thomas R McCoy directing union activities and notable sermons by Fr Edward Gregory Fitzgerald praising Cardinal O Connell and urging faithful practice of religious duties.
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Father Fitzgerald
Cathedral of the Holy Cross
Thomas R. McCoy
Holy Name Society
St. Patrick's
St. Francis de Sales
St. Joseph's
St. Philip’s
St. John’s
All Saints
St. Mary of the Angels of Roxbury
Thomas. R. McCoy
Augustine F. Hickey
Richard J. Haberlin
D.D
Charles
Dominican Order of
New York
Cardinal O'Connell
Society of the Holy Name
Sacred College
Edward Gregory Fitzgerald
O. P
Holy Name
Preacher Presses Practical Religion and Civil Virtue
The speaker argues belief must align with practice, condemns religious hypocrisy, and urges practical religion to sustain liberty and peace. He highlights the Holy Name Society’s long service and calls for renewed zeal as Catholic observances flourish across 40 churches in the archdiocese.
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Father Fitzgerald
God
Diamond Ring Presented to Retiring Union Leader Garrity
Richard W. Garrity retired as president of Boston Bartenders Union 77 after five years and received a diamond ring through Secretary-Agent James J. English. Edward F. Colbert and 1912 officers were installed, and Miss Pearl McGill spoke at the Muscatine button-makers dispute. A donation was made and Colbert English Leary and McGreevy were chosen to attend the New England convention in Woonsocket Rhode Island.
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Richard W. Garrity
Boston Bartenders’ Union 77
James J. English
Edward Flore
Buffalo
Edward F. Colbert
Miss Pearl McGill
Colbert
English
Garrity
William J. Leary
James McGreevy
Preparations for Attack on Peking Reported
London dispatches quote Shanghai and Peking special despatches stating revolutions plan a march on Peking. Twelve thousand imperial troops head toward Chin Wng Tao and Lanchow to block the expected landings. A Peking message says Russia seeks Mongolia railroad concession, fearing an American group push to move Chin Chow Aigun route toward Kalgan and the Siberian frontier.
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London
Peking
Shanghai
Chin Wng Tao
Lanchow
Daily Telegraph
Russia
Mongolia
Chin Chow-Aigun
Man Arrested in Tense Arson Plot at Eliot Street Lodging House
Nicola Detano, 33, of 135 Eliot street was arrested on arson charges after police found oil soaked rags and lit candles in a tenement at 114A Eliot street. Investigators say the plan aimed to burn the house for a $4000 insurance payout, risking the lives of 25 sleeping lodgers and neighbors.
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Eliot Street
Nicola Detano
Detano
Woman dies after brutal assault at Eliot Street doorway
An unidentified woman succumbed to injuries from a brutal assault in a doorway at 138 Eliot Street. She had been unconscious since the night of the attack and died yesterday at City Hospital. Police hold three men William J. Sullivan Charles Williams and John Cronin for questioning.
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Eliot Street
City Hospital
William J. Sullivan
Charles Williams
John Cronin
Rescues 2 Schooners in Ice Off Nantucket Shoals
In Vineyard Haven on January 14 two schooners trapped in frozen Nantucket Shoals were rescued by Revenue Cutter Gresham and towed to port. The Forest City and Edward P. Smith endured long passages from Savannah and Brunswick to Boston respectively with a hawser split forcing two trips.
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Vineyard Haven
Union
Nantucket Shoals
Cross Rip
Chatham
United States Revenue
Gresham
Forest City
Savannah
Boston
Edward P. Smith
Brunswick
Rescue in Ice Locks Three Schooners Off Handkerchief Shoal
The Gresham aided schooners Forest City and Edward R. Smith after their vessels ran aground in heavy ice northwest of Handkerchief shoal. After hours of work in frigid conditions, the Forest City was temporarily abandoned and later towed in. both ships reached Vineyard Haven in port with crews near exhaustion. Aid was requested for Thelma, adrift near Saunderstown, as ice threatened Fort Greble’s water supply.
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Handkerchief Shoal
Gresham
William KE. Litchfield
Forest City
Edward R. Smith
Vineyard Haven
Thelma
Fall River
Norfolk
Saunderstown
Fort Greble
First Hudson River Ice in 20 Years Spreads
Hudson River freezes over for the first time in two decades in Yonkers New York. Spectators line the shores as Walter Ruddiman leaps the public dock to cross to New Jersey and back noting thin patches. Reported by local observers with many others attempting the feat by night.
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Yonkers
N. Y
Hudson River
Walter Ruddiman
Prescott Street
Peene
Ben Franklin Transportation Company
New Jersey
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Webster’s New International
Journal OF Education
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Swetearewee
Nicholas Murray Butler
Columbia University
J. M. Taylor
Vassar College
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France
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