Captain's Wife Rescued From Stranded Schooner Haskell
After days aboard the schooner S. G. Haskell aground off Monomoy Point Edith Staples wife of Captain Staples was brought ashore by Captain Kelly and life-savers. She left aboard a train to Swan's Island Maine as the ship doomed to break up.
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Chatham
S. G. Haskell
Georgia
Portland
Edith Staples
Staples
Haskell
Kelly
Monomoy Point
Brave Woman Skipper Survives Sailors Rescue After Vessel Sinks
In a New England coastal ordeal Mrs Staples recounts ten years at sea as she and a small group reach safety after lightening the wreck by removing 90000 feet of lumber. She praises Captain Joe Kelly and the Monomoy Point life boat crew as a best coastal station.
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Monomoy Point
Chatham
Joe’ Kelly
Paris Floods Swamp City Leaving Hundreds Homeless
Paris faces widespread devastation as floods inundate pumping stations and mains fail in the south and east. M. Lepine warns of another 30 centimeter rise while streets flood and vital services from gas to electricity falter.
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Paris
M. Lepine
Weather Bureau
Lyons
Invalides
Palais d'Orsay
Louvre Museum
Copley Society Benefits Beverly King
The Copley Society plans a benefit in Boston next Wednesday evening for Beverly King who has given up his job as assistant janitor at Copley Hall after nearly 16 years. A grand minstrel and vaudeville show will feature top colored talent with solos sketches and a cake walk. Walker Company No. 17 Knights of Pythias will perform a full uniform drill under Captain Marshall as the finale with King as interlocutor.
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Copley Society
Beverly King
Copley Hall
Boston
Walker Company No. 17
Knights of Pythias
Captain Marshall
Mr. King
P. F. Marshall
L. M. Fernandez
M. Lawson
George Johnson
W. H. Smith
G. W. Dennis
Woman Lashed to the Mast in Schooner Wreck
A storm wrecked the Mertie Crowley off Martha's Vineyard after misreading Edgartown and Block Island lights. Mrs. Haskell and Captain Levi Jackson led rescue efforts as crew clung to rigging and dories battled massive seas. Nine seamen and two officers were saved, with cheers at the wharf as the Crowley broke apart.
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Jackson
Dorses
Crowley
Edgartown Light
Block Island
Haskell
Shinnecock
Montauk
Long Island Sound
Block Island Light
Mertie Crowley
Northwest End Reef
Martha’s Vineyard
Edgartown
Levi Jackson
Priscilla
Viking
Patrick Kelley
Kelley
Patrick Norecott
Fred Shea
Fred Heibrodt
Acushnet
Boy drinks metal polish. dies in Fall River tragedy
Henry Normandian, 13, believed he was drinking whiskey when he gulped liquid metal polish. He died shortly after in Fall River while his father Napoleon Normandian, a mill worker, looked on.
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Fall River
Henry Normandian
Napoleon Normandian
Crowds Praise and Critique Brooks Statue in Copley Square
Thousands viewed the Phillips Brooks memorial statue by Saint Gaudens in Copley Square with many praising the work while others offered criticisms of facial expression, Christ figure, and inscription accuracy. Temporary wooden letters survived weather, with permanent marble carving delayed by cold. the unveiling recalled Brooks death seventeen years prior.
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Phillips Brooks
Copley Square
St. Gaudens
Post
Bishop Brooks
Christ
A. D.mcmx
Trinity Church
Brooks
Readers Invite Views on Phillips Brooks Statue Posting
The Post seeks reader opinions on the Phillips Brooks statue by Augustus Saint-Gaudens as controversy begins over its portrayal. Letters discuss the bishop figure versus the Christ background and critique the artist’s blend of actual and symbolic elements.
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Phillips Brooks
St. Gaudens
Bishop Brooks
the Post
Augustus Saint- Gaudens
Saint-Gaudens
Christ
Heart Failure Kills Former State Councillor Frank D Allen
Former state official Frank D Allen a former U S district attorney and Massachusetts legislator was found dead in a Boston hotel apartment by his sister. The medical examiner said heart failure caused the death. Allen had ties to Lynn Worcester and Yale and held posts including president of Lynn Gas Electric and receiver of Central National Bank.
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Frank Dewey Allen
United States
Massachusetts
Governor’s Council
Boston
Allen
Lynn
Worcester
Yale
Boston University
Republican State Committee
Lynn Gas & Electric Light Company
Central National Bank
Clergy and church notices from Boston area churches
The bulletin notes noonday address by Rev Wilbur F Crafts in Tremont Temple, calls accepted for Rev Charles C Tilley to lead Damariscotta Baptist Church, and preaching by Rev Frank W Pattison at Maverick Church. Also reports resignations, transfers, Y M C A events, and the Christian and Missionary Alliance convention dates in Boston.
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Wilbur F. Crafts
D. D
New York
International Reform Bureau
Tremont Temple
Charles C. Tilley
Mattapan
Damariscotta, Me
Frank W. Pattison
Maverick Church
East
Boston
Dudley Street Baptist Church
Reader questions Phillips Brooks statue in Boston
A letter argues the Phillips Brooks statue by Saint-Gaudens should not depict Christ in a modern statue. The writer suggests removing this feature to avoid shocking the public and indicates the work could be improved.
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Phillips Brooks
Saint-Gaudens
Christ
Huntington Avenue
Church honors Fr Butler with Boston College memorial scholarship
St. Theo's Dorchester held a ceremony naming a memorial scholarship at Boston College for Rev. Father Francis J. Butler, founder of the Holy Family Temperance League. Speakers included Rev. Thomas T. Gasson, BC president, and John H. Casey. Butler praised donors and Temperance work, and a new Holy Family branch opened at St. Anne's Somerville.
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St. Theo’s
Dorchester
Boston College
Francis J. Butler
Holy Family Temperance League
Father Butler
Archbishop Williams
Iather Thomas T. Gasson
John H. Casey
United States
John A. O'Shea
St. Cecilia's Church
Casey
Francis A. Cunningham
John J. Cronin
Father Gasson
St. Leo's Church
Butler
St. Anne’s Church
Somerville
Navy orders shakeup of prison ship personnel at Portsmouth
The Navy Department orders a general shakeup in enlisted men at Portsmouth navy yard notably petty officers who have run the prison ships Southern and Topeka. They will be reassigned to the steamship Wabash in Boston as vacancies occur.
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Portsmouth
N. H
Navy Department
Portsmouth Navy Yard
Southern
Topeka
United States
Wabash
Boston
Campania Arrives In New York After Storm Delays
The Cunard liner Campania reaches New York a full day late after Atlantic storms slowed her voyage. The ship, which followed a longer course, landed passengers and did not report by wireless to Cape Race due to the weather.
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New York
Atlantic
Cunard
Campania
Cape Race
Boys Die After Ice Plunge as Daring Rescue Fails
Harold Smith told police two men entered the water with the second aiding the first, but investigators accepted the companion's account. Sidney Witthington and volunteers freed a Humane Society ladder and searched the river, locating Genelic's body after hours. The drowning occurred near a gateway where the Muddy River meets the Charles, with a 25 foot ice strip and 12 foot hole marking the danger zone.
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Harold Smith
Sidney Witthington
Harvard
Bay State Road
Humane Society
Beacon Street
Sidney
Paul Withington
James W. Cumnock
Back Street
Thomas W. Lawson
Young Genelic
Back Bay
Henry Barry
Gray and
Cronin
Thomas Good
Charles
Transcontinental railway reaches Wolf Creek prairie end
The Grand Trunk railway completed the prairie section of its Transcontinental line last night with steel laid to Wolf Creek at the foot of the Rocky Mountains where the mountain section begins.
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Prairie
Winnipeg
Grand Trunk Railway
Wolf Creek
Rocky Mountains
DIES WITH LETTER IN HIS HAND
Raymond G. Smith of 314 Gillcourt Somerville killed himself after writing a farewell letter to his wife following a week apart. He visited the home during dinner and asked for paper and an envelope before finishing the letter.
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Raymond G. Smith
Gillcourt
Somerville
Tie
Man Shoots Self After Writing Letter to Wife
Raymond G. Smith killed himself in a Charlestown room after sealing a note addressed to his wife. The letter asks forgiveness and mentions his wish to be buried beside his mother while citing a dispute over separation and a recent job loss with Boston and Maine railroad.
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Charlie
Raymond G. Smith
Essex Street
Charlestown
John Newton
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First
Roxbury
Dr. de Normandie
W. W. Venn
Harvan Divinity School
King’s Chapel
Jowell
Hincks
Jesus
Pilgrim Hall
Laura Lambert
Peter McMillan
Hope Congregational Church
Dover, N. H
Memorial Presbyterian Church
Carl H. Raupach
West Quincy
W. E. Fenno
New York City
Lorimer Hall
The
Christian and Missionary Allisance
Clarendon Baptist Church
John F. Bowditch
FR. Builer
Smith
Wife
Henry Siegel Co
Washington and
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Mass
Stein-Bloch Co
Rochester
Stein-Bloch
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