Good Fellows Deny Financial Trouble of Royal Society
Premier Thomas L. Ferris says the Royal Society of Good Fellows is solvent and not facing new assessments. About 5000 members, mostly in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Pennsylvania, were told 1903 plans to ease debt by phased payments were accelerated to three-fifths, prompting grumbling.
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Royal Society of Good Fellows
Thomas L. Ferris
Ferris
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Pennsylvania
Rescue at Winthrop Tide Rips by Woolf Man
James Dooley twenty of Winthrop Highlands was saved after his canoe capsized in a Winthrop shore tideway. Louis Woolf of the U S volunteer life saving crew dove into rough surf, nabbed Dooley, and towed him ashore where he recovered. Dooley warned others not to paddle in such waters. The local rescue crew includes Ralph Shorey Frank Driscoll Charles Gooding Joseph Shea and Louis Woolf.
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James Dooley
Winthrop Highlands
Winthrop
Louis Woolf
United States
Dooley
Woolf
Boston
Ralph Shorey
Frank Driscoll
Charles Gooding
Joseph Shea
Lenox Belle Engaged to London Businessman in Wireless Courtship
Miss Florence De Vere Beese announces engagement to Thomas Ogden of London after a 10 day acquaintance. He supposedly sends daily wireless messages, including one from 1000 miles at sea. Miss Beese, 49, has roots in New York music circles and is a soprano soloist and music teacher.
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North Adams
Florence de Vere Beese
Aspinwall
Lenox
Thomas Ogden
London
Eng
Ogden
Miss Beese
Oretta Boese
New York
Hope Young Says Child Died of Cramps in Digby Case
May Hope Young allegedly confessed that May Young a six year old girl died of cramps after which she moved the body to the woods to avoid the house She reportedly said she bound and gagged her own child Elma beside the body exonerating Elmer Young and Kingsley Melanson Angered Elmer E Young returned to Digby Nova Scotia and said he will seek American protection and pursue international action in protest of the arrest and treatment by authorities
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Digby
May Hope Young
May Young
Elma
Elmer Young
Kingsley Melanson
Hope Young
Young
Prince George
Hattie Hatfield
Nova Scotia
Washington
United States
American squadron escorts Admiral Jones’s remains to Cherbourg
The Brooklyn flagship with Chattanooga Tacoma and Galveston detached from the North Atlantic Fleet arrives at Cherbourg to embark the body of Admiral John Paul Jones. A 21 gun salute opens the ceremony with 15 guns in honor of Vice Admiral Besson as 500 guards prepare for the escort from Paris to Cherbourg.
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Cherbourg
Brooklyn
Chattanooga
Tacoma
Galveston
Sigsbee
United States
John Paul Jones
Arsenal
Besson
New York
Cape Codes
Paris
Jongs
Daughters of the American Revolution
Donald Mclean
Holy Family Temperance Society Parade Dorchester
Tomorrow at 3 PM the Holy Family Temperance Society linked with St. Leo's Dorchester will parade with the Working Boys' Home Band, about 500 in line. Afterward a meeting at St. Leo's Church will feature Father Butler, Father Mullen, and Mr. Mulready addressing the crowd.
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Holy Family Temperance Society
St. Leo’s Catholic Church
Dorchester
Working Boys
Father Butler
St. Leo’s Church
Father Mullen
Cathedral
Mulready
Rockland
United Temperance Societies
Granite block injures Charlestown man in unloading incident
George W. Ferguson of 186 Main Street Charlestown suffered a severe crush of the right instep below the knee while unloading a granite block from the Lombard caravan. He was treated at Relief Hospital and then City Hospital. The accident followed a collision between his team and a horse dump cart owned by M. Cummings of Somerville, leaving the horse exhausted and later taken to a horse hospital.
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George W. Ferguson
Main Street
Charlestown
S. & R. J. Lombard
Relief Hospital
City Hospital
Ferguson
M. Cummings
Somerville
Horse Hospital
Paragon Park Gets Liquor Licenses for July August and September
Nantasket town selectmen grant nine Class one and two licenses to sell intoxicating liquors for the summer season. The roll includes Palm Garden Paragon Park and Smiths Tavern among others. Census shows 5420 summer residents, allowing ten licenses. Regular census places Hull population over 2000 permitting two yearly licenses. A second yearly license battles between Coyle and a two-way candidate group near Smith and Durgin. Injuries from a separate incident involve several youths with cuts and powder exposure. local residents aid with medical care.
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Nantasket
Selectmen
Palm Garden
Paragon Park
Eastern Park Construction Company
Nantasket Point
D. O. Wade
Atlantic Pavilion
B. F. Durgin
Smith's Tavern
George A. Smith
Walter N. Cummings
Randolph House
John W. Sweeney
Cleveland
P. J. Flood
Kensmore House
M. A. Lannan
Eagle Hotel
George A. Jordan
Oakland House
Hull
James Jeffrey
John D. Coyle
New Weymouth
Smith
Tavarn
Durgin
East Boston Mock Trial Draws 800 in Central Hall
Last evening in Central Hall East Boston Court Alma Mater 114 M G C O F staged a mock breach of promise trial The Commonwealth vs Mulcahy which had the audience roaring with laughter Boston lawyer John J Douglass wrote the piece Also featured were actors James Holligan Mary Donahue Susie McGovern Lizzie Nevill Annie McGovern Julia Brant and John J Douglass as attorney general The jury found the defendant guilty but obtained a reversal after signs to his Honor were shown. songs recitations and impersonations accompanied the proceedings
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Central Hall
East Boston
the Commonwealth
Douglass
Father Sheehan
Messrs
John Brant
James H. Holligan
Thomas F. Lynch
John F. Field
Charles J. Brown
John J. Agnew
James Fennelly
John J. Douglass
Three Edgeworth Boys Ignite Railroad Torpedo
In Malden on June 30 three Edgeworth youths Sylvester Hurley Daniel Sullivan and Frank Long explored a railroad torpedo found on the Saugus branch near Sandy Pond. Hurley struck it with a railroad spike causing an explosion that knocked him unconscious and cut his left wrist.
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Malden
Edgeworth
Sylvester Hurley
Pearl Street
Daniel Sullivan
Folsom Court
Frank Long
Highland Avenue
Sandy Pond
Saugus
Boston & Maine Railroad
Sullivan Boy
Hurley
Hayes Death Called a Case of Self-Inflicted
Captain Dugan and Dr. George Stedman, associate medical examiner for the county, viewed the body of Clarence H. Hayes found in the bathroom of his Eastgate suite at 440 Newbury Street last night. He was pronounced dead by his own action after being found yesterday morning around 9 o clock with two bullet wounds in the head and a 32 calibre revolver with two empty chambers nearby.
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Captain Dugan
George Stedman
Clarence H. Hayes
Eastgate
Newbury Street
Mr. Hayes
FRAUD ORDER STILL HOLDS
Judge Lowell in the United States Circuit Court dismissed the petition of the Preferred Mercantile Company to restrain the postmaster from withholding its mail under a fraud order issued against the company. The petition filed last October was deferred due to other litigation.
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Lowell
United States Circuit Court
Preferred Mercantile Company
Newport Excursion July 4 From Boston by Express Train
The popular July 4 excursion from Boston to Newport and return by the New York New Haven Hartford route offers six hours in Newport with many sights. Round trip tickets cost $1 and can be bought in advance at 362 Washington Street South and Back stations. Quantity is limited.
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Boston
Newport
New York, New Haven & Hartford
Atlantic Coast
Washington Street
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Solveni
Dennis Rumor
Lenox Belle
Woods
Jones’ Body
Deutschland
All Progressive
Sullivan
Long
Daniel F. Mahoney
Union Drug
Hayes
Adirondacks
Boston & Albany
New York Central
Sleeper
Adirondack
Springfield
Saranac Inn
Saranac Lake
Lake Placid
R. M. Harris
A. S. Hanson
Sunday Post
New England
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