Doe Jumped Into Ship Hold and Died in Mystic Wharf Incident
A young doe escaped from the Middlesex Fells and swam downriver to the coal schooner M. D. Cressey at Mystic wharf Charlestown. Crew member J. P. Betts and steward Edwin E. Wills lowered a boat to rescue it. After being recaptured, the animal grew restless and leapt into the ship’s hold, suffering fatal injuries.
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Middlesex Fells
M. D. Cressey
Mystic Wharf
Charlestown
J. P. Betts
Mr. Betts
Edwin E.wills
Betts
Wills
Fate’s Queer Pranks Reflected in Cambridge Pair Romance
The tale follows Henry Bushnach and Annie Cyfer, once engaged in the 1860s, separated by quarrels and remarriages, then reuniting through a church social. They plan to wed at the groom’s sister’s Cambridge home, with a honeymoon to Quebec Montreal Niagara Falls and beyond. Neither has children.
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Cambridge
Myers
Bushnach
Cyfer
Boston
Henry Bushnach
Annie Cyfer
Miss Cyfer
Mr. Myers
Annie Myers
Cambridge Man and Boston Woman to Wed Next Sunday
Henry Bushnach aged 60 a Cambridge retiree born in London England and Annie Myers of Boston plan marriage. The intention filed with City Clerk Brandon in Cambridge notes their prior widow and widower statuses and their family ties through sisters and shared youth.
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Henry Bushnach
Cambridge
Annie Myers
Boston
Brandon
Watson Street
London
England
Wadsworth Street
Bushnachs
William Cyfer
New York City
Myers
Annie Cyfer
Dorchester Drivers Plan Intercity Racing Matches
Dorchester Gentlemen's Driving Club will skip the July 4 matinee at Franklin Field but resume the weekly races the next Saturday. The club aims to arrange inter-city matches with Fellsway Quannapowitt Brockton Metropolitan and Old Colony Driving Clubs, inviting returns on their tracks.
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Dorchester Gentlemen's Driving Club
Franklin Field
Dorchester Club
Boston
Fellsway Driving Club
Somerville
Quannapowitt Driving Club
Wakefield
Brockton Driving Club
Brockton
Metropolitan Driving Club
Old Colony Driving Club
South Braintree
Johnny Frayne Beats Jack Dorman In City Bout
Johnny Frayne of San Francisco edged Jack Dorman in six rounds for Fairmount A C. It was a fast, clever mill in New York with both boxers marking faces but showing strength and willingness at the finish.
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New York
Johnny Frayne
San Francisco
Jack Dorman
Fairmount A. C
Chilson Furnace resumes full-time Mansfield operations
The Chilson Furnace Company at 88 Washington Street has resumed full-time foundry work in Mansfield Massachusetts. New machinery including an exhaust system for emery grinders and cleaning mills has been installed to meet the latest State Board of Health ruling.
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Chilson Furnace Company
Washington Street
Mansfield
Mass
State Board of Health
Conductor Rescues Infant From Car Tracks
In Quincy on Water street Conductor H R Morton of the Old Colony street railway saved the infant child of Mrs Martha Peterson from a rapidly moving car. The child stood on the fender and narrowly escaped being ground to death in front of its mother and a car full of passengers.
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Quincy
H. R. Morton
Old Colony Street Railway
Martha Peterson
Water Street
Morton
Post
High speed car incident observed by Motorman Ford
Motorman C Ford observed a baby in the path as a car moved downhill at high speed. The event description is fragmentary and lacks further details on location, outcome, or involved agencies.
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C. Ford
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Wolf’s
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Hanover and
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Doe
Mystic River
Animal
Bouve
Water St
Hanover St
Black & Russet Oxfords
Spring Lane
Tremont Rowmer St
Mrs
Dorchester
Frayne
Dorman
Ben Haberdashery
Sen Sr
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