Record Fourth at Revere Beach Breaks Attendance Records
Fifty thousand or more Fourth of July celebrants crowded Revere Beach, with over 5000 bath house users and no arrests. Chief West praised the orderly crowd, Ex Mayor Curtis toured with him, andbath house revenue rose as towel and room charges held at 20 cents. Police coverage expanded with extra patrols, and Sunday plans to open early drew crowds to the oceanfront celebration.
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Revere Beach
Boston and Lynn Electrics
Boston
Curtis
Metropolitan Park Commission
Revere Reservation
Chief West
Bath House
Vatter
Post
West
Winthrop
Highlands
Point Shirley
Revere
High Boulevard
Crest Avenue
Porto Rico Governor Exhausted by Island Crisis
Washington dispatch reports Porto Rico Governor Allen plans to resign amid financial collapse. With $80,000 monthly deficit and only $260,000 in treasury, the two million dollars voted by Congress was spent by the military government. Critics warn of starvation and calls to revert to Spanish rule gain momentum.
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Washington
Allen
Porto Rico
Congress
Foraker
General Davis
Executive Council
Zeppelin Airship Trial Above German Waters
Count von Zeppelin's airship trial at Frielrichshafen occurred in a 17 mph gale. The craft rose to 1200 feet and covered 5.25 miles in 17 12 minutes, cruising about eighteen miles an hour. Ascents and steering worked well until a rope twisted, forcing the trip to end.
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Frielricsshafen
Germany
Count von Zeppelin
Heroic climb ends in tragedy on Mt Washington
Bodies of Father Bill Curtis and Allen Ormsbee returned to New York after perishing in a blizzard on Mt Washington. Ormsbee crawled miles on a broken leg to aid his companion in a ferocious storm. Appalachian Club members hail his sacrifice and preserve his memory.
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Allen Ormsbee
Bill” Curtis
Faplans
N. H
Bill’ Curtis
New York Athletic Club
Crescent Athletic Club
Brooklyn
Mt. Washington
New York
Ormshbee
Appalachian Club
Fire at C W Leatherbee Lumber Co. causes 120000 loss
G R Miller superintendent says losses run about 106000 on stock plus 15000 to 20000 on buildings and equipment. Insurance covers the total, with forty to fifty insurers named. Origin of fire remains conjecture as he establishes temporary headquarters opposite the former yard.
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C. W. Leatherbee Lumber Company
Albany Street
G. R. Miller
Post
Messrs
George O. Carpenter & Son
Inckley & Woods
Miller
Mr. Miller
Everett Plane Company
Endeavorers Arriving for World Convention in London
Christian Endeavor delegates from Chicago and Cleveland totaling about eighty arrived at North Union Station at 6 10 p m yesterday on their way to the world convention in London. A Boston union committee supervised by J B Grove arranged rooms at the American House. On Thursday they tour the navy yard and Bunker Hill guided by Miss Florence Orse. Arlington Heights trip at 1 p m led by Miss Paul. Friday afternoon Cambridge Longfellow home Tremont temple prayer meeting. Saturday sail to Nahant with A C Grainger urging full attendance for a planned surprise. John C Fremont supervisor of New York harbor, now in the Asiatic squadron, is son of thePathfinder Fremont twice a presidential candidate.
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Christian Endeavor
Chicago
Cleveland
North Union Station
London
Boston Union
J. B. Grove
American House
Navy Yard
Sieg Waite
Tremonemple
Nahant
A. C. Grainger
Holiday at the Theatres Crowds Fill Local Venues
Heat did not deter crowds as local houses packed while suburban resorts struggled. Shows include The Rounders at New York Casino and the Pinafore production at Chute grounds. Other features: Keith’s elephants, Chinko the orangutan, Blodgett’s ivories, Norumbega Park amusements, and a grand Crescent Gardens dance hall presentation.
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New York
Hobart
Sloane
Chute Grounds
Chamberlyn
The
Columbia
Castle Square
Jessie Bartlett Davis
Will Davis
New Illnois Theatre
Chicago
Kate Condon
Faust
Bronson Howard
Pacific Slope
Keith’s
Kate Dark
Austin & ‘Stone’s
Blodgett
Chinko
Herbert
Combination Park
Dink
Norumbega Park
Huntington Avenue
Bosea
Nickelodeon
Nahant
Lincoln Wharf
Bass Point
Crescent Gardens
Revere Beach
Julian Rose
Point of Pines
Queen Beech Stands Tall in Ashburry Park England
In Ashburry Park Lord Brownlow owns the tallest single stemmed beech in England. The beech, known as the queen beech, rises about 150 feet above Buckinghamshire's beech country.
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England
Lord Brownlow
Ashburry
Buckinghamshire
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Worcestersp
John Duncan
Dream City
Paris Salon
Marius Bar
America
Boston Post
Room OF the
Ros
Leatherbee Lumber Co
John C. Fremont
War Department
Asiatic Squadron
Pathfinder
Horsford
Genuine
Horsford’s
Jones
the Tremont
Gilbert
J. H. Gilmour
Gus Ruhlin
Palace Theatre
Sierra Nevada Farrington
California
Professor Lockhart
Keith
Yarmouth
Lssine
Lewis Wharf
All Arts of
Nova Scotia
Washington St
H. F. Siammond
TOD
Readville
Southern
Back Bay
the Dazzler
Revere Beach & Lynn
Greands
New England Mutual Life Insurance Company
Post Office Square
Mass
Massachusetts
Home Office
Milk Street
Benj. F. Stevens
Alfred D. Foster
EF. Trull
WM. B. Turner
Sec’y
Herrick’s Mercantile Collection Agency
Court ST
Provincetown
Cale
Bay Line
Gomplges
Atlantic
Plymouth
Provincetown Steamboat Co
J. R. Bacon
Ze Reion
T.c
Eldridge Herbert
Electric
ED Latell
Pal-Ma-La
Adelina Roattino
Sullivan St
Charlestown
Castle
Tremont Gt
Tremont
Music Hall
Oxford
Gloucester
Cape Ann
North Shore
North Side
Tral Wharf
Foot State St
Wunear
Bingle
E. S&s
Boston & Gloucester Steamboat CO
Norumbeca Mre
Dark “Rm
New England
Rustic
Zoological Garden
Miracion
Parkar
Ke Newton Rouleta
H. M. S. Pinafore
Burwell
Adams House
Lafricain
Naval Brigade
Bases Point
Ostrich Farm
A. P. Lane
J. H. Gilmour, Mary Sanders
Florence Rockwell
Annie Clarke
Messrs. Parry and Rynard
Marguerite
Austin & Stone
Kate
Tremont Row
Soulonsain
New Palace Theatre
Luis Bruerliin
VME
Rrno
Haymarket
Philadelphia
Sorensen
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