Record-setting Clan-na-Gael Picnic at Oak Island Grove
Eight thousand spectators witnessed a day of athletic feats with four records set including three world marks. Eddie Guertin of Somerville dethroned Robert Baker in high jump clearing 6 feet 7 inches, while Denis Mahoney and James Pendergast led weight events with new distances. Tom Keene, Frank Kanaly, and Guertin starred in sprints and distance races as crowds cheered at North End Park. 2000 spectators saw boat races, swimming events, and multiple youth competitions.
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Oak Island Grove
Robert Baker
Eddie Guertin
Somerville
Guertin
Baker
Denis Mahoney
James Pendergast
Tom Keene
O’brien
Manning
Eddie Hynes
Hynes
Cameron
Collins Club
South Boston
Glen Camerons
East Boston
Brook Farm House Burned in West Roxbury Fire
The Brook Farm communal house in West Roxbury, linked to the 1840s social reform movement, was burned the night before the Fourth. The unoccupied building may have been set by boys or destroyed to prevent decay. Founders and participants included Emerson Dana Greeley Hawthorne Whittier Lowell Bryant Parker and Thoreau. Hawthorne's Blithedale Romance drew on Brook Farm life.
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West Roxbury
Brook Farm
New England
Brook Farm Association
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Charles A. Dana
Horace Greeley
Nathaniel Hawthorne
John Greenleaf Whittier
James Russell Lowell
William Cullen Bryant
Theodore Parker
Henry D. Thoreau
Hawthorne
Troy Strikers Seek Aid While Touring Brockton
Two 700 girl collar starchers on strike in Troy New York visit Brockton seeking donations. Bessie Benson and Josephine Dupuis entertain with the Laundry Workers Union and plan to address shoe industry unions. Benson praises Brockton and the local union organization as well conducted.
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Brockton
Troy
N. Y
Iss Bessie Benson
Josephie Dupuis
Laundry Workers’ Union
Hebrew athletes beat St. Joseph's in ward games relay
The Hebrew relay team of Ward 8 defeated St. Joseph's A. A. second team at the ward games held at Charlesbank Gym yesterday. Races included 50 yard junior dash won by E. Sawyer with R. McGrath second. 100 yards seniors won by G. Riley with J. H. O'Brien second from St. Joseph's, while Hebrew H. M. Landesman took first and G. Goldberg second. Other events saw J. McCarren and H. Savage win junior 220 yards and I. Gorman first with M. Conroy second in senior 440. Only Ward 8 residents were eligible. some silver cups were awarded by the city.
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St. Joseph's A. A
Charlesbank Gymnasium
E. Sawyer
R. McGrath
S$. Orenberg
L. Kroeck
G. Riley
J. H. O’brien
Centrals of East Boston sweep two games at Wood Island Park
At Wood Island Park the Centrals of East Boston defeated the Assumptions 8 to 6 in the morning and beat the Outlaws 17 to 7 in the afternoon. Dick Manning pitched both games for the Centrals.
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Wood Island Park
Centrals
East
Boston
Assumptions
Outlaws
Dick Manning
General Leonard Wood Arrives in Boston with Mrs Wood
General Leonard Wood and Mrs Wood arrived at the Touraine from Manila late last night. They were accompanied by Halstead Dorsey of the United States Army. Wood went to his room at once and was not visible to the reporter, appearing older than during his last Boston visit.
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Leonard Wood
Japanese Battleship Katori Launched At Barrow
Princess Arisugawa and her husband the prince witnessed the launching of the Japanese battleship Katori at Barrow. The 16 400 ton vessel features nine inch armor and four 12 inch guns with a 18 5 knot contract speed. Ten thousand spectators attended as pigeons were released for peace.
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London
Arisugawa
Japan
Barrow
Far
Steamer Nantucket and barge collide near Cross Rip
Off Cross Rip just before daylight Steamer Nantucket bound for Boston and barge No. 101 loaded with tar from Boston for New York, in tow of tug Blue Belle, collided. Nantucket struck the barge's port bow causing damage and a leak. Nantucket's own damage undetermined as it proceeded to Boston after half an hour. Tug towed the barges to Vineyard Haven and sailed at 8 a.m. for destination.
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Vineyard Haven
Baltimore
Boston
New York
Cross Rip
Michael Sullivan of Revere Dies Suddenly
Michael Sullivan 70 longtime Revere official and farmer leader dies at his North Revere home from heart failure shortly after 11 last night. He chaired last year's Board of Selectmen and was active with the New England Farmers Association and the Massachusetts Agricultural Society.
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Michael Sullivan
Board of Selectmen
Revere
North Revere
Sullivan
New England Farmers’ Association
Massachusetts Agricultural Society
John P. Squire
Kenilworth Golfers Hold Two Holiday Tournaments
At Kenilworth Golf Club Allston two holiday events were played a best ball foursome and a mixed ball foursome. Winners were Hl A Bucke and A F Brown with gross 84 net 65 in the first event. In the mixed event Miss Shirley and A F Hentz won with gross 103 net 95.
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Kenilworth Golf Club
Allston
Hl. A. Bucke
A. F. Brown
Miss Shirley
Afe
Hentz
Hurricane on Auvergne auto course disrupts Bennet cup race
A vast hurricane struck the Auvergne course in France, wrecking tents roofs and a garage ahead of the James Gordon Bennet cup race. Top contestants including Thery Janatzy and three Americans arrived as weighings began. officials tightened equipment limits and 7000 soldiers to police the 350 mile, 87 mile per lap, course starting at 6 am.
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Laschamp
France
Auvergne
Thery
Janatzy
Bert H. Dingley
San Francisco
Cal
Herbert Lyttle
Toledo
Joseph Tracy
Germany
Austria
Great Britain
Italy
United States
Messrs
Dingley
Lyttle
Woman holds intruder under bed. burglar fined
Mrs. John E. Blake of Taunton details how she woke to a man in her bedroom and kept him trapped under the bed until police arrived. The intruder, William F. Lee of Brockton, was charged with drunkenness and fined five dollars.
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Taunton
John E. Blake
Winthrop Street
Post
William F. Lee
Montello Street
Brockton
President Roosevelt Leads Large Cabinet Train to Hay Obsequies
In Philadelphia on July 4, President Roosevelt and most current and former Cabinet members travel on a special Pennsylvania line train to Cleveland for John Hay's funeral. Taft is absent en route to the Philippines. Elihu Root Paul Morton and Charles Emory Smith join the President’s party. The journey began at Oyster Bay and included cars Magnet Shetland Oberlin and John Endicott.
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Philadelphia
Roosevelt
Cleveland
Pennsylvania Railroad
John Hay
Taft
Philippines
Elihu Root
Paul Morton
Navy
Charles Emory Smith
Root
State Department
Oyster Bay
Long Island Railroad Company
Jersey City
Philippines Officially Mourns for Hay
A cable from Governor Wright announced closing of departments and half masting of flags in the Philippines in memory of John Hay. The Southern Graduates Association of Theta Delta Chi will send a five member committee to the funeral. Memorial services will be at the Church of the Covenant. A cable from Turkey’s American minister conveyed the legation’s grief.
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Washington
Wright
Philippines
John Hay
State Department
Southern Graduates’ Association of Theta Delta Chi
Hay
Church of the Covenant
Cipa
Leishman
Turkey
Legation
Fireworks and Band Concert Draw 4000 At North End Park
A night of band music and a fireworks display attracted about four thousand spectators at North End Park. The program began with the fireworks at eight and the finale during the 9 30 set piece finale.
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North End Park
Cincinnati Society of the Cincinnati Holds Annual Meeting
The Society of the Cincinnati of Massachusetts met at Young's with Judge Bell presiding in the president's absence. Ten new members were admitted including Waldo Claflin Philadelphia Professor George Sever New York and Charles Larned Detroit.
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Society of the Cincinnati
Massachusetts
Young's
Newbury
Hudson River
Winslow Warren
Europe
Charles A. Bell
Superior Court
Richardson
Thomas Savage Clay
Francis A. Foster
Georgia
Wadsworth
Pennsylvania
W. A. Bancroft
Waldo M. Claflin
Philadelphia
George F. Sever
Columbia University
Charles Pierpont Larned
Detroit
John Oxenbridge Heald
Orange
N. J
Chandler Smith
City of New York
Seth Evans Hodge
Cincinnati
Robert
Loyal Order officers elected amid historic naval ties
The article lists officers for the coming year in a fraternal society tied to Revolutionary era symbols. It names Winslow Warren as president, Thornton Kirkland Lothrop as vice president, and David Greene Haskins Jr as secretary, with additional officers and a standing committee. Delegates to the Charleston triennial meeting and alternates are named, alongside a planned Annapolis delegation for the Paul Jones remains exercises.
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Manley Lyman
City of New York
Henry Leonard Shute
Salem
Henry Vose Greenough
Brookline
Charles U. Nichols
Winslow Warren
Thornton Kirkland Lothrop
David Greene Haskins, Jr
William Frederick Jones
Arthur Greene “Everett
Horatio Appleton Lamb
John Collins Warren
James Gardiner Vose
Charles Upham Bell
John Green Heywood
John Carver Palfrey
Frederick Augustus Whitwell
Moorfield Storey
Prentiss Cummings
Amory Appleton Lawrence
Charles Eben Jackson
Gamaliel Bradford
John Edward Winslow
Charleston
S. C
Thorton § K. Lothrop
Boston
David G. Has
John W. Moore
Edwin W. Sumner
John E. Winton
Connecticut
Nathaniel W. Emerson
Charles A. Jackson
New York
Albert A. Pope
Roger Walcott
Edward A. Moseley
Washington
Accidents of the Fourth Affected by Fireworks and Wounds
The accident record lists 59 cases across relief stations and hospitals including City Hospital Emergency Carney Hospital and Massachusetts General. Names ages and addresses show gunshot burns powder burns blank cartridge and cannon cracker injuries on hands faces arms and legs with several summaries of specific street addresses and injuries.
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City Hospital
Carney Hospital
Massachusetts General Hospital
Fred McDonald
Willie Bertassasi
Atlantic Avenue
Commercial Street
Fred O'Donnell
Abraham Goldberg
Frank Cabert
Thomas Foie
Samuel Hermon
Jacob Lemon
Felix Russo
Eugene Green
William Silverman
Louis Barron
Mary McGonagle
Catherine Way
Mary Goldstein
Joseph Welch
Thomas Sullivan
Eugene Dorsey
Morris Aynes
Rocco Soddist
Ruggles’ Street
Harold Turner
Shawmut Avenue
Frank Quigley
Dundee Street
Spencer Hovey
John Leonard
H. W. Savage
Washington Street
Morris Tallwitz
Willow Park
Michael J. O’brien
Hampden Street
Mary Flynn
Plymouth Court
James Lyons
Union Park Street
Michael Levi
Rochester’ Street
Shylock McCarthy
Josephine Street
Roxbury
Winifred Selinger
Worcester Square
Daniel Croke
West Second Street
Max Vereshetoky
Rochester Street
Lewis Barth
Harrison Avenue
Thomas Howe
J. H. Savage
Jacob Goldstein
James Doran
Hudson Street
Joseph Crowley
St. Alphonsus Street
Coleman Welch
C Street
Boston
Nicolaini Caprallale
Bennett Street
Harry Laughton
Oak _ street
Daniel Sullivan
East Third Street
South Boston
Czar Burned in Effigy Parade in Arlington Heights
A group of 50 Russians shows at Arlington Heights to burn a Czar effigy in a ceremony with songs and poems. They declare Russia free from autocracy and sing revolution tunes as the figure is set ablaze.
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Arlington Heights
Boston
Dubinushka
Dubin
Revolutionists Get $500 From Boston Hebrew Community
The Russian revolutionist committee of Boston held a Fourth of July house to house drive among the Hebrew population, raising 300 and expecting 200 more from recent gifts. Plans aim to form committees in each congregation to collect funds for arms and revolutionary literature for Russia.
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Hebrew Committee of Fifty
Boston
Fireman Fisher Dies After Beale Street Ladder Crash
Robert T. Fisher 30 of Wollaston died at City Hospital from injuries suffered when Hook and Ladder Company No. 2’s ladder truck struck a tree on Beale Street. Fisher was the most severely hurt of eight firemen. two legs broken, one crushed. Albert Kingsley remains in critical condition. The other six injured likely recover.
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Quincy
Robert T. Fisher
Hook and Ladder Company No. 2
Beale Street
City Hospital
Fisher
Wollaston
Albert Kingsley
Red tape delays transfer of 14 year old victim
A Boston area case shows 14 year old Gustave Johnson's body held by bureaucratic delay for about 24 hours. Medical examiners Harris and McDonald clashed over signing the death certificate while undertakers Jones Briggs and Tallberg shuffled custody before the parents could receive the remains.
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Gustave Johnson
McDonald
Harris
Jones
Briggs
C. L. Tallberg
Dorchester
Howard Street
Tallberg
Jamaica Plain Vets Win Firemen Playout on the Common
The Stars of Jamaica Plain won the firemen's playout with a 185 feet 3 inches throw on the Common yesterday morning. Roxbury veterans finished second at 165 feet 7 inches on their first trial, an accident ending their run. The Teanean tube of Dorchester placed third at 132 feet 9 inches. Gilbert Currier of the Stars suffered a chin cut while manning the brake, four stitches were required. A $200 prize went to the winners.
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Stars
Jamaica Plain
Roxbury
Dorchester
Gilbert Currier
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