Laconia Boiler Explosion Claims One Life
In Laconia a three story laundry building housing R M and John Jenkins and a grocery shop owned by E D Began exploded just before 6 PM. The boiler burst killing Doran and injuring seven workers including Mrs Trendell, with rescue efforts and hospital treatment following as flames and smoke filled the site.
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R. M
John Jenkins
Meredith Court
Main Street
Gracery
E. D. Began
Milk Street
Laundry Blast Toll Reported in Mill Street Disaster
Mrs Trendell was the second victim recovered from under the water tank and rushed to hospital with severe bruising and possible internal injuries. Miss Lecour Mrs Cook Mrs Regan and Mrs Simpson were pulled from wreckage after windows blew out. Albert Joyal body recovered as firemen toppled the roof. The blast damaged multiple nearby stores including Morrison Stone Grieve Began and Mortons with glass shattered for blocks. Laundry owner John Jenkins could not explain the explosion noting the boiler only supplied steam for laundering.
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Devan
Doran
Trendell
Hoital
Miss Lecour
Cook
Regan
Simpson
Albert Joyal
E. D. Regan
Mill Street
Meredith Court
Charles Morrison
Milk Street
Fred Stone
Grieve
Morton
John Jenkins
PLAN ANOTHER SAFE AND SANE Fourth Celebrations
James P. Munroe, chairman of the safe and sane Fourth committee, said Boston's Independence Day with the sting removed met expectations. No dissent was heard, aside from an ice cream tent mishap lacking supervision. Mayor Fitzgerald favors another safer, saner Fourth, tightening lines for next year.
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James P. Munroe
Safe and Sane Fourth
Boston
Fitzgerald
Mrs Pierce Is For Freedom In Norwalk Visit
Mrs Alice Rogers Pierce the former Boston horsewoman who faced arrest for disorderly conduct in New York dined with her attorney John J Walsh in Norwalk to thwart a possible second relatives action to commit her to a sanitarium She had previously been confined at MacFarland sanitarium Green's Farm and Kenset Wilton during a year long struggle for freedom and plans to resist any guardianship move.
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South Norwalk
Conn
Alice Rogers Pierce
Boston
Central Park
New York
Leslie Carter
Norwalk
John J. Walsh
MacFarland
Green’s Farm
Eadward F. Everet Smith
Kenset
Wilton
Rich murderer dies in prison in Thomaston
George W. Pierce of Lewiston, serving 38 years at hard labor in the Maine State Prison, died last night. Convicted May 18, 1899, for attempted murder of ex City Marshal Teel and Lewiston Municipal Court Judge Cornish with poisoned whiskey. Pierce was reputed the wealthiest man in Androscoggin county at commitment.
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Thomaston
George W. Pierce
Lewiston
Teel
Cornish
Androscoggin County
Flee Forest Fires in Boats
Duluth Minn July 5 reports say fires on the south shore of Lake Superior menace lives as women and children board boats to flee for safety. One small town is probably destroyed, not heard from since cut off by fire. Three other towns are in grave danger.
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Duluth
Minn
Lake Superior
Father Kills His Daughter in Morristown Estate
Joseph Tabibjian caretaker at Persian Court summer home of Turkish consul general Tepakyan accidentally shot his six year old daughter Mabel while driving intruders from a field. The loaded shotgun discharged when the trigger snagged a twig, nearly destroying the child’s head.
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Morristown
N. J
Joseph Tabibjian
Persian Court
H. H. Tepakyan
Mabel
Ballinger defends plan for interior reforms amid controversy
Ballinger in fighting mood over department plans and reforms following new legislation. He rails at bureaucrats and rejects Newell as persona non grata, claiming opposition from insiders tied to the insurgent faction. He recalls Roosevelt’s call to service and defends adhering to laws governing the Interior Department.
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Ballinger
Mr. Newell
EY. H. Newell
Interior Department
Washington
The
West
Seattle
Roosevelt Insurgent Talks Drive Northwest Policy Inference
Washington dispatch notes Colonel Roosevelt hosting insurgent conferences at Sagamore Hill on Northwest politics and conservation policy. Poindexter and Miles Poindexter discussed Ballinger and Pinchot while preparations for further meetings with other insurgents proceed. Hughes and Bacon also featured in the weekend events.
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Miles Poindexter
Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Oyster Bay
Bristow
Murdock
Madison
Kansas
Taft
Poindexter
Sagamore Hill
Hughes
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Phoebe Ross
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Siléinsi
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Freedom
John Smith
Paris
Futrelle
Post Magazine
F. H. Newell
Reclamation Service
Theodore Roosevelt
the Interior
Department
Congressional Committee
Rae
George Grantham Bain
Richard A. Ballinger
Beverly
Northwest
United States Senate
Secretary of the Interior
Fuller
Bar Harbor
Robert Bacon
France
Gilson Gardner
Bacon
White House
Post
Newell
Congressional
Row
South Station
Elizabeth B. Wetherbee
Gilbert Stuart School
Dorchester Lower Mills
Wetherbee
Salem Normal School
Harvard Grammar School
Charlestown
Spain
Germany
Dorchester
le Touraine
la Touraine
Ness
W. S. Quinby Company
Boston Coffee and Tea Importers
Chicago
Cbeverly
SALEM
Marblehead
New England Telephone & Telegraph Company
E. Linton
Elizabeth B. Wetherbeer
EB. Llinton
Gerome
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