Battlefleet Prepares Off Provincetown For Summer Manoeuvres
The flagship Connecticut leads a 16 battleship fleet from Charlestown yard to Rockport, joined by destroyers and torpedo craft under Captain J O Richardson. Admiral Schroeder commands the fleet as four divisions gather for planned night battles with new searchlights and blockade runs.
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Connecticut
Charlestown Navy Yard
Vermont
Kansas
Louisiana
Rockport
Provincetown
J. O. Richardson
Stockton
Dupont
Porter
de Long
Biddle
Thornton
Schroeder
Guam
Minnesota
Mississippi
New Hampshire
Idaho
Georgia
New Jersey
Nebraska
Rhode Island
Virginia
Wisconsin
Missouri
Ohio
Quoit Throwers Challenge World
Two South Boston experts Thomas Kelley and Peter Mitchell, both aged 30, issue a world challenge after winning a July 4 quoit match at M Street playground. They pledge to meet any team throwing six pound quoits on a regulation court for a side bet. Ceteto and his partner of Charlestown were the preferred challengers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Boston
Thomas Kelley
City Point Court
Peter Mitchell
Everson Street
M Street Playground
Ceteto
Charlestown
Noted Western Pennsylvania Surgeon Sued for Divorce
Dr Joseph Dickson a leading surgeon is sued for divorce by his wife Miss Mary Sommerville alleging unfaithfulness with nurse Miss Jessie Ray who bore his child. The couple married in 1898 and lived together until 1909.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
Joseph Dickson
Western Pennsylvania
Jessie Ray
Mary H. Sommerville
Fashionable
Sewickley
Woman Heroically Rescues Husband at City Point Beach
Mrs. Michael Meehan of Roxbury single handedly saves her husband from drowning after he suffers heart failure while swimming toward a raft. She drags him to shore with help from life savers, but Meehan dies in her arms shortly after. He leaves wife and young son John.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
City Point
Michael Meehan
Williams Street
Roxbury
Meehan
John
Nervous disorders relief promoted by Horsford acid phosphate
An advertisement touts Horsford's acid phosphate as especially recommended for relief of headaches exhaustion and insomnia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Horsford’s
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Rueter & Company
Boston
Chester
Salem
Birmingham
Quoit Throwers
Sues
Secret
James Dickson
Clinton, Penn
Dickson
Keystone State
Allegheny County
Hanover and
Portland Streets
Dorothy Dodd
Temple Place
Shepard Norwell Co
W. L. Douglas
Douglas
Shoer
Douglas Price
Washington St
Yours Truly
Raymond
America
Hatter
Nmien’s
Hawley Street
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