Man Escapes Inferno After Failing Window Ledge Jump
Jacob Land 33, a Bloom & Co. bookkeeper, fell from a second story ledge while escaping a four story blaze at Otis and Summer streets. Firemen caught him, saving him from death. he suffered burns and shock but survived. Bloom & Co. loss exceeds 20,000 dollars as flames consumed stock. other tenants include Freeman's National Bank and Bay State Hat Company.
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Jacob Land
West Orchard Street
Otis and
Summer Streets
Willliam S&s
Bloom & Co
Louis Diamond
Poplar Street
Freeman's National Bank
C. Steinler, Barber
Bay State Hat Company
Winthrop Beach Aroused Over Unfinished Channel Work
Residents of Winthrop Beach and Cottage Hill demand action as an incomplete channel to Crystal Cove hinders steamboat and yacht club operations. Harbor officials cite funds delays, while locals urge state dredging to restore 12 by 100 foot depth, noting prior spending by the steamboat company and yacht club without lasting completion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winthrop
Crystal Cove
Yacht Club
Steamboat Company
Winthrop Beach
Cottage Hill
Harbor Commission
Guarantee on garments inspires rare complaints
We often thank the rare fault finder for improvement. Each clothing detail is crafted with care and all garments are guaranteed. If a customer finds a flaw, we gladly offer to correct it and make things right.
Militia Vaccination Rules Adjusted for 1902 Encampment
The adjutant general issues to state militia commanders a change from special order 79 requiring vaccination within the year 1902 to a window of one year from encampment. Medical officers will inspect officers and men bound for July camp to verify vaccination or immunity and vaccinate if needed before or upon arrival. Southbridge’s Company K, Sixth Regiment, is reassigned to camp with the ee Brigade at Middleboro next week due to smallpox.
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Sixth Regiment
Southbridge
Middleboro
Six youths confess to planned arson in West Roxbury fire
Six boys aged 16 to 19 were arrested after confessing to plotting an incendiary attack on a Forest Hills Associates building at 3191 Washington Street West Roxbury. They hatched the plan July 3 and tried two fire-raising attempts before officers and fire marshals intervened. Arraignment set for 9 a.m. at Jamaica Plain Police Court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Street
West Roxbury
Jamaica Plain
Hilton Weigeld
Jess Street
Irvin Thielsch
Broadside Avenue
John Gossell
Thomas Bell
Bismark Street
Carl Linberg
Joseph Smith
Boylston Avenue
Rice
State House
Forest Hills Associates
Peabody
Riley
Station 13
Dunn
Boylston Street
Jamaica Plain Police Court
Kitchener Home Coming Promises London Welcome
London reacts to Lord Kitchener's South Africa return with plans mirroring Lord Roberts reception. He sails in from Southampton and is due in London July 12, to dine at St James's Palace with the Prince of Wales acting for the King. London County Council approves a congratulatory resolution on the war’s end despite opposition over Scheepers affair.
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London
Lord Kitchener
South Africa
Lord Roberts
Southampton
St. James Palace
Prince of Wales
London County Council
Lord Russell
Commandant Scheepers
Mary MacLane Leaves Butte for Harvard Summer School
Butte writer Mary MacLane plans to study chemistry at Harvard Summer School, saying her English is already strong enough and citing pressure from publishers to leave Butte. She notes her book has sold well, reaching about 80 000 copies, and she expects it to endure for years. She denies plans for another work soon and reveals a cigar brand deal tied to her name to avoid whiskey.
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Butte
Mont
Mary MacLane
Harvard
Miss MacLane
Hamlin Garland
Rain Delays Roosevelt Tennis Plans at Sagamore Hill
President Roosevelt spends a rain soaked morning at Oyster Bay engaged in family frolics with Archie and Kermit while plans for tennis and rifle practice are interrupted. Montagu White and William Curtis visit over lunch discussing Cuba reciprocity with the President.
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Oyster Bay
Roosevelt
Cortelyou
Loeb
Kermit
Teddy
Sagamore Hill
Archie
Montagu White
New Yor
Washington
William E. Curtis
White
Europe
Cuba
United States
Congress
Floating Hospital’s First Voyage Lights New Season
The Boston Floating Hospital began its season with a 10 45 a m departure from City wharf, towed to Winthrop by the tug Leader, returning about 4 p m with a small but contented cargo of babies. The vessel offers three decks of wards, a bath room, laboratory, and dining for mothers, with advanced air ventilation and disinfecting. last year saw up to 200 patients, 269 permanent patients, and a growing need for a second vessel. Medical staff includes Drs Breck Coggeshall Hastings Granger Kilbourn Buckley Sturgis Hennessy Lilienthal Kerr Sanborn Murphy Hardwick and others. Miss Wilber supervises nurses. Mr Tobey and Mr Anderson manage.
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Boston Floating Hospital
City Wharf
Winthrop
Leader
Homer Woodbridge
Institute of Technology
Grec
Board of Managers
Samuel Breck
Frederick Coggeshall
R. W. Hastings
Frank B. Granger
Arthur G. Kilbourn
W. 8. Buckley
M. G. Sturgis
Charles F. Hennessy
Alice Lilienthal
Isabella D. Kerr
Warren B. Sanborn
Ed M. Murphy
Frederick V. Hardwick
A. Wilber
Fannie F. Adler
Anna L. Daniels
Missary Gore Smith
Rufus B. Tobey
John R. Anderson
Uncomfortable Heat Predicted for Boston Ahead
Weather reports forecast another hot day in Boston with high humidity and rising temperatures. The day starts cool with a shower but will heat up to the mid eighties by afternoon as residents endure heat and sun in a humid, near-stifling pattern.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Smith
Poster's Widow Testimony Marks Start of Foster Case
District Attorney Livingston Smith pushes to present 40 witnesses as Union Hall hears testimonies in the Foster case. Among witnesses, Samuel Thompson and Elsworth Howland describe facial injuries, while Mrs. Foster places the disappearance on June 9th and notes her husband’s statement about Disbrow. Testimony resumes tomorrow as Morse markdowns loom.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. I
Livingston Smith
Louis Disbrow
Edward H. Foster
Union Hall
Samuel Thompson
Sag Harbor
Foster
Elsworth Howland
Edward Croker
Chief Croker
New York Fire Department
Nelson Squires
Tiana Bay
Henry Jacobs
Croker
Clarence Foster
Disbrow
Topping
Express
Squires
Warren Corwin
Lawrence
Ternell’s
Fears Anarchy in Cuba Warns General Lee
General Fitzhugh Lee, former consul general to Havana, warns that without Roosevelt reciprocity toward Cuba the island faces disorder and possible U S intervention. He cites idle poverty, loss of American merchant confidence, and rising discontent among Afro Cuban workers as conditions that could spark mobs and unrest.
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Washington
Fitzhugh Lee
Havana
Roosevelt
Cuba
United States
Lee
Principles, Not Men Shape Opposition to Governing Ticket
Dr Edward S Taylor secretary of the anti Gaston Hamlin group denies naming a candidate for governor. He says the new organization focuses on principles not individuals and cites several Democrats such as John K E O'Donnell John Mack Gerry Brown and others as potential nominees rather than a single head.
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Edward S. Taylor
William A. Gaston
Charless. Hamlin
George E. McNeil
Dr. Taylor
George EK. McNeil
Gaston
Hamlin
John KE. O'Donnell
Northampton
Mrs Schwab Plans Outings for New York's Poor Children
Mrs Charles M Schwab wife of United States Steel president refines summer plan to take thousands of New York City poor children to Richmond Beach Staten Island for a grand outing. About 100000 will be spent on a 1500 seat dining hall 65 acres of woodlands cottages and lighted facilities. The project aims to give slum children a day of sea air and recreation away from noise and squalor while focusing on practical helping of the needy.
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Altoona
Penn
Charles M. Schwab
United States Steel Corporation
New York City
Immergran
Newark
Richmond Beach
Staten Island
New York
Richmond Beach Sanitarium
Shaw Heads to Boston on Pleasure Trip with Family
Secretary of the Treasury Leslie M. Shaw began a Boston-bound pleasure trip. He left New York with his wife and two daughters, boarding the revenue cutter Manhattan at the Battery. The vessel escorted the party to the cutter Gresham, which was in quarantine and sailed immediately toward Boston.
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New York
Secretary of the Treasury
Leslie M. Shaw
Boston
Manhattan
the Battery
Gresham
North End Heroine Emeline Emerald Rescues Child
Emeline Emerald a 34 Hampshire Street Cambridge resident and skilled swimmer saved Joseph Graves from drowning at North End Park baths last Monday. The dark skinned Portuguese girl kept the boy afloat for two days while authorities and visitors praised her calm courage and modest demeanor.
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Emeline Emerald
Hampshire Street
Cambridge
Joseph Graves
North End Park
North End
Emeline
Georgie
O'’Donald
Emerald Home
Faxon Attacks Quincy Health Board Over Scavenger License
Henry H Faxon issues a public denunciation accusing the Board of Health and allied interests of blocking his bid for a scavenger license. He recounts a City dump charge of 1.65 dollars vs his claimed 60 cent capability and alleges the current scavenger is unfit. He denounces lack of a public hearing and calls the board’s actions political and autocratic.
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Quincy
Henry H. Faxon
Board of Health
Scavenger
Prescott
Star Chamber
Newfoundland Disasters Hit Coast After Severe Storm
Reports from St John s Newfoundland describe coast disasters from a recent storm. Whittle s craft with five men lost off Cape St Mary and Hennessey s schooner with two men and two women aboard narrowly escaped foundering in Maddox Cove. Eighty boats destroyed in Pouch Cove and damage to nets and gear around St John s totals about 40 000. Lily schooner with cargo run ashore at Blackhead Bay and declared a total loss. Jasper likely wrecked amid numerous other minor disasters.
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John's
N. F
Whittle
Cape St. Mary
Hennessey
Maddox Cove
Pouch Cove
St. John’s
Lily
Blackhead Bay
Jasper Hag
Poisoned cherries claim life of Woodfords child
In Portland on July 8 a child died and five siblings fell seriously ill after eating cherries from a neighbor's tree. The Curran children, Charles and Sarah, were affected with poisoning symptoms and doctors expect an investigation. Walter Curran, 11, died after rapidly worsening illness.
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Portland
Woodfords
Charles
Sarah Curran
Walter W. Curran
Walter
Clohecy Pleads Not Guilty in Knife Attack Case
Daniel E. Clohecy alias Amos faced a courtroom hearing after allegedly stabbing his wife at their Haverhill home. He is held on 1600 for the grand jury on an assault with a dangerous weapon charge. the victim is in dangerous condition with a deep throat wound and unable to appear. Clohecy refuses to talk to police and shows signs of hysteria, while his wife warns of repeated threats of killing.
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Lynn
Daniel E
Amos
Clohecy
Haverhill
Cholera Havul in Philippines Ravages Archipelago
Washington dispatch reports a severe cholera outbreak in the Philippines with high mortality. Officials fear deaths may near levels seen in 1882 as heat and poor sanitation fuel spread. Army losses are blamed on disobedience to hygiene orders. Manila records show 1005 cases and 800 deaths through May 15, with total Philippine figures at 2210 cases and 2322 deaths.
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Washington
Philippines
Chaffee
Root
Edwards
Division of Insular Affairs
Forwood
War Department
Heismann
Manila
Bernhardt Plans Juliet Romeo Pair With Maude Adams
English press reports Sarah Bernhardt announced arrangements nearly complete for Maude Adams to play Juliet opposite Bernhardt as Romeo during her American tour. The French star indicated the pairing would headline the production and draw major attention in the United States.
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Manchester
Eng
Sarah Bernhardt
Maude Adams
Juliet
Mme. Bernhardt
Romeo
Bottled Whiskey Ad Seeks Quick Orders in Boston
A fragmented advertisement from Cushing Medical Supply Co at 580 Washington St Boston promotes Old Colonial Whiskey as mellow and smooth. It offers cash or COD with free delivery within a 10 mile limit and claims $5.00 orders are delivered free in New England and New York.
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Fellows
New England
New York
Cushing Medical Supply Co
Washington St
Boston
Mass
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Washington, Elim and
Hanover Sts
Summer
OTIS
Engine Company
Browning
Zoo
Kitchener
Roberts
Seaman
von Ethel
Quentin
Teddy, Jr
Mrs. Roosevelt
Poster
Stang
Keepell Moraine
Washington and Brattle Streets
Shaw
Faxon
Newfoundland
Cherries
Bernhardt
Bes
Shawmut Furniture
Tremont St
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