Route Through the Suez Canal Best of All for Battleship Fleet
Navy figures show the best route to Asiatic waters for the U S fleet is via the Suez Canal. At a 12 knot rate, Hampton Roads to San Francisco through Suez covers 18 745 miles in 65 days two hours versus 13 045 miles and 45 days five hours via Magellan.
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Washington
Asiatic
Suez Canal
Hampton Roads
San Francisco
Straits of Magellan
Puget Sound
Manila
Honolulu
Guam
Ward room fight over Music Hall and Draper Hall picks
In Dorchester Ward 24 a dispute over official ward rooms pits Music Hall against Draper Hall after a municipal register declares Draper Hall the ward room. Alderman Bell defends Music Hall while Mayor and officials back Draper Hall citing the register. Bell vows to fight the ruling after last April’s Board vote.
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Twe
Music Hall
Dorchester
New Municipal Register
Draper Halls
Bell
Babson
Nolan
Fitzgerald
BE. G. Richardson
P. J. Mullaney
Alderman Bell
Register
Draper Hall
Boston Woman Is 120 Years Old
A former Boston resident, Mrs. Ramsey Wood, now of Hillsboro Washington, is cited as the oldest woman living day on this side of the Cascade Mountains. Born June 3 1787 in Boston she traces her lineage to early Massachusetts settlers. Her husband died more than forty years ago. She has three living sons the eldest aged 96. She credits her longevity to drinking at least seven quarts of pure water daily. The nearest peers are Mrs Maria Rodriguez 119 of Redlands and Mrs Alice Manning Berger 118 of Bellingham Washington.
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Seattle
Wash
Boston
Ramsey Wood
Hillsboro
Cascade Mountains
Wood
Maria Rodriguez
Redlands
Alice Manning Berger
Bellingham
Suit Seeks Receiver for Dean Heat Distributing Co
Allentown Pennsylvania July 9. D R Kline files to appoint a receiver for the Dean Heat Distributing Company alleging the Gibson girl advertising at twelve dollars prompts equity dividends. Judge Trexler rules the Gibson girl issue is relevant to the plea.
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Allentown
Penn
Gibson Girls
D. R. Kline
Dean Heat Distributing Company
Trexler
City Hall bribe talk swirls around loan bill passage
Rumors at City Hall Monday night claimed money changed hands to push the loan bill through the Common Council. No specific names were named, but the chatter centered on an alleged $3000 price to secure passage.
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Common Council
Post
William A. Gaston
Shawmut National Bank
Boston
Jerome Jones
Boston Merchants’ Association
Erwin H. Walcott
Arthur W. Newell
Boston Bank Presidents’ Association
James J. Storrow
Lee, Higginson & Co
Graft Allegations Hit City Council Over Loan Bill
A Republican councilman alleged a contractor offered money to sway votes on a $400 000 street repairs loan. Myron Pierce claimed strong pressure and graft signals, criticizing a $25 000 locker building loan as wasteful while noting absent members and a Democrat vote turn. Doyle dismissed knowledge of the bribe rumor.
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Post
Myron Pierce
Franklin Field
Pierce
Pendergast
Doyle
Santosuosso
Ward 6
North End
O’brien
Boston faces big illumination plans before Old Home Week
City officials and business leaders debate a 400000 loan for current expenses and unveil a sweeping lights and parade plan for Old Home Week. Mayor Fitzgerald and merchants push crowds, floats, searchlights, and fountains to spotlight Boston landmarks with grand illuminations across parks and bridges.
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Boston
Salvation Army West Newton Camp Gives Rest to Poor Children
The Salvation Army runs a West Newton Fresh Air camp where 75 hungry children enjoy a day in fields and grass while weary mothers receive a ten day break from city hardship. Captains Abraham and Magee oversee the outings, providing meals and relief from poverty for families who return to the city refreshed.
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Salvation Army
West Newton
Abraham
Ensign Magee
Big Crop of Strawberries in Abington This Season
Abington reports a record strawberry year with banner picking days on Saturday and Monday. Over 10,000 boxes went to market on Saturday as growers left some rows unpicked due to abundant supply. Most berries are sold near the fields with little to Boston.
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Abington
Boston
Miner Wilson Giles Foster Seeks Third Divorce
In St Louis on July 9 Judge Taylor noted Foster has completed two matrimonial hurdles in a single year and will consider a third. Foster, a miner, asked the court for another chance at marriage after refusing to produce his deceased wife in court as a condition for granting a second divorce.
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Cambridge
Wardwell
Fitzgerald
ST. Louis
Wilson Giles Foster
Taylor
Foster
Stolen athletic prizes lead to arrest in Ipswich case
James J. Riley, 28, of Brockton, was arrested after stolen silverware and prizes from Judge Albert D. Bosson’s Ipswich summer home were found in his West End room. The loot, valued about 1000 dollars, included inscriptions from St Marks events, triggering a police search linked to more items possibly in Boston pawnshops. Judge Bosson is abroad. his home was ransacked after he left a police chief with a key.
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Albert D. Bosson
Ipswich
James J. Riley
Main Street
Brockton
Patterson
Norton
Riley
West End
Chelsea
Europe
Boston
Pardoned Irish Colonel Lynch in England after treason trial
Historical account recalls Colonel Arthur Lynch a British subject who joined the Boers in the war. He faced high treason charges in Bow Street, was found guilty, then sentenced to death, later commuted to life imprisonment and finally granted a license in 1904 with supporters including Michael Davitt and Sir Thomas Lipton aiding his release.
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Newhaven
Bow Street
Colonel Lynch
Edward Carson
Lynch
Wills
Michael Davitt
Thomas Lipton
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