Strange Fish Bite Bathers at Salisbury Beach
Bathers at Salisbury Beach New Hampshire report bites from an unidentified fish. Women thrice bitten show swelling and possible blood poisoning. Gladys Butler of Brookline Mass seeks medical help. Alice Hamilton of South Groveland also injured. Fears of infection keep bathers out today.
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Salisbury Beach
N. H
Gladys Butler
Brookline
Mass
Spalding
Alice Hamilton
South Groveland
Somerville Aldermen Approve 1000 Dental Beetle Fight Action
Somerville Board of Aldermen voted to appropriate 1000 to combat elm tree beetle damage. They also approved building a bathhouse on Mystic River shore Melrose Street. A petition sought aid to abolish semi convertible cars on Highland Avenue. Alderman Koen urged rapid abolition of Webster Avenue grade crossing after a Wednesday accident.
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Somerville
Mystic River
Melrose Street
Highland Avenue
Koen
Webster Avenue
New Haven Businessman Marries Young Woman in City Hall
Burr B. Peck a 77 year old retired businessman from New Haven marries May Bryan 22 in City Hall today. The ceremony links two Connecticut residents in a brief civil service attended by local officials.
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New York
Burr
Peck
New Haven
Conn
City Hall
May Bryan
Italian Detained In Death Dealing Fire Mystery
Police investigate a fatal store fire linked to Romana an Italian fruit-seller. Chief Whitney favors a gas explosion theory while noting Romana’s possible absence and an insurance policy he showed weeks earlier. Detectives continue searching ruins and awaiting bodies or evidence.
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Romana
Whitney
State Police
Post
Boston
State Department
Detained Pietro Roma After Cambridge Street Explosion
Pietro Roma of 11 Pitts Street is held by Joy Street police pending inquiry into the Cambridge Street tenement blast at 293 295 Cambridge Street early yesterday morning that killed two and left several others seriously injured.
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Pietro Roma
Pitts Street
Joy Street
Cambridge Street
Fire kills toddler as search for missing merchant continues
Authorities probe an incendiary blaze that destroyed three Cambridge street stores. Vincenzo Romana remains missing while Roma is questioned. Search teams comb the ruins for Romana and the basement body of the missing man. Eustace McNeil and Mary Brown identified among fire victims?
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McGrath
Romana
Eustace McNeil
North Grove Street
Mary J. Brown
Cambridge Street
Pasquale Amenta
Pitts Street
Vincenzo Romana
Amenta
New Record for Lusitania Sets Sail for New Time
New York July 9 The Cunard steamer Lusitania reported off Nantucket Lightship at 6 45 pm and expected to reach Sandy Hook Lightship by 3 am next day unless captain’s wireless message to Newport alters the time to 2 o clock If she arrives by 2 38 am she would equal the long route record of 4 days 2 hours 8 minutes.
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New York
Cunard Line
Nantucket
Sandy Hook
Newport
Sherman to undergo surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital
Sherman of New York, the vice presidential nominee, will travel from Utica to Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore for an operation on his gallbladder duct. The procedure, advised by politicians and physicians, is not considered serious. In Dover, Richard Alexander of New York, who shot himself nearby, remained alive with little hope for recovery.
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Boston
Baltimore
George's Tailor
Summer Street
Washington
Hot Springs
Jamess. Sherman
New York
Utica
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Dover
Richard Alexander
Bradley Case Goes to Court Over Chelsea Licensing Board
James T. Bradley seeks to overturn his removal from Chelsea licensing board via writ of certiorari. He argues the Board of Control acted without cause and that successor Abbott W. Lawrence has served illegally since June 27. Bradley, via ex-Senator Cusick, asks for mandamus and injunction pending July 17 return.
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Chelsea Board of Control
James T. Bradley
Licensing Board
Board of Control
Supreme Court
Themag
Abbott W. Lawrence
Fire breaks out in Cambridge carriage factory
Three alarms rang out in East Cambridge as Charles Van Buskirk’s carriage factory on First and Vine Streets caught fire. The blaze, likely starting in the paint shop, caused about 6000 dollars in damage and forced the removal of 15 horses from a nearby shed. The fire was brought under control with confusion in the busy district.
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East Cambridge
First and
Vine Streets
Charles van Buskirk
G. L. Silvey
National Casket Company
Ginn Publishing Company
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