Engineer Rescued After 25-Foot Launch Sinks
Darling, an engineer aboard a 25 foot launch named Wink, was saved from drowning in the lower harbor yesterday after the vessel sank beneath the tug De Vaux Powell. Crew of the fishing schooner Sarah W. Lawrence pulled him from the water and he was brought to T wharf with dry clothes, quickly recovering. The launch valued at 1500 dollars lies at the harbor bottom as a total loss.
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Darling
Wink
de Vaux Powell
Sarah W. Lawrence
T Wharf
Reports Read to Y P C U Convention
The executive officers of the Young People's Christian Union read their reports at yesterday's business meeting. Rev. E Dean Ellenwood reviewed mission work in Atlanta. Rev. Athalia L J Irwin led the Little Rock program and Rev. Henry B Taylor covered St Paul. Evening speakers included Rev. Vincent E Tomlinson on Americans of Foreign Speech and Rev. John Van Schaick Jr on The Charity Worker and the Church.
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Young People’s Christian Union
Atlanta
E. Dean Ellenwood
Athalia L. J. Irwin
Little Rock
St. Paul
Henry B. Taylor
Vincent E. Tomlinson
Worcester
John van Schaick, Jr
Washington
Charlestown Warehousing Plan Aims to Expand Boston Ports
Boston Dock Commission backs private permission for the Boston and Maine railroad to lay a double track on Water Street Charlestown to spark a large warehouse system. Alderman Curley plans a report before summer, while Engineer Whitney designs a tunnel from Park to Medford Street to support inland dock expansion and longer steamship docks.
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Boston
New Dock Commission
Boston & Maine Railroad
Waterstreet
Charlestown
Andrew P. Lane
Dock Commission
Committee On Railroads
Board of Aldermen
Curley
Lane
Whitney
Park Street
Medford Street
Boston & Maine
Atlantic
Water Street
Foreign Diplomatic Residences Pervade New England Resorts
A 1910s style note describes foreign embassies and legations maintaining summer homes in Massachusetts Rhode Island and New Hampshire with Italy Peru Russia Great Britain Siam and more hosting diplomatic presences at Manchester by the Sea Magnolia Bass Rocks Bar Harbour and Newport among others.
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New England
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
New Hampshire
Italy
Austria-Hungary
Germany
Russia
Great Britain
Siam
Netherlands
Peru
Norway
Manchester-by-the-Sea
Magnolia
Bass Rocks
Maine
Bar Harbour
York Harbor
Dublin
Intervale
France
Newport
Malden Man Brings Neck Injury Fatal Accident
Joshua VA Briggs aged 87 of 840 Eastern Avenue Malden fell on attic stairs at his home and struck his head, breaking his neck. Death was instantaneous. He was one of Malden’s oldest residents and had been retired for many years.
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Malden
Joshua VA. Briggs
Eastern Avenue
Mr. Briggs
Ashland Public Park Offer From Stone Estate Executor
Charles F. Homer, executor of the Stone estate, offers to donate a tract of land along the Boston and Albany railroad between Main and Cherry streets, bounded by Summer street, for a public park. The town committee will confer with him as the gift is considered highly beneficial and the land formerly owned by Miss Ellen J. Stone.
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Ashland
Charles F. Homer
Stone Estate
Boston & Albany
Main
Cherry Street
Summer Street
Homer
Ellen J. Stone
John Stone
No Bill Returned Against Edward Launt
Berkshire county grand jury returned a no bill in the murder case of Edward Launt the farmhand charged with killing his employer Frank Ingraham at Windsor Bush on March 15 last.
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Pittsfield
Mass
Berkshire Counry Grand
Edward Launt
Frank Ingraham
Windsor Bush
Trip to Coney Ends in Death
Curtis G. Page a wealthy civil engineer from Springfield Mass died in Dr Bull s sanatorium yesterday. Police probe follows unclear cause with speculation of sandbagging by Coney Island highwaymen or his own folly. Page had come to New York two weeks earlier and registered at the Hotel St Denis near his brother in law James C Beggs.
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New York
Curtis G. Page
Springfield
Mass
Glut of gold in mail bags floods Skagway post office
Gold bullion has piled up in Skagway as miners ship bullion home by mail due to higher express rates. Postmaster W W Sampson reports about $1,000,000 in mail bullion already collected as steamship limits hinder transport to Seattle.
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Skagway
P. Sampson
Seattle
Woman who Introduced Delsarte to U S Dies
Laura J. Tisdale, 68, prominent Chicago club woman, died yesterday in Long Beach California. She is credited with introducing Delsarte to the United States.
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Delsarte
U. S
Long Beach
Cal
Laura J. Tisdale
Chicago
United States
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