Governor Foss Reviews Coast Artillery Training at Fort Andrews
Governor Foss left the Coast Artillery Corps headquarters after signing a bill boosting company strength from 63 to 104. At Fort Andrews he watched six inch breech loading rifles amid harbor mist and boats, saw the 10 and 12 inch mortars fired by the Second and Eighth Companies, and learned practice moves to Fort Warren Strong and Standish. Private Corregan injured his knee during gun handling and was hospitalized. Brigadier-General Pfaff and Colonel Lombard observed drills, while officers’ families hosted a dance at Fort Andrews followed by a later social for the troops.
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Foss
Coast Artillery Corps
Fort Andrews
Fort Standish
Corregan
Boston
Charles Pfaff
Lombard
Warren
Strong
Standish
Governor Foss Visits Fort Andrews For Gun Fire Demonstration
From Fort Andrews the Governor and Fort officers witnessed six shots from the six inch guns aimed at moving and stationary targets. Four shots fired at a stationary target and two at a moving one, with one shot passing over a merchant liner’s bow. Fire was accurate, distance about 5290 to 5300 yards. Governor Foss left after mortar targets could not be located due to mist.
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George’s Island
Patterson
Foss
Fire captains take charge of Ladder 4 and Engine 20
Fire Commissioner Daly appointed Captain Charles T. Farren to Ladder 4 and Captain Harry M. Hebard to Engine 20 at roll call. Lieutenant Martin A. Kenealy moves to headquarters to act as aide after formerly directing Automobile Chemical 18.
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Daly
Charles T. Farren
Harry M. Hebard
Martin A. Kenealy
Automobile Chemical 18
F. Gray Co. Great Blue Serge Sale Opens
F Gray Co announces a sale of 5000 men's blue serge suits made from genuine Oswego mills serge and alpaca fines at a value price. The advertisement proclaims the best $15 value in the world and lists Washington and Hanover streets as the location.
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F. Gray Co.’S Great Blue Serge Sale
Oswego Mills
Alpaca
F. Gray Co
Washington
Hanover Streets
Naulty Claims Comets Drive Unusual Weather Worldwide
Edwin Fairfax Naulty of New York spoke at Nantasket claiming seven comets over three years altered solar force, causing extreme temperatures, fires, droughts, and earthquakes. He argued comets act as lenses dispersing solar energy, with Earth adjusting atmosphere to these effects, and described the sun as a cold, dynamic gas body rather than a burning sphere.
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Edwin Fairfax Naulty
New York
Kiess
Nantasket
Naulty
United States
San Francisco
Mr. Naulty
Earth
Bastille Banquet By French Residents in Boston
La Prevoyance, a Boston French speaking group, held its annual Bastille banquet at the Hotel Westminster. About 75 members and guests attended. Andre Gay, president, spoke on the society's history since 1874 and a silk banner with the byword Societe de Secours Mutuels de Langue Francaise was presented.
Woman Sues for 16000 Over Loan to Coal Dealer
Mrs Lilian Hellen wife of Samuel Hellen of Greenwood files suit through Corcoran Walsh Cunningham to recover 16000 from John J Hinds Somerville coal dealer claiming she loaned the money. Her husband formerly ran a Greenwood coal business.
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Lilian Hellen
Samuel Hellen
Greenwood
Corcoran, Walsh & Cunningham
John J. Hinds
Somerville
Hellen
Hinds
Firestorm in Brockton Threatens Major Shoe Factories
A $30,000 blaze in the Keith carriage house and Campella stable area in Brockton was halted from spreading to the Brockton Welting Company and Churchill Alden factory. Two alarms, 700 workers evacuated, and two firemen injured when a ladder fell. suspected cigarette stub start.
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Brockton
J. C. Kieth
Main Street
Campella
Brockton Welting Company
Anderson Lodging House
Churchill Alden Company
Thomas McNiff
Keith
Churchill Alden
William F. Daley
George Seavey
William Haverty
Seavey
Haverty
Campello
J. C. Keith
Churchill Alden Shoe Factory
Lost Woman Recalls Name After Amnesia At Park
A woman found at Roger Williams Park with total memory loss regained her memory and identified as Mrs. Herbert Seege of 160 Boylston Street Jamaica Plain Massachusetts. Her sister Mrs. Clara Hines says she had been living with their mother in Roxbury after a string of family losses and that her husband travels for work, leaving her unsettled. The sister’s telegram from Providence prompted her husband to fetch her back.
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Providence
State Insane Asylum
Herbert Seege
Boylston Street
Jamaica Plain
Mass
Clara Hines
Roger Williams Park
Colonel Clarke Is Sinking in Highgate
Highgate Vermont July 14 Colonel Albert Clarke secretary of the Home Market Club Boston grew weaker through the day with a gradually sinking condition. Those in attendance describe his state as extremely precarious tonight showing a continued decline in health.
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Highgate
Albert Clarke
Home Market Club of
Boston
Clarke
Whitinsville Works Move to Five Day Week
Notices posted in the Whitin machine shops announce a five day workweek effective immediately. The schedule change idles the entire plant tomorrow and affects 2500 workers.
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Whitinsville
Whitin, Makrhine
Horsfolds Acid Phosphate Promoted for Insomnia And Nervous Headache
An advertisement promotes Horsfolds Acid Phosphate as a remedy for nervousness insomnia and impaired digestion. It claims relief from sleeplessness and nervous headaches and suggests its use for digestive discomfort.
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Horsfold
Good Weather To Continue In New England Area
A Boston forecaster says seasonable conditions prevail after a hot spell with temperatures not exceeding 79 or 80 degrees and no rain expected. A thunderstorm moved through Atlantic City and lingered to northern Florida, but remains distant from Boston, with any future storm likely local.
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Boston
Atlantic City
Florida
Boy hunts his mother after being found wandering
An eight year old colored boy named Norman W Tobin was found wandering near Dewey square by a Station 4 officer late yesterday. He said he arrived with his mother from Charleston South Carolina to South Station on Thursday and she left him there to fetch baggage.
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Norman Ww. Tobin
Dewey Square
South Station
Charleston
South Carolina
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