Eskimo Dog Attack Hurts Child at Eagle Island
Old King, a large leader in Commander Peary's pack, mauled 10 year old Margaret Neal on Eagle Island as she waded in near South Harpswell Maine. Flyers say keeper rescued her amid twelve ragged leg wounds. she was taken to Tufts laboratory for treatment. Professor Herbert V. Neal of Tufts and his family are longtime summer residents.
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Old King
Peary
Eagle Island
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Herbert V. Neal
Tufts College
Neal
King
Tufts Laboratory
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Professor Neal
Shoe Men See Parramatta Footnote Tour Overall
About two hundred visiting shoe and leather men traveled in forty cars on a north shore sightseeing trip to Lynn Salem and Beverly. They visited the United Shoe Machinery plant and Parramatta the Taft summer home. Essex County Shoe and Leather Association President William Strong chaired the arrangements with Bugler John J Mead directing the procession. Elaborate preparations lined the route from Cambridge through university grounds Somerville and the Revere Beach boulevard to Lynn where City Hall welcomed them with an address by Mayor William T Connery.
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Lynn
Salem
Beverly
United Shoe Machinery Company
Taft
Parramatta
William Strong
Essex County Shoe and Leather Association
John J. Mead
Company K
Eighth Regiment
Cambridge
University Grounds
Somerville
Revere Beach
City Hall
William T. Connery
Bitter Senate clash over Confederate monument in Vicksburg
In Washington on July 18, Idaho's Senator Hey burn and Mississippi's Senator Williams renewed a bitter feud over a $100,000 bill to fund a Confederate naval monument at Vicksburg military park. Williams pushed the measure for the 1913 blue and gray reunion, 29 to 19. Hey burn opposed federal recognition of Confederate acts as Williams left the chamber in protest. The debate featured attacks, threats against Hey burn, and adjournment motions as the Confederate issue remained unsettled.
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Senate
Heyburn
Vicksburg Military Park
Senator Williams
Williams
Vicksburg
Senator Heyburn
Smooth Utah
Taylor
Tennessee
Lodge
Mud in Maine Now Problem with Wreck
Havana, July 18. Water around the Maine wreck nearly removed as the coffer dam level drops a foot. Soundings show depths not exceeding four feet. Mud surrounding the hull now presents the main obstacle, extending from 37 feet to an uncertain depth. Bow structure exposed to frame 18 reveals a greatly elevated double bottom, suggesting a massive exterior explosion. Engineers refrain from decisive conclusions at this stage.
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Havana
Coffer Dam
State 10 War on Mosquito in Chelsea Area
Massachusetts declares warfare on the mosquito with the Metropolitan Park Commission controlling about 50 acres along the Revere Beach parkway. A conference with Chelsea’s Board of Control led to concerted action. The commission will drain salt marshes between the boulevard and Snake Island by digging ditches to end the breeding ground.
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Massachusetts
Metropolitan Park Commission
Revere Beach Parkway
Board of Control of
Chelsea
Boulevard
Snake Island
The Forbidden Way serial thrills Post Magazine readers
George Gibbs debuts a splendid new serial in the Sunday Post Magazine. Fans of fiction are promised extra entertainment in next Sunday's instalment.
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George Gibbs
Sunday Post
West Newton Girl to Christen New Steamer in Camden
The Coastwise Transportation Company will launch the Suffolk, a 380 foot steamer, at Camden New Jersey on July 25. Ruth Baxter nine year old daughter of Boston banker Thomas F Baxter will christen the vessel. The ship, similar to Crowley fleet boats, carries 7300 tons of coal and uses triple expansion engines with two large Scotch boilers. It will have a crew of 28 and be commanded by Captain Elmer Crowley with Captain Wider as acting master.
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Suffolk
Coastwise Transportation Company
Camden
N. J
West Newton
Ruth Baxter
Thomas F. Baxter
Boston
Bond & Goodwin
Coastwise
Crowley
Arthur Crowley
Elmer Crowley
Wider
Dead Man Found Mummy in Barn Show Barn Mystery
In Ashintul y Farm Tyring ham Valley a hay mow yielded a body mistaken for a long dead man. Medical examiner said the figure dated 3000 years, but it proved to be an Egyptian mummy of Ramesse the Fourth from Karnak, brought by Robb de Peyster Titus for his Ty ringham museum. The mummy will be temporarily housed until the villa addition is ready.
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Lenox
Ashintul'y Farm
Robb de Peyster Titus
Tyringham Valley
Guy E. Moore
Charles H. Hale
Otis
Delville M. Wilcox
Lee
Ramesse the Fourth
Titus
Karnak
Tyringham
Pittsfield
Moore
Shortest will filed in Norfolk probate court
Georgetta Tyler of Wellesley dies June 2 and leaves all to her grandson Vincent H. LaFerne in a brief, single page will filed July 18. Ostilia A. Chamberlain of Brookline also dies June 20, leaving property to executor Amasa A. J. Stetson of Stoughton with a peculiar plea that relatives receive nothing. Relatives named include Dr Byron Moulton of Springfield Maine and several Moultons plus Mrs Ira Lowell and Mrs M Anna agan of Sanford, Maine.
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Dedham
Norfolk County
Georgetta Tyler
Wellesley
Vincent H. LaFerne
Wellesley Hills
Ostilia A. Chamberlain
Brookline
Amasa A. J. Stetson
Stoughton
Chamberlain
Byron Moulton
Springfield
Howard Moulton
Frank T. Moulton
Charles P. Moulton
Ivory O’ Moulton
Ira Lowell
M. Anna
Sanford
Ang A Eeusir
Wallet on jailed girl sparks theft, assault case in Boston
J A Reid of Fredericton acting for Harri Boot & Shoe Co. denied being the man linked to a $3100 wallet found with Mary Willison a colored girl arrested after stabbing Bernard Sayne with a razor. Police say wallet bore James Reed name. Reid was in Boston for a shoe convention and said he was not the man.
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J. A. Reid
Fredericton
N. B
Harri Boot & Shoe Company
Mary Willison
Wilson
Bernard J. Sayne
I’ayette Street
Shyne
James Reed
Boston
Essex
Reid
Mad dog wrecks home in Brockton
Brockton July 18 Police officers arrived to shoot a mad dog that had torn through an apartment at 77 Spring Street endangering owner Mrs. R. W. Clark and her baby. After a wild chase a bullet killed the dog, a high bred creature from the Ames kennel of North Easton, overturning tubs water boiler dishes tables and chairs.
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Brockton
R. W. Clark
Samuel Turner
Frank Owens
Ames Kennel
North Easton
Fire Starts With Oil Ends In Mrs McCarthy's Death
In Newport Illinois on July 18 Mrs Mary McCarthy was fatally burned and her husband John N McCarthy received severe burns while trying to rescue her after kerosene was used to kindle a kitchen stove fire Both were taken to the hospital where Mrs McCarthy died shortly after. McCarthy worked at the Torpedo station.
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Newport
R. IL
Mary McCarthy
John N. McCarthy
McCarthy
Torpedo Station
Drought Blights Crops And Boosts Prices
A prolonged drought has nearly destroyed half the crops in the state and threatens further ruin without rain. Farmers rely on pumps and municipal water to moisten soil as vegetables and produce rise in price, doubling in many cases.
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Providence
R. I
Second Woman Pastor In Conn Ordained at Nepeague Church
NEPAUG Conn July 18 Grace L Edwards of Sayville L I was ordained as the second woman to become pastor of a Congregational church in Connecticut. The ordination sermon was preached by Rev Joel Ives and the closing prayer by Rev Marion B Jones the first woman Congregational minister from Staffordville.
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Nepaug, Conn
Grace L Edwards
Sayville
L. I
South Congregational Church
Joel Ives
Marion B. Jones
Staffordville
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