Two Boats Believed Lost Off Nantucket in Dense Fog
Wreckage spotted about 14 miles from Nantucket Shoals lightship suggests a collision between a seiner and a lumber schooner near Nantucket. Ad mister Dewey sighted debris and deckhouse remains. crews of surviving vessels arriving at T Wharf. Uncertain which Gloucester or other port sent the vessels.
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Nantucket
United Fruit Company
Admiral Dewey
Asa Davison
Nantucket Shoals
Sankaty Head
Boston
Lucania
Welsh
Victor
McFarland
Squanto
Seavey
T Wharf
Gloucester
New York
Europe
Mrs. Tingley Wins Verdict In Libel Case
Newburyport July 19 Mrs Katharine Tingley head of the Raja Yoga School at Point Loma roots reported she won a verdict from the Correctional Court of Santiago Cuba against the editor of a Havana newspaper for a libellous article about her institution. The court found one article defamatory and damages were to be imposed for forty five similar pieces still to be decided.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newburyport
Katherine Tingley
H. 8
Turner
Santiago
Cuba
Point Loma
Tingley
Greater Boston Illuminating Co Fails Bond on City Light Contract
The Greater Boston Illuminating Company, the lowest bidder for Boston’s new gas street lighting, failed to furnish the required bond and forfeited its claim. Superintendent Emerson said the matter is unresolved, hinging on the Finance Commission report. The bid totaled about $236,000, with backers withdrawing over margins of profit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greater Boston Illuminating Company
New Lighting Concern
Boston
Emerson Friday
Greater Boston Company
Emerson
Post
William A. Rumpf
Rumpf
Finance Commission
Hibbard
Karl A. A. Stahlgren
Messrs
Conboy and
O'Bryan
Lamplighters’ Union
Messrs. Rumpf
Stahlgren
Graetzen
Prey Land Bank Thief Arrested After Bank Chase
Aaron Wolberg a cigarmaker was pursued by clerks and depositors at Dry Dock Saving Bank after a woman claimed he snatched her satchel containing 800. He was dragged back inside, police summoned, and held on assault and robbery charges.
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New York
Dry Dock Saving Bank
Aaron Wolberg
Wolberg
Dynamite Explosion Destroys Trolley Wire in Newburyport Road Work
A dynamite blast on a State highway under construction in Newburyport tied up traffic for hours and endangered many lives by tearing down the Boston and Northern trolley wire.
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Newburyport
Boston & Northern
Charity Receives Bulk of Hendrick Estate
The will of William Hendrick of Brookline, formerly of Shreveport, La., filed for probate in Suffolk County yesterday, leaves the residue to a trust for charity under Rev. James F. McCarthy of the Cathedral of the Holy Cross. After about 1500 in specific bequests, the remainder goes to causes Father McCarthy selects. The will is dated July 21, 1908.
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William Hendrick
Brookline
Shreveport
Suffolk County
Hendrick
James F. McCarthy
Cathedral of the Holy Cross
Father McCarthy
Dazed Woman Identified After Hospital Admission
Mrs. Maud Smith of 63 East Newton Street, a Homeopathic Hospital maid, was identified after a Sunday incident in Cambridge. Found semi conscious near Professor James Love’s home, she mentioned a dentist and teeth extraction. doctors suspected anesthesia poisoning.
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Cambridge Hospital
Maud Smith
East Newton Street
Smith
Homeopathic Hospital
Concord Street
George Fall
Malden
Tourists Sail on the Calvin Austin
The Cal vin Austin turbine steamer of the Eastern steamship Company sailed at noon yesterday with a large tourist party led by Richard W. Nutter principal of the Centre School of Malden. The group heads to St John and Nova Scotia for a tour of points of interest, one of the season’s largest early departures to the Provinces booked by Beekman Tourist Company of 336 Washington Street.
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Calvin Austin
Eamship Company
Richard W. Nutter
Centre School of
Malden
St. John
Nova Scotia
Beekman Tourist Company
Washington Street
Clean Milkman Pitch Van Camp's Evaporated Milk Claim
A quảng marketing appeal offers Van Camp's evaporated milk as rich Holstein milk without additives. It urges trial for one day, promises health benefits, explains sterilization, pasteurization, and germ absence, and cites dairy operations across five states with 20,000 cows.
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van Camp
van Camp's
Scissors Dies Alone in Boston Streets
Clinton Humphrey Baker known as Scissors dies after weeks of paresis at his 1025 Washington street boarding place. A veteran local figure and former Virginia City Enterprise reporter, Baker cherished stories of Mark Twain and newspaper days, leaving a courteous greeting for all who knew him. His body lies at the morgue awaiting claimant.
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Boston
Clinton Humphrey Baker
Washington Street
Mark Twain
Baker
Virginia City Enterprise
Fremont
Mr. Baker
West
South End
A. 8. Grant
Lathams Airship Soars From Cliff To English Coast
Latham launches a monoplane from a cliff, donning a life preserver and knickerbockers. The craft climbs to about 300 feet and speeds toward Dover at roughly 85 miles per hour with a destroyer Harpon shadowing it before vanishing into the horizon.
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Latham
Dover
Harpon
Wright brothers fly twice at Fort Myer in confidence boost
Orville Wright piloted the aeroplane for two flights at Fort Myer Virginia totaling 65 minutes and about 37 miles with Wilbur Wright observing. The first flight lasted 25 minutes 18 seconds circling the parade grounds about five sixes of a mile and the second lasted half an hour. The machine reached roughly 41 miles an hour and 150 feet but the motor and bearings still require adjustments before longer flights.
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Washington
Orville Wright
Wright Aeroplane
Fort Myer
Wilbur Wright
Hearing on Cambridge tracks petition scheduled at State House
A hearing on the petition of the Boston Elevated Railway Company for temporary track locations in Cambridge during Cambridge subway construction will be held tomorrow at 10 30 a m in the committee room of the railroad commissioners at the State House.
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Boston Elevated Railway Company
Cambridge
Railroad Commissioners
State House
Suttons Comrade Is Heard in Death Mystery
Lieutenant Adams testifies about the night of Oct 12 1907 detailing a fight on marine grounds and Suttons use of two pistols. He recalls a confrontation with Roelker and describes pushing Sutton turning point of the struggle and subsequent shots amid a tense court hearing with Miss Stewart expected to testify.
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Sutton
Sstony Brae
Ont
Mary Elizabeth Stewart
Pittsburg
Stewart
Adams
Utley
Carvel Hall
Marine
Spar Creek
Rae Sutton
Roelker
Major Leonard
Arthur E. Birney
Osterman
Lieutenant Adams
Henry E. Davis
Davis
Adams & E
Academy
Mr. Davis
Fought to Save Firm Money in Dawn Cashier Stabbed
Harry R. Brown cashier at Maxwell-Briscos Motor Car Company in Pawtucket Rhode Island was stabbed in the office on Division Street around 11 this morning as a tramp demanded money. Brown struggled to protect funds and was stabbed in the shoulder with an ink scraper before the assailant escaped.
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Pawtucket, R. I
Harry R. Brown
Maxwell-Briscos Motor Car Company
Division Street
Malden Family Loses Child After Salmon Poisoning
Patrolman and Mrs. John T. Durning of Malden returned from Springfield Vermont with the body of their 4 year old daughter Gladys who died Sunday afternoon from ptomaine poisoning caused by eating canned salmon. The family were vacationing at Newfane Vermont and the mother was critically ill for a time.
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John T. Durning
Malden
Springfield
Gladys
Newfane
Strength for the Stomach from Dr Williams Pink Pills
Sufferers with stomach disorders find relief as blood purifies and strengthens the stomach. A Boston man describes long dyspepsia ending after using Pink Pills, with appetite returning and headaches fading. Thousands cured prove the tonic works. a free diet book is offered. pills available from Dr Williams Medicine Patent in Schenectady, NY.
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Mrs. Tingley
Helen Taft
Eleanor Beelker
Beverly
Wal
Charity
Hendrick Estate
van Camp’s
Wan Camp Packing Co
Indianapolis, Ind
CAM Nan GA
Parker
Miss Stewart
Matt Freck
Millersburg
Auphin Co
Chas. EH. Condon
Lewiston
Mifflin Co
Clare
Wilson Bros
Court Street
Big Kettle
Court
Joseph Grady
Tremont St
Woodlawn
Koen
East Boston
Rebecca Koen
Richard Murphy
Sumner Street
Church of the Assumption
Mahoney
Roxbury
Margaret
Mary
John J. Mahoney
John Mahoney
Hisr Nother
Waite Street
Missions Church
Tremont Street
McMullen
Lexam Street
Church of the Sacred Heart
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