Schooner Is Floated After Going Aground
The four mast schooner Jesse A. Bishop went aground on the easterly side of George's Island yesterday morning near the Halifax spot. She was floated yesterday and is now bound for Jacksonville with no passengers and only a small freight. No damage was found.
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Jesse A. Bishop
George’s Island
Halifax
Jacksonville
Bishop
Benedict- Manson Marine Company of
New Haven
Jessie A. Bishop
Lost Letters Reveal Measles Warnings In 1910
The Board of Health recovered three lost communications mailed August 1 1910 about measles in three families. Two postals and a letter were found by furniture movers during office relocation at the Old Court House. A mail box and a counter slot hid the notices for a year until discovered.
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Board of Health
Old Court House
New City Hall
May Cite New Haven to Court Over Freight Hubs
Mayor James Mullen announced plans to seek court action against New Haven railroad freight houses proposed at Woonsocket’s outskirts. He cites a Rhode Island law requiring railroads to provide reasonable facilities for passengers and merchandise. The houses would sit near the state line with several buildings in Blackstone, Massachusetts.
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Woonsocket
R. I
New Haven
Grand Trunk
James Mullen
Rhode Island
State Line
Blackstone
Mass
Funeral services for Mrs Olea Bull Vaughan in West Lebanon Me
Boston friends travel by train to Hayes New Hampshire then motor to the Shapleigh home in West Lebanon for 3 PM services. Rev William I Sweet of Everett conducts with music directed by Charles Loeffler. Pallbearers include Ralph Bartlet and Edward Lord. Burial at the Shapleigh family plot.
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Olea Bull Vaughan
West Lebanon
Abbie Shapleigh
Boston
Shapleigh
William I. Sweet
First Congregational Church
Everett
Vaughan
Robert V. Sweet
Ole Bull
Charles Loeffler
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Adalgio Religioso
Edward B. Lord
B. Otis Danforth
Somerville
Edwina
Franks. Black
New York
John Lund
Christiana
Storthing
Lund
Theodore Roosevelt
Christiania
Jacon Wesenberg
Reberi Wesenberg
Bergen
Norway
Shapleighs
West
Lebanon
War game to begin Sunday near Suntaug Lake
Massachusetts Volunteer Militia readies for a Sunday war game pitting blue and red forces around Suntaug Lake near Billerica. Ninth Regiment to assemble Sunday and march via Lynnfield to Suntaug Lake. First Corps Cadets to Billerica. Fifth Regiment to Wakefield. Eighth Infantry to Suntaug. Sixth to rendezvous at Billerica by company.
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Massachusetts Volunteer Militia
Billerica
Suntang Lake
Lynnfield
Suntaug Lake
Wakefield
Suntaug
Burns Will G. A. R. Post $250 Probate Record
The will of B. Walter Burns, Milford historian, filed for probate yesterday, leaves most of his estate to his widow Mary J. Burns as executor with Charles D. Fisher. Fifteen thousand dollars goes to cousins, $500 to Plymouth Church of Milford, and his two books on the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company and the Fifth Connecticut Volunteer Infantry to Milford Public Library. George Van Horn Post G. A. R. of Milford receives $250 for the relief fund.
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B. Walter Burns
Mary J. Burns
Charles D. Fisher
Plymouth
Milford
Conn
Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company
Fifth Connecticut Volunteer Infantry
George van Horn Post
Would Return Reed's Sword to Milford Post
Milford records report Captain John Reed's sword, found at Cold Harbor by Sergeant Beckwith, now in the possession of L. H. Beckwith of Orangeburg. Beckwith seeks to return it to the Grand Army post at Milford. Reed, from Milford, served in I Company Forty-eighth Regiment, was a war prisoner, and returned to Milford in 1865.
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Milford
John Reed
Cold Harbor
L. H. Beckwith
Orangeburg
Ss. C
Pattlefield
Grand Army
Beckwith
Sixth
South Carolina Cavalry
Carolina
Lawrence Reed
Woburn
Reed
I Company
Forty-eighth Regiment
Charleston
Duellist Oswald von Richthofen Sentenced in Berlin
Baron Oswald von Richthofen was sentenced to two years in a fortress for killing Wilhelm von Gafron in a duel on May 10. Both men were army officers and the quarrel over money led to the fatal encounter.
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Berlin
Oswald von Richthofen
Wilhelm von Gaffron
Bavarian field gun recoil mechanism report
A Japanese officer attached to Bavarian troops was reportedly surprised at night at the Hammerburg maneuver field while using a dark lantern for observations. The incident centers on the recoil mechanism of the new Bavarian field gun and the officer's unexpected encounter during training.
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Hammerburg
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