Lightning Strikes Hit Six Sites in Portland Me
A severe electrical storm centered on Portland caused six lightning strikes. The Church of the Messiah suffered a spire hole on Congress street. A Cape Cottage trolley car carrying passengers was disabled with no injuries. Fire at Smith & Rumery mill basement started waste fires. sprinklers helped. About 200 telephone lines burned. power and lighting affected.
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Portland
Congress Street
Cape Cottage
Smith & Rumery
Murder mystery ends as autopsy cites brain edema
Augusta Maine cotton weaver Cleophos Betis, 44, collapsed at a Court street restaurant after a brain hemorrhage. Police drop earlier theory of poisoning by a West End figure. Woonsocket authorities assist, owner Clough disputes unexplained circumstances. Autopsy confirms brain edema. intestines sent to Harvard for tests.
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Cleophos Betis
Augusta
Court Street
Betis
Post
John S. Gilchrist
Woonsocket, R. I
Woons
Bolsheviki Capture U S Beans in Vilna
War news from Vilna reports heavy fighting near Baranovitchi and the Ogin ski Canal as refugees flood Bielowiezh forests. The American Red Cross aids refugees, while Bolsheviks take seven carloads of American beans left by the American Relief Association as rail lines run crowded.
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Warsaw
Neimen
Baranovitchi
Oginski Canal
Bieloviezh
American Red Cross
Vilna
American Relief Association
Dorchester Man Killed From Fall From Shed Roof
Herbert Rand 55 of Carlos Street Dorchester died after slipping from a shed roof at the American Coal Company on Albany Street South Pond. He fell about 25 feet and struck the back of his head. He was pronounced dead at Haymarket Relief Station.
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Herbert Rand
Carlos Street
Dorchester
Haymarket
Rand
American Coal Company
Albany Street
South Pond
Aerial rush from Springfield to Framingham shocks onlookers
Four men and a young woman traveled at a 120 mile per hour speed in an all metal J. L. 6 monoplane. They read magazines and smoked during the flight and arrived shortly before 8 p. m. stepping out with taxi like ease.
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Springfield
Framingham
Airplane honeymooners fly nonstop 1400 miles to meet officials
Mr and Mrs Ed ward A Terhune Jr of Cambridge joined W W Williams of New York and Pilot S C Eaton with C H Warner aboard a metal monoplane. They traveled Springfield to Framingham in under 40 minutes amid rain and fog. The craft the J L 6 can fly 1500 miles on a full load and features metal construction allowing in-flight cigarette smoking. Officials plan Boston flights to promote a municipal airdrome as the craft seeks landing fields near Boston for future transcontinental work. Major Leonard H Drennan and Air Service officers welcomed the group.
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L. H. Drennan
E. A. Terhune, JR
New England
Air Service
Framingham
Springfield
Edward A. Terhune, Jr
Cambridge
W. W. Williams
New York
S. C. Eaton
Air Mail Service
C. H. Warner
Leonard H. Drennan
Mary Miles Minter and Elliott Dexter on Boston Sunday Post
Mary Miles Minter and Elliott Dexter discuss movies and other topics in the Boston Sunday Post Magazine under the guidance of Carl Wilmore.
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Mary Miles Minter
Elliott Dexter
Boston Sunday Post
Carl Wilmore
Not Guilty of Manslaughter in Roxbury Shooting Case
Salvatore Micell 42 of 98 George street Roxbury was acquitted of manslaughter in the June 6 killing of Frederick J. Doherty an ex service man of 179 Norfolk avenue Roxbury. Micell testified he fired after being attacked following a break in at his George street store. The shooting occurred after two men fled the scene and Doherty died of a chest wound. The case produced little reliable testimony on the assailants or the method of the crime.
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Salvatore Micell
George Street
Roxbury
Frederick J. Doherty
Norfolk Avenue
Miceli
Norfolk Street
Ryan
William McMahon
Doherty
Pierce to Assume Duties With Old South Trust
Chester B. Pierce of Somerville former assistant treasurer of the International Trust Company will assume duties within a few days as vice president of the reorganized Old South Trust Company in charge of credits. Andrew J. Casey, formerly acting collector of internal revenue, began his duties with the Old South yesterday.
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Chester B. Pierce
Somerville
International Trust Company
Old South Trust Company
John R. McVey
Andrew J. Casey
Internal Revenue
The
Old South
Taking Measures for Protection of Peking
General Wang commanding Chinese forces in Peking takes steps to guard the city if defeated Tuan soldiers enter. About eight thousand troops have returned from the front to the Peking area. The American legation says authorities have the situation under control with all city gates closed since Saturday night.
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Washington
Wang
Peking
State Department
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Germany
Health Isance Energy F
Mohican
Ceisis
Haddock
Mohican Dinner
Jordan Marsh
Aseer
Jordan
Jordan Marsh Company
Soo
Paris
John T. Stanley Co., Inc
Greater Boston
E. C. Hunt
Arborway Court
Forest Hills
Boston
Mass
Jamaica
Boston Post
Telephone Main
Daily Post
Sunday Post
Bolsheviki
U. S
Meet Mary and
Elliott
Pierce
Old South Trust
Tien Tsin
Holyoke
A. Judson Youngs
James Currie
John Hildreth
Ron
Atlanta, GA
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