Record Crowds At Boston Beaches On Summer Day
A huge turnout swelled Boston beaches with about 100000 at Revere Beach and 60000 at Marine Park. Bathers numbered 6100 at Revere and 9000 at L Street as heat rose to 82 degrees. A late shower cooled the scene but did little to dampen spirits. Police and vendors described the day as orderly and the biggest of the season with families, children, and a mix of fashionably dressed visitors enjoying the outing.
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Boston
Franklin Park
Revere Beach
Marine Park
L Street
Bath House
Metropolitan Bathhouse
Johnstown
Jimmy
Mamie
Revere Beach Society
Record crowds fill Marine Park as heat and rain draw thousands
Season’s crowd record falls at Marine Park in South Boston with about 60,000 visitors. A late afternoon shower sent families scrambling for shelter, causing accidents and a limb uprooted onto Seventh Street near K Street. Lifesaving stations were crowded and traffic on K Street blocked.
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Marine Park
South
Boston
Headhouse
Castle Island
Pleasure
Dorchester Bays
L Street
Seventh Street
K Street
Thousands on the Common during Boston band concert rain
Thousands of men women and children gathered on the Boston Common to hear the Municipal Band. When a shower hit there was a rush for shelter under Beacon Charles Boylston and Tremont streets buildings and the big trees. Franklin Park also drew crowds seeking shade and cover as families stayed for hours with lunches.
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Franklin Park
Records sent for Foley court martial in embezzlement case
The records in the case of First Lieutenant Hamilton Foley, court martialled on charges involving embezzlement of soldiers money, have been sent to Washington. The records indicate dismissal.
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Manila
Hamilton Foley
Washington
Pole Fleees From North End Mob Over Pope Button
Josef Wolftkomics a Polish Catholic sought refuge in Hanover street police station as 1000 Italians and Portuguese chased him from St Marys Church to his home on Endicott street. The mob, misidentifying him as Hebrew for wearing a Pope Leo button, dispersed after officers led the crowd away.
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Josef Wolftkomics
North End
Hanover Street
Rosatto
Burnett
Wolftkemies
Wolftkomies
Endicott
Salem
Cross
Tunnelled to Liberty by Randall's Island youths
More than twenty boys from the House of Refuge on Randall's Island tunnelled through a 35 foot high wall today and five escaped. A dozen others stopped before getting away and seven who tried were captured. Two swam toward Manhattan shore, others were caught in Little Hell Gate or nearby. Keepers on the island search for the five fugitives tonight.
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New York
House of Refuge
Randall’s Island
Manhattan
Hell Gate
Ward's Island
SHOE LACE AROUND NECK FOUND IN MT VERNON SEWER
A German woman, blonde about 80 years old, 5 feet 8 inches, 145 pounds, was found dead in a Mt Vernon sewer with a shoe lace tied around her neck. The body, dropped into a distant manhole, had likely been there less than 24 hours, and identification had not been made. Police searched the area for signs of a struggle but found none.
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MT. Vernon
N. Y
Reverend J. W. Simpson Ordained in Cambridge
Ordination of Mr. Simpson to the ministry occurred Sunday afternoon at Odd Fellows Hall Cambridge under Mt Zion Baptist Church. Rev J Allen Kirk of Boston preached the sermon with representatives of nearby colored churches in attendance. His work will serve the colored Protestants of Greater Boston.
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Mr. Simpson
Odd Fellows’ Hall
Cambridge
Mt. Zion Baptist Church
J. Allen Kirk
D. D
Boston
Greater
Fighting on the Isthmus Panama upheaval shocks Isthmus Liberals
In Panama City riotous actions followed the destruction of Fl Lapiz offices by army officers. Editor wounded, Governor Mutis and his wife fled to safety, and General Cobos and General Huertas clashed over orders. Police chief Arrango arrested. Mayor Ossa remained on street. U S Consul Gudger sought access unsuccessfully as Cobos may seize civil power.
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Panama
Colombia
Fl Lapiz
Liberal Party
Vasquez Cobos
Mutis
General Huertas
General Cobos
Huertas
Fernando Arrango
Senor Guerra
Mum
Guerra
Mayor Ossa
United States
Gudger
Arthur M. Beaupre
Bogota
el Lapiz
Victoriano Torenzo
Isthmus
No Trouble at Colon as Coup Rumors Roll
Colón Colombia July 26 reports the city quiet after General Cobos's coup against Governor Mutis of Panama department. Developments expected tonight or tomorrow as General Luis Maria Gomez travels to Panama and a train departure occurs this afternoon.
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Colon
Colombia
Cobos
Mutis
Department of
Panama
Luis Maria Gomez
Train Strikes William Brackett at Crescent Park Station
Fall River report says William Brackett age 33 of 212 Bedford street was struck by a train at Crescent Park station of the New York New Haven and Hartford railroad. He was brought to Union Hospital with internal injuries and hemorrhages after the 9 40 p m arrival.
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Fall River
William Brackett
Bedford Street
Crescent Park
N. Y
Union Hospital
Death of Sir John Rigby Former Lord Justice of Appeal
London July 26 Sir John Rigby former lord justice of appeal has died. He was born in 1834.
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London
John Rigby
Roxbury Victims In Electric Car Collision
William H. Savage, about 63, and his wife were seriously injured in the Boston and Worcester electric car crash Saturday. The Roxbury residents live at 2041 Columbus Avenue near Franklin Park. Savage was described as a manufacturer who travels New England selling goods. the couple has a married daughter with an unknown address.
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William H. Savage
Boston
Worcester
Cleveland singer Arthur Wright shoots self in Dawson saloon
A Dawson City dispatch reports Arthur G. Wright aged 27 from Cleveland Ohio died by suicide in a Dominion saloon after troubles over a love affair with a theatrical woman. Wright was a professional singer and his death suspends an ongoing domestic scandal.
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Halifax
N. S
Dawson City
Arthur G. Wright
Cleveland
Dominion
Riot Strife in Danville Ends With Troops Guarding Jail
Danville Illinois sees two killed and 22 wounded as race riots erupt. Police station and county jail suffer damage while State militia arrives, 200 soldiers deployed and 100 sentinels patrolling near the jail. Sheriff claims he fired only at mob’s hands or legs.
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Danville
Ill
Westville
Wilson
Burgess
Springfield
Whitlock
Tragedy Near Don As 23 Women Burned Alive
A Daily Mail report from St. Petersburg describes 23 female field laborers who locked themselves in a barn near the village of Schala jitka in the Don district to escape molestation. Male laborers set the barn alight in revenge, watching the women burn and scream.
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London
St. Petersburg
Daily Mail
Schalajitka
The
Don
Old Home Week Observances Across Massachusetts
In many Bay State towns Sunday marked the launch of Old Home Week with prayer and thanksgiving services. The week features several speeches by notable figures including Secretary Moody in Haverhill and Hull, Governor Yates in Sandwich and South Hadley, Clara Barton in Oxford, Congressmen Potters and Tirrell, Booker T. Washington in Weymouth, Attorney General Parker in Stow, and Mary A. Livermore in Melrose, with events spanning most of the week.
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Bay State
Ashfield
Athol
Amherst
Abington
Carver
Deerfield
Douglas
Dana
Eastham
Fairhaven
Fitchburg
Franklin
Granville Centre
Heath
Haverhill
Harwich
Hanover
Holliston
Hull
Kingston
Lunenburg
Manchester
Methuen
Melrose
Marshfield Hills
Mansfield
Monson
Northfield
North Rochester
North Brookfield
Norwood
Oxford
Pepperell
Palmer
Sunderland
Sudbury
Stow
South Ae Springfield
Wareham
Wilbraham
Wales
Weymouth
Wrentham
West Medway
Moody
Long
Governor Yates
Sandwich
South Hadley
Clara Barton
Potters and Tirrell
Booker T. Washington
Miss Vining Refuses Hull Old Home Week Participation
Hull July 26 Miss Floretta Vining Mayoress and leading local figure refuses to take part in Old Home week celebrations and will not attend ceremonies, signaling a major setback for the planned events and leaving Hull to proceed without her involvement.
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Hull
Floretta Vining
Miss Vining
Accident Injures Mrs Louise Brown and Infant in Lake View Trip
Mrs Louise Brown of 342 Cambridge street Allston and her infant son Winthrop were injured when a Boston Worcester line trolley car overturned near Lake View. Mrs Brown suffered a compound fracture of the right leg while the baby escaped with a severe shaking up. Mr Brown, a traveling salesman, was expecting them at Lake View that evening.
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Louise Brown
Cambridge Street
Allston
Boston & Worcester
Lakeview
Winthrop
Brown
Lakeville
Baby
Lake View
Moral quarantine sermon urges moral health officers
The Rev. Martha A. Bortie of the Every Day Church on Shawmut Avenue preached that disturbed mentality is slow death. She urged self culture and proposed appointing a board of moral health officers to quarantine those with unruly tempers or jealous rage as if afflicted by smallpox.
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Martha A. Bortie
Shawmut Avenue
Worcester trolley crash eyed for criminal negligence
State police opened an inquiry into Saturday afternoon’s Boston and Worcester street railway collision at Shrewsbury to determine possible criminal negligence. Superintendent A C Ralph blamed motorman Edward Downs and conductor Daly of the Worcester bound car, saying they ignored warnings to stay at the Milk Street turnout. Victims at Worcester City Hospital were improving with no further deaths expected, while a Boston artist, William H Savage, had rallied from grave wounds and was expected to survive.
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State Police
Shrewsbury
Ralph
Worcester
Boston & Worcester Street
A. C. Ralph
Edward Downs
Daly
City Hospital
William H. Savage
Boston
Waders
Murray
South Framingham
Downs
Mass Car Collision Injures Commuters in Tragic Brake Incident
J B Noyes recounts a two-car crash on a Boston line where a passenger is left with a plastered body as both trains collide at about 11 miles per hour. W E Blanchard dives forward, passengers crawl to roadside, and a 12-year-old girl tends her wounded brother while her own arm is found broken. Water runs scarce for the injured as doctors arrive.
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Boston Beevnd
J. B. Noyes
Iotel
Arlington
W. E. Blanchard
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Ralph Overs
Milk Street
Daley
George A. Williams
Warrentontreet
Thomas Brown
Fesh
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