Devastating cyclone leaves North Lawrence in ruins
A fierce cyclone wrecked dozens of homes along Springfield and Portland streets in North Lawrence, killing several residents including Jeremiah O Connell and his daughter Mary. Maria Quinn, 12, was severely injured. multiple families were forced from their homes as flames and debris blocked streets. City officials, fire crews, and militia mobilized quickly to aid 300 homeless residents, set up relief headquarters, and control crowds as trains brought visitors from surrounding areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jeremiah O’connell
Springfield
Portland Street
Carroll & Casey
William Collins
Mrs. Collins
Annie
Emmett Street
James Lyons
South Lawrence Park
Foster
Springfield Street
Hugh A. Merrigan
Pemberton Mills
Merriman
Hugh Merrigan
Jeremiah O'Connell
John Lynch
John Costello
Raymond
Archibald McCauley
Andrew Patterson
Maria Quinn
Patrick Quinn
Threa
James Brennan
Louis Benoit
Kate Flynn
Patrick Ryan
Flynn
Mr Gray
Joseph H. McDade
Thomas Ik
Carrie Bailey
James Wilson
John Shephard
J. H. Furniside
John O’brien
Stewart, Jr
Dennis Cronin
Patrick Mahoney
Jacob Sieber
Robert Fife
Martin Burke
A. Massey
South Union Street
Patrick Lena
Clement Perron
John Ryan
J.T. McCormack
Springfield Strees
Union Square
Cranshaw Square
Walter E. Rushforth
Andover
Sinton
Lawrence
Thomas Evans
Emmetts Street
North Lawrence
Clinton P. Vase
Ijire
Crawford
Dalton
George S. Merrill
Lawrence N. Duchesney
Ninth Infantry
Joubert
Salem
Market
Blanchard
Union
Andrew Hart
Boston & Maine
Orphan Asylum
Little Quinn
Lawrence Disaster Relief Efforts Grow As City Aids
Relic hunters and crowds overwhelmed the disaster lines while Mayor Crawford and officials directed relief. Forty police specials guarded the area as tenements and food slips were issued at city expense. Forty injured confirmed with several more likely. total loss estimated at $200000. Funds pour in from Mgr Stearns, the Irish Benevolent Society, and other groups, with mass meetings planned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crawford
Board of Aldermen
Board of Health
Board of ‘Trade
South Lawrence
Board of Trade
Catholic Orphan Asylum
E. P. Poor
Board of Assessors
Burnham
Haverhill
Palmer
Lorwell
Newhall
Lynn
Packard
Marshal Vose
Mgr. A. W. Stearns
Irish Benevolent Society
Threatened to Take the Ship by Drunken Cattlemen
Twenty seven cattlemen on the steamship Chicago arriving from London caused disorder on deck breaking cattle pens and threatening to seize the vessel. They later broke into the hold, looted bass ale, and partook to remain drunk and quarrelsome. Captain Morgan handed three men to police on arrival and charged them with intimidating the crew, insulting him, and rifling cargo.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Chicago
London
Morgan
Prominent Speakers at Thirteenth Unitarian Grove Meeting
The thirteenth annual Unitarian grove meeting at Weirs, Laconia New Hampshire, opened with fair attendance. It runs through next Sunday, featuring speakers such as Rev. Robert Collyer, Rabbi Solomon Schindler, Rev. E. L. Rexford, Hon. George B. Loring, and Gen. S. C. Armstrong, among others already on site.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Laconia
N.hl
Unitarian Grove
Weirs
Robert Collyer
Solomon Schindler
E. L. Rexford
George B. Loring
United States
Spain
8. C. Armstrong
Virginia
Sermon by a Chinaman at Church of the Strangers
A native Chinese preacher named Tsche Shenge born Charles W. Marshall preached at the Church of the Strangers in New York in English. He wore full Oriental dress and spoke of his China missionary work. He prophesied future widespread Christian acceptance among Chinese people.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Church of the Strangers
Tsche Shenge
Charles W. Marshall
China
Song
Embezzler Robert Sanders Committed for Trial in Woodstock
In St John New Brunswick on July 27 Robert Sanders was committed for trial for embezzling $14,000 from the Nova Scotia Bank branch in Woodstock. A man named William Saunders testified Sanders confessed to stealing the funds and hiding them over the vault where all but $80 was recovered. Sanders claimed no one else was involved and showed no apparent concern as he faced trial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. John
N. B
Robert Sanders
Nova Scotia Bank
Woodstock
William Saunders
Young Sanders
Sayrwarp
Boston
Murdock
B. IT
Felnal
The English Actress Bernard Beere’s London Home
Mrs Bernard Beere, renowned English actress, lives in a Marylebone Road cottage near St Marylebone Church. Her Red room and grand divan are favored, with a Sandringham horseshoe above the door and a fond interest in mechanical toys. A signed Sarah Bernhardt photo and Thackeray anecdotes complete her charms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bernhardt
Bernard Beere
London
Marylebone Road
St. Marylebone Church
Grand Turk
Sandringham
Sarah Ernhardt
Fedora Bernhardt
Princesse
Fedora Bernard
Thackeray
Godather
Inter-American reciprocity debate urged by Flint
Charles R. Flint urged a U S Brazil sugar reciprocity pact arguing against a 15 year sugar duty free period that would forfeit over 900 million in import duties He warned of export taxes and stressed practical business benefits for farmers Merchants and manufacturers should lobby Congress to secure fair trade and avoid giving sugar producers in Brazil leverage over U S consumers He noted South American markets for cotton woollen goods machinery and leather and called for negotiation of reciprocal treaties to boost U S exports and stabilize finance
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Charles R. Flint
Brazil
Washington
Congress
Spain
Europe
United States
Republic of South America
England
Republic
South America
Rio Janeiro
Rio
World's Fair plan to reclaim lakefront for exhibits
Curcaco July 27 The proposed plan to divide the World's Fair includes placing the art gallery government building and a large electrical display on land reclaimed from Lake Michigan. A cofferdam would create a 300 acre basin with subway access, pumping works pledged for $1,000,000. Washington reports commissioners offered Porter chief of the bureau of awards and Goode chief of the bureau of Classification.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Curcaco
Lake Michigan
Lake Front
Jackson Park
Fitzsimmons
J. V. Doughiie
National Association of American Investors
Fifteenth Street
Randolph
Illinois Central
Messrs
Fitzsimmon and
Doughine
Washington
Chicago
Robert P. Porter
Bureau of Awards
G. Brown Goode
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum
Bureau of Classification
Porter
Goode
Multiple Barn Fires Reported Across States
Springfield reports two incendiary barn fires at Becket and nearby, with Hutson Clark jailed on $1200 bail. Cincinnati sees a chair back factory blaze costing about $30,000 injuring several firemen. Wallace Idaho is burning per Spokane Falls dispatch, while Creighton Nebraska suffers $20,000 loss in a business district fire. An Omaha gas fixture store fire caused only smoke damage in a basement. A Prince Street blaze damaged a barber shop owned by St. Franciscan Church society.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springfield
Michael M. McMahon
Becket
James Jones
Hutson Clark
Clark
Cincinnati
Puttman & Roberts
Third and
Wood Streets
Portland
Spokane Falls
Wallace
Ida
Omaha
Neb
Creighton
Washington Street
C. H. McKenney & Co
Prince Street
St. Franciscan Church Society
Louis Claro
Family killed crossing tracks near Railroad Hotel
In Grafton West Virginia this morning William Golden his wife and three children were crossing the Baltimore and Ohio tracks when a westbound passenger train struck them. The husband wife and two of the children were killed instantly and a two-year-old boy in the father's arms died hours later. The engine’s signal was drowned by a yard engine noise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grafton
W. Va
William Golden
Sealing Fleet Returns With Bounty From Alaska
SEAL CATCHERS IN LUCK, SAN Francisco, July 27. The schooner Dishing Wave arrived from Sand Point, Alaska with news that the sealing fleet, seven teen vessels, has each caught six hundred to twelve hundred seals. They have all left for Behring Sea. The British schooner Lily is missing and feared lost. The revenue cutter Richard Rush reached Sand Point on July 10 and departed for Ounalaska two days later.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Dishing Wave
Sand Point
Alaska
Behring Sea
Lily
Richard Rush
Ounalaska
CAPTAIN ERICSSON'S REMAINS IN NEW YORK
The Swedish executive committee in charge of Captain Ericsson’s remains met in New York to determine the obsequies date depending on when the Navy orders a man of war to transport the body to Sweden. Major Louis F. H. Allen was named grand marshal as Swedish societies in New York and nearby cities join in the funeral escort. King Oscar of Sweden conveyed active interest in the interment, pledging honors befitting a duke or admiral upon arrival in Sweden.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Ericsson
Secretary of the Navy
Sweden
Louis F. H. Allen
Washington
Oscar of
Injunction Dissolved In Maryland Fraternal Case
Ex Governor Whyte of Maryland filed in Baltimore City Circuit Court to revoke the injunction in Laupheimer vs International Fraternal Alliance and set for a hearing July 28 Chief Judge Harlan. The Baltimore Evening Globe cites sources claiming the complainants allegations are false and the order is financially sound and growing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pinkney Whyte
Maryland
International Fraternal Alliance
Baltimore
Simon Laupheimer
International
Henry D. Harlan
Baltimore Evening Globe
New York
Book notices and new titles in 1890s periodicals
A catalog of new releases and editions including Johnsons Lives of the Poets edited by Mrs Napier introduction by J W Hales cyc ling for health and pleasure by Luther A Porter The Preacher by A Monk A First Reader by Anna B Ballam Were They Sinners by Charles J Bellamy The Bank Tragedy by Mary R P Hatch All Sorts and Conditions of Men by Walter Besant The Toltec Cup by Nym Crinkle Fer His Freighting Ideal The Great Composite Novel with several authors With the Best Intentions Me and Chummy Rarahu Expatriation and other titles listed for New York Boston Springfield Washington and more.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Luther A. Porter
Boston
Wheelman Company
A Monk
New York
The
Minerva Publishing Company
Anna B. Ballam
C. Heath & Co
Charles J. Bellamy
Springfield
Mass
Authors’ Publishing Company
Bank
Mary R. P. Hatch
Welch-Fracker Company
Walter Besant
Harper & Kros
New York City
Nym Crinkle
Wheeler
Lew Vanderpoole Publishing Company
P.T. Barnum
John L. Sullivan
Bill Nye
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Alfred C. Calhoun
Howe & Hummel
Inspector Byrnes
Pauline Hall
Miss Baustlake
W.H. Ballon
Nell Nelson
Alan Dale
J. S. Ogilvie
Investment securities and railroad bonds portfolio page
List of bonds and stocks including Omaha St Ry Co mortgage May 1914 and various railroad 6s and 7s with dates from 1890s to 1914. Includes notes on optional after dates, endorsements, collateral and several banks and manufacturing companies named by location. Contains numerous firm names such as Kansas Investment Co Topeka and Massachusetts Real Estate Co Taunton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ate Tay State Gas Co
Hampshire Trust Co
Manchester
N. H
Boston & Maine RR
Kansas Investment Co
Topeka
Kan
Neriac It
Hide & Leather Bank
Framingham Nat
Bank of South
Boston Brokerage Auction List of securities and notes
Francis Henshaw & Co auctioneers present a dated list of securities including City of Toledo bonds, City of Buffalo notes, Oregon S L & Utah RR bonds, Chicago, Burlington and Quincy RR stock, Wisconsin Central RR pretenders, and various railroad and bank issues. The notice states no sales Saturdays until further notice and lists numerous 1890s and 1900s issue types with denominations and terms, reflecting a broad portfolio offered by the Boston firm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Witt Ins, Co
City of
Toledo
Charlestown
Oregon
Ord
Lake Champlain RR
Wisconsin Cent
Rhode Island
City of Toledo
City of Buffalo
City of St. Louis
Also Mentioned on This Page
GROVE
Sanders
Captain Ericsson
Oscar
Johnson
Alexander Napier
J. W. Hales
M.A
W. 38. Gottsberger & Co
D. Appleton & Co
Horatio Harris & Co
State Street
Sales
California Fruit
Bartlett Pears, Gros Prunes
Truit
Lewis Wharf
Tofore
the Pure Baking Powder CO
Albany, N
R. L. Day & CO
Kheom & Auction Sales
Rvicom
Boston Stock Exchange
Dnesday
Guardian
New
Zingland Nat. Bank
Old Boston Nat. Bank
Automatic Coal Handling Co
Metropolitan
Leominster Nat. Bk
Leominster
Mags
Lewiston Mills Co
Lewiston
Revere Keach & Lynn Rk
Rutland RR
Payne Coal & Iron Co
Phila
Wilmington & Balt
Connecticut River RR
Kansas City
Ua McKay & Bic
It. M. Asso
E. & T. Fairbanks & Co
Suffolk Cordage Co
Boylston Insurance Co
Ftore Coal & Iron Co
Consol. RR
Bloc C
Denver
Florida Midlandry. Co
Houghton & Ontonagon RR
Wisconsin Valley RR
Tllinoig Grand Trunk RR
Burlington & Missouri River RR
Remont, Elkhorne& Mo. Valley RR
Consol
Darlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern RR
Purit Ay Btu Ong Dock Co
Alen
Nashua & Rochester RR
Worcester & Nashua
Wwsawounds Massachusetts Real Estate Co
Taunton, Maas
Portsmouth
Falls & Conway RR
Old Colony RR
West End
Ry. Co
International Button Hole
M. Co
Ft. Payne Coal & Iron Co
Ao Hill Mfg. Co
Mckay & Big
H. M. Assn
Dexter Woollen Mills
Maine Central RR
Cee Oswego & Fox River Valley RR
Nat
Market Bank of Brighton
Kansas City, Memphis & Birmingham RR
Rowe's Wharf Co
Awmoskeag Mfg
Amory Mfg
Eastern RR
City of Boston
Ae Lansing & Saginaw Rit
St. Payne Furnace Co
Ivan Rutland RR
Lowell Manly. Co
International Marine Signal Co
Henderson Gold Mining Co
Francis Henshaw & Co
Congress Street
Corner Exchange Place
Tednesday
Boston Investment Co
Fa Baaun Oa
Vaunseyvil
Kowell Ain, Switch Co
Nat. Tube Works Co
Citizens’ Bank
Wichita, Kan
Dechain
Nat. Bank
Hill Man. Co
Great Falls
Rollstone N. Bank
Fitchburg
West End St. Rv. Co
Simonds Roling Machine Co
McKay & Copeland Lasting Machine Co
Old Colony RR. Co
East Tenn. Land Co
B. & Maine RR
N. Car Co
Mass. Loan & Trust Co
Ledo Old Colony RR
Ann, & Kennebec
Wakefield Water Co
Wellman Sole Cutting Machine Co
Day Cordage
de Louision N, Bank
S. KR. Knights & Co
Washington St
Koston
Main St
Cambridgeport
Ettie J. Frankenthal
W. Keuben Taylor
A. D
Patent Office
Washington, D. C
Libro
United States of America
W. Reuben Taylor
WY Bowigare Company
Broadway
Chesnut St
Berlin
Germany
Devonshire St
Missouri
Home Investment
Eastern Investment Company
7 Mile Street
Treasury
Andrew A. Meyer
Treas
Mortcades
Wiley S. Edmands
Congress St
Broston
Dnne
John Jefferies & Sons
Devonshire Street
Suffolk
Frank W. Rand
Rand
Hinds l. Darling
Ernest D. Blackwell
C. R. Elder
Heston
Albert L. Jewell
A. L. Jewell
Edward O. Glidden
Joseph W. Work
Back Bay
William H. Whitney
George &. Richardson
John J. Williams
Scotia Street
Linus M. Child
Loston
Geo. F. Richardson
Scotia
William C. Norcross
Anguat
George I. Richardson
John.j. Williams
Josketh W. Work
Mortyagree
Snow & CQ
North Market St
Fulton Lth
Mia
Ures
Ray
P.O
Framingham
Evelyn Miutman
Lawrence Street
Andi
Miss W
Our
Light Merry, Company
College
Weinkias
Lassice Fenor
Bodes
Oliver Ditson Company
Alphevus M. Stetson
Kilby Street
Worthley
Cape Cod
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