Fog Lifts Boost Seining Fleet Yields at Sankaty Head
Fogged fishing grounds off Sankaty Head clear after ten days, sending six seiners to 1 wharf with 40,000 fresh mackerel at 17 cents for large and 10 cents for medium. Vessels include Meta Mora, Ingomyx, Nellie Dixon, Norma, Patrician, and Captain Rufus McKay among others. swordfishermen report 105 fish at 9 cents per pound.
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Sankaty Head
Seining
Metamora
Rufus McKay
Ingomyx
Wallace Parsons
Ambrose Fleet
Nellie Dixon
James Ellis
Norma
Elmer Gray
Patrician
Wesley Farmer
George H. Lubee
Eva
Mildred
Georgiana
Haddock
Hake
Alice M. Guthrie
Muriel
Mary E. Silveira
Victor and Ethan
Francis V. Sylvia
Mary EB. Cooney
W. M. Goodspeed
Emelia Enos
Annie Perry
Dorothy
Athena
Teresa
Alice
Galatea
Red Star
Samland
Aufindsen
Hoosac
Antwerp
Mississippi
Boston Ladies Dressmaking and Millinery College Ad
Female help wanted ad seeking 100 girls for learning dressmaking and millinery with guaranteed positions. 9 to 5 hours, evenings 7 to 9, Boston college claims high placement pay. Also multiple small help notices for counter work, stamping transfers, and government job guidance. Includes addresses and dates.
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Millinery College
Boston
Ladies' Tailor
Tremont St
Mass
Phoenix Coffee Mills
Cornhill
Maritime Precise Almanac of July 29 Arrivals and Clearances
The miniature almanac notes sun rise and set times, day length, and moon phase. It lists arrivals of steamers from Buenos Aires to Portland and strays via New York with multiple port calls, and schooners from St. John New Brunswick to Newport News, ending with cleared ships including Steamer Admiral Sampson bound for Port Antonio Jamaica and ship Pass of Balmaha bound to Buenos Aires.
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Ayres
J. L. Colwell
St. John
N. B
John Maxwell
Portland
Saxonia
Queenstown
Liverpool
Agnella
Sama
Cuba
Baracoa
Halifax
Hawkesbury
Charlottetown
Prince George
Yarmouth
N. S
Nacoochee
Savannah
Nantucket
Baltimore
Norfolk
Persian
Philadelphia
Harvard
Bunker Hill
New York
Swatara
Paxtang
Shawmut
Silver Brook
Leader
Pocomo
Hoboken
Salem
Ariel
Dunlo
Lynn
Concord
Havana
Sagua
Piedmont
Gloucester
Conestoga
Corbin
Preston
Cleona
Cumberland
C. Co
North America
Weehawken
Binghampton
Troy
William L. Douglas
Eleanor A. Percy
Hugh Kelly
Sargentville
Hostiles
Finley
Buenos Aires
Porto Rico
Camden
Allan
Eastport
Irene
Zachevich
Mediterranean
Philips Bros. & Co
Samland
Aufinchsen
Antwerp
Frederick Leyland & Co
McKinnon
Penobscot
Colby
Bath
Cape Ann
Godfrey
City of Gloucester
Ober
Taylor
Cacoosing
Tunnel Ridge
Svendsen
Portsmouth
N. H
Grove
Pierce
Molino
Sabbich
Carlisle
Lloyd
Manatawny
Franklin
Newburyport
Doane
Chenango
BE. Givan
Melvin
Lotus
Goodwin
Valetta
Kerry
Dow
M. D. Cressey
Johnstone
Newporters
John Bracewell
Peterson
Hudson River
Mary Manson Gruener
Crossley
Admiral Sampson
Port Antonio
Jam
Balmaha
Buenos
Break From Agreement Shakes Boston Teaming Prices
Superintendent Emerson and the Boston teaming association split over pricing for city work. President Jeremiah O Riorden and Secretary Frank J Hannan led bids of 3 25 per day for single teams and 5 50 for double teams, undercutting the agreed 3 50 and 6. The majority remained loyal to the established rates after formal notices to Mayor Hibbard and Emerson.
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Emerson
Boston
Jeremiah O'Riorden
Frank J. Hannan
O'Riorden
Hibbard
Blind Like His Parents Blinds Man at 85 in Worcester
Adam Tidman, 85, prominent Quinsigamond resident, has undergone cataract surgery at City Hospital after decades of feared blindness. His father and mother became blind at 40, and his brother was struck blind at that age, shaping a family fate he hopes to reverse.
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Worcester
Adam Tidman
Quinsigamond
Melon Field Delays Lead to New Trial for Brett
In Collins Mississippi on July 28 a jury left court to raid a watermelon patch staying an hour then Brett convicted of murdering D G McGann a one legged editor was granted a new trial on grounds the fruit induced sleep. Attorneys argued melons affect juror alertness and fairness of the trial.
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Collins, Miss
A. C. Brett
D. G. McGann
Brett
Lowell Boy Leslie Underwood Missing in Search
Leslie Underwood a 12 year old from Lowell vanished from 16 Chase Street last Wednesday a note from him claimed work on a Dorchester farm. His aunt Mrs Flagg of 36 Regent Street Roxbury will relay information to his parents.
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Leslie Underwood
Lowell
Chase Street
Dorchester
Roxbury
Letter to the Editor on Police Marksmanship and Arms Skill
Ex-soldier Co BE Mead of Lynn laments police struggles against violence in July 1908. He urges higher training and marksman standards for officers and suggests decorative medals for failing officers. Mead claims personal rifle accuracy at 200 yards and challenges officers to a skill trial.
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Regular Army
BE. Mead
Lynn
Licensing Lodging Houses Probed by City Editor
To the editor the writer protests home lodging licenses as ridiculous arguing 15 years of unlicensed operation and fear of costs. She recalls cheaper coal laundry and prices, says commissioners should license only needed houses and not her own home at 26 Shawmut Avenue dated July 28.
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City of
Boston
Schoolhouse Commissioners of
Comins
Tremont St
Cottage PI
Columbus Ave
Dwight
Springfield St
Rutland St
West Concord St
Cook
Groton St
Mass
Boylaton Street
Trades Unions
R. Clipston Sturgis
James B. Noyes
Tilton
Bell
Kneeland Street
8S. Goddard
Shawmut Avenue
Go-Carts on Boston Elevated Cars Debate
A Somerville reader urges the Boston Elevated Railway to allow folded go-carts on cars, arguing the prohibition wastes space and deprives families of trips for beach or country air. The letter asks the paper to back an early adjustment of the policy.
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Boston Elevated Railway Company
Somerville
Go Carts Indispensable for Beach Trip Says Cambridge Mother
Mrs H. H. of Cambridge describes a beach outing with three young children and a go cart. She carried the infant while her two older children rode the cart, urging that go carts should be allowed on trains for such family trips.
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the Post
H. H. Cambridge
Modern Cars Needed At Popular Resort
A South Boston resident calls for better transport for a busy resort route. He complains about rattling eight wheel cars with flat tires and unstable four wheel models, lacking modern curtains during rain, and urges glass fronted, comfortable vehicles for public use. July 2.
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South
Boston
Lodging house keepers urged to stay calm and plan
A Boston letter from a lodger urges lodging house keepers to remain un alarmed by new rules. The writer argues public parlors could help but raises concerns about added costs, noting lodging costs would rise by about twenty percent and many lodgers could not afford higher rents.
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Boston
Should Select Nurses for Lodging House Inspectors
A lodger argues for a lodging house commission to improve sanitary and fire conditions and suggests nurses or domestic science graduates as inspectors. He notes nurses in other cities have led to satisfactory sanitation and questions landladies being non wage earners while letting rooms is not a fast profit.
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Lodging House Commission
Boston
Dog Finds Woman's Hand Along Nanticoke River
A woman's hand in good preservation was found along the Nanticoke River at Seaford by a dog last night. The hand appeared buried only a short time and was unearthed on the riverbank.
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Seaford
Del
Nanticoke River
Newport Excursion by Special Express Train
Plan a Boston to Newport round trip excursion on Thursday July 30 by special express train via the New York New Haven Hartford railroad. Fare is one dollar for the round trip. Depart South Station at 9 30 a m and Back Bay at 9 34 a m.
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Newport
Boston
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
South Station
Back Bay
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Legal Loan CO
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Woodman & Milliken
Cambridge
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John J. Gill
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Joseph EB. Clark
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A. E. Outerbridge & CO
Quebec Steamship Co., Ltd
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Arthur Ahern
Canada
Thos. Cook & Son
Merchants and Miners Transportation Co
Fiske Wharf
Hanover St
Wnewport News
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Providence
C. H. Maynard
Warren Line
Sachem
Ilmichigan
Sagamore
Warren &Co
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Long Wharf
Foot State St
Prince Arthur
Washington Et
J. F. Masters
N. EB
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Awkesbury
A. W
L. Silberman
Minot St
Spizer & CO
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Pdubinsky &Malamo
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Haymarket
Warren St
Somerville Ave
Union Sq
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Annie Eipeerrears
Putnam Ave
Typewriter Exchange
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O.O
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Heinemann
Jamaica Plain
City of Boston
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Peru
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Point Shirley Hill
Boston Harbor
Point Shirley
George B. Elliot
Washington At
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Chas. G. Woodbridge
Central Ave
Lynnonin
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John B. McKenna
New England
d&Scott
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Packard
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A. D. F.adams
Fort Hil
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Atkinson Law Office
Max Keezer
Bow St
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Cross St
City
Lewando
Watertown
Waltham Chemical CO
Waltham, Ma
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Ladiles
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Hurley
Sixth St
Leite Boston
Everett Ave
Valentine
Alkon
Condor St
E. Boston
SaMatt
Guy's
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Hanover
Blackstone
Thomas Snow & Son
No. Market St
Custom House
Internal Revenue
Massachusetts Correspondence Schools
Boylston St
Adedress
F. B. Thompson
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Presque Isle
Sen O
Boston ‘Auto School
Trefont St
Market St
U. S. Marine Corps
Court St
Onyaized and Reliable
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James Coyne
M. E
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Congress
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Lockport
N. Y
Moore
Wan’ Ted
Osmund
Mains
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Monroe Cigar CO
Toledo
Ory
W. W. Payne
Hudson, N. H
Peabody Medical Institute
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Revere House
America
Tremont ‘St
Tremont Medical
Shipping News
Mason Financial CO
Colt
Dewey
Dewey & CO
Adam Tideman
Forest Hills Cemetery
Somerville Mother
City Point
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