Carnival Parade Sparks Charlestown Festivities
The Seventeenth of June Carnival Association showcases featured divisions, bands, and processions in Charlestown with diverse floats and participants including the Charlestown Cadets Band and the goddess figures. Fireworks, band concerts, and civic celebrations fill Monument Square as residents celebrate Bunker Hill Day amid horn blasts and cracker displays. One man loses a hand in a premature cannon cracker accident near East Boston.
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Charlestown
Sullivan Square
Monument Square
Moondyne Club
Boston Baseball Club
Roxbury
Scandinavian Benevolent Society
Milton
Hyde Park
Eighth Infantry
South Framingham
Cavalry
Appalachian Mountain Club
Gloucester
Rockport
Mission
Somerset Street
Edward Everett Hale
Jacob Sleeper
California Pioneers of
Revere House
New England Amateur Press Association
Park Street
Crawford House
Waverley House
Matthews
Young’s Hotel
First Massachusetts Cavalry
American House
Bunker Hill
Atlantic Ocean
East Boston
Peter Hughes
Webster Avenue
Boston
Knight’s Drug Store
City Hospital
Charlestown July Fourth Impressive Bunker Hill Echoes
Residents recall the Bunker Hill monument dedication amid a Charlestown Fourth of July celebration. Officials praise national unity and Civil War era ideals, urging loyalty to republic and civil authority, warning against military rule. The piece links local festivity to Revolutionary memory and American identity.
Dedication Ode Revered by Daniel Webster at Monument
The passage recalls Webster speaking at a historic dedication fifty years earlier. The Post published a lengthy outline praising independence, patriotism, and sacrifice. A pedestal inscription honored Major-General Joseph Warren and others slain on June 17, 1776 by King Solomon's Lodge of Free Masons.
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Daniel Webster
J. W
King Solomon's Lodge of Free Masons
Charlestown
Joseph Warren
Early Monument to General Warren in Charlestown
Free Masons of North America, led by Warren as grand master, erected a monument in Charlestown after the war. A lodge formed in 1788 funded a column to Warren in 1794 on land donated by James Russell. The monument featured a brick pedestal eight feet square, rising ten feet, a Tuscan wood column eighteen feet high, and a gilt urn with an inscription.
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Joseph Warren
Bunker Hill
Free Masons
North America
Lodge of
Charlestown
Warren
James Russell
Stones Reflect on Charlestown's Siege and Warren’s Fall
The column recalls Charlestown founded in 1628 and burned in 1775 and rebuilt in 1776. It stood for forty years on the spot where Warren was believed to have fallen and was removed when a new granite structure was planned.
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Charlestown
Warren
Explosion at Scaramanga powder magazine in Athens
A government powder magazine exploded at Scaramanga today in Athens. Twenty people including officers and soldiers died and surrounding property suffered extensive damage. Loss estimated at 8 million francs. The crown prince went to the scene to aid the sufferers.
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Athens
Scaramanga
Freshman Crew Opens Rowing Season at New London
The Cornell freshmen tested their Thames sprints at New London in choppy water and prepared for a Tuesday race with Columbia freshmen. The Yale and Harvard crews were discussed, with Harvard showing confidence in a strong varsity eight and Yale relying on veteran rowers for an advantage.
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New London
Cornell
Thames
Mr. Courtney
Columbia
Courtney
Charles E. Courtney
F. B. Matthews
E. H. Bingham
E. F. Guilford
G. P. Dyer
H. Ll. K. Shaw
W. Howard
F. C. Slade
R. B. Hamilton
JT Pi Wan
WW. Roe
Wheland
New Haven
Treadway
Yale
University
Goetchins
Bob Cook
Harvard
Crimson
Cook
Ives
Gallaudet
Paine
van Huyh
Johnson
Goethhins
Messler
Olmstead
Vail
Cummings
Newell
Johnson Dominates New York Cycling Meet in Syracuse
Johnson led the Century Cycling Club riders at Kirkwood Park as New York State division circuit races opened. In one mile handicap Johnson won with Babcock second, later Wheeler first in half mile, Pendergast first in two mile class, and Johnson again tops in the open mile with Wheeler second.
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Syracuse
New York State
Century Cycling Club
Kirkwood Park
W. I. Murphy
Hoyland Smith
Co Smiths
Ee Wheeler
Orange
N. J
F. H. Tattle
John S. Johnson
Century C@ueling Club
LD. Munger
Chicago
Charles Dorn
G. C. Smith
L. D. Munger
A. Pendergast
Cowboy Race Arrivals at Long Pine Neb
Jim Stephens Joe Gillespie and Dec Middleton led the cowboy race arrivals at Long Pine Nebraska registering by 4 45 PM Gillespie left 5 07 Middleton 5 15 Stephens left early and Albright arrived 5 30 rested then continued. Fontain of Humane Society says horses need sleep and Middleton’s horses are in best condition.
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Long Pine
Neb
Jim Stephens
Joe Gillespie
Dec Middleton
Stephens
Gillespie
Middleton
Albright
Paul Fontaine
Humane Society
Summer House Burns in Framingham On Eliot Street
An unfinished summer residence belonging to Robert G. Shaw on Eliot Street in South Framingham burned at 11 p.m. fireworks materials and painter supplies sparked the blaze. Firefighters from Wellesley Natick and South Natick struggled to find water, leaving the structure with about half its value destroyed. The house, built by E. G. Phillips of Wellesley Hunnewell and Shaw as Boston architects, was slated for occupancy in two months and valued at 100000 dollars with 50000 dollars insured.
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Chelsea Street
Hugh
Warren
Main Street
Nine Hundred and Ninety-ninth Artillery Company
South Framingham
Robert G. Shaw
Eliot Street
Wellesley
Natick
South Natick
E. G. Phillips
Wellesley, Hunnewell & Shaw
Boston
Randall McGuinness
Boston & Albany
Cambridgeport
Reynold McGuinness
Nova Scotia
Boston Bridge Works
Valet Stabs Fellow at Turf Exchange Saloon
In Westchester New York on June 16 Albert Young a valet stabbed and killed William Emmett another valet during a fight at the Turf Exchange saloon. Young fled and remains at large.
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Westchester
N. Y
Turf Exchange
Albert Young
Sims
William Emmett
Overton
Young
Bowdoin Prize Awards Announced for the Year
Bowdoin College Brunswick prize list recognizes Mathematical prize to Harlan P. Small Brunswick Pray English to Arthur S. Haggett Newcastle Latin to Louis E Hatch Bangor Greek to Harvey W. Thayer Limington extemporaneous first to Clarence W. Peabody Portland second to George Chapin Auburndale Mass English composition first Peabody Portland second Barker Bath Charles H. Howard.
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Brunswick
Bowdoin Prize
Harlan P. Small
Pray
Arthur S. Haggett
Newcastle
Sewall
Louis E
Hatch
Bangor
Harvey W. Thayer
Limington
Brown
Clarence W. Peabody
Portland
George 8. Chapin
Auburndale
Mass
Byron F. Barker
Bath
Charles H. Howard
Readville as Point of Diversion for Freight Hearings
The Massachusetts hearings on fruit and produce transportation concluded with a ruling that if a diversion of freight is necessary from the New York, New Haven and Hartford line to the New York and New England road, the point shall be Readville. The necessity of a diversion point remains an open question.
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New England
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
N. Y
N. H
Break at Dorchester post office robs stamps, near cash hit
Early morning at the Dorchester branch post office the safe was blown open and stamps worth 200 dollars were taken. The strong box remained untouched, and the thief aimed to grab 1200 dollars drawn by Superintendent Jones to pay office employees, but the money had already been paid on Thursday afternoon.
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Dorchester
Jones
Judge Grants Cohen Petition in Suffolk Insolvency Court
Judge McKim in the Suffolk Insolvency Court granted the petition of Mrs. Sarah Cohen a creditor and issued a warrant against Merrill’s estate returnable June 380. No counsel appeared for Merrill.
Missing Grace Lillian Allen Stirs Somerville Mystery
Grace Lillian Allen remains missing as detectives and her brothers search without clues. Neighbors report the Olive Square home deserted and the case raises theories she may have left town. Acquaintance Waiter N Swett says he knows nothing of her whereabouts and defends her character while seeking the truth.
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Grace Lillian Allen
Somerville
Cdsey
Olive Square
N.’Swett
Smith College Ablaze Theatrical Debut At Northampton
The closing events of Smith College’s year featured a senior dramatics program in the college gym before about 1000 attendees. The performance of Athalie combined Racine’s play with Mendelssohn music, read by George King of Harvard, with a 20 piece orchestra, 3 soloists, and a 30 person choir. It marked a rare American staging of the piece, with elaborate white tunics and heraldic costumes.
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Northampton
Smith College For Women
Racine
Athalie
Mendelssohn
Saxony
George King
Harvard College
Palestine
Joash
Athalah
America
Stationery firm Winkley Dresser assigns to Doane
Winkley Dresser and Co. the Milk Street stationers have assigned to Francis Doane with liabilities of 150000 and assets nearly equal. Tight money is blamed for the failure.
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Winkley, Dresser & Co
Milk Street
Francis Doane
Rev Vaughan to Deliver Sermon on Boston Common
The Rev George Vaughan will speak at a religio industrial sermon on Boston Common this Sunday June 18 at 6 p m The meeting will take place at the walk on Charles Street mall with American flag marking the spot.
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George Vaughan
Boston Common
Charles Street Mall
District Chief Ngan Returns to Duty in District 5
District Chief Ngan resumes duty in District 5 after an absence. Other officers who had been reassigned during that period have returned to their districts and quarters.
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Ngan
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E. H. Carter
James D. Coady
F. B. Burnham
William Hichborn
Henry L. Pace
William H. Knox
Goddess of Liberty
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Nelson Club
Edward N. Nelson
St. Catherine’s Temperance Society
Putnam Club
Vegetable Kingdom
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Elk Social Club
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William H. Breen
Prince Edward
Corydon O. Stone
Crescent Band
The
Druids
So J. Morrison
Orce
Great Bar-None Circus
James H. Leary
Oe Farrar
John J. Each
Rimbach
Pests
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Temperance Society
Pet’’ Academy
Shergold Club
Michael V. Collins
John S. Sullivan
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John A. Dewey
Joseph Grant
Thomas McGrath
John Walsh
John Graham
Suffolk Band
E. Z. Terms
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Sporting Moon
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Italy
GREWS
Owe Valet
Happy Bowdoin
Moody Merrill
Allen
Smith College
Grief Egan
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