New Year Parade Shines with Fireworks but Ends Quietly
Crowds lined the route along Munkstie and Elm streets as the parade moved past a dozen bands and floats including New Year's Day, with the 999th club house observation point. Fireworks lit the night while riders and foot soldiers marched, then the Seventeenth faded into the eighteenth as bands dwindled and cheers quieted.
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Munkstie
Elm
Ste
William H. Casey
Carrall, Association
Edoward W. Presho
Hill Gadet Band
St. Catherine's
Sullivan Square
America
Parade of Uniformed Bodies Brightens City Streets
A colorful afternoon parade features military and civic groups, bands, floats including a Chinese themed entry, and a vivid lineup from sailors and marines to civic clubs. Highlights include the Marine Barracks escort, the Municipal Band, and diverse contingents from the Charlestown Somerville veterans to the Ancient Order of Hibernians with over 1000 members, plus Italian sharp shooters and Knights in parade.
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Columbia
Valentines
Cupid
Post
Perhens
Ganton
Theta
Floats Parade Through Charlestown Carnival Pageant
Morning parade in Charlestown featured diverse floats with themes from Twentieth Century Resolves to Patriots Day. A tense moment occurred when a man named Joseph Randall fired blank cartridges at a Cambridge resident, injuring her face. he was later detained, bail set, and identified by description and passbook details.
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Joseph Randall
Myrtle Avenue
Cambridge
Nancy S. Fowler
Kirkland Street
Holiday Starring Altered Scene Describes Bridge Accident
An altered theatrical page fragment recounts a chaotic bridge scene with a crowd, a captive officer, and a dangerous fall. It notes a man possibly saved from harm, a bloody stiletto, and a patrolman near Union Square guiding a wounded victim to a hospital.
Runaway Fire Wagon Crashes Through City Square
Charlestown fire wagon on responding to an alarm sped down Green Street toward City Square. Driver Presho Griffin attempted to brake but failed as the wagon struck and damaged a iron canopy then collided again, throwing Griffin from the seat and injuring him as the vehicle plowed forward into the square.
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Charlestown
Green Street
City
Griffin
Boy Burns in Household Fire Tragedy
A fatal house fire in Gloucester claimed the life of a child named Georgie Ward. By bystanders' efforts and first responders, flames were subdued but the boy died before morning. The incident details remain unclear in the report.
Day's list of accidents due to cannons and toys causes injuries
Describes a holiday celebration with cannon crackers revolvers and toys causing numerous injuries. Most cases are light but several hospital patients required treatment at City Hospital including George Griffin 67 Bickford Street Roxbury East Seaton Marion Biapese Street and George Kiley 2 Brown Street with cartridge explosions.
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City Hospital
George Griffin
Bickford Street
Ar & Gemn
Marion
East Seaton
George Kiley
Brown Street
William HH
Dovla
Ee Avenue
Washington, Ee
Parade Floats and Flags Marked Civic Holiday Celebration
A parade in Monument Square featured divisions with themed floats including a Miss Young America boat of produce, and groups like the St. Michael's Portuguese Association and Independent Scots Guards. Crowds saw patriotic and holiday tableaux for Independence Day Labor Day Thanksgiving and Christmas among other entrants.
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St. Michael's Portuguese Association
Scots Guards
A Naval
Charlies E. Brines
Columbia
Tharragut Social Ud
Atlantic Associates
Boston
Marshal Casey
Monument Square
Fired in Woman's Face Incident Reported at Morning
A boy described as a juvenile fired into a woman's face about 9 38 yesterday morning causing alarm. Police investigated the assault scene and questioned witnesses as part of ongoing inquiries into the incident and motive.
Historic car tour links Boston to Revolutionary sights
Tourists ride from Bowdoin Square near Boston by Arlington Street cars to sites tied to the Battle of Bunker Hill. The line passes by Boston University, the Washington Elm, and North Cambridge with tablets detailing the first Revolution events before continuing to Concord.
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Jearney
Bunker Hill
Boston
Bowein Square
Arlington
Arward Niversity
Washington Elm
Cambridge
Concord
Granite Lodge Planned Atop Bunker Hill Monument Site
At the Bunker Hill Monument Association annual meeting in the Hotel Vendome a new granite lodge was announced to replace the present wooden structure. Plans show a one story granite front with six classical columns, a statue room and office. Officers elected include Winslow Warren president and John Collins Warren, Charles Francis Adams among vice presidents. A series of addresses followed and a collation was served.
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Bunker Hill Monument
Bunker Hill
Winslow Arren
John Collins Warren
Charles Francis Adams
Edward Everett Hale
Solomon Lincoln
Gastavus Arthur Hilton
Francis Henry Brown
Eee
Atoy
Georg Neal
A. M. Howe
John 8. Lindsay
Man Drops Dead In Restaurant on Pieron Bros Street
An unidentified man about 48 years old and 5 feet 10 inches tall collapsed and died at approximately 1 pm in the restaurant of Pieron Bros at 163 Peel Yard Street. The man, described as respectable in appearance, fell as he was about to order. his weight was about 160 pounds.
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Pieron ‘Bros
Pe Yd Street
Sightseers Pack Lexington and Concord Crowds
Crowds at Lexington and Concord yesterday surpassed any previously recorded on June seventeenth as visitors flock to familiar historic attractions that have drawn guests for over a century. The article highlights the enduring appeal of these sites and the unusually large turnout.
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Lexington and Concord
Man loses legs after train accident in West Derby
Nelson L Belle Isle of Lawrence Massachusetts in charge of the battery on the Machias fell beneath the Boston and Manchester express at West Derby New Hampshire and had both legs cut off He was taken to Manchester hospital His prior service included duties on the Brooklyn in the Santiago fight and on the Massachusetts and Detroit in China His family resides in Lawrence
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Boston
Nikola Ott
Peter
West Derby
N. H
Brand traitor with hot steel branding in New York riot
A Paterson anarchist group planned to brand a man on his right hand with a T as punishment for treachery at a Liberty Park picnic in Ridgewood, Long Island. Antonio Reppo, linked to La Questione Sociale, was identified as the branded man, with witnesses noting a long, public demonstration against laws and governments and the display of political flags.
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New York
the Herald
Paterson
Liberty Park
Ridgewood
L. I
Reppo
Antonio Reppo
N. J
Barre
la Questione Sociale
V .M.of
Bresci
Humbert
Reppe
Moxie Celebrated as National Temperance Beverage
A brief note extols Moxie as a true American beverage improving people through its temperance image and nationwide appeal.
Cannons and pistols cause injuries in city as emergency cases rise
Numerous residents suffered burns and wounds from pistol discharges cracker explosions and fireworks. Names include Nathan Grandovelty and James Rose among victims treated at Emergency Hospital and Massachusetts General reports over thirty similar cases in one day amid scattered blazes and delays. Authority notes alarm responses from Boston area streets and addresses several incidents across Dorchester East Boston and Charlestown.
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C. Jackson
Main Street
Charlestown
D. Rollo
Tudor Street
F. McKay
Pleasant Street
R. Curry
Tyler Street
D. Goren
Middlesex Street
Arthur Sullivan
Howard Street
Small Fires Trigger Fire Alarm Bursts Yesterday
Reported blazes and alarms in All Gay area include a still alarm at 59 School Street at 11:8 p m and a box alarm at a Brookline Hawthorne Road residence around 14:18 a m The causes are listed as unknown or unclear and damages are minimal with no injuries recorded
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School Street
Dames Beee Eh Harrise
Aoa
Brookline
Hawthorne Road
Everett
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Navy Yard
Stone
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James J. Mellen
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John W. Wadleigh
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Essex
EB. E. Wright
Daniel L. Mahoney
First Heavy Artillery
Albert Chick
City Guard
Fifth Infantry
Francis Meredith, Jr
Philippines
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St. Francis de Sales’s
Order of Hiberot
Edward Callahan
Bunker Hill Guards
Batallion
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Portland
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Globe
Father Pees
Soan
Art Bunker
Hill of ‘Catholic Foresters
Teddy
Charlestown Y. M. C
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West Point Hasters
Charles J. Stevens
Maynard
Acton
Albert Barnes
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John Stark
Manchester
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Bunk Dare
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J H Warren
Roxbury
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Holiday Starring
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McGovern
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Ramsey
Teaonatey
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Presho Griffin
Georgie Ward
Gloucester
Georgie
Ward
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China
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Sir Manthe
Washington St
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Pata
Nathan Grandovelty
Dorchester Street
James Rose
Harrison Avenue
William Ortoft
Roosevelt , Street
Charles
Carter
Canton Street
John Grosman
Antwerp Street
Sumner
Harlestown
Linn Place
Brighton
Sizer Street
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Everett Street
Dorchester
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