Fire guts East Boston lodging house. four escape on perilous fall
A fire at 155 157 Meridian Street East Boston gutted a lodging house run by Mrs Josephine White. George Rollis John Day jumped from a third story window 8 feet to ground injuring Day badly. Two year old Nicholas Galdam fractured his nose cut his eye and burned his hands. Charles Moran rescued by firemen from an upper story. Fire began in A Saperstein shoe store on the first floor and spread rapidly.
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Meridian Street
Boston
George Rollis
John Day
Day
Relief Hospital
Nicholas Galdam
Hartlet
Charles Moran
A. Saperstein
Josephine White
Carnegie 400000 Gift Sparks City Hall Clash
Alderman Linehan attacked Andrew Carnegie’s 400000 offer to Boston for a trade school fund saying the money was blood money earned by the labor of poor US workers in steel. The Board of Aldermen, by 11 to 1, voted to accept the gift.
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Frank J. Linehan
South Boston
Board of Aldermen
Andrew Carnegie
Boston
Benjamin Franklin
Linehan
Mr. Carnegie
United States
Franklin
Crew Near Drowning After Lumber Schooner Sinks in Boston Harbor
The crew of the Mentor from Bangor narrowly escaped drowning when the lumber laden schooner filled with water off South Boston. Captain Frank Barter and brothers Howard and Cleveland Barter awoke to rising water, getting to deck as the vessel listed and sank, with the cabin ruined and all gear lost.
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Frank Barter
Howard Barter
Cleveland Barter
Mentor
Bangor
South
Boston
Goodnow
Causeway Street
Barter
Metropolitan Coal Company
Barters
Captain Barter
Cleveland Sbarter
Sanfords Ginger Brings Comfort Amid Poor Digestion
The advert speaks of Sanfords Ginger as a grateful comforting remedy for weak digestion and poor circulations, presenting it as a soothing tonic.
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Sanford
Roosevelt Here Today in Boston Cambridge Schedule
President Roosevelt arrives at Back Bay station Boston and goes to Bishop Lawrence Cambridge for a Harvard Alumni event sequence. The day includes a breakfast with Charles W Eliot and Curtis Guild Jr and a class tour of Harvard followed by meals and a commencement procession.
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Roosevelt
Back Bay
Boston
Bishop Lawrence
Cambridge
Harvard Alumni Association
Charles W. Eliot
Curtis Guild, Jr
Oakley Country Club
Watertown
Country Club
Somerset
The
Lancers
Hollis Hall
Yard
Sanders Theatre
Memorial Hall
Harvard Union
Marshals
University Hall
Memorial
Albert Bushnell Hart
Craigie Street
Sagamore Hill
Oyster Bay
L. I
Roosevelt to visit Harvard closing exercises in Cambridge
President Roosevelt will arrive at 7 30 in Cambridge and participate in Harvard's closing exercises as a youthful Old Grad. He will roam Cambridge with his class and greet notable figures, guest of Bishop Lawrence, free to make noise and share in the celebration.
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Roosevelt
Cambridge
Harvard
United States
John the Orangeman
Bishop Lawrence
Old Yard
Plasterer Suffered Severe Burns Grasping Live Wire
Everett resident Patrick Grandfield a 45 year old plasterer at 87 West Third Street was badly burned on his right hand arm and side after grabbing a live electric wire lying across the sidewalk.
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Everett
Patrick Grandfield
West Third Street
Death at Graduation Htal St Francis de Sales School Charlestown
Annie Elizabeth McCabe a 15 year old student at St Francis de Sales Parochial School Charlestown collapsed during graduation exercises and died of heart disease. She was seated with the graduates and pale handling hush fell over the 900 in attendance. Rev M J Supple and sisters reacted with shock as Dr Kempton declared the cause.
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Annie Elizabeth McCabe
St. Francis de Sales Parochial School
Charlestown
Miss McCabe
Kempton
Local Boston Area Forecast
Fair and cool conditions expected for Tuesday and Wednesday in Boston and nearby areas. Light winds and dry weather prevail with no precipitation noted. Highs near cool afternoon ranges and chilly nights likely.
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Boston and Vicinity
Horsford's Acid Phosphate Remedy Claims Relief
An 19th century advertisement promotes Horsford's Acid Phosphate as a tonic for indigestion nervous dyspepsia headache and low mood. The text markets the product as nature's remedy and encourages readers to try it for persistent digestive and mood issues.
Riots in Lodz as troops clash with crowds
Rioting crowds barricade streets in Lodz with red flags as police and Cossacks clash, wounding multiple people. A central market patrol fires on demonstrators. a boy is killed and several workers stabbed or beaten. Police report arrests and continued government crackdown.
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Warsaw
Ogrodowa
Krochmalna
Wronia
Zelazna Street
Subways Caved In As Boston Storm Rages
A heavy rain and wind battered Boston flooding cellars and collapsing a section of the new subway at Washington and West streets. Eight feet of roadway dropped into an 85 foot chasm injuring a gas man and trapping workers. Weather recorded heavy rainfall and strong winds across New England.
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Boston
Washington and
West Streets
West Street
Weather Bureau
New England
Comstock Locked Up in the Tombs After Bond Larceny Charge
Colonel Henry W. Comstock aged 73 was arrested in North Cambridge on charges of stealing two $1000 bonds from Mrs. Cora Frothingham. He had earlier claimed a major railroad securities robbery on a Fall River boat. He was taken to the Tombs to await bail.
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Henry W. Comstock
Fall River
New York
Cora A. Frothingham
Atlantic
Lake View Avenue
North
Cambridge
United States
McGarr
Watts
Wyman
Station 1
Comstock
Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad
New York Central & Lake Shore
New York Central & Hudson River Railroad
Cuticura Skin Cure touted for rashes and itching
An advertisement claims summer rashes hives prickly heat and baby rashes are instantly relieved by a warm bath with Cuticura Soap and a single application of Cuticura Ointment, calling it the great Skin Cure.
Burrows Not To Be Deported
United States Treasury Department decides that Peter Burrows an English textile expert may stay in the United States. He had been ordered deported by Immigration Commissioner Billings but is found to be in the country to introduce a new industry and thus not subject to the contract labor law. Burrows first arrived in Boston April 21 was arrested and sent back to England. He later returned to the United States and was taken into custody again at Dover New Hampshire.
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United States
Treasury Department
Peter Burrows
Billings
Burrows
Boston
England
America
Dover
N. H
Theatre Tickets Free at Giles's Cafe This Week
Free daily seats offered to three patrons at Giles's Cafe 74 Summer Street Entrance at The Traveler clock. Ladies and gentlemen invited to claim one of the three seats each day.
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Giles’s
Summer Street
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Fountain OF Youth
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Ward 8
Whelton
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President Roosevelt
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