Bananas flood markets as ships arrive at Boston docks
The port sees heavy banana arrivals with 108,260 bunches reported on several steamers from Port Antonio and Cuba. The Admiral Dewey brought 32,090 bunches and 300 cocoanuts, while the Bergenseren sails in with about 11,000 bunches. Shipbuilding firm Palmer & Son secures a contract for three coal barges. The Philadelphian and other vessels arrive or depart, with mixed cargoes and a cautionary note on fishing vessel outlook. George Vickery, a Nova Scotia native, stowed away on the Prince George and faced swift removal. The harbor handles lumber schooners and shifting captaincies as St. John steamers await new assignments. The Thom as W. Lawson battles weather, with Tug Storm King en route to tow.
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America
Lewis
Admiral Schley
Admiral Farragut
Foxhall
Turbin
Ethelwold
Port Antonio
Jam
Sama
Cuba
Porto Plata
Admiral Dewey
Long Wharf
Bergenseren
Lewis Wharf
Robert Palmer & Son
Noank
Conn
Philadelphia & Reading Railroad
London
Philadelphian
Dickenson
Hoosac Tunnel
Charlestown
Leyland
Liverpool
Furness
George Vickery
Nova Scotia
Land of the Free
Prince George
Yarmouth
George
T Wharf
Benjamin F. Phillips
Mary Cabral
Portland
Grinnell
Chester R. Lawrence
Parks
Addie Morrill
Rosario
Nantasket Roads
St. John
International Division
Eastern Steamship Company
Pike
St. Croix
Wilmington
Del
Calvin Austin
Eastern
Penobscot
Commercial Pier
Bangor
Thompson
State of
Maine
N. B
Charles W. Mitchell
Eastport
Lubec
Allan
Cumberland
Larchmont
New York
Joy Line
Thomas W. Lawson
Newport News
Nantucket Shoals
Storm King
Miniature Almanac Ischesical Acess June 29
June 29 sun rises 4 10 a m sets 7 25 p m length day 15 hours 15 minutes moon sets 10 31 p m high tide 2 15 a m 2 45 p m arriving steamers Philadelphian Dickinson London June 16 Admiral Dewey Israel Port Antoine Jam June 28 9 p m with fruit and 13 passengers anchored Quarantine 10 p m Prince Arthur Kinney Yarmouth N S Algonquin Hale Jacksonville Va Charles Town S C New York Gloucester Dizer Baltimore Norfolk Indian Thacher
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Dickinson
London
Israel
Port Antoine
Jam
Prince Arthur
Kinney
Yarmouth
N. S
Algonquin
Hale
Jacksonville
Charlestown
S C
New York
Gloucester
Dizer
Baltimore
Norfolk
Thacher
Lipton Advocates Rational Yachting Reform in Racing
New York June 28 Sir Thomas Lipton calls for radical change in international yacht racing favoring ocean going schooners over costly racing machines. He argues rational yachting would curb wasteful capital expenditure, widen participation, and test true seamanship, noting America's Cup winner could still cruise publicly.
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New York
Thomas Lipton
Thomas
Washington
Sir Thomas
Republicans Fear for Legislature in Labor Fight
The article outlines Republican fears that a growing labor movement and Democratic gains will shrink their Senate majority. It highlights Senator McInnis of Berkshire, a trades unionist, as a focal point of a bid to weaken labor legislation. It notes districts like Dorchester and West Roxbury shifting, and ponders a new Democratic leadership with Schofield of Ipswich as a potential compromise.
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McInnis
Berkshire
Senate
House
Boston
Dorchester
West Roxbury
Gore
Schofield
Ipswich
Wood Drives of Beverly Farms Declared Safe by Agreement
Beverly Farms residents celebrate a truce between automobile owners and carriage riders after the North Shore Automobile Club votes to keep cars off the wood drives. The public wooded routes remain for horse-drawn carriages, preserving the aristocratic thoroughfares for the carriage set.
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Beverly Farms
Beverly
North Shore Automobile Club
North Shore
Wood Drives
Onset Summer Residents Plan Independent Liquor Crackdown
Onset summer residents and Wareham town authorities clash over liquor suppression funding. Residents will hire two men as special police to patrol Onset, ignoring local police to investigate liquor law violations in Wareham’s Onset area.
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Onset
Wareham
Ing
R H Davis in Politics Nomination Rumors in Marion
Marion residents discuss Richard Harding Davis as a potential Republican nominee for representative from the sixth Plymouth district. Davis, a Marion resident, is popular and considered a strong candidate, though several others also seek the nomination and Davis has not yet been approached. The district leans Republican and a Davis bid would likely win if offered.
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Marion
Richard Harding Davis
Plymouth
Davis
Mr. Davis
Winston Churchill
New Hampshire
Booth Tarkington
Indiana
Madrid Train Disaster Leaves 980 Dead and 6 Survive
At Neferilla River Bilboa a train of two engines and 16 coaches overturned after couplings broke. Fourteen bodies and 50 injured were recovered with 980 dead reported and six of 300 passengers unhurt. River water was low and aid arrived from Bilboa with nurses doctors and soldiers as relief trains drew near.
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Madrid
Bilboa
Neferilla
Police arrest fewer drunks in citywide dragnet drop
Tables show arrests from 8 a m Saturday to 8 a m Sunday with a drop from prior weeks. Women arrested held at 14, but 138 men were nabbed as non residents totaled 34 of 37 men and one woman. Judge Emmons noted unusual quiet on his tour and the dragnet spread but failed to locate many drinkers.
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Emmons
S. Er Saan
Miss Elsie Tudor to Wed Paris Artist in Boston Society
Miss Elsie Tudor of Beacon Street Boston has announced her engagement to M. Tierresen of Paris who studied art in Paris with Tudor in the Latin Quarter two years ago. The couple plan to marry in early fall. Tudor and her sister Delia are noted for their dancing in Boston society and amateur vaudeville.
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Boston
Paris
William Tudor
Beacon Street
M. Tierresen
France
Miss Tudor
Delia
Vincent Club
Elsie
Cleaning Up Mansfield Liquor Sellers
Deputy Sheriff Henry A. Perry, in Mansfield, has pressed liquor law violations since June 18, bringing six defendants to District Court. Five were fined a total of $850, with one case placed on file on Sheriff Perry's suggestion.
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Mansfield
Henry A. Perry
Perry
Shipping News Listings and Towing Movements Update
A detailed June maritime report lists numerous vessels, barges, tugs, and schooners along the Atlantic seaboard from New York to Portland Maine. It records tugs like Joshua Lovett and Lykens, barges including Maywood and Blue Bird, ships such as Prince George and North Star, and ports from Portsmouth NH to Beverly. The narrative tracks arrivals, tows, and sailings at Highland Light, Chatham, and Nobska with times and destinations, highlighting Harbor movements and fleet movements in late June.
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Philadelphia
Chattahoochee
Lewis
New York
Old Dominion
Burton
Herman Winter
Crowell
Penobscot
Thompson
Bangor
Bay State
Oliver
Portland
Ransom BR. Fuller
Blair
Bath
City of Rockland
Pierce
Cheektowaga
Wentworth
Budget
Stroudsburg
Blue Bird
Newburyport
Joshua Lovett
Baker
Edith
Weehawken
Eckley
Nellie Carter
Morrison
Hantsport
N. S
Lyra
Evans
Flash
Tower
Hiattle Muriel
Wasson
St. John
N. B
Gold Hunter
Ladd
Lizzie Lee
Sadler
Maria I. Cavis
Blastow
Louisa
Francis
Chatts
John Cadwallader
Young
Rice
Sullivan
Smith Tuttle
Bryant
Damariscotta
Annie L. Wilder
Greenlaw
Rockport
Hiram
Murphy
Calais
S.fe
Davis
Harrington
Mt. Desert
Diadem
Armstrong
Rockland
Genullen
Mitchell
Maehias
James VP. Foster, Jr
Burt
Provincetown
E. S. Gates
Nor
Prince George
Yarmouth
Clara
Storm King
Nantucket Shoals
Plureka
Woodbury
Battle
Lehigh
Maywood
Beverly
Mass
Bluebird
Cto
Lucy May
Mathias
Sadie A. Kimball
Dover
N. H
Highland Light
Cape Cod
Concord
Havana
Darby
Portsmouth
Piedmont
Baltimore
Chatham
Lykens
Horatio Hall
Seaboard
Boston
Reading
North Star
Cuba
Nobska
Juniata
Gypsum King
New Lexington Hotel Opens Under Fanning in Boston
Colonel James D D Fanning owner of the Albany Hotel Denver has purchased the Hotel Reynolds at Boylston and Washington and renamed it the New Lexington. It will operate on the European plan as a first class, fireproof hotel in the city center with modern renovations and improved service.
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James D.D. Fanning
Albany
Denver
Col
Chicago
Reynolds
Boylston and
Washington Streets
New Lexington
Boston
Washington Street
Lremont Street
Colonel Fanning
Death of Salem actor and magician C F Fillebrown
Salem June 28 Charles F Fillebrown a well known actor and magician died today born December 2 1834 in Salem first appeared professionally in 1854 and performed across the United States and Canada He belonged to Post 34 6 A R and is survived by a widow and one son.
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Salem
Charles F. Fillebrown
United States
Canada
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