Flowers and Flags for Poor on July 4
The Floral Emblem Society marks its 12th Independence Day plant and flag distribution on July 4 from 10 30 to 11 30 a m on Boston Common near the Soldiers monument Mayor Fitzgerald supported with a 200 appropriation doubling prior years The program is led by Ellen A Richardson and four Boston women with long civic ties Tickets will be given to poorer Boston children via police and teachers at playgrounds Donations are accepted at North and South stations care of Armstrong Transfer Company.
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Floral Emblem Society
Boston Common
Soldiers’ Monument
Fitzgerald
Ellen A. Richardson
Winthrop
John H. Googins
Alice Parker Lesser
Nellie McLean Atwood
Sue Stuart Wadsworth
Boston
Armstrong Transfer Company
My Little Dog Dot and the Stern Uncle Walt
Poem in 1910 by Walt Mason about a dog named Dot who causes trouble in the garden yet earns affection. The speaker scolds the dog with harsh lines but receives loving loyalty and a tender reassessment from the pet.
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Dot
Walt Mason
George Matthew Adems
Autos injure man and boy in Boston accidents
An elderly man Henry H. Myles aged 58 and a boy Leo Shea aged 13 were injured in separate auto accidents in Boston. Shea was struck on Tremont street by a sight seeing car driven by Paul Dielanius. a wheel ran over his foot, he was hospitalized. Myles was struck at Massachusetts Avenue and Dundee street by a car owned by John F B Phinney of Lynn and taken to City Hospital with bruises and scratches. Shea lives at 108 Phillips street Roxbury and Myles at 174 Squantum street Atlantic.
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Boston
Henry H. Myles
Massachusetts Avenue
Dundee Street
Leo Shea
Tremont Street
Shea
Paul Dielanius
City Hospital
Phillips Street
Roxbury
Myles
Squantum Street
Atlantic
John FB. Phinney
Hamilton Street
Lynn
Painter Daniel Flynn Dies After Jamaica Plain Stage Collapse
A stage collapse in Jamaica Plain yesterday caused the death of Daniel Flynn a 38 year old house painter who was working at the scene and was unmarried.
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Jamaica Plain
Daniel Flynn
Flynn
Endowment Fund Raised at University of Vermont
Burlington June 29 pledges totaling 400000 dollars for the university endowment fund were secured, meeting the Rockefeller fund match of 100000 dollars. Governor G H Prouty received the LL D degree at commencement.
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Burlington
University of Vermont
Rockefeller
G. H. Prouty
Marriage Of N. Fr. P. Nichols And Anna Grace Burke
The Boston American journalist N. Fr. P. Nichols wed Miss Anna Grace Burke of Roxbury in a ceremony led by Rev. Charles Hoff. A reception followed at the Burke home on Waite Street. Best man Malcolm B. Nichols and bridesmaid Ella Burke attended. They depart for the West and will reside at 30 Underhill Street Winthrop after August 1.
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N. Fr. P. Nichols
Boston American
Anna Grace Burke
Roxbury
Charles Hoff
John Burke
Waite Street
Malcolm &. Nichols
Ella Burke
Two Large Schooners Burned in Richmond Fire
In Richmond Maine this afternoon two four masted schooners named Henry L. Peckham and Young Brothers were destroyed along with two ice houses of the American Ice Company. The ice loss is about 50 000 tons and valued around 60 000 dollars while the schooners losses total about 65 000 dollars.
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Richmond
American Ice Company
Henry L. Peckham and
Young Brothers
Ice House Fire Feels Across Kennebec River Area
A Kennebec river fire sparked by a passing locomotive destroyed ice houses at the American Ice Company and set two vessels, the Young Brothers and Henry L Peckhan, ablaze at the wharf. Firemen had no apparatus nearby, and a stiff wind fanned the flames, threatening farm buildings as 100 farmers joined efforts to save nearby homes.
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Kennebec
Maine Central Railroad
American Ice Company
Young Brothers
Virginia
Belfast
Maine
Boston
Henry L. Peckhan
Fight
Newport
R. I
Reunion of 45th Massachusetts Regiment Held at Atlantic House
The 48th reunion of the 45th Massachusetts Regiment in Nantasket gathered 75 members and guests. Officers elected include Moses A. Packard president and Samuel B. Sharpless who proposed holding the regiment's semi centennial on Sept 26, 1912 at Readville. Of 981 men who served, 500 remain living as of this gathering. list of deceased since 1909 provided by company.
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Nantasket
Massachusetts Regiment
Atlantic House
Moses A. Packard
Brockton
Eewin A. Mason
Franklin
Charles 12. Tribou
John DD. Whitcomb
Medford
Edmund B. Johnson
Nahant
Albert A. Chittenden
Dorchester
William &B. Stacey
William J. Peart
Jeffery T. Stanley
John H. Emerson
Jerome S. Niles
Charles YT. Carret
William I’. Leighton
George W. Mclaughlin
George T. Ladd
Edward A. Blanchard
John E. Brackett
Stephen A. Newcomb
Marcellus Nixon
James RB. Hudson
Joseph K. Melcher
Thomas I. Holmes
Eewin P. Longley
Offers to Pay More Duties in Major Tariff Settlement
Franklin Mac Veagh arrives in New York for a conference on an epochal customs matter. An importer, a leading tariff payer, offers to settle for undervaluations with authorities given access to books. The offer, reportedly near 100000 dollars, remains undisclosed by officials.
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New York
Franklin MacVeagh
Secretary of the Treasury
Loeb
Legal Department
Federal Building
Custom House
Naval academy exam results show limited passes
Washington June 29 reports from the examining board indicate only 104 of 280 candidates passed the mental examination for naval academy admission. Of the 176 failures, seven were from the 19 nominated by the President.
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Washington
Naval Academy
Navy Department
Butler Drowns After Cramps In Newport Beach
John Cole a butler at Easton’s Beach Newport Rhode Island was seized by cramps while swimming early morning and drowned before aid arrived. He was identified as Augustus Jay of Newport.
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Newport, R. I
Easton’s Beach
John Cole
Cole
Augustus Jay
New Yo Wport
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Butler
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Keyes Street
Board of Street Commissioners of
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Hamburg
Washington & West Sts
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South Boston
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Wal Lace
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