Manhattan Steamship Destroyed by Fire in Portland Harbor
The steam ship Manhattan of the Maine Steamship Company burned completely after docking from New York. Estimated loss is $250,000. Captain Pierce Lewis and several crew refused to leave. one fireman Kapley is missing and believed burned. The blaze forced tow into the stream and the hull was beached at South Portland after high tide. Insurance covers the losses.
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Portland
Manhattan
Maine Steamship Company
New York
Pierce Lewis
Kapley
South Portland
Ballot box stuffing disrupts Bridgton town meeting
At Bridgton Maine on March 7 a suspected ballot box stuffing incident halted the annual town meeting. Separate Republican and Democratic ballots were used. counters found several bundles of premarked Democratic ballots tied and squeezed into the box, leading to adjournment until Saturday.
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Bridgton
Quality laxative Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna
After thirty years of general usage Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna is widely accepted as the best family laxative. Manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co. it ensures uniformity and purity and cleanses the system gently. Price 50 cents per bottle.
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California
Maine Cities Elect Mayors in Municipal Elections
In 11 Maine cities Republicans won seven mayoralties controlling eight city governments. Democrats gained Waterville and South Portland, with Waterville keeping power and South Portland losing control after electing a Democrat mayor. Re-elections were high with seven incumbents winning. weather delayed turnout.
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Portland
Maine
Waterville
South Portland
A. C. Hagerthy
Ellsworth
Hancock County
Frank A. Morey
Lewiston
Elroy Mitchell
Saco
Aldermen Override Mayor Veto for Police Signal System
In Melrose on March 7 the Board of Aldermen voted 16 to 5 to approve a $5400 appropriation for installing a police signal system, despite Mayor Moore's veto.
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Melrose
Board of Aldermen
Moore
May Ask Taft to End Strike in Philadelphia
The city reported 176,198 workers in inspected positions, with 121,289 in unaffected establishments. Strike leaders claimed 125,000 obedients and 2,000 more to join soon, amid a peaceful day and improving transit conditions as Mayor Reyburn called the sympathetic strike over for the city and federal troops ordered to guard the mint were canceled.
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Labor Lyceum
Reyburn
State Federation Leader Considers Mass Strike Action
Rumeurs of a Philadelphia street car sympathy strike possibly becoming state wide were presented to Elmer E. Greenawalt head of the Pennsylvania State Federation of Labor in Harrisburg. Greenawalt, arriving from Lancaster for the federation’s annual meeting, said the convention with 800000 members may authorize a state wide strike but he would not commit. The meeting opens tomorrow and represents a majority of workers in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.
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Newcastle
Penn
Philadelphia
Elmer E. Greenawalt
Pennsylvania State Federation of Labor
Greenawalt
Lancaster
State Federation
Pittsburg
Troops Held Back From Philadelphia Strike
In Wilmington Delaware on March 7 the War Department cancelled a plan to move the Forty-fifth Company Coast Artillery Corps from Fort Dupont to guard government property in Philadelphia. A special train at Delaware City was prepared with steam up but not dispatched.
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Wilmington
Del
Fort Dupont
Philadelphia
War Department
Pennsylvania Railroad
Delaware City
Coast Artillery Corps
Army Reservation
Undertaker arraigned for delaying street car in Roxbury
John H. McCormack of 243 Blue Hill avenue Roxbury faced Roxbury District Court arraignment on a charge of willfully delaying a street car on Dudley street February 15. He was tried and convicted by Judge Williams.
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John H. McCormack
Blue Hill Avenue
Roxbury
Dudley Street
Eliot Square
Washington Street
Williams
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