Girl boards liner at sea in remarkable rescue
Miss Edith Grimstead, visiting Galveston, Texas, was summoned home and booked on the Cunard liner Campania. She missed the Denver earlier departure but, with pilot boat assistance, was hoisted aboard the Campania as it left Ambrose Channel amid cheers from passengers.
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New York
Edith Grimstead
Grimstead
Galveston
Texas
Cable
Campania
Cunard Line
Denver
Mellory Line
Long Branch
Ambrose Channel
Prison Escape Suspects Narrowed as 1 Recaptured
In Brentwood New Hampshire 12 inmates fled the Rockingham County Jail Monday night by a hole in the ceiling and floor. One escapee was arrested at Portsmouth yesterday and returned to the jail. Authorities suspect a trusted inmate aided the group in the breakout.
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Brentwood
N. H
Rockingham County
TIZ For Tender Feet Promises Quick Foot Relief
A new medical foot bath tablet by Walter Luther Dodge & Co promises to draw out inflammation and soreness. It claims to cure corns calluses bunions frostbites chilblains ingrown nails and tired swollen feet. Priced at 25 cents a box and available through Chicago druggists or direct.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter Luther Dodge & Co
Chicago
War Time Post Excerpt Details Fort Sumter Siege
Fifty years ago today the Boston Post printed Charleston dispatches showing Confederate batteries around Fort Sumter and Morris Island. It notes 2000 troops watching, strict discipline, and a liquor ban, plus volunteers serving six months. The Mississippi State convention ratified the Confederate constitution by 78 to 7.
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Post
Charleston
S. C
Fort Sumter
Anderson
Morris Island
Gregg
Maxey Gregg
Charleston Harbor
New York
Mississippi
A Southerner of Fifty Years Ago in a Boston Post Letter
A Boston Post correspondent portrays a wealth cotton planter of fifty years past, describing his attire from broad brimmed hat to homespun suit and boots, his harsh discipline of enslaved people, and his leisure with fine wines cigars and hunting gear.
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Boston Post
Post
South
Methodist Conference Repeals Slavery Chapter in Philadelphia
The Philadelphia conference adopted a report repealing the new slavery chapter in the Discipline from the last Conference. Future Conferences are to decide their own regulations on the subject.
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Philadelphia
France and Britain Consider Recognizing the Confederacy
A Paris letter notes a Southern envoy secured a promise of recognition for the Confederacy. It says Louisiana has repudiated allegiance to the United States and France would press a claim to bring the state under the French flag if independence persisted.
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Paris
France
Louisiana
U. S
Great Britain
Spain
Lincoln
Confederacy
Court martial of Captain J Arm strong on Pensacola surrender
The court martial of Captain J Arm strong for surrendering the Pensacola navy yard proceeds with witnesses sent from the government to Florida.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston Post
J.armstrong
Pensacola Navy Yard
Florida
British trade views on Morrill tariff drift post 1861
The Times reports Londons view of the Morrill tariff. Birmingham notes a 3.8 million pound hardware trade loss and dismay in South Staffordshire. Newcastle doubts U S business on tariff terms, while Southern trade prospers. Wolverhampton fears darker iron trade prospects. The Confederacy aims to use Charleston Savannah Mobile and New Orleans as depots for English goods smuggled across their frontier.
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Boston Post
London Times
Great Britain
Times
Birmingham
South Staffordshire
Newcastle
United States
Wolverhampton
Charleston
Savannah
Mobile
New Orleans
Hemenway Girls Stage Biblical Drama Ruth at Parker Hall
A cast of over 20 from Miss Bertha Hazard's travel class at Hemenway House presents Ruth a sacred drama from the Old Testament. Directed by Miss Mary B. Ryan, the production at Parker Fraternity Hall 11 Appleton Street South King takes place tomorrow at 8 pm during Lent.
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Bertha Hazard
Hemenway House
Tyler Street
Ruth
Parker Fraternity Hall
Appleton Street
South Kind
Mary B. Ryan
Mary F. Sullivan
Mary A. Meade
Anne Murray
Minnie M. Esdaile
Margaret Gillis
Nellie F. Welch
Henriette Hienzen
Elizabeth J. Rose
Annie Perry
Mary G. Fitzpatrick
Rosa Heinzen
Florence Burke
Josephine Dellea
Rachel Dellea
Mary Fillebrown
Nellie Ferry
Lena Ginsberg
Katherine G
Government Adopts Colt .45 Auto Pistol
After four years of trials against foreign and domestic pistols, the Colt calibre .45 automatic pistol model 1911 has been adopted as the U S official weapon replacing the .38 revolver. An order of large size is on the way and manufacture will begin at once.
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Washington
United States
Arena prepares for 101 Ranch Wild West Show
After the final hockey game at the Arena last night workers quickly converted the ice to dirt for the 101 Ranch Real Wild West Show. The event comes to the Arena on April 8 with ticket sales beginning soon.
Cushing Calls to Docks Start Without Delay
Grafton D. Cushing urged at a Chamber of Commerce assembly to remove restrictions on a $3,000,000 East Boston docks expenditure and start work immediately. He said the rule requires a tenant before building, but a tenant cannot be found without a constructed premises.
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East
Boston
Grafton D. Cushing
Chamber of Commerce Assembly
Vision for East Boston docks prompts harbor reform
A Boston leader argues dock construction must pair with aggressive business recruitment. He cites New York capacity limits, Boston rail developments, and potential tunnels under the harbor to connect north and south systems. A live dock plan and a modern freight terminal in East Boston are urged to enable direct ship-to-car shipments and nationwide distribution.
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Boston
New York
Boston Harbor
Chamber
Chamber of Commerce Assembly
D. O. Ives
Transportation Committee
United States
Mellen
New Haven
Mr. Ives
Boston & Maine
Harbor
Boston, Revere Beach & Lynn
East
Wood Denies Misquoting Over Demeter Schedule K Claim
William M. Wood president of the American Woolen Company disavows a Los Angeles interview in which he was quoted predicting that a lower Schedule K would shut every woolen mill and derail a large Pacific coast mill project. He states he was misquoted and asks for wide correction.
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William M. Wood
American Woolen Company
San Francisco
Boston
Los Angeles
Pacific Coast
Wood
Record-Setting Cow Josephine to Retire at Nine
Columbia Missouri March 29 Josephine the cow famed for breaking milk production records will retire from public life at age nine She will be placed in a pasture with ordinary cows and ample water and lush grass to sustain her milk output and the State University farm revenues She has been seen by more people than any other cow in history and earlier months she beat all world records before failing to surpass the annual record for the full year
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Columbia
Josephine
State University
Loggerhead Lives Two Years In Ash Pit
Cape May New Jersey March 29 Pilot Albert G Bennett of this city captured a loggerhead turtle two years ago and dropped it into his ash pit five feet deep to keep it safe. He forgot it until a thorough pit cleaning revealed the reptile alive at the bottom.
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Cape May
Albert G. Bennett
Seamstress Bequeaths to Employers in Loving Testimony
Miss Margaret I. Connor a Stamford seamstress left 200 to her former employers Mrs. Thomas W Hall and her daughter Eleanor Hall of New Canaan. She also bequeathed 10 to each, from a 1500 savings kept after years of loyal service. Mrs Hall recalled Connor as faithful and devoted after reading the will.
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Stamford
Conn
Margaret I. Connor
Thomas W Hall
Eleanor Hall
New Canaan
Connor
Rained mud after a duststorm in Wathena
In Wathena Kansas on March 29 a light rain mixed with northwest dust to create mud. The high winded dust storm left outdoor clothing and surfaces splattered and paint stained as a near freezing temperature persisted.
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Wathena
Kas
Meyer Urges Navy Efficiency and Youth in Engineering
The Hon. George von L Meyer spoke at Harvard Union on reorganizing naval methods to boost efficiency. He noted current spending rose from 10 million to 135 million annually and urged bright young men with mechanical and electrical skills for a modern moving power house navy.
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George von L. Meyer
United States Navy
Harvard Union
Harvard
Meyer
Washington
Dispute Over Appointments in Charlestown District Court
Governor Foss and Mayor Fitzgerald clash over two appoint- ments. The mayor backs ex Senator Charles S Sullivan of Charles town for associate justice of the Charlestown District Court, a seat vacated when Joseph J Corbett became corpora tion counsel. Corbett's ally Sullivan faces Governor Foss's lukewarm stance.
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Foss
Fitzgerald
Charles S. Sullivan
Charlestown
Joseph J. Corbett
Sullivan
Corbett
Pape's Cold Compound No Quinine Claims Fast Grippe Relief
The advertisement asserts Pape's Cold Compound ends a severe cold or grippe in hours when taken every two hours for three doses. It emphasizes no quinine is used and promises rapid relief of head and chest congestion, feverishness, sneezing, sore throat, and rheumatic twinges with a 25 cent package.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pape
Taft and Italian King Exchange Telegrams on Rome Exposition
President Taft and King Victor Emmanuel exchanged telegrams publicized at the White House. Taft offered warm congratulations on the 50th anniversary of Italian unity and wished for closer ties in commerce literature and art between the United States and Italy. King Victor Emmanuel expressed gratitude for the felicitations.
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Washington
Taft
Victor Emmanuel
Italy
Rome
White House
United States of America
Congress of the
United States
Kingdom of
Turin
Victor
Harvard Man Wins U. S. Job
Francis W. Bird of New York was named appraiser of merchandise at the port of New York to succeed George W. Wanmaker. The appointment followed a White House conference with President Taft Senator Root Secretary MacVeagh and Collector William Loeb Jr. Bird, born 1881, Harvard graduate and lawyer, previously served as assistant US district attorney in the southern district of New York and as a special assistant attorney in fraud investigations.
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Washington
Francis W. Bird
New York
George W. Wanmaker
White House
Taft
Root
MacVeagh
William Loeb, Jr
Port of
Treasury Department
Lloyd C. Griscom
Bird
Harvard
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