Prize Story Contest Rules and Story Teaser
The Boston Post outlines entry rules for a prize story contest inviting women and girls to mail guesses with a final chapter to win 100 dollars. It describes indorsed postmaster attestations, judge discretion, and publication of winners. a narrative section follows about a character Robbins and Miss Moale, with a cliffhanger ending scheduled to continue tomorrow.
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Ton Post
Barton Moat
Boston Post
Boston
Post
Boston Postoffice
Arranging the Net In Duval Cottage Raid
A lawyer named Reuben travels with detectives Filbern Bridger to a raid on the Duval cottage. Tensions rise as Bridger resents Hicks’s knowledge while Filbern wields political influence. Reuben visits Robbins’s boarding house and tutors Sabbath lessons, drawing notice from the Reng household.
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Duval
Atlantic Seaboard
Filbern
Bridger
North
Sutler
Duval Cottage
Reuben
Hicks
Robbins
Pyran
Reng
A Prize Slaver Off Cape Kell Intercept Mission
Our daily short story follows the Spitfire cruising off Cape Kell for weeks to intercept a suspected slave bark. An informant linked to Muscat helps the project while the crew, including the narrator, plans a ruse by disguising the ship as a shabby trading vessel to trap the slaver. They sight many native ships but the target remains elusive.
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Cape Kell
Muscat
Slaver captured after bold coastal chase off Bombay
The Spitfire disguises as merchantmen to trap a West African slave ship, the San Ildefonso, near the Persian Gulf route. A firing of blank rounds signals boarding by Lieut. Trigg and officers, 383 captives freed at Bombay for condemnation. the slaver’s Arab crew resists briefly before surrender.
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Red Sea
Bombay
Persian Gulf
Cape
Halket
Union
Trigg
Post Prize For Best Lady Bicycle Costume Design
The Post invites designs for a woman bicycle costume with sketches or photos. Entries must include name and address. jacket should be loose and well fitting, bloomers and gaiters, shirt waist, four in hand tie, belt or sweater, and regulation cap. Mrs. C Dorchester endorses a comfortable, unobtrusive outfit for lady riders.
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Boston
Bicycle Department
the Post
C. Dorchester
Ward 8 Committee Chooses Donovan Aide as Chair
The Ward 8 Democratic committee met at the ward HQ last night to organize and discuss control of the city committee presidency. Alder man M. M. Lomasney was elected chair man and Representative W. F. Donovan secretary. James Donovan was unanimously chosen president.
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Ward 8
Democratic Committee
M. M. Lomasney
W. F. Donovan
James Donovan
Massachusetts Solons Visit Hartford Deaf and Dumb School
The Massachusetts Legislature committee on humane institutions toured the American Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb in Hartford this morning. About fifteen members viewed the pupils work and were given a tour of the capitol afterward.
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Hartford
Conn
Committee On Humane Institutions
Massachusetts
American Asylum For the Deaf and Dumb
Capitol
Bicycling tour from Lowell to Concord and Acton described
A reader recounts a May day bicycle trip from Lowell through Chelmsford Carlisle North Acton Nagog Lake West Acton Maynard Concord and back via Bedford and Billerica. Highlights include Nagog Lake scenery Indian relics near Fort Pond and a visit to Acton Bicycle Club rooms with a moonlit end in Lowell.
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Chelmsford
Carlisle
North Acton
Nagog House
Nagog Lake
Massachusetts
West Acton
Fort Pond
Nagog
Acton
South Acton
Lowell
Maynard
Concord
Assabeth
Hawthorne
Bedford
Billerica
Boston
B. E
Maker
Press Cycling Club to Buy Prizes for Meet and Stage Race Plan
The tournament committee of the Press Cycling Club funds prizes by purchase rather than seeking donations from manufacturers. Open events include Class A and B races with various distances, plus novel features to be announced. Entry blanks will be available from chairman B. W. Isfort, 674 Massachusetts Avenue, for the fourth annual meet on June 17 at Waltham.
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The
Press Cycling Club
Waltham
B. W. Isfort
Massachusetts Avenue
Press Club
McGinley
Labor Day
Appleton Cycle Club
South Framingham
Newtons
Old Colony House
Old Sol
East Wind
Suffolk Bicycle Club
Ponkapoag
Henry Johnquist
Suffolks
Riverview
Pequot Cycle Club
Mattapan Cycle Club
Joseph Bailey
Cycling Shoes by Graves and Local Races Highlight May News
Article notes Mr. George B. Graves’ Detachable Clear Company shoes priced from $1 to $3.50 with LA W member discounts. It also covers Colonel Pope visiting General Miles, New York bicycle riders stopping runaway horses, Babylon officials banning Sunday riding, and a long list of entrants for a twelve mile Linscott road race in Lawrence with many riders from multiple towns.
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George B. Graves
Graves
Washington Street
Albert E. Pope
Nelson A. Miles
Governor's Island
N. Y
Pope
Miles
New York
Babylon
Long Island
Mr. Oakley
Oscar L. Balchen
Consul Potter
Henry J. Quinn
Amesbury
Newburyport
L. A. W. Racing Board
Duke William of Corcoran
Newton
Waiters Bicycle Club at Young's Hotel Thrives on Off Days
A small but growing bicycle club forms among Young's Hotel waiters and bell-boys. Members ride to work from the South End and ride on alternating afternoons and Sundays. Clarence Harrington founded it and serves as president, with George Simpkins and Lee noted as strong riders.
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Young’s Hotel
South End
Clarence. Harrington
George Simpkins
Lee
Samuel Burnand
Mr. Krupp
H. H. Jones
W. H. Parker
F. H. Barnett
E. J. Winston
Northeast
Boston Riversides
Chalsea Riversides
Cambridgeport Riversides
Captain Mitchell Dies While Learning Bicycle in Saratoga
Captain William Mitchell United States Army retired aged about sixty died of apoplexy at 9 50 this morning in the Saratoga Casino where he was attempting to learn to ride a bicycle. He was described as corpulent and the death occurred during a visit to Saratoga N Y on May 21.
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Saratoga
N. Y
William Mitchell
United States Army
Saratoga Casino
Columbia Sails for Kiel Ahead of New York
The cruiser Columbia under Captain George W. Sumner sailed from Brooklyn for Kiel yesterday and may push to reach Southampton before the New York that sails Saturday.
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Brooklyn
Columbia
George W. Sumner
Kiel
Southampton
New York
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Albert P. Southwick
Catherwood
Brown
Ely
No. 791
Duvals
Fred Duval
Miss Moale
Our Daily Original
Mary Kyle Dallas
Lieutenant Trigg
Alice E. Ives
Edith Sessions Tupper
Viola Roseboro
J. H. Walworth
Maine
California
Europe
N. E
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Detachable Cleus Co
Jon Washington
Temple Place
School Street
Avon Street
Avon ST
Fran ST
City Hall
Milk Street
Franklin
Summer
Avon
Mayor Curtis
Mrs. C
Donovan
Wrath
Hodges Fiber Carpet CO
Aery
Essex St. Cor. Chauncy, Boston
Mase
Curtis
Jordan, Marsh & CO
Bromfield Street
Ines
Norch
Edly
Concord and
Lowell Wheelman
South Chelmsford
Lawrence
Linscott
Valentine Chisholm
Ernest
Toste
KB. W. Vierce
Malden
John R. Jones
J. Fred Shupson
West Somerville
William M. Wettigrew
Press C
Alden B. Taplin
Thomas A. Barnaby
Orient
Emery Soule
Michael McCarthy
Earle Whitney
Revere
Harry Caldwell
Manchester
N. H
Edward D. Tea
Charles F. Glover
Haverhill
Lawrence Lafayette
J. A. Roberts
Horace Jepson
Irving Atwood
M. J. Murphy
J. W. Manning
Andover
A. W. Archibald
Dorchester
Louis McCarthy
Roslindale
T. McCarthy
Adolph Blazer
Joseph Walsh
Thomas Cookson
Methuen
F. L. Southwick
West Peabody
I. W. Copeland
South Lynnfield
W. B. Law
Lynnfield
J. T. Ingraham
West Weaberly
William N. Marshall
Beverly
John Gibney
Edwin Ureh
Rockingham B. C
Phen Snow
J.P. Bate
BR. Sherer
Iss
Frank J. Gilman
Lynn
Vaeine W. Tike
Roxbury
George L. Dourette
Stoneham
Arthur F. Rhodes
Frank FE. Regan
Clarence KR. Barnard
Harry Price
W. H. M. Greenhill
William Dawson
Elmer I
Stevenson
National C. C
George M. Richardson
National
C. C
Arthur Hammond
Fred Poole
West Medford
W. Brown
J. A. Dunham
Emil Hansen
Thomas B. Mathews
Balkstone C. C
Frank E. Wing
Walter A. Chase
Alfred F. Daw
A. Ts. Bianchi
Malden C. C
John Bianchi
Malden CL
Warren Henley
Waiters’ Bicycle Club
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