Ice blockade cripples Newfoundland coast shipping and trade
The northwest coast of Newfoundland has been icebound for six weeks, halting navigation and suspending commercial activity for about 80 000 people. The mail steamer Virginia Lake could not push through the floes and returned to St. John’s as Labrador f ishery vessels detour around the south coast and Belle Isle Strait.
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ST. John's
N. F
Labrador
Virginia Lake
St. John’s
Straits of
Belle Isie
Helen Keller Rides 28 Miles On Wheel In Record Pace
The sightless yet responsive Helen Keller rode 28 miles on a tandem with Fred St Onge yesterday. They traveled through Allston Brighton Newtons Robert Station Waltham Watertown and back to Boston in 2 hours 34 minutes, aided by Keller's sense of scent and training. Since May 1 she has logged 157 miles and favors fast pace and hill climbs.
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Helen Keller
Post
Fred St. Onge
Allston
Brighton
Newtons
Robert Station
Waltham
Watertown
Boston
Miss Keller
Harvard Overseers Approve Faculty Appointments and Elections
A special meeting of Harvard College’s board of overseers approved appointing Walter Safford Burke as assistant professor of mechanical engineering for five years from Sept 1, 1899. Asaph Hall becomes lecturer in celestial mechanics, also from Sept 1, 1899, with several instructors named across English anthropology archaeology climatology and mineralogy. Inspections and poll observers were named for 138, and a commencement voting committee was set with Folsom Peabody and Storrow. T Jefferson Coolidge joined the observatory visit committee.
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Harvard College
State Street
Walter Safford Burke
Asaph Hall
William Henry Schofield
Frank Russell
Irving Babbitt
Bregach
Robert de Courcy Ward
Charles Palache
Charles Walcott
Fred W. Dallinger
Charles L. de Normandie
Albert Hale
Robert Homans
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Cushing Medical Supply
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Gettysburg Battlefield
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Houghan & Dutton General Food Emporium
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Carton
Leopold Morse & CO
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Dreyfus Report
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