Six Giant Balloons Vie For National Championship Race
The Aero Club of America hosts an Indianapolis long distance balloon race starting next Saturday with six balloons and a dozen pilots. Balloonists aim to cross the Great Lakes and navigate Canadian wilderness, using gas conserving night flights and ballast drops while seeking records and a silver trophy for the furthest flight.
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United States
Indianapolis
Earth
America
Atlantic Ocean
Great Lakes
Lakes
Aero Club of America
A. Holland Forbes
New York
The
Aid
Clifford B. Harmon
A. H. Morgan
Cleveland
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J. H. Wade, Jr
Carl G. Fisher
G. L. Bumbaugh
Indiana
A. B. Lambert
St. Louis
H. E. Honeywell
John Berry
Chicago
Paul J. McCullough
University City
Charles Walsh
Thomas S. Baldwin
Hoosier
Charles J. Glidden
Boston
J. Parke Channing
Charles Jerome Edwards
Alan R. Hawley
Augustus Post
Jefferson de Mont Thompson
Minerva
Mercury
Market Review and Outlook for Steel and Stocks
The market shows renewed bullishness over the past six days with Steel common up sharply. Improved conditions in steel, iron, cotton, and other trades feed optimism that Steel Corporation earnings will rise in early 1910 and that Gary plant expansion will ease future construction demand, boosting dividends and capacity.
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Steel Corporation
Gary
The
Indiana
Calendar for Today Dividends and Rights Expirations
Dividends payable include Amalgamated Copper 1 to 2 percent NL Y and Phil and Nort 6 percent. Quaker Oats paid 11⁄2 percent. Ex dividend Diamond Match. Books close American Railways. Rights expire N E Tel and Tel.
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Amalgamated Copper
NL Y.,. Phil. & Nort
Quaker Oats Ptd
Policeman Thomas Shea Accused After Cambridge Incident
Thomas Shea a veteran patrolman from Station 1 Harvard Square Cambridge was found intoxicated on Cambridge Common at 8 am by Captain James Murray. He failed to respond at roll call, was suspended, and faces charges to be heard by Mayor Brooks likely Friday.
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Thomas Shea
Harvard Square
Cambridge
Cambridge Common
James Murray
Shea
Murray
Brooks
Royal Avenue
Miss O'Reilly to Speak at Buffalo
Miss Mary Boyle O'Reilly of the children's institutions department is to address the charities and correction conference at Buffalo early in June. She will discuss city methods for child care and focus on the placing out system which provides good homes and teaches trades. The department stays in close touch with boys and girls placed in homes.
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Mary Boyle O'Reilly
Children’s Institutions Department
Charities and Correction
Buffalo
Funeral of Edwin A. White in Charlestown church
Funeral services for Edwin A. White, longtime Boston business man and Sunday School teacher at Trinity M. E. Church Charlestown, were held yesterday afternoon with Rev. A. M. Osgood officiating.
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Edwin A. White
Boston
Trinity M. BE
Charlestown
A. M. Osgood
J Arthur Fish Found Dead In Hotel Pelham Room
Worcester report states J Arthur Fish living at Hotel Pelham for 18 months was found dead in his room shortly before 5 pm by two chambermaids. He had been drinking with two acquaintances. police say he fell and fractured his skull after a stair fall during a parade.
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Worcester
J. Arthur Fish
Last of Dedham Fairbanks Dies at 81 in Homestead
Miss Rebecca Fairbanks, last of the family in the old Dedham homestead, died this morning at the residence of Thomas F. P. McManus where she had lived recently. She was 81, daughter of Joshua Fairbanks and Clarissa Bird.
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Dedham
Rebecca Fairbanks
Fairbanks
Thomas FP. McManus
Joshua Faitanks
Clarissa Bird
Boston youth’s death probed as possible crime
Belfast Maine May 30 City Marshal Hammond believes the body of George W Banks 21 son of Boston attorney Fred H Banks was not a suicide He suspects foul play and will seek to arrest those responsible after Banks body was found decomposed in the Otis woods on the city outskirts Sunday night
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Belfast
Hammond
George W. Banks
Fred H. Banks
Boston
Otis Woods
Leaves for Isle of Pines to promote land ventures
P J Evans, manager of the Isle of Pines Company New England office, departed New York aboard the Ward Ine steamer Saratoga for the Isle of Pines Cuba. He represents New England tract owners and settlers who bought land in the McKinley Colonies and makes his third annual trip to stay in touch with affairs on both ends of the line.
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P. J. Evans
New England
Isle of Pines Company
New York
Saratoga
Isle of Pines
Cuba
Mr. Evans
McKinley
Mr. Fivans
Million Dollar Coin Move in Five Hours
A million silver dollars, weighing 65 thousand pounds, were moved from the U S sub treasury in the Federal building to the National Shawmut Bank vaults in five hours. Sixty porters and staff, guarded by six policemen, relayed the coins from 9 am to 2 pm, with the Shawmut Bank covering 1200 dollars for the transfer and treating the workers to dinner at Young's Hotel.
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United States Sub-Treasury Office
Federal
National Shawmut Bank
Shawmut Bank
Young's Hotel
Federal Building
Post Office
Lane
Sullivan
Ford
Johnquist
Connelly
Station 2
Devonshire Street
Priest Urges Reducing Grave Flowers on Memorial Day
The Rev. John D. Tierney of St. Catharine’s Church Hayes Square Charlestown told his 9:30 mass yesterday that Memorial Day should honor the sick and distressed, not spend money on flowers. He questioned the Grand Army tradition, saying flowers fade and the money is wasted.
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John D. Tierney
St. Catherine’'s Church
Hayes Square
Charlestown
Grand Army
Tierney
Man Dies After 18 Foot Fall At Roxbury Home
Charles Whitten aged 46 died after falling 18 feet while attempting to fasten window shutters on the second floor at 628 Shawmut avenue Roxbury yesterday. He died at City Hospital three hours later. His wife Martha Whitten and sister in law Rebecca Rines were arrested for drunkenness at the scene.
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Roxbury
Charles Whitten
City Hospital
Martha Whitten
Rebecca Rines
Woman Fractures Skull Jumping From Trolley
Westwood, May 30. Mrs Albert B Wischenbach, 2 Brookdale avenue, was hurt when she jumped from a trolley car after a fuse blew. She struck her head on the pavement and sustained a fractured skull but is expected to recover.
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Westwood
Albert B. Wischenbach
Brookdale Avenue
Highland Ave Cars Halt for Dedication at Central Hill
Highland avenue traffic will stop between Walnut and Putnam streets in Somerville during the Soldiers' monument dedication at Central Hill starting 10 45 a m and lasting about three hours. Service remains between Davis Square and Putnam street and between Walnut and Sullivan square, with passengers walking between the halted segments. Transfer checks will be issued to passengers who want them.
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Highland Avenue
Somerville
Walnut
Putnam Streets
Central Hill
Lowell presidency at Harvard reshapes freshman life
Harvard under President Lowell aims to connect freshmen with faculty and upperclassmen, reserve dorms for new students, and boost class unity. The plan may ease three year degree worries by adjusting course loads and removing excess fees for extra classes.
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Lowell
University
Eliot
Cambridge
Harvard
College Yard
Miss Helen Taft Arrives at White House for Visit
Miss Helen Taft daughter of the President arrived at the White House for a weeklong visit. Luncheon at the Chevy Chase Club is planned next Thursday hosted by her close friend Miss Frances Webster daughter of Miss Taft's godmother, the wife of Major Webster US Army.
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Washington
Helen Taft
White House
Chevy Chase Club
Frances Webster
Taft
Major Webster
Pictures of Taft's Father Found in Capitol Storage
Washington May 30 Two portraits said to be valuable of President Taft's father were found buried in the Capitol art storage rooms. The portraits were painted by Charles Thorpe about 35 years ago when Judge Alonzo Taft father of William Howard Taft, was Secretary of War.
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Washington
Taft
Capitol
Charles Thorpe
Alonzo Taft
William HL Taft
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