High Gales Cost Dozens of Sailors in Atlantic Peril
A violent northwest gale over the north Atlantic has wrecked or damaged nearly a score of ships in the last 48 hours. The worst loss involved the Norwegian full rigged ship Antigua of Christiania, beached at Martin River near the Gulf of Saint Lawrence. Eighteen crew members were aboard. fifteen were saved after a stormy voyage, while Antigua was driven ashore and totally wrecked.
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North Atlantic
Atigua
Christiania
Martin River
Gulf of St. Lawe
Rio Janeiro
Antigua
Bath
Charles H. Wolston
Port
Eir
Norcross
Gresham
Acusht
Androscoggin
Acushnet
Monomoyoint
Clifton
New Bedford
Bangor
Bass River
Coskataew
Pollochip
Itaska
Porand
Boston
Ree
Ima
St. John
Anita
Parrsboro
Shamrock
Port Apique
Souris
Helpss
Frank Raymond
Ymouth
Alexander Evenson
Albert Thomas
Anomet
Polck Rip
John J. Hanson
Humacoa
Ashnet
Vineyard Haven
He Hanson
Women Lead Chase After Escaped Prisoners in East Cambridge
A mob of police and citizens, led by three Cambridge women, chased two young escapees from the East Cambridge jail as they bolted from Chief Sumner Greene. The pair, both under 20, broke from a blacksmith shop arrest and vanished near Thorn dike street amid gunfire and frantic pursuit.
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East Cambridge
Catherine Downey
Josephine Butler
May Smith
Cambridge
John H. Murphy
Frank J. Long
Sumner Greene
Stonesiam
New England Sanitarium
Stoneham
Chief Greene
Thorndike Street
Infant mortality report cites 4 million baby deaths
Dr. Helen C. Putnam at a Chicago conference says in ten years about two million babies born alive died in the first year and as many more died before birth. She notes infant death rate ranking 22nd among 31 nations and cites untrained midwives and physicians as major causes.
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Chicago
Helen C. Putnam
Providence
R. I
American Association For Study and Prevention
Putnam
David Starr Jordan
Leland Stanford University
Raymond Pearl
Maine
C. B. Davenport
Carnegie Station For
Manchester Unity Odd Fellows Meet in Session
Doctors of the Grand Lodge of the United States Independent Order of Odd Fellows meet in Manchester. Grand Master James W. Gregg of Everett Massachusetts attends with delegates from Philadelphia New Bedford Norwhich Lawrence Rhode Island and a petition to form a separate Rhode Island district. Affiliation of the Canadian district was postponed to the Philadelphia meeting on June 1 1912.
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Manchester Unity
ODD Fellows
Grand Lodge of the
United States
Independent Order of Odd Fellows
James W. Gregg
Everett
Mass
Philadelphia
New Bedford
Norwich
Grand Lodge
Harvard Professor Delivers First Sorbonne Lecture
Paris officials welcomed Professor William Davis of Harvard as he opened the exchange professorship with the Sorbonne. The inaugural lecture on physical geography followed years of talks sparked by James Hazen Hyde of New York.
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Harvard
Paris
Harvard University
The
Sorbonne
James Hazen Hyde
New York
William Davis
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