Fire on Lime-Sailing Vessel Radiant Forces Crew Aboard
The schooner Radiant from Rockport Maine arrived with lime cargo now on fire. Crew forced from cabins to cold decks Thursday night and slept under canvas until yesterday morning. Vessel leaked Thursday evening in Ipswich Bay. tug moved Radiant to the city. Captain Guptin of schooner K E M Sawyer offered quarters during the blaze. The Rockland Telegraph previously burned similarly in harbor but took over a month to depart.
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Rediant
Rockport
W. G. Nash
Cummings
Ipswich Bay
Radiant
Guptin
KE. M. Sawyer
Sawyer
Rockland
Telegraph
Boy Dies or Will Die After Elevator Well Fall
Joseph A. Hopkins a 17 year old South Boston resident fell three stories into an open elevator shaft at 145 High Street while on an errand. He suffered multiple fractures dislocations and a broken nose and was unconscious when found at the bottom. He is employed as a teamster by C J Peters and was taken to the Emergency Hospital for treatment.
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Joseph A. Hopkins
F Street
Boston
High Street
Hopkins
C. J. Peters
Navy Denies 100000 Rifles Purchase Report
Washington Nov 20 Captain Sampson chief of ordnance says no order for 100000 rifles was placed. The navy did order 10000 rifles a year ago and the first consignment has reached New York recently.
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Washington
Sampson
Navy
New York
Resignation of Bristol fire alarm operator Gethings accepted
J L Gethings, longtime Bristol street fire alarm operator and inventor of the Gethings dry battery system, resigns after being asked to leave by Fire Commissioner Russell. Friends say he left due to dissatisfaction with leadership and anticipation of a replacement groomed for the post.
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J. L. Gethings
Bristol Street
Russell
Gethings
Flanders
Books for the Library Trustees Consider Landscape Collection Gift
At a public library meeting trustees learned of a gift of 300 to 400 landscape architecture volumes from Mr and Mrs James M Codman in memory of their sons Henry Sargeant and Philip Codman. The librarian will expand the collection with Russian and Polish works per Harvard Professor Weiner. A proposal to purchase the old Public Library building for 840000 awaits committee action at the next meeting on November 30.
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James M. Codman
Henry Sargeant
Philip Codman
Weiner
Harvard
Law School Memorial Drive for Dean Bennett Initiated
Undergraduates and alumni plan to raise 2500 for a memorial to Dean Edmund H Bennett. The graduate committee is led by Melvin O Adams George R Swasey and Hon J W Corcoran. Frederic H Eaton chairs the undergraduate group with Charles O age secretary. Fifteen men from each class sit on the committee. Boston University and Boston College set for their fourth annual Thanksgiving football game at the South End grounds. Tickets are 50 cents with an expected 8600 attendees. Mrs Alice Freeman Palmer ex president of Wellesley spoke on The University Education of Women Abroad after returning from Europe.
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Law School
Edmund H. Bennett
Melvin O. Adams
George R. Swasey
J. W. Corcoran
Frederic H. Eaton
Charles O
Boston University
Boston College
South Fond Grounds
Alice Freeman Palmer
Wellesley
Europe
Harvard Professors Visit Chicago After Yellowstone Commission
Professors Alexander Agassiz and E. N. Leavitt of Harvard University traveled through Chicago on their way east after joining a government commission in the Rocky Mountains. They revised a geological survey and gathered flora and fauna specimens from Yellowstone National Park.
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Chicago
Alexander Agassiz
E. N. Leavitt
Harvard University
Rocky Mountains
Yellowstone
Faxon Sampled Whiskey Case Moves to Trial
Henry H. Faxon tested five liquors in a Quincy store learned of Boston agent J Leonard Burbank. Faxon ordered one quart each of wine gin and rum worth 2.02 but Burbank did not deliver. Judge Humphrey postponed ruling until next Wednesday as to whether a sale occurred.
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J. Leonard Burbank
Boston
Massachusetts Plans Bond Auction Monday For 8 Million Gold Bonds
State Treasurer Shaw will open on Monday noon bids for nearly eight million dollars of 31 2 gold bonds of the Commonwealth. Bids must include a 2 percent certified check. until now no bids have been received and bidders often wait for market conditions.
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Shaw
Commonwealth
Massachusetts
Manchester martyrs commemoration at Clan-na-Gaels hall
South Boston prepares for the twenty-ninth anniversary events honoring Allen Larkin and O’Brien. The program starts at 12:01 pm Sunday and runs until evening with prominent order members from Philadelphia New York Chicago and the West arriving to deliver eulogies. Irish-American songs will mark the day.
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Boston
Manchester
Allen
Larkin
O’brien
Philadelphia
New York
Chicago
West
Will provisions reveal bequests to charities and lodge
The will of Esther A. Bartlett probated in Suffolk Probate Court leaves 500 dollars to the Associated Charities of Boston 500 dollars to the Winchester Home for Aged Women on Eden street and 500 dollars to the Minor Charitable Society of Ladies connected with the Church of the Second Society of Universalists. The will of Henry B. Bennett probated leaves 400 dollars to the Lafayette Lodge of Masons for the relief of members in need.
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Esther A. Bartlett
Suffolk
Associated Charities of
Boston
Winchester Home For
Eden Street
Society of Ladies
Church of the Second Society of Universalists
Henry B. Bennett
Lafayette Lodge of Masons
Multiple Claimants Surface in Blair Aliases Case
In South Boston a moonshiner known as George H. Blair or Abbott faces new claimants to his affections as a second woman visits his Charles Street Jail cell. Deputy marshals await a third claimant while government witness Thomas Dooner, arrested with Blair, is released on recognizance and testifies Blair employed him at $15 weekly with unpaid wages.
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George H. Blair
George A. Brown
George Lake
Abbott
Boston
Charles Street
Bair
Alice L. Abbott
Federal
Blair
Postoffice
Thomas Dooner
Captain Hoffman
South Boston
Dooner
Lyceum Theatre Managers Charged In Immoral Show Case
A warrant sworn by Agent Davis targets George Batcheller Lyceum Theatre manager for permitting an immoral exhibition. Maud Harvey and Charles Banks of Sam T. Jack's Bull Fighter company were arrested for carrying on an immoral show. Officers Searle and Tewhart took them to headquarters. bail posted. They face Municipal Court this morning. Batcheller is in New York but expected to attend.
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Agent Davis
Watch and Ward Society
George Batcheller
Lycceum Theatre
Maud Harvey
Charles Banks
Sam T. Jack
Bull Fighter Company
Lyceum
Searle
Tewhart
Batcheller
New York
X Ray Experiments On Blind Prove Retina Stimulus
In New York Dr William J Morton and Dr S Willington Miller report tests on a blind woman Miss Rodney and two blind piano tuners Armin Schotte and Gustav Kaufman. Prolonged Roentgen ray exposure yielded no clear gains for the three, though Morton and the tester colleagues saw through solid substances without a fluoroscope during self tests, suggesting retina stimulation by Roentgen rays.
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New York
William J. Morton
S. Willington Miller
Schotte
Pnaney
Kaufman
Morton
Woman Is Declared Insane After Ax Murder Arraignment
Ann Oatley was arraigned in the District Court on a charge of killing Mary Ann Brennan with an axe yesterday. Physicians examined her and found her insane, committing her to Taunton asylum.
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Fall River
Treason in Public Library Theme Revealed
The article notes Dr Brady will discuss Trea son in Boston Public Library at tomorrow evening event hosted by People’s Temple. The topic centers on treason and its historical context within a library setting and public lecture.
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Dr. Brady
People’s Temple
Boston Public Library
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