Boston to be balloon port and center of air travel
Optimistic notes at Young's Hotel as Leo Stevens envisions transatlantic balloon flights in three days with Boston as the aerial hub. The New England Aero Club is incorporated with 37 charter members and a slate of officers and directors including A Lawrence Rotch and Charles J. Glidden.
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Leo Stevens
New England Aero Club
Young's
Atlantic
Boston
Stevens
Robert Henderson
U.S
Missouri
A. Lawrence Rotch
Charles J. Glidden
Frank EB. Stanley
Alfred R. Shrigley
Harry G. Pollard
First Fires
Henry Howrd
George E. McQuesten
T. E. Brynes
Winfield
Organization selects Leo Stevens as aeronautical engineer
The organization announced Leo Stevens as the aeronautical engineer for its upcoming project. Stevens will lead design work and coordinate development with the engineering team.
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Leo Stevens
Mayflower Descendants Honor Compact Anniversary at Vendome
The 287th anniversary of the Mayflower Compact was observed by the Society of Mayflower Descendants at the Hotel Vendome with a reception from 6:30 to 7 and banquet at 7 followed by speeches. Morton Dexter announced a potential purchase of the Manor house in Scrooby for 7500 dollars with winter action planned. Speakers included Solon W. Stevens Dean George Hodges and George B. Bowman among the attendees.
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Society of Mayflower Descendants
Hotel Vendome
P. French
Morton Dexter
Scrooby
Eng
Solon W. Stevens
Lowell
Dean George Hodges
D. D
Cambridge
George B. Bowman
Society
Myles Standish
Marcus Morton
H. H. Soule
Mary E. Wood
George D. Puss
Banks Sandford
Federal sale receipts fall sharply over two days
Assistant United States Treasurer Edwin A. Curtis reported a dramatic drop in receipts for government certificates of indebtedness. On the second day only 15,900 was received, with national banks subscribing 5,000 and individuals 10,900, compared with the first day total of 303,050 that included 296,800 from banks and 6,250 from individuals.
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United States
Edwin A. Curtis
Father Driscoll to lecture on science philosophy
The Rev John T Driscoll of New York will address St Pauls Catholic Club at Newman House Harvard on Monday evening. The subject is Science and Science Philosophy with emphasis on science in physical and religious life.
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John T. Driscoll
New York
St. Paul's Catholic Club
Harvard University
Newman House
Mt. Auburn Street
Fr. Driscoll
Duff Storm Cloud Due at Convention
Tonight's municipal convention at Faneuil Hall stirs strong speculation with Mrs Julia E Duff favored by Senator Frank J Linehan while ex congressman William S McNary and Joseph A Conry loom as potential nominators for Kenny. Rumors swirl about mayoral and school board implications and cross party endorsements in Union Hall and the Old South building.
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Faneuil Hall
Julia E. Duff
Frank J. Linehan
Kennys
Thomas J. Kenny
South Boston
James J. Storrew
Boston School Board
Williams. McNary
Union Hall
Republican
Independence League
Old South Building
Frank J. Donohue
Duchess of Marlborough to Root for Harvard Tomorrow
Consuelo, Duchess of Marlborough, will attend the Harvard Yale game to cheer for Harvard alongside her party including Mrs. Belmont. They arrived in Boston to visit Harold Vanderbilt, then hospitalized with typhoid, with Belmont planning a possible extended stay depending on Vanderbilt’s illness.
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Duchess OF Marlborough
Harvard
Consuelo
Crimson
Elif
O. H. P. Belmont
Mr. Belmont
Sydney Smith
Boston
Harold C. Vanderbilt
Stillman Infirmary
Herbert C. Leeds
Gillespie
Mr. Ingraham
Belmont
Cambridge
Vanderbilt
Lenox
Post
Harold
World News Nuggets From Many Centres
A compilation of quick reports from diverse cities. Incidents include a shooting in Beaver Falls, a Swedish honor for F E F W Horne, Booth urging fewer religious ties in Berlin, a $12 500 indemnity demand in Vladivostok, Brookside Kennels fire in Rye, a double suicide in Rensselaer, famine threats in Lapland, a bank reopening in New York, a Harlem River Park fire, a fatal explosion in Dryden, and court and legal notices across the region.
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Beaver Falls
Penn
John A. Rand
George W. Schaney
Tokio
Fef. W. Horne
Yokohama
Berlin
General Booth
Salvation Army
London
Vladivostok
Rye
N. Y
Brookside Kennels
George Greer
Rensselaer
Edward Hidley
Stockholm
Sweden
Vesternorrland
Vesterbotten
Lapland
New York
Terminal Bank
Brooklyn
Sulzer
Harlem River Park
Coney Island
One Hundred and Twenty-fifth Street
Kenora
Ont
Grand Trunk Pacific
Dryden
Nashua
N. H
William A. Farley
New Hampshire Banking Company
Augusta
Charles Booker
Frank Gilbert
Manchester
Cobb
Providence
BR. I
Arthur L. Brown
United States Circuit Court
Fisheries’ Company of
New Jersey
John T. Leehnen
Mt. Vernon Street
John H. Ford
Death of Bailey Shackford on steamer Governor Dingley
Bailey Shackford 74 of Jamaica Plain died on the steamer Governor Dingley en route from Portland to Boston. He was a watchman for the Boston Elevated. A separate Roxbury court fined Raymond Van Eetvelde 21 of St James Avenue $10 for overspeeding on Commonwealth Avenue and Edward A Wallace 29 of Williams Street Newton $20 for similar speeding. A burglary at 8 Alden Street yielded clothing valued at $85. Judge Richardson denied a petition to bar Edison Electric from sidewalk excavation at Washington and Winter streets.
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Governor Dingley
Portland
Boston
Bailey Shackford
Washington Street
Jamaica Plain
Richardson
Superior Court
Sarah H. Swan
Edison Electric & Illuminating Company
Washington and
Winter Streets
Raymond van Eetvelde
St. James Avenue
Roxbury Court
Commonwealth Avenue
Henry Carp
Alden Street
Edward A. Wallace
Williams Street
Newton
What New England People Are Doing
Brockton Patrick Leonard 58 died after smoke inhalation from a fire that threatened his Elliot street home Sunday night. Fall River manufacturers committee and textile council plan a wage schedule adjustment under the sliding scale. East Greenwich Allen P Benjamin held for grand jury without bail for shooting Albert Babcock in a road house.
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East Greenwich
R. I
Allen P. Benjamin
Albert Babcock
Boston Jury Awards 1700 in Ice Cream Cart Accident
On May 16 1904 Little Ann Sargent playing on Tileston Street a defect in the street caused a large wagon to strike an ice cream cart which struck the girl and ran over her hand. A suit against the city of Boston produced a Superior Court verdict of 1700 for the plaintiff.
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Little Ann Sargent
Tileston Street
Boston
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