Monster Whale School Off Cape Cod Delights Vera Crew
Hundreds of whales gathered in Massachusetts Bay near Nauset as the United Fruit steamship Vera, arriving from Jamaica, encountered an unprecedented surface of leviathans. Captain Rynning and the chief officer reported the spectacle lasting a day, likely driven shoreward by an earlier storm. The Vera carried 19,979 banana bunches from Port Morant.
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Cape Cod
Massachusetts Bay
Vera
United Fruit Company Line
Jamaica
Nauset
Rynning
Port Morant
Soldiers drop in ranks on forced march to Fort Thomas
Cincinnati dispatch reports 500 men of the Second Infantry U. S. Army returning to Fort Thomas Kentucky after a 43 mile forced march from Fort Perry Ohio. Many collapsed from exhaustion during the early hours.
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Cincinnati
Second Infantry
Fort Thomas
Fort Perry
Judge Jails A Joy Rider In Jamaica Plain Crash
Henry A Bacon 22 of 774A Dudley Street Dorchester was sentenced to six months in the house of correction by Judge Perrings at West Roxbury for exceeding the speed limit during a Thursday night joy ride that crashed into a voting booth on Lamarine Street Jamaica Plain and set it on fire after the gasoline exploded. He appealed. Three other youths in the car Cahill 24 of 19 Greenwood Avenue Jamaica Plain Conboy 29 of 69 Marshfield Street Roxbury and Weiner 22 of 23 Greenwood Avenue were fined for intoxication.
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Henry A. Bacon
Dudley Street
Neil McNeil
Stanley Street
Dorchester
House of Correction
Perrings
West Roxbury
Lamartine Street
Jamaica
Plain
W. R. J. Cahill
Greenwood Avenue
Jamaica Plain
Joseph Conboy
Marshfield Street
Roxbury
Henry JL. Weiner
Ruttenberg Wins Zeppelin Prize For Smallest Dirigible
In Frankfort on October 1 competitors at an international air exposition were judged. Ruttenberg won the $2500 prize offered by Count Zeppelin for the smallest dirigible balloon.
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Frankfort
Ruttenberg
Count Zeppelin
Eightyearold Scanlon dies after match burn accident
Malden report states eight year old Thomas Scanlon, son of Thomas Scanlon of 2 Hubbard street, died at the hospital from severe burns incurred while playing with matches on September 16.
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Malden
Thomas Scanlon
Hubbard — Street
Secret hearings to scrutinize city committee charges begin
A special alldermanic committee plans star chamber hearings to investigate Alderman Curley’s charges against Chairman Donovan of the Democratic city committee. The panel met with Alderman W Dudley Cotton and reviewed City Hall records on the New England Sanitary Company contract, aiming to start hearings early next week.
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Special
Alldermanic Committee
Curley
Donovan
Democratic City Committee
Star Chamber
W. Dudley Cotton
City Hall
New England Sanitary Company
Miss Nellie J. Cole Dies After Cerebral Hemorrhage
Miss Nellie J. Cole aged 35, employed in the family of George A. Southers at 48 Babcock street Brookline, died at Massachusetts General Hospital yesterday afternoon from a cerebral hemorrhage. She was found unconscious in the Southers home kitchen at about 8 15 yesterday morning.
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Nellie J. Cole
George A. Southers
Babcock Street
Brookline
Massachusetts General Hospital
Miss Cole
Southers
New Tech Head Cheered by Freshmen at Honors Meeting
President Richard C. Mackaurin and college student leaders were greeted by nearly 300 entering freshmen who cheered them during a YMCA organized welcome at the Tech Union.
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TECH
Richard C. Mackaurin
College
Tech Union
In Place of Steel in Boston Agreement Case
Trial focus on steel necessity in the Boston Agreement matter. Government expert Fay partly retracts steel as essential, noting reinforced concrete could substitute. Evidence shows bids during the period included a no collusion clause among bidders, revealed by District Attorney Hill over defense objections.
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Boston
Frederick H. Fay
Hill
Fay
Defense Attorneys Press in Court Over Bid Evidence
Several defense lawyers led by Henry Hurlbut, Sherman Whipple, Charles Choate Jr., and Samuel Elder argued to suppress the district attorney's bid-related question, but Judge Harris allowed continued inquiry. The dispute centered on a clause claiming bid independence and good faith, while Engineer Fay testified on concrete, steel, and cost estimates during redirect.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Hurlbut
Sherman Whipple
Charles F. Choate, Jr
Samuel J. Elder
Harris
Hurlburt
Fay
Hill
Dead and injured in Cambridge subway accident
One man Tony Pallegro aged 35 died at Cambridge Hospital after a half ton boulder crashed through deep excavation near Harvard Square. Michael Terrassino, 46, remains on the dangerous list at Cambridge Relief Hospital with broken limbs and contusions. Fifty men worked at the 30 foot deep site when the accident occurred. third such incident in a month.
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Cambridge
Harvard Square
Tony Pallegro
North Street
Cambridge Hospital
Michael Terrassino
Cambridge Relief Hospital
Pallegro
Terrassino
Daily Fire Record Notices From Boston Area
2 18 a m Box 133 291 East Ninth Street South Boston James King loss 1000 6 20 a m Still alarm Dorchester Avenue railroad bridge New York Haven Hartford railroad loss 10 S 51 a m Box 647 1582 Condor Street East Boston Harris Helpert loss 50 2 25 p m Still alarm 35 Piedmont Street James Heaney loss slight 9 15 p m Box 631 7 Maverick Street East Boston John Fermoyle loss 81090
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East Ninth Street
South
Boston
James King
Dorchester Avenue
New York
An Haven & Hartford
Condor Street
East
Harris Helpert
Piedmont Street
James Heaney
Maverick Street
John Fermoyle
New Hilton Shop Is to Be Made Larger
The Hilton Company clothiers local shop on Washington Street and Temple Place has outgrown its space after two strong months. Joseph Hilton notes Boston customers welcomed the distinctive line and confirms plans to expand by taking the Blake building's second floor. He cites a brown cassimere suit praised by Washington as a $60 Fifth Avenue look, yet priced at $12.50.
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Hilton Company, Clothiers
Washington Street
Temple Place
Joseph Hilton
Boston
Blake
Hilton
Ways and Means
House
Washington
Fifth Avenue
Blue Grass
Masons
Dixon Hne
Worthington
Kentucky
Spain
New England
Fanentil Hall
Taft May Not Run For Second Term
Taft faces questions over a potential second term as he tours the Pacific coast after leaving Tacoma. The president urged Alaska home rule while signaling no immediate congressional legislation, stressing a deep interest in Alaska and plans to visit next year. He praised railroad development to open the territory, drawing enthusiastic responses along the route.
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Alaska
Mr. Taft
Congress
Cherry Defeated by John E Kelley in Mount Hope Election
George P. Cherry longtime Mount Hope Citizens' Association president lost to John E. Kelley in a bitter election at Stephen M Weld schoolhouse Mount Hope. Kelley won the presidency by a large margin 122 to 74 with 196 votes cast. Other officers Hyland Stober and Adair were reelected without contest.
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George P. Cherry
Mount Hope
Snow Falls Heavily at Dundee Village North of Elmira
Snow covered Dundee, a village north of Elmira, as a substantial fall began this morning with noticeable accumulation across the area.
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Elmira
N. Y
Dundee
Gems Stolen Clerk Missing in Pawnshop Heist
Isaac Cartoff nine years old, a clerk at Goldberg's pawnshop on Pleasant Street, allegedly rifled the till for 25 dollars and seized a thousand dollars worth of diamond pins and unset stones before fleeing. He had worked seven days and lived with his widowed mother on Poplar Street.
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Isaac Cartoff
Goldberg
Pleasant Street
Cartoff
Goldberg Brothers
Poplar Street
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SAW Monster Whale School
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Post’s
Greater
Does & Young
America
Russia
Washington and
Essex Streets
Mass
Nam
Pure Food Exposition
United
Siegel Chain of Stores
Worsters
Stein-Bloch
Henry Siegel Co
Sir Henri
Henri Siegel Co
New Subway
Daily Fire Record
Taft
Pacific Coast
Tacoma
Cherry
John E. Kelley
Cluett, Peabody & Co
F&arow
South Acton
American Powder Works
Thos.snow&son
North Market St
Franklin St
Ward
Aetna Rug CO
Tremont St
Oxford
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