Naval officers set for triannual congress at South Armory
Naval Order of the United States holds its triennial congress at 1 30 this afternoon in the South Armory with active and retired officers present. Delegates from Massachusetts Pennsylvania New York Illinois and DC, observe the 120th anniversary of Congress authorizing the first ships of the navy.
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Naval Order of the. United States
South Armory
Congress
Massachusetts
Pennsylvania
New York
Illinois
District of Columbia
Algonquin Club
Massachusetts Commandery
Trenchard
Dahlgren
Turner
Dallas
Will
John G. Walker
U.S. N
Henry H. Bellas
At the Fair Opens in Mechanics Hall Exhibition Attracts
The Mechanics Hall fair drew strong attendance with most departments in place. Printing presses from Chicago and New York await arrival, a fountain water curtain to be added later, and daily concerts rotating the program. The art gallery, directed by Frank T. Robinson, showcases work by over twenty-five women, including a notable Paul Revere bust by Robert Kraus and a painting titled When Sleep Falleth on Man. The educational department occupies much space and is near completion.
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Mechanics’ Hall
Chicago
New York
Denmark
Frank T. Robinson
Paul Revere
Robert Kraus
Blame the Underwriters After Warren Mill Fire
Warren mill fire prompts widespread blame on insurers many mills insured for 300000 with 90000 in Fall River risk. local mutual companies faced criticism for fire protection plans as 1500 Warren operatives faced potential job loss with authorities seeking workers and new opportunities.
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Pall River
Warren
New England
Fall River Company
Trial Today in Revere Assault Case Involving School Officials
Arthur F. Derrington remains bedridden after reportedly being whipped by the Revere superintendent and the Winthrop Street School principal. His mother says he was incoherent last night and suffers a continual headache. His parents pursue assault and battery charges as the trial opens, while townsfolk allegedly throw eggs cabbages and other objects at the new teacher G. F. Winslow in apparent protest.
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Arthur F. Derrington
Revere
Winthrop Street
Derrington
G. F. Winslow
Gas Men Watch Bay State Brookline Deal
Gas magnates are alert after the Post's exclusive on the Bay State and Brookline company consolidation. Officials are busy between New York and Boston while street talk centers on how the story appeared before circulars from Addicks reached the city. More developments are anticipated by next week as the gas situation remains highly exciting locally.
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Post
Bay State
Brookline
New York
Boston
Rious
Addicks
City Brevities Talk at Unitarian Building
The Channing Hail Talk will be at 2 Beacon street today at 2:30 hosted by Rev. W Hanson Puls ford. He addresses primary, intermediate and advanced grades on The Leaven. All cordially invited. Joseph J Phillips aged 19 was arrested yesterday for forging the name of G P Clarke treasurer of Pine Tree Lumber Co on a $50 check drawn on Broadway National Bank. He confessed.
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Unitarian
Beacon Street
W. Hanson Pulsford
Joseph J. Phillips
G. P. Clarke
Pine- Tree Lumber Company
Broadway National Bank
American Wringer Co. Beds and Broadway Extension
Fragmentary notice mentions the American Wringer Company with references to a Broadway extension and beds, suggesting a local industrial or real estate item. No clear dates, places, or participants available in readable text.
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The
American Wringer Co
Citynufacturera Efers
Stoughton Street Church to Celebrate Fiftieth Anniversary
Dorchester church marks 50 years since founding as North Dorchester Baptist. Dr Vosburgh to deliver sermon on The Mission of the Church. 3 p m Sunday school program with former superintendents. Evening programs feature Rev Dunn Dr Adams and Rev Horr with a message on The Need of the Hour. Founded 1845 by Caleb Coburn and others after union meetings. History recounts trials including gale damage and a fire, with growth under past and current pastors. Church membership rose from 369 to 533 under Dr Vosburgh.
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Stoughton Street
Dorchester
Vosburgh
A. J. Dunn
Davis J. Shailer
Newton
Dudley
Caleb. Cepurn
Adams
Rew
Comedious House
State Normal School
Albany
N. Y
Madison
Colgate, University
Hamilton
University of Chicago
Europe
Mexico
Hixson's Grit in Kucheng Missionary Inquiry
London reports that US consul J Courteny Hixson led a forceful demand for access to the trial of accused Vegetarians in Kucheng. He insisted on attendance despite a Chinese mandarin's denial, threatening to mobilize authorities if refused. Lieutenant Waldo Evans of the Detroit was noted as the only fighting man sent with the inquiry party.
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London
Pall Mall
Kucheng
Waldo Evans
United States
Detroit
Foo Chow
Pall Mall Gazette
J. Courteny Hixson
Foo
Chow
I Am Not an Old Woman Says a Lady Reader
A lady reader laments the decline of old fashioned politeness and courtesy. She contrasts genuine kindness with modern schoolbook etiquette, urging small acts to help strangers and spread happiness in daily life. The piece likens current manners to spurious politeness and urges a return to heartfelt consideration.
Pasteur’s Death Teaches World Lesson On Hidden Disease
A sweeping obituary and health warning highlights Professor Louis Pasteur’s death from kidney disease. The piece urges readers to seek early detection of illness and promotes Warner’s Safe Cure as the cure for modern maladies, claiming benefits for men women and children and likening Pasteur’s fate to inattention to warning signs.
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Louis Pasteur
Paris
France
Bright
Pasteur
Warner
Passengers Or Aboard Hamburg-American Ship Normannia
Among the passengers on the Hamburg American line steamship Normannia, which arrived at New York from Hamburg and Southampton, was Max Knoebel of Green Kneebel Co. He has business interests in Port au Prince Haiti and has been abroad four months. John Harrington managed Port au Prince operations in his absence.
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New York
Hamburg
Southampton
Max Knoebel
Green, Kneebel, & Co
Knaebel
Port Au Prince
Haiti
John Harrington
Pilot Partridge
C. H. Marshall
Highlands
New Jersey
Shepherd
Boston
Liverpool
Kinsale
Ireland
Charles Bartlett
Nellie M. Slade
James Montgomery
J. Golding
Slade
Sydney
C B
Dominion Coal Company
Swansea
Sarmiento
Portland
Nimbus
River Plate
Jose Claveri
Aery
Lewis Wharf
Africa
B. H. Fabens
Charles. H. Fabens
Long Wharf
Cayenne
N. E. Symonds
Long Point
Yarmouth Passes Venetian At Slow Speed Amid Wreck Work
The steamer Yarmouth reduced speed to dead slow while passing the wrecked Venetian on Tuesday October 1 and has kept slow speeds past dredges and other craft since. The Venetian was passed wide to avoid disturbing workers. Officers aboard can verify the report. An October 8 excursion to New York via Albany and Hudson River is announced, returning through Fall River.
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Yarmouth
Boston & Albany
New York
Albany
Hudson River
Fall River
Weather, trade upturn and mixed goods market
Bradstreet's notes seasonable weather boosting merchandise sales and a generally favorable trade outlook. Iron and steel prices firm in the West, with a $1 per ton pullback in Ohio Valley and Pennsylvania. Cotton, coffee, sugar rise. wheat and pork weaken. dry goods trade improves. cash clearings rise and regional differences noted across the Eastern, Midwestern and Southern states.
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New York
Bradstreet
Pacific Coast
Baltimore
Ohio Valley
Pennsylvania
South Georgia
Texas
Eastern
Middle States
Cleveland
Boston
London
Montana
Bradford
Eny
Chicago
St. Louis
Minneapolis
Kansas City
St. Paul
Duluth
New Orleans
Tacoma
Seattle
Portland
San Franc
Trade review notes sharp price declines and mixed gains
Dun and Co reports wholesale prices at September lows with 20 percent cotton goods and 53 percent iron and steel gains since March. Food, woollen, and iron sectors show declines over five years. retail distribution improves but wholesale demand cools. Trade volume through clearing houses up 147 percent from last year, but down from 1892. regional gains fade against earlier years. Leather, hides weaken. shoe shipments drop. failures: 207 in US, 41 in Canada over three days.
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New York
R. G. Dun & Co
Weekly Review of Trade
Elor Hine
United States
Canada
Signalling in a Fog On lghtship 45 at Wilmington
A new fog signalling arrangement for sea use has been installed on Winter Quarter lightship No 45, undergoing repairs in Wilmington Delaware. It uses two safety oil engines to power two upright boilers and time clocks that alternately open and close whistle valves every 55 seconds. Air pressure is set to forty pounds and produces a shrill blast with each explosion, avoiding steam power and coal dependency.
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Wilmington
Del
Bottomless pit at Towantic tests New York & New England line
At Towantic, atop a mountain near Waterbury, the New York & New England Railroad fights a reported bottomless pit. Workers dump hundreds of carloads of gravel and old ties to fill the swamp as a trestle remains perched above, while the bed settles and trains are kept off the bridge. The pit’s peculiar depths echo a similar episode encountered on the Fishing Mountains, where unloading caused ground to subside and cars to vanish before recovery.
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Towantic
Waterbury
New York & New England Railroad Company
Fishing Mountains
New York State
Whaley
The Language of Flies Reported as Aerial Dialogue
An inquirer with a microphone claims flies produce a distinct language beyond common buzzing. He suggests a refined, modulated series of sounds audible only with amplification, possibly perceptible to fly ears, and hopes for a device to reveal microbial speech.
Sunday laws tighten in Pontiac Michigan
Pontiac Michigan tightens Sunday regulations with closures of restaurants saloons candy stores and ice cream dealers refuse milk delivery and livery stables petitioned for Sunday closure over 100 citizens signed the request while another petition circulated to ban milkmen and icemen from business on Sundays Sabbatearians view the milkmen petition as a possible enemy ploy but its supporters press ahead with vigor.
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Pontiac
Mich
Rivers of Russia boast vast navigable network
The latest statistics claim Europe’s Russia has about 36000 miles of navigable rivers and canals, 6000 more than the rest of Europe combined, with a river flotilla twice that of Germany and Austria, enabling Russia to move 30000000 more dollars by water than by rail in the last six months. The Mechanics’ Fair from Hartford to New England fairs drew about 400 people to Boston.
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Russia
Europe
Germany
Austria
Fair’ Iisi
Hartford
New England
Boston
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