Wharf records broken by vast fishing haul in Boston
Fishing vessels flood Boston as 99 ships docked over three days with haddock cod hake pollock mackerel swordfish totaling over 3,000,000 pounds worth about 88,453 dollars. Oldest dealers call this unprecedented congestion on the wharves and in East Boston berths.
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Boston
East Boston
Atlantic Avenue
Fishing Fleet Delivers Record 1,684,800 Pounds of Fish
Sunday and Monday arrivals swelled market receipts to a record 1,684,800 pounds. Haddock moved at 3% to 5% cents, cod at 5% cents, hake 1 to 1% cents, pollock and cask 2 cents. Eve lyn M. Thompson maiden trip brought 56,000 pounds of haddock cod hake. Vessels and their fares listed follow.
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South Channel
Edith E. Silveira
Vanessa
Marguerite
Hortense
Flirt
Clara G. Silva
Evelyn M. Thompson
Herbert Thompson
Haddock
Fearful Kidnapping Mystery Involving Bertha Chirurg
Bertha Chirurg 16 year old daughter of Dr Charles Chirurg of Manchester New Hampshire vanished. Relatives fear she has been kidnapped and held near Boston or Lynn. Descriptions note dark skin blue eyes and dark hair. Father found letters suggesting a motive or lead.
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Bertha Chirurg
Charles Chirurg
Manchester
N. H
Boston
Lynn
Bertha
Disappearance Leads to Missing Letters Clue Reported
A woman’s disappearance is linked to a set of letters that vanished with her. A letter claimed a woman would come for the item, suggesting a possible motive or suspect in the missing person case and prompting local inquiries.
Massachusetts Supreme Court rules auto bans on town streets valid
The full bench of the Massachusetts Supreme Court upholds selectmen can bar automobiles and motorcycles from specific streets. In Commonwealth v Kingsbury of Ashfield the firing of Kingsbury for driving on Centre street after a street ban was sustained. Chief Justice Knowlton writes statutes promote public safety and legislature may grant power to prohibit vehicle passage.
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Massachusetts Supreme Court
The
Commonwealth
Arthur Kingsbury
Ashfield
Franklin County
Kingsbury
Centre Street
Knowlton
$10,000 for Murderers at Reel Foot Lake
Governor Patterson offers a 10000 reward for the arrest of those responsible for the murders of Judge Taylor and Captain Rankin at Reel Foot Lake. A surveyor with the lawyers is missing and may have suffered the same fate amid long standing land and fishing rights disputes with Colonel Taylor and Captain Rankin.
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Memphis
Tenn
Patterson
Judge Taylor
Captain Rankin
Reel Foot Lake
Colonel Taylor
West Tennessee Land Company
Chelsea Shoe Factory Shuts Down After Walkout
The G A Walton Shoe Company closed its Heard street Chelsea plant yesterday, leaving about 1800 workers unemployed. A week earlier 200 men walked out over wage parity with the Lynn factory, with lasters pullers and women parts joining a new Chelsea shoe workers union allied to the AFL.
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G. A. Walton Shoe Company
Heard Street
Chelsea
Lynn
American Federation of Labor
Central Hall
Walton Company
Conservator Appointed for Frederick Bancroft Estate
John F. Moors of Boston was named conservator of the estate of Frederick Bancroft at the request of Bancroft’s wife Mrs. Lillian Bancroft. Bancroft, a retired Boston banker and broker, has been in frail health for two years and the Reading Street home is valued at about $60,000 with additional stocks and real estate elsewhere.
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John F. Moors
Boston
Frederick Bancroft
Lowell Street
Lillian If’. B. Bancroft
Lillian Glidden
Devonshire Street
Bancroft
Found Dead in the Leaves at Magee Farm
The body of an unknown man was found by W. R. Wing and a hunter named Ashley on the Magee farm. No missing person is reported in the area.
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Ashfield
W. R. Wing
Ashley
Magee
Plague Suspects Landed From White Star Liner at Gallup’s Island
After the liner Romania arrived for quarantine, 142 suspected plague passengers from the Azores were transferred to Vigilant and landed at Gallup’s Island. Officials say two passengers from the Philippines, Captain Edward Parker and Captain Eugene C. Riva, were aboard. Riva notes Taft’s popularity among natives has waned. Opera impresario Oreste Shichavaglia, former Barcelona and Naples worker, will train pupils at the Conservatory of Music.
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Romanic
Azores
Gallup’s Island
Terceira
Fayal
Philippines
Edward Parker
Boston
Eugene C. Riva
Minnesota
Riva
Taft
Oreste Shichavaglia
Barcelona
Spain
Naples
Conservatory of Music
Maritime News of Ship Departures and Crews in Boston Harbor
The four masted schooner Margaret Thomas finishes loading Christmas cargo for Rio Janeiro and will start on her 17th voyage when weather permits. Other vessels include the Mabel Jordan veteran captain, the H. M. Whitney replacing the H. S. Dimock on the New York route after repairs from Hell Gate grounding, and the British tramp Borderer sailing to load cotton for Liverpool or Bremen. The White Star liner Romanic brings in passengers as Captain Beadwell moves to the Laurentic with Captain Lobez taking over.
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Rio Janeiro
Brazil
J. W. Balano
Rio
Boston
Mabel Jordan
Balano
South America
Mystic Wharf
Metropolitan Line
H. M. Whitney
Cramp Company
Philadelphia
New York
H. S. Dimock
Whitney
Hell Gate
Harvard
Yale
Herman Winter
East Boston
Borderer
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Java
Virgina
Wilmington
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Liverpool
Bremen
White Star
Romanic
Hoosac
Charlestown
Mediterranean
Azores
Frank E. Beadwell
Raphael Lobez
Lobez
Royal Naval Reserve
Beadwell
Shipping News: Arrivals and Sailed Vessels October 21
Maritime brief lists arrivals and sailings with dates in October. Steamers Romanic Lobez Moor and others arrived from Genoa Naples Antwerp Antwerp via Almeria Moville Eastport and Portland. Sailed vessels include Saxonia Hallifax Yarmouth City of Augusta and more bound for Boston New York Philadelphia and Key West. Tugs and barges noted in towing operations.
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Lobez
Genoa
Naples
Almeria
Ponta del Gada
White Star Line
Moor
Glasgow
Moville
Menominee
Moller
Antwerp
Howard
Chase
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Yale
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New York
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Thompson
St. John
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Portland
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Ober
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Greenwood
J. L. Colwell
Branscombe
Pee Valdare
Anthony
Bear River
Saxonia
Liverpool
Queenstown
Hallifax
Halifax
Port Hawkesbury
Co. B
Charlottetown
P. E
Boston
Yarmouth
City of Augusta
Savannah
Nantucket
Persian
Philadelphia
Ben Wilhelmina
Borderer
Newport News
Yaleri Bunker Hill
Battleship Alabama to Undergo 700000 Repair in Brooklyn Yard
The battleship Alabama with the Maine formed the special squadron before the Atlantic fleet around the world warped into the Brooklyn navy yard today. Two high pressure cylinders are cracked and two more require repair. She will be put out of commission and $700,000 spent on her.
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New York
Alabama
Maine
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Emerson names Durkee to street permit office post
Superintendent of Streets Emerson announced the appointment of Storrs L. Durkee as chief clerk in the permit office of the street department at a salary of $1800 a year. Durkee's name was taken from the civil service list.
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Storrs L. Durkee
Durkee
Civil Service
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