Tug Hits Schooner and Fled Near Highland Light
The schooner Mary Weaver of Portland bound for New York was struck by a northbound unknown tug towing three masted barges off Highland Light. The boom and davits were sheared, hull undamaged, and the tug sped away. The Weaver anchored off Orleans Life Saving Station to seek help. Captain Charles and crew offered aid. A Boston tow tug is expected to arrive, with Mercury posited as the tow.
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Chatham
Mary Weaver
Portland
Machias
New York
Highland Light
Weaver
Cape
Orleans
Charles
Boston
Mercury
Hogg Sues for $1,000,000 Against Railroad Company
Former Governor James Hogg files suit in Houston against the International and Great Northern Railroad Company seeking one million dollars in damages for injuries received on January 26.
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Dallas
Tex
James Hogg
Houston
International and Great Northern Railroad Company
Volunteers of America Anniversary Draws Boston Crowd
The ninth anniversary event at Tremont Temple honored General and Mrs. Booth. Appeals moved the audience as volunteers from across Massachusetts contributed generously and heard reports from the clothing department and prison work.
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Tremont Temple
Volunteers of America
Massachusetts
Ballington Booth
Iremont Temple
Booths Message to Readers Highlights Volunteers of America
General Ballington Booth praises the Volunteers of America for advancing humanitarian work across education politics social and religious fronts. He predicts challenges from critics but asserts unwavering effort guided by justice truth and heavenly love.
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Gen. Booth
POST
Volunteers of America
Ballington Booth
The
Present Religious Unrest Speech At Second Church
The Rev. Thomas Van Ness spoke at Copley Square Second Church on religious unrest, urging a broader interpretation of Christianity and calling for honesty and unity across social and national lines amid rising sectarian dissension worldwide and in the United States. He noted shifts in wealth supporting colleges and the mingling of diverse nationalities under one roof. He urged a return to simple, honest religion.
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Thomas van Ness
Copley Square
Japan
India
Constantinople
France
Russia
United States
Jesus Christ
Sanctify Ourselves for Others Sake as Jesus Did
A fragment from a religious meditation urges believers to purify themselves for the sake of others, echoing Christlike restraint and humility in daily life. The brief note frames sanctification as a communal duty rooted in Christian example.
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Jesus
Pastor's Wife Soloist Sings at West Somerville Church
Mrs. C. W. Pettit wife of the Rev. C. W. Pettit preached his first sermon as the new pastor at the First Pentecostal Church in West Somerville yesterday. Her soprano voice aided her husband in his church work in Alto?
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C. W. Pettit
First Pentecostal
West Somerville
Somerville
Gospel singer plans Somerville return after Lentown stint
A gospel performer, previously based in Lentown, Penn, intends to do extensive gospel singing in Somerville in the coming months. The article notes the singer is 36 years old and part of a family of six including a wife and four daughters aged 8 to 3.
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C. W. Pettit
Somerville
Gayety in the Ghetto Celebrates Tabernacle Feast
The final day of the feast of the tabernacle was celebrated with morning synagogue services ending prayers and the day turning to merrymaking. Orthodox Hebrews spent the day in pleasure with tabernacle booths filled by visitors and festive singing late into the night.
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Ghetto
Dixon Praises Butterworth In Sermon Tribute
Rev. A C Dixon of Ruggles Street Baptist Church delivers tribute to the late poet and author Ezekiah Butterworth in yesterday morning sermon describing him as the Gentle Genius and Friend of the Struggling.
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Ezekiah Butterworth
A. C. Dixon
Ruggles Street Baptist Church
Hunter carries wounded gunner two miles after shooting
Joseph Masten of Wallkill was accidentally shot in the stomach while hunting with his cousin near Kingston New York. The bullet passed through his body and his recovery is doubtful. His cousin carried him about two miles on his back to reach a farmhouse for help.
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Kingston
N. Y
Joseph Masten
Wallkill
Masten
Five Drown When Catboat Is Struck by Tug Near Yonkers
Five persons believed drowned after a catboat was run down by a tug off South Yonkers. Only one body recovered initially. A list of names found in a coat identified the crew as Edward Nason the owner his son Edward Benjamin Benson P Simpson and Carl Thompson all of South Yonkers. Benson’s body later found near the collision site. No others located by nightfall.
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New York
South Yonkers
Edward Nason
Edward
Benjamin Benson
P. Simpson
Carl Thompson
Benson
Colored men publish bluebook in Chicago
The colored population of Chicago secures a bluebook devoted to themselves. D. A. Bethea of Jenner Medical College compiled it. The city hosts six Republican political clubs, 14 social clubs, 16 women’s clubs, seven newspapers, and a classified business directory listing 88 physicians and 85 public officers among others.
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Chicago
D. A. Bethea
Jenner Medical College
Quinn Thrown From Car In Electric Shock Incident
Thomas Quinn a 21 year old conductor on the Boston Elevated Railroad was injured when a fuse blew on a car near Dover and Washington streets. He received an electric shock while touching a metal piece and was hurled from the platform striking his head and body on the pavement. He is hospitalized at City Hospital with burns and contusions.
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Thomas Quinn
Eighth Street
South
Boston
City Hospital
Dover
Washington Streets
Quinn
Japanese naval surgeon visits Portsmouth during peace treaty tour
Portsmouth New Hampshire October 22 Surgeon General Baron 8 Suzusaki of the Japanese Imperial navy visited the Portsmouth navy yard. He called on Dr H D Wilson and Admiral W W Meade and viewed the conference building learning details of the peace treaty. He dined with Dr Wilson then missed his 5 o'clock New York train and rode electric cars to Dover for a Manchester train.
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Portsmouth
N. H
Baron
Suzusaki
Imperial Navy
Portsmouth Navy Yard
H. D. Wilson
Naval Hospital
W. W. Meade
Meade
Dr. Wilson
New York
Dover
Moston
Baby smokes pipe. toddler near fatal mishap in Trenton
In Trenton New Jersey on October 22 a three year old boy, son of Michael Miskey, attempted to smoke his father's pipe after watching smoke rings. He took three puffs and faced possible death from the act, while the father was momentarily away.
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Trenton
N. J
Michael Miskey
Mallory Line San Jacinto reports Lansing in distress at sea
Captain W T Evans of the Mallory line San Jacinto, at present at sea, wireless reports that at 3 o clock yesterday off Carysfort Light the Lansing spoke of faulty machinery but did not request aid.
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New York
W. T. Evans
Mallory Line
San Jacinto
Carysfort Light
Lansing
Richard Harding Davis on Charles Dana Gibson
Davis, close friend of illustrator Charles Dana Gibson, recalls Gibson’s retirement from American work after selling real estate investments. He notes Gibson planned a Spain visit to study old masters and says Gibson once used Davis as a model, a practice Davis humorously defends as part of their long friendship.
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Richard Harding Davis
Charles Dana Gibson
Mr. Davis
America
New York
Dana
Gibson
Escapes Police In Airship Over Los Angeles Rooftop
Police tried to arrest Harry Burke in front of a building hosting Alva Reynolds' airship Man Angel. Burke raced to the roof, cut the anchor, and sailed off while distributing hand bills over the city, violating city ordinance.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Harry Burke
Alva Reynolds
Burke
Harvard to receive body for science from War Veteran Chandler
Nicholas Chandler a 66 year old Lynn war veteran died by gas inhalation after a period of illness. He had arranged in 1897 for his body to be delivered to Harvard Medical School for the benefit of science. The body will be given to the Harvard school tomorrow. He was found dead after requesting to be left alone. He left behind a wife and three children reportedly, none of whom have yet been found by investigators.
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Lynn
Nicholas Chandler
Harvard Medical School
Bright
Nicholas W. Chandler
Thomas Dwight
Cc. F. Minot
Chelsea
Chandler
Sylvia Brennan
Union Street
May Gordon
Arkansas Hot Springs to come under direct government control
In his annual report to the Secretary of the Interior the superintendent of the Arkansas Hot Springs reservation urges direct government control of the springs.
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Washington
Secretary of the Interior
Arkansas Hot Springs Reservation
Nervura remedy touted as cure for nervous debility and fatigue
Dr. Greene's Nervura blood and nerve remedy claims to restore strength and health for those worn by work burdens. Endorsed by H M Levy of Newark and offered with free consultation at 34 Temple Place Boston, Mass.
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Dr. Greene
H. M. Levy
Mulberry St
Newark
N. J
Greene
Temple Place
Boston
Mass
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