Death Toll Rises as Express Train Crash Shatters Bar Harbor Route
A White Mountain Express derailed near New Haven in dense fog injuring fifty and killing twenty two. Investigators arrest the engineer and brakeman as reports say signals were missed and torpedoes were too close to the train ahead. Wooden Pullmans tore apart, papers describe the wreck as grasshopper-like in its destruction and the crash sends shock through the Boston Post readers.
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Boston Post
Teaay
DEA
White Mountain Express
Bar Harbor
New Haven
Conn
President Wilson Misses Greeting From Girls
In Cornish New Hampshire on September 2 President Wilson driving from a golf game looked for the hill house where four girls once waved him a morning greeting with oatmeal and muffins. The girls had written recently and the President replied with thanks saying he remembered the simple gesture well and was glad to have made friends.
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Cornish
N. H
Wilson
Hanover
Advertising service pitches value for business growth
A Boston firm promotes its advertising service emphasizing honest value and cost awareness. It highlights experience with New England manufacturers and offers mailer production as a key specialty to help clients increase fall business.
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toMoffer
New England
A. W. Ellis Company
High St
Boston
Gouin to press end of Thaw case in Canada
Sir Lomer Gouin, premier and attorney general of Quebec, will seek a swift closing of the Canadian end of the Thaw case and the prisoner’s release from commitment. He awaits Judge Hutchinson’s ruling on the habeas corpus petition filed by Officer John Boudreau, and may act immediately if denied.
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Sherbrooke
Que
Lomer Gouin
Hutchinson
John Boudreau
Sir Lomer
North End Boy Saved From River
Romeo Catino five years old fell from the embankment wall at North End Park into water twenty five feet below. James F. Winston physical instructor at the park rescued him after the boy sank three times. First aid was given and he was taken home where his mother Mrs John Catino collapsed and required a physician. The child had been playing with other children in the sand hills when he wandered to the wall and toppled over.
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James F. Winston
North End Park
Romeo Catino
North Street
Romeo
Winston
John Catino
Astronomical Times and Anniversaries Highlight Day
The page lists astronomical readings for Portland Gloucester and Newport, with rise and set times for Venus Mars Jupiter Saturn and the Moon. It notes a light auto lamp time at 6 46 and marks TODAY'S ANNIVERSARIES including the 1783 Paris peace treaty with England and the 1833 Sioux battle at Sand Hills. It also recalls a defeated women suffrage election in Ohio and Vermont.
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SU Seta
Venus
Mars
Jupiter
Saturn
England
Paris
Sand Hills
Harvey
Ohio
Vermont
Unsettled forecast for Boston and New England
Forecast for northern New England calls for fair weather Wednesday and probably Thursday with cooler interior temperatures. Thursday brings light to moderate variable winds. Southern New England expects cloudy conditions Wednesday with possible showers at night and Thursday with moderate variable winds likely turning east.
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Boston
Washington
New England
Baseball Scores From Yesterday Across Leagues
Results show Boston defeating New York 4 2 and Washington 2 Philadelphia 1 in American action. National league highlights include Chicago 9 Cleveland 3, Boston 5 New York Philadelphia 3, Brooklyn 2 Chicago 5 St Louis 3, with Pittsburgh 2 Cincinnati 2 in assorted matchups.
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Boston
New York
Washington
Philadelphia
Chicago
Cleveland
Brooklyn
St. Louis
Pittsburgh
Cincinnati
Night Disaster Hits Berths in President Elliott's New Haven Visit
On President Elliott's first day in office the monster engine crashed through parked cars in berths, killing men and women as they slept. Wreckage flew high as kindling and cars were smashed, creating terrible scenes. Most victims were vacationers in New Haven.
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Elliott
New Haven
Rutland Airplane Crash Kills Pilot and Injures Judge
At the Rutland fair a biplane piloted by George Schmidt carrying J Dyer Spellman assistant judge of the Municipal Court flipped during an exhibition flight. Schmidt, 23, died at the hospital. Spellman was badly burned and feared to die.
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Rutland
George Schmidt
J. Dyer Spellman
Schmidt
Spellman
Fair Grounds
Wreck Kills Twenty Two on New Haven Line Near New Haven
A rear end collision of the White Mountain express and Bar Harbor express six miles north of New Haven leaves twenty two dead and fifty injured as fog shrouds the rails. The engine split two rear Pullmans, a third car carrying campers from Monmouth Maine was crushed and toppled, many victims scattered along the track. Engineer Miller and Rear Brakeman Murray are in custody.
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New Haven
New York, New Haven & Hartford
Here
White Mountain
New York
Bar Harbor
Monmouth
Miller
White Mountain Express
Murray
Mix
Agnes White
Boston
Elliott
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