Mauretania Rescues West Point Crew After Ship Fire
Captain Pinkham and 15 crew members were saved by the Mauretania after five days adrift in an open boat with dwindling rations. The Leyland liner Devonian had already rescued the West Point’s chief mate and another 15 crew, heading to Boston with both groups due in soon.
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West Point
Pinkham
Cunard
New York
Liverpool
Boston
Cape Race
Newfoundland
Devonian
Mauretania Rescues West Point Crew After Fire
A wireless message relayed to Cape Race reports the Mauretania rescued Captain Pinkham and the West Point crew, including the second officer and ten seamen, after a fire. The Devonian aided in relaying the chief mate’s party’s rescue. Information about the burning and abandonment reached the continent.
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Mauretania
Pinkham
Cape Race
Atlantic
West Point
Sports Roundup Highlights and Schedule Notes
Cincinnati plays Pittsburg in the first game while Pittsburg visits Cincinnati for the second. All other major league games are postponed by rain. Red Sox and Washington plan two games today. Lajoie trails Cobb by five points in the AL batting race. Wagner is favored to top the NL at season end. Boston teams report mixed records. Six swimmers fail in the attempt to swim to Boston. Kaufman and Lang set for six rounds in Philadelphia tonight. Harvard and Yale football schedules compared in the Labor Day Sporting programme.
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Cincinnati
Pittsburg
Red Sox
Washington
Lajoie
Cobb
Wagner
Boston
Kaufman
Lang
Philadelphia
Harvard
Yale
Clergy praise labor and its public role in sermons
Clergy across Trinity Cathedral Union Congregational Church and Clarendon Street urge the value of labor and toil. Dr. Smith cites joy in work whileMgr Splaine warns of facing the struggle under God. Rev Stockdale calls labor a public benefit educating on actual needs. Rev Francis cautions against excess class consciousness.
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Dr. Smith
Trinity
Mgr. Splaine
Cathedral
A. A. Stockdale
Union Congregational Church
Rev
J. A. Francis
Clarendon Street
Labor Sunday Sermons Highlight Boston Clergy Union Sympathy
Yesterday churches in and near Boston marked Labor Sunday with special sermons aimed at workers. The sermons reflected strong clerical support for the A F of L and union labor, signaling broad church engagement with the labor movement.
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Boston
A. F. of L
Labor Day Sermons Draw Large Boston Clergy Crowd
Leading Boston clergy returned from summer homes for Labor Day sermons as unions filled Trinity Church and Catholic parishes praise workers. Rev Allan Stockdale preached on Organized Labor citing cloak makers' strike as proof of workers' strength and suffering. Dr Smith at Trinity contrasted old labor hardship with new fellowship and stressed work's value and dignity.
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Boston
Allan A. Stockdale
Trinity Church
Dr. Smith
St. John's
Charlestown
Trinity
Roosevelt
Morning program items for Labor Day events in Boston area
The schedule lists a breakfast for Mayor Hopewell and the Forty-third Regiment at Boston City Club, a New England fair in Worcester, a Harvard Boston aero meet, Typographical Union Apprentices outing at Nahant with Bass Point House banquet, Fat Men's Club outing, and a Labor Day parade with a State House review by Governor Draper and staff.
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Hopewell
Ottawa
Forty-third Regiment
D. C. O. Rifles
Boston City Club
Worcester
Squantum
Boston Typographical Union Apprentices’ Association
Nahant
Bass Point House
New England
Draper
State House
Boston
Caledonian Grove
Spring Street
West Roxbury
Forty-eighth Regiment
K. of P. Hall
Amesbury
International Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees
Faneuil Hall
Myppia Hunt Club
Marine Barracks
Charlestown
Common
Marine Park
Forty-seventh Regiment Association
American House
Labor Day Parade Promises Largest Boston March Yet
A vast Labor Day parade in Boston is set to feature 10 600 to 15 000 workers and a prominent role for women. Notables including Governor Draper and Mayor Fitzgerald will review the march as unions from across Massachusetts participate with float banners and showcases from the Typographical Union and various women’s suffrage groups. Continuous page 2 first column.
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Boston
Draper
Fitzgerald
Massachusetts
M. M. A. Ward
Margaret G. Bondfield
Peoples’ Suffrage Federation of England
Emelie Gardner
National Women's Suffrage Society of England
Emily Pierson
Hartford
Ueen
Roxbury Textile Workers
Bartenders’ Union
Fire Turns Feast Day into Panic on South Margin Street
During the Feast of the Virgin celebration on South Margin Street a fire from a flickering candle lit the ornate decorations. The blaze sprayed sparks on crowds in the bandstand and street as spectators fled. a wire above held a hanging angel figure and a little girl.
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South Margin Street
Fire Sparks Panic as Grand Stand Fire Triggers Stampede
John Kelley of Engine 4 with Officer Joseph O Neil and Joseph Freno enter a burning house to save lives as sparks shower the grand stand. Fans scramble from the packed seats and crowds clash in the street while eight bearers escort the jewel decked statue to safety.
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John Kelley
Engine 4
Joseph O'Neil
Joseph Freno
Census gains in cities show no population losses so far
Washington reports that about 75 cities listed in the census data show no population losses. Several towns such as Albany Bay City and Lynchburg posted large gains since 1900 with Albany up 12 percent Bay City 63 percent and Sioux City over 44 percent. Major gains include Kansas City Muskogee Oklahoma City and others with increases up to 223 percent for Oklahoma City in ten years.
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Washington
Albany
N. Y
Lynchburg
Sioux City
Town
Saginaw
Kansas City
Pueblo
Col
Waterbury
Baltimore
Boston
Chicago
Cleveland
Los Angeles
Louisville
Minneapolis
New Orleans
San Francisco
High Heels Cost Two In Worcester Lake Accident
Mrs Kitty Nice Perle 39 leading lady of the Manhattan Opera Company and her husband Louis Perle 50 musical director drowned at Lake Quinsigamond while trying to change places in a row boat. Mrs Perle's boot caught on a seat and pitched her into 65 foot water. Her husband jumped in to save her. niece Margaret Nice 19 screamed for help.
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Worcester
Kitty Nice Perle
Manhattan Opera Company
Louis Perle
Lake Quinsigamond
Miss Margaret Nice
Worcester Couple Drowns After Lake Trip Near White City
A Worcester woman died when she fell from a shipboard seat during a lake outing with her husband. The pair were en route from an engagement at White City Amusement Park and were found after a witness saw a launch pass by. The husband’s body had not been recovered by nightfall.
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Worcester
White City
Perles
Miss Nice
Charles F. Poor, Jr
Boston
Fireerater barn blaze wipes out animals in West Newbury
Fire suspected arson destroys a large barn tied to the almshouse in West Newbury. Eight cows and two horses die, along with 80 tons of hay, wagons, and harnesses, all valued at about $10,000. The blaze damaged a stable connected to the almshouse.
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West Newbury
Grahame White and Curtiss Favorites at Harvard Aviation Meet
Official standings after the first day show Grahame-White Johnstone Brookins Willard leading in duration distance speed and bombing events under revised rules. The big day at Squantum features the Boston Globe prize race to Boston Light and 11 other events as 30 000 spectators prepare.
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Grahame-White
Curtiss
Roe
Harvard Aviation
Squantum
Boston Light
Boston Globe
Lowell
Harvard University
Cromwell Dixon
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North Weymouth
Locust Street Grounds
Forest Hills
Weld Hill
Francis Parkman Parents’ Association
St. John’s Church
Newton Lower Falls
Singer
A. M
SUN
Middle Atlantic
European
Grand Banks
Post
Theodore L. Bridges
United States Weather Observer
Wright
Harmon
Grahame- White
Johnstone
Brookins
Willard
Thompson's Spa
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