Pope Pius Receives 600 French Gymnasts in Rome
Pope Pius welcomed six hundred French gymnasts at the Vatican. The group read a loyalty address and the Pope urged continued athletics as strengthening faith and body. He cited Matatia on obedience to tradition, then they toured the court of St. Damaso for an exhibition with church officials and visitors.
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Rome
Pius
Matatia
Vatican
Father Wernz
Society of Jesus
St. Damaso
Pope Pius
Papal
J. Hanselmann
Thomas J. Gannon
William O’brien Pardow
New York
Stop thief chase ends with capture in Boston streets
An 18 year old former employee Thomas F Rourke fled with a gold watch and $24 from Edgar L French a pigeon fancier of Mill Street Reading. A crowd of about 500 pursued through Sudbury Street Scollay Square and Court Street before Rourke was caught by a policeman. The watch was recovered and Rourke jailed at headquarters awaiting trial back in Reading.
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Thomas F. Rourke
Edgar L. French
Mill Street
Sudbury
Scollay Square
Court
Rourke
French
Reading
Boston
Sudbury Street
Federal nat uralization fraud cases to be cleaned up
Assistant US District Attorney Lewis says within a week to ten days the nat uralization fraud investigation will result in six to seven more arrests. Three men already jailed, details withheld to protect prosecutions, but the drive will continue to the limit.
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United States
Lewis
Roosevelt cup final yacht race set for Marblehead
The fifth Roosevelt cup race will sail at Marblehead with Vim Auk and Wannsee still in contention. If Vim wins today the cup goes to New York. Auk or Wannsee win and a sixth decider Tuesday follows. Conditions favor Auk on triangular courses. Vim favored on windward runs.
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Marblehead
New York
Leeward
Vim
Auk
Spinnaker
Wim
What is a Backache
Women utter lines like it seems as though my back would break as they suffer aching in the small of the back and low side. They describe bearing-down pains nervousness and lack of ambition for any task while seeking relief from chronic back pain.
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Greg
Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound Praised by Miss Maude Morris
A testimonial from Miss Maude Morris of Atlanta praising Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound for female troubles and back pain. The letter notes prior severe monthly pain, weakness, and insomnia eased within two months, with improved eating and regularity.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Lipton Trophy on View at Keith's Theatre Exhibition
The Sir Thomas Lipton cup for Massachusetts Bay, the most beautiful yacht ing trophy ever offered for competition in these waters, will be exhibited in the long lobby at the Washington street entrance of Keith's Theatre all this week.
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Massachusetts Bay
Washington Street
Keith’s
Drowning of Arthur Pelletier in Taunton River
Arthur Pelletier, 21, drowned in the Taunton River at Fall River while a group from Somerset watched. He stood outside a canopy on a power boat when he lost balance and fell overboard. A companion grabbed him but also fell, and Pelletier sank before help arrived. the body remains unrecovered.
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Fall River
Arthur Pelletier
Taunton
Somerset
Pelletier
Smelting Trip Aboard Sloop Lucy Nets Several Dozen Emelt
A party led by Joseph KE. Lewis and including Richard E. Walsh John Leary and James O'Donnell sailed from Jeffries Yacht Club on the Lucy with Captain Frank Wells. They reached Nantasket Point and brought back several dozen smelt served hot at home after a late-night cruise.
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Joseph KE. Lewis
Dorchester
Richard E. Walsh
South End
John Leary
James O’donnell
Roxbury
Lucy
Frank Wells
Jim O'Donnell
James O’dowd
Charley Colbeare
Jeffries Yacht Club
Nantasket Point
Huge Crowd at Revere Beach Draws Thousands
A warm day drew about 170000 visitors to Revere Beach with large crowds at Wonderland and the boulevard. The diving horses arrived and were set to perform this afternoon while the public bathhouse closes next Sunday night.
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Revere Beach
Labor Day
Mt. Vesuvius
Carnival Committee
Boulevard
Wonderland
Wesson Granddaughter Weds New York Contractor in Springfield
Miss May Beatrice Bull granddaughter of Daniel B. Wesson married Adam Mackay Ganson a New York building contractor. The ceremony at the First Congregational Church took place in the palace built by the groom’s firm. She will inherit $200000 from her grandfather’s will while her mother Mrs Bull is noted as a leading Massachusetts heiress. Frank Wesson, another grandchild, also receives $200000 and is engaged to a Memphis woman.
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Wesson
New Yorker
Springfield
May Beatrice Bull
Daniel B. Wesson
Adam Mackay Ganson
New York City
F. L. Goodspeed
First Congregational Church
Bull
Massachusetts
Frank Wesson
Memphis
Toann
Typhoid Made Husband Forget He Had a Wife
John O Gara a prominent Shamokin businessman returned from Philadelphia with a surprise gift of 150 dollars for Mrs Grant Lewis wife of coal miner Lewis who had believed her husband dead for 11 years after leaving in 1895. Typhoid fever triggered memory lapse but he later resumed work and prospered in Chicago real estate netting 40000 dollars. O Gara delivered the message and reunion.
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Shamokin
Penn
John O'Gara
Philadelphia
Grant Lewis
Lewis
West
Chicago
O’gara
Meahe Messenger
Kentucky woman credits Grape-Nuts with health revival
A Kentucky woman describes indigestion and nervous prostration subsiding after replacing breakfast with Grape-Nuts and cream. She reports improved strength, vigor, and mental poise, with occasional pains only when overindulging in rich foods. Postum Co Battle Creek ad ends with price.
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Kentucky
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Family battle with hawk in Whitinsville yard
In Whitinsville on September 9 Mr. and Mrs. John W. Searles fought a white leghorn hen and a hawk in a backyard incident. The hawk attacked the mother hen while the Searleses, using a towel apron and a baseball bat, drove the predator into the timbers. Mrs. Searles sustained scratches and the bat fractured.
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Whitinsville
John W. Searles
Hawk
Searles
Mr. and
Mrs. Searles
Lipton Declines Fat Man Dinner Invitation
Sir Thomas Lipton laments not being fat enough to join the Fat Men's Association of Westport at their annual dinner. He sent a cable from London dated Sept 6 1906 to P H Murphy, president, expressing appreciation but inability to attend and a humorous hope to qualify someday.
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Lipton
New York
Thomas Lipton
Fat Men’s Association of
Westport
Conn
Thomas
Erin
P. H. Murphy
Conductor's Foot Size at Issue in Worcester Railway Suit
Elmer Macfarlane sues Worcester Consolidated Railway claiming a conductor stepped on his feet injuring toes and cites damages of 2500. He consulted Attorney Frank B. Hall and plans trial over whether a conductor can walk over passengers and cause such injuries.
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Worcester
Worcester County
Worcester Consolidated Railway Company
Elmer Macfarlane
Macfarlane
Frank B. Hall
Plans to Honor Captain Barry At A. O. H. Meeting
Plans to honor Captain Jack Barry on Sept. 13 and the recent State convention of the Ancient Order of Hibernians in Fall River were outlined at a large Division 34 meeting at Parkman Hall Boylston Place. Vice-President M. J. Ahern chaired as speakers highlighted growth in membership and finances.
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Jack Barry
Order of Hibernians
Fall River
Division 34
Parkman Hall
Boylston Place
M. J. Ahern
Order
Michael Mooney
Patrick Cooney
Daniel Herlihy
Thomas O’connor
John J. Murphy
P. J. Leonard
South Boston Boy Severely Wounded in Trolley Accident
Arlington September 9 An eight year old South Boston boy John O Meara of 221 West Ninth street was run over by a Boston bound Arlington Heights car at the car barn entrance. The calf of his right leg was torn to shreds and his life is in peril. He was taken to Massachusetts General Hospital for treatment and possible amputation.
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Arlington
John O'Meara
West Ninth Street
Boston
Massachusetts General Hospital
Arlington Heights
Atwood
Train Kills Ayer Boy on Boston & Maine Line
James Donahue, 15, was killed instantly when a passenger train struck a milk team he rode near Ayer on the Worcester Nashua and Portland division. The driver Thomas Brissin jumped clear and escaped injury.
Doctor Despaired Woman Cured by Williams Pink Pills
A Plainfield New Jersey woman long crippled by anemia reports a dramatic recovery after using Dr Williams Pink Pills. She describes headaches heart irregularity swelling and weakness followed by renewed energy pink cheeks and renewed life. Pills priced at 50 cents a box or 2 50 for six shipped by the Dr Williams Medicine Co Schenectady NY.
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Williams
Thomas J. McGann
Lincoln Place
Plainfield, N. J
Dr. Williams
Dr. Williams Medicine Co
Schenectady
N.Y
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