Big Schooner Sideswipes Fishing Vessel Near Provincetown
Captain Antone Jesus of the Philip Manta recounts a harrowing 15 mile off Provincetown collision with the schooner Marie Palmer. The bowsprit was shattered and damage estimated around $800 as crew endured five minutes of violent tossing and near capsizing before Palmer moved off. An investigation will be started upon Palmer’s arrival in the South.
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Philip Manta
Marie Palmer
Provincetown
Antone Jesus
The
Manta
Palmer
Jesus
Post
Pearl valued at $500 found near Rumford Falls
Rumford Falls Maine Sept 2 selectman R I Melcher showed a freshwater pearl found yesterday in a muddy brook to a local jeweller who valued it at 500 dollars He declined to reveal the county area The same day Arthur Morrison a local business man found a pearl valued at 50 dollars
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Rumford Falls
R. I. Melcher
Trickery Charged by Clergy at Pilgrim Hall Meeting
Bitter personalities and biting sarcasm marked a rainy Pilgrim Hall gathering of clergy and laity from the Congregational Sunday School and Publishing Society at 15 Beacon Street. After five hours of debate the factions voted to reconvene next Monday at 1 PM.
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Pilgrim Hall
Congregational House
Beacon Street
Congregational Sunday School and Publishing Society
Controversy Flows At Second Adjourned Congregationalist Meeting
The second adjourned annual meeting chaired by Rev Samuel B Capen heard a five member finance panel urge drastic changes to the 21 member board of directors. They proposed trimming to 12 and removing Secretary Frank K Sanders while citing a $12000 theft as a catalyst. The meeting, lasting nearly five hours, drew about 100 attendees as debates over by law amendments and board reform intensified.
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Samuel B. Capen
Frank K. Sanders
Congregationalist
Committee of Five
S. H. Wolcott
Lawrence
Apen
Philip
Moxon
Springfield
Wolcott
Sullivan ends campaign for Third Councillor seat in Boston
Democratic hopeful James F. Sullivan concluded his bid for the third Councillor district representing areas once held by Edward P. Barry. He toured wards across South Boston East Boston Roxbury Dorchester Jamaica Plain and the North and West End addressing local clubs.
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James F. Sullivan
Edward P. Barry
Boston
East Boston
Roxbury
Dorchester
Jamaica Plain
Officer McCaffrey Faces Perjury Charge in Salem Street Case
Officer George S. McCaffrey testified under oath that perjury is common as he faced a Salem street corner violation case involving pawnshop keeper Israel Segal in Municipal Court. He claimed witnesses lied, was fined, and asserted broader perjury in Suffolk County court, while attorney Vahey denied impropriety.
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George S. McCaffrey
Sullivan
McCaffrey
Israel Segal
Salem Street
Vahey
Segal
Suffolk County
Coburn Freed Over Dictionary Content Clash
Joshua G. Coburn, an octogenarian of Newton, was freed from a city ordinance charge after he proved a bonfire is defined as a celebration or pleasure in Webster’s dictionary. The court accepted the technical distinction, urging Newton to consider new rules to curb such bonfires.
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Newton
Joshua G. Coburn
Webster
Annabelle Whitford Bests Juvenile Rule in The Follies
Annabelle Whitford, who impersonates the Gibson bathing girl in The Follies of 1907, proves a perfect type of a child prodigy succeeding at adulthood, an exception to the rule that juvenile prodigies rarely mature into lasting stars.
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Annabelle Whitford
Gibson
Sarony
the Colonial
Baby Annabelle A Pioneer American Toe Dancer
The article outlines Baby Annabelle as an early American toe dancer, barred from New York by the Gerry Society, gaining fame in Lederer productions, and popular as a society dancer. She declined a Seeley dinner engagement after learning its nature, reported to police, studied voice abroad, and returned as a contralto. She starred in The Belle of Mayfair and was chosen by Manager Zeigfeld as a Gibson bathing girl type.
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Baby Annabelle
New York State
Gerry Society
Lederer
New York
Miss Annabelle
Anite
Mayfair
Zeigfeld
Gibson
Goebel Murder Link Denied by Sandford Heir
Captain Cassius Marshall Sandford son of the late John Sandford of Covington Kentucky denied in New York through attorney Charles H. Strong any connection to the Goebel murder. He said the affidavits naming him as present at the Kentucky State House and cited by Lulu Williams Clark are false.
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New York
Cassius Marshall Sandford
John Sandford
Covington
Lulu Williams Clark
State House
Jankfort
Goebel
Kentucky
Charles H. Strong
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