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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1907
Page
4
Provincetown reports two sailors drowned from the schooner Annie M. Perry after a gale off Highland Light. The vessel limped home with flags at half mast, while a dory failed to reach the missing pair. The Harvard cruiser and heavy NW winds add to fears as the hurricane rages at over 60 miles per hour.
Dr. Winfield Smith of Boston faced a perilous day as his gasoline launch drifted during a gale off Crow Point. His chauffeur Edward Shields boarded a skiff to recover it, then found a man adrift in a disabled craft. Landing proved impossible until Charles Houghton came out in a boat to bring the two men to shore.
A fierce gale described as the worst since 1898 devastates Plymouth and surrounding towns. Lifesaving crews at Garnet Light Brant Rock and Manomet Point rescue fishers while two schooners, Noname and Hazel, sink. Duxbury Cable station reports massive damage and widespread outages. wind reaches 60 mph with heavy rainfall and wrecked gear across the coast.
A 50 mph easterly gale lashed the coast at dawn causing widespread danger to shipping. Fog obscured losses but fears of casualties persisted as life savers could not confirm wrecks. One rescue tale followed a daring schooner captain who rode out the storm near Chatham bar. Hyannis reports various craft mishaps and the Luella Nickerson dodged ashore. The North Atlantic squadron trained in Massachusetts Bay.
A northeast gale battered Revere Beach with the Bay State and Revere Yacht clubs losing boats. A motor boat Batterre was saved after breaking from moorings. a sloop owned by Mrs. Alice Elder was wrecked at Roughan’s Point. two Warren Torrey sloops were salvaged after multiple risky attempts. another large sloop drifted then wrecked near Winthrop Head with no lives lost.
Newburyport suffers severe storm impact. Yachts and power boats damaged as wires blow down put street lights out. Charles Fletcher saved by three American Yacht Club members after his rowboat capsized. Five American Yacht Club power boats and three auxiliary yachts sunk. Fortuna wrecked hitting Cushman’s wharf. fore topmast broken. Cable between Newburyport and Salisbury Beach broken.
A large chimney on a three story wooden block at 357 Washington street collapsed into the street around 10:30 am after heavy rain and strong winds. The event disrupted pedestrians en route to church while trees branches and utilities were damaged citywide. The storm also caused flooding in Hammond and Laundry Brooks areas and relieved local water shortages by filling Needham area watersheds.
Canton prepares for the McKinley monument dedication with President Roosevelt among dignitaries. More than 50 special trains will bring visitors, and numerous stands have been erected to accommodate them.
The famous Bloody Monday memory of brutal freshmen hazing at Harvard is referenced, but the tone shifts to a calm, orderly evening with no disturbance expected.
Shortly after noon from Yarmouth weather was moderate until midnight then a 3 am gale with rain. The Prince George carried nearly 1000 passengers, the season’s largest list. The Harvard, 400 aboard, arrived India Wharf from New York on time and left for the metropolis at 5 pm with nearly 200 passengers, but anchored in quarantine due to storm.
A heavy rainstorm with strong winds lashed Malden causing widespread damage. Electric wires fences and trees were blown down while lowlands and the Linden district faced flooding as high tides reached residential cellars.
A 20 member search party combed woods and plains between Indian Orchard and Chicopee Falls seeking clues to the disappearance of Moses P. Wheeler, a wealthy Worcester builder.
About a mile from the Morrell house on Burnett road an umbrella found Mr Wheeler carried when he left Worcester. A man answering Wheeler description called Tuesday night for lodging. Mrs Morrell afraid to admit him. It is believed Wheeler perished in woods after leaving the house. He had nearly 300 on his person and foul play may be involved. A reward offered for body or information. Dr George S Clark and Charles A Wade among searchers.
A heavy gale drove the schooner Venturer of Port Johnson for St John NB ashore on West Chop after parting her port chains and dragging the anchor. The vessel took 10 feet of water in the hold as it pounded ashore and remained ashore after the incident.
Sept 29 in Watertown a gale ripped roofs from a shed and damaged fruit and shade trees across town. East Watertown suffered the worst, with branches falling along Mt. Auburn street narrowly missing pedestrians. A lumber yard on Wes tern avenue saw a 20 foot pile topple and a shed roof blown off.
A severe rain storm battered Melrose Wakefield and Stoneham causing damaged telephone lines telegraph service and electric lights. Flooded cellars near marsh lands in Stoneham, fences blown down, a large tree toppled on Franklin Street Melrose and streets in Melrose Highlands left gutted.
A severe east gale battered the harbor causing unusually high seas and breaking over outer islands. A large fleet of schooners and coal barges rode at anchors in the upper harbor as coast vessels reached their piers on schedule. The steamer Boston departed Long Wharf at 2 PM for Yarmouth, with Captain McKinnon aboard the Prince George arriving at Long Wharf.
Jonas Bemis of Charlton vice-president of the Boston Co operative Milk Producers Association calls a mass meeting of Worcester county producers for tomorrow at 11 at Hor ticultural Hall Worcester to decide whether to accept 35 1 2 cents a can offered by Boston contractors or to demand a living price and organize further action.
Mr Bemis learns directors gave in to Boston contractors by lowering the price 40 cents per eight quarts. Zone includes Charlton Barre Plains and central western county producers. Leaders Luther Crawford John O'Brien and Fred Bowen rally 3000 cans daily in revolt. meeting tomorrow may extend the dispute. Bemis opposes surrender to Boston men.
Thieves invaded Peter Dosi’s fruit store at 115 West Broadway South Boston early yesterday morning and absconded with 150 cigars 18 packages of cigarettes a box of candy and a 32 calibre revolver.
The advertisement explains Seal Brand coffee as the finest beans blended and roasted by experts, free from impurities, never hand-touched from source to can, and guaranteed fresh. It sells in 1 and 2 pound cans at 35 cents a pound, never in bulk.
A total of 3.09 inches fell from 7 PM Saturday to 7 PM Sunday, the greatest single day rainfall in September for the local weather bureau. The 7.43 inches for the month tops all Septembers since 1882, when 10.98 inches were recorded.
London M P Fred Maddison spoke before the Y M C A on Workaday Religion stressing that true faith must lead to honesty in trade integrity in politics and fair dealings. He argued religion should teach duty not merely promise happiness and critiqued overemphasis on death in churches.
London observers await William Marconi as he inaugurates his promised transatlantic wireless commercial service. Submarine cable firms acknowledge wireless advances but say it is not yet ready to rival established systems.
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