Mrs Brown Potter Recites at Gorleston Church
In London on a June evening Mrs Brown Potter gowned in white recited Pope's Vital Spark of Heaven’s Flame and The Queen's Last Ride in the chancel of Gorleston church near Yarmouth after evensong. Crowds pressed the doors and hundreds were turned away. the bishop may ban a repeat. Rev Forbes Phillipps, alias Athol Forbes, is writing a new piece for her.
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London
Forbes Phillipps
Brown Potter
Gorleston
Yarmouth
Pope
Phillipps
Athol Forbes
Race to Berlin ends with Fournier winning Paris-Berlin race
Berlin June 29 Paris-Berlin racing motors draw 10000 spectators. Fournier arrives first amid loud cheers after a dusty, hot course from Spandau to the West End. Girardot, Brassier and De Kuyff follow with repeated greetings as crowds celebrate the motor tour.
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Berlin
Spandau
West End
Charlottenburg
Germany
Belgium
Automobile Clubs
France
Austria
Duke Frederick of Mecklenburg
French Chamber Debates Motor Races Regulation
Premier Waldeck Rousseau faces debate in the French Chamber of Deputies over motor car speed after a string of serious German race accidents. The government is urged to impose strict speed controls to curb deadly incidents.
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Waldeck-Rousseau
French Chamber of Deputies
Germany
Canadian Annexation Warns Bourassa in London
London July 1 J Henri Bourassa a Dominion Parliament member and former La Revue Canadienne director arrived for a holiday He warned that American capital is spreading around the lakes rivers and railways and breaking down the barrier between Canada and the United States He said Americans are buying Canada and annexation could revive if political differences arise and French Canadians may again save Canada.
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London
J. Henri Bourassa
Dominion
la Revu Canadienne
Daily News
Canada
United States
Toronto
Martial law proclaimed in Panama amid rebel reorganization
The Orinoco reports martial law in Panama due to rebel reorganization and fighting in the interior. Government dispatches reinforcements with arms and ammunition to interior garrisons and coast towns. Officials note fear of attacks on the city and reference alleged Governor cruelty driving Liberal resistance to peace terms.
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Kingston
Colon
Colombia
Panama
Moscow Millionaire Will Sets Educational Funds in Russia
The Moscow heir H. Solodovinxoff's will, approved by courts, leaves 21 million roubles to be split into three funds for elementary and professional schools in Vologda Archangel and Tver governments. The remaining estate funds workingmen's dwellings in Moscow with rents not exceeding five roubles per month.
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Associated Press
St. Petersburg
Moscow
H. Solodovinxoff
Vologoda
Archangel
Tver
Revising King's Oath In Lords Report
London June 29 report by a Lords select committee says the accession declaration may be amended to maintain Protestant succession without the objectionable idolatry language. The suggested form avoids terms likely to offend Roman Catholics while preserving efficacy as security for the succession.
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London
House of Lords
Braddock Crowd Hears Schwab Plan For $500,000 School
During a local event, Mr. Schwab kissed about 200 women before a final kiss to Mrs. Schwab. He then announced an intended gesture for Braddock, with townspeople speculating a $500,000 industrial school as the likely gift.
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Steel
Mr. Schwab
Shafter Retirement and Regiments Mustered Out at Presidio
At the Presidio Major General R. Shafter was retired and command passed to Maj. Gen. S. M. B. Young. The 48th 49th and 38th volunteer regiments were mustered out, eight paymasters served, over a million dollars distributed, and a safety escort accompanied the treasury. An accidental gun discharge wounded George Price, may prove fatal. Three regiments remain to be discharged tomorrow. the volunteer army will then pass into history.
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San Francisco
Presidio
R. Shafter
Shafter
Department of California
S. M. B. Young
George Price
Kentucky
48Th
John Rogers
Hiren Brothers
Rogers
Price
Centenarian Rebecca Ramsdell Dies in Henniker at 102
Henniker New Hampshire June 29 Rebecca Ramsdell aged 102 years 4 months died at her home after living 83 years in the same house she never married born March 2 1799 in South Ac ton joined First Sabbath school class 1814 and Orthodox church 1832 taught school later worked as a tailoress she suffered a hip fracture recently attended by an aide funeral at Congregational church Monday at 2 pm
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Henniker
N. H
Rebecca Ramsdell
South Acton
Miss Ramsdell
Congregational Church
Armstrong Transfer Co. founder G W Armstrong dies
G W Armstrong of Boston and founder of Armstrong Transfer Co died at Centre Harbor New Hampshire after a knee to ankle surgery and diabetes complications. He would have been 65 in August. He began as a street newsboy at 14 and later ran a news business on the Boston and Worcester line before forming the Armstrong Transfer in 1862.
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Centre Harbor
N. H
George W. Armstrong
Boston
Armstrong Transfer Co
Boston and Albany
Boston and Maine
Armstrong
Jernegan
a_ Street
Boston and Worcester
Armstrong Transfer
The Explorers Opens in Chicago to Great Hit
The musical comedy The Explorers had its opening at Dearborn theatre in Chicago on June 30 and drew an emphatic success. It features bright airs with a book by Bert Lester Taylor of Chicago and music by Walter H. Lewis of Manchester New Hampshire.
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Chicago
Dearborn Theatre
Walter H. Lewis
Manchester
N. H
Bert Lester Taylor
Boston man Charles Bellam dies at Providence field day
Charles Bellam of Boston aged 38 died suddenly at about 6 PM at the Hauterive club near Riverside East Providence during a field day hosted by the Providence Order of Eagles. He was treasurer of the Fraternal Order of Eagles of Boston and leaves a widow and two children.
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Providence
R. I
Charles Bellam
Commercial Street
Boston
Hautereve Club
Riverside
East Providence
Bellam
Order of Eagles of Boston
Providence Order of Eagles
Hauterieve Club
Schwab kisses 200 women at Braddock church reception
Braddock Pennsylvania June 29 Charles M Schwab president United States Steel kissed 200 women in 20 minutes at a reception honoring the dedication of Hepiscopal church built in memory of his mother in law The event followed a $13900 church debt relief gift and drew steel workers and families with Mrs Schwab by his side The crowd applauded as Schwab kissed a baby and the mother.
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Braddock
Charles M. Schwab
United States Steel Corporation
Hobson
Fire at the Pines destroys Grove land pavilion
Haverhill reports the Pines pavilion owned by the Lynn and Boston Street Railway company at Grove land burned at 10 am. Gasoline explosion in the basement sparked the blaze. The theatre and menagerie were saved. A boy named Dunn narrowly escaped after his clothes caught fire.
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Haverhill
the Pines
Lynn and Boston Street Railway Company
Groveland
Dunn
Tanner
Machinists Strike Ends At Goodyear Blake Pump Works
The machinists strike at Goodyear shoe machinery and Blake Pump Works ends with a return to work planned for Monday. The union, after a brief vote, defeated a motion to extend or call off the stoppage.
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Goodyear Shoe Machinery Company
Blake
Victim of Heat Stricken Man Dies in Lawrence
Lawrence reports another prostration death as Herbert Lamotte, 63, native of Quebec and engineer, collapsed at Methuen and Franklin and died at his home 317 Lowell Street after a physician was summoned. His wife and three children survive, one in Montreal. An ice company employee Ritchie also collapsed but improved later, with Michael Hennessey and William Walsh among other heat victims.
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General Hospital
Manchester Street
Michael Hennessey
William Walsh
Lawrence Ice Company
Methuen
Body of Richard Little Taken to Portland
The body of Richard Little, removed from Littleton cemetery, was shipped to Portland after authorities granted permission. Attorney Nason, guarding the remains since Wednesday, had the autopsy completed with tissue sent to New York. removal followed a board of health review finding no evidence of unlawful burial.
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Boston
Richard Little
Littleton Cemetery
Samuel G .Smith
Dorchester Street
Portland
Merrow
Nason
New York
Board of Health
Littleton
Reckless Revolver Fire Shocks Somerville Court
A young man accidentally fired a loaded army revolver in the Somerville police court building. The bullet pierced the floor and struck the wall near spectators, narrowly missing W. H. Flaherty. The shooter hid briefly, then appeared. police took no action as it was an accident.
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Somerville
Bow Street
Company M
Lighth Infantry
Manchester Fatalities From Heat Claim Three Lives
In Manchester New Hampshire three residents died in the last day from extreme heat. Annie Spooner age 62 collapsed at a boarding house Saturday and died at Sacred Heart hospital. John King, who worked at the Amoskeag dye works, died Sunday morning after being overcome by heat. Mary Clark, 60, was found dead in her room Sunday noon. The city records oppressive heat with a slight easing Sunday.
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Manchester
N. H
Annie Spooner
Sacred Heart Hospital
John King
Amoskeag
Mary Clark
Boston Suffers As Heat Persists Across New England
Boston reports a 93 degree high with 58 percent humidity as a heat wave presses. The thermometer rose by one degree from yesterday and total hospital strain remains high while police record a death from heat prostration and many other serious cases in the city.
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Boston
New England
Eleven Deaths From Heat Prostration Increase on Sunday
New York report shows eleven deaths and nineteen prostrations due to heat by 9 30 tonight as Sunday relief from heat storms failed to appear. The heat wave remains severe with workers idle on the day limiting death and illness counts.
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New York
Taunton Sets New License Commissioners After Dismissals
The Taunton mayor will appoint new license commissioners to replace George B. Harvey, Francis P. Conaty, and Richard P. Coughlin, who were deposed today. Harvey works at Reed & Barton's silver works, Conaty is a machinist, and Coughlin is a lawyer. Counsel for the deposed group will petition the superior court for a review and request an early hearing, likely in Boston.
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Taunton
George B. Harvey
Francis P. Conaty
Richard P. Coughlin
Harvey
Reed & Barton's _ silver works
Conaty
Coughlin
Superior Court
Boston
Fitchburg Day Clears License Scene at City
Fitchburg June 29 The license situation is cleared up with pharmacist Frank S Stone singled out from about 18 certificates by the State board of pharmacy license commissioners. He returns his license and for the first time in years the city has no licensed place of any sort. Aldermen failed by tie to grant licenses to the others, leaving no outlook for an affirmative break.
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Fitchburg
Frank 8. Stone
State Board of Pharmacy
Mussulmans and Christians clash on Albanian frontier
London dispatch reports at Gusinge on the Albanian Montenegrin border a clash between Mussulmans and Christians leaving ten Christians dead and many wounded.
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London
Vienna
Daily Telegraph
Mussulmans
Gussinge
Portland Steamer Suicide Tragedy Hints at Despair
Warren Weston aged 85 of 16 Halburn Street Boston leapt from the Portland steamer bound for Portland Maine and died after going overboard last night. He left a note at home yesterday stating he planned to go to Portland and that no one would see him again. The note was found at 1 AM.
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Boston
Warren Weston
Halburn Street
Portland
Bride-to-be dies after taking poison in Taunton
Miss Annie Lynch, engaged to Edwin Newhall who died by suicide two weeks earlier, reportedly took poison today in Taunton and died. The Herald notes the act is believed to be prompted by her fiancé's untimely death.
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Boston
The
Herald
Taunton
Annie Lynch
Edwin Newhall
Fall River Spinner Burned by Lantern Explosion
Fall River on June 30 Owen Dowd a 25 year old unmarried spinner in a local mill was burned to death this morning when a lantern he used in his sleeping room exploded and set him ablaze.
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Fall River
Owen Dowd
Boston Carpenters Prepare to Demand Eight Hour Day
Boston carpenters and their supporters plan to force master carpenters to concede an eight hour workday with no wage reduction. About 10,000 carpenters are involved, with most already winning the eight hour day and more anticipated to do so tomorrow.
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Boston
Boston Ani
Mass sailor ships join fleet at Newport port
Newport Rhode Island June 80 The battleship Massachusetts joins the Kearsarge and Alabama at the naval station this afternoon as fleet manoeuvre plans are altered. The trio will not depart for Nantucket until July 5 instead of tomorrow.
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Newport
R. I
Massachusetts
Kearsarge
Alabama
Naval Station
Nantucket
Cure for Leg Soreness Promised by Dean’s Ointment
A testimonial from C. W. Lenhart of Bowling Green claims a running itching leg sore caused excruciating pain and was permanently cured by Dean’s Ointment. He asserts the product removed burning and itching and provided lasting relief.
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Dean
C. W. Lenhart
Bowling Gree
Traded Heat Death of Broker Geo H Sheldon
The body of broker Geo H Sheldon who leaped from Highbridge due to extreme heat was moved from the hospital to an undertaker in Fordham. His mother, living in Hartford Connecticut, is expected to arrive.
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New York
Geo. H. Sheldon
Highbridge
Fordham
Hartford
Conn
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Jo Wrnier
M. DeBacker
Baron de Soylon
Robert Katzenstein
Frankfort On Main
Postdam
Paris
Baron de Rothschild
Pascal
Hanover
Auto Club
Fournier
Count von Schoenborn- Wisentheid
Irardot
Girardot
Brassier
de Kuyff
Charren
Farman
Arman
Rgarten
Brandenbusga
Unter den Linden
Bourassa
Bequeths
California Department
Young
Henniker, N. H
G. W. Armstrong
Explorers
Pres. Schwab of
Chris, Holmes
Florence
Errimack
Lawrence
Eighth Infantry
Taunton’s
Lowel
Sutyest
A. G. Pollard & CO
Thompson
Carpenters
Roach
C. B. Coburn & Co
Market Street
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