Henry Cabot Lodge and a boy’s sea world memory
In a Marshfield Times reminiscence the narrator recalls Henry Cabot Lodge writing in Scribner’s and his father’s merchant career amid Boston’s granite block and Commercial Wharf. He describes admiring clipper ships, captains, ship-keepers, and the riches of Asia, noting ships built or named by his father, including the Argonaut, Don Quixote, and Sancho Panza, and the enduring pull of sea life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Heaton
Henry Cabot Lodge
Scripner
China
Alfred Hill
Sarah H. Snow
Valuable Gobelin Carpet Discovery Stuns Baron in Budapest
An art expert visiting Baron Jarmy, a Hungarian parliament member in Budapest, found a worn carpet under a washstand hides a fourteenth century Gobelin tapestry in excellent condition. He offered $600, but the baron valued it at $20,000. The British Museum has requested first refusal rights.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baron Jarmy
Budapest
Baron Jarmyy
British Museum
Substantial Tributes to Scientist in Providence
Hundreds of letters with money orders arrive daily at the home of Henri Fabre in Sorignan Providence. The renowned entomologist in his nineties reads the bags and distributes anonymous donations to the poor, while denying reports of poverty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Secignan
Providence
Henri Fabre
Homer
M. Fabre
Sorignan
Unique Archipelago of Maldives With Ring Island Lakes
A distant Indian Ocean group of atolls forms a circular array around calm inner waters. The Maldives comprises roughly 14 000 islets, many only seven to eight feet above sea level, with coconuts and vegetation. One island stands out as a ring with a smooth lake in its central core.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maldive
Indian Ocean
Hindustan
Tony
Uttla
Course of Matrimony At Gardens High School
A Los Angeles report notes Gardens Agricultural High School offers a curriculum on courtship matrimony baby care mother craft and domestic science with five classes of girls attending daily. A separate exchange about recall mentions Ferdy’s departure last night and lingering regret.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Gardens Agricultural High School
Los Angeles
Encouraging Olive Growing in France 1921 Payout Plan
A fund of two million francs will be distributed this year and each year through 1921 among French olive growers. Each acre will receive an average bounty of about 1.17 francs.
STANDARD OIL KEEPS GRIP ON SUBSIDIARY
New York reporters note Standard Oil controls the Tuckaye Pipe Line through Buckeye officials who testified before a referee in the Waters-Pierce investigation. D. Buehneill said he became president of Buckeye and Indiana Pipe Line in 1911, after a dissolution decree. Directors, all long-time Standard employees, were elected amid immediate raises. Welch became Signet Division superintendent and veteran Hite was placed in charge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Epa
Standard Oil Company
Tuckaye Pipe Line Company
Standard Company
Buehneil
Buckeye
Bushnell
Waters-Pierce
Howald
Northern
Aed
Indiana
Standard
The
R. L. Bates
T. W. Dillon
L. C. Webb
Buyknell
Standard Oi Company
Welch
Signet Division
Hite
Man Slain by Soldiers Near Michigan Penitentiary
Jackson Mich Sept 16 Adjutant General Vaniercook of the Michigan National Guard has been officially informed of the killing of John Etsy, a foreigner. The tragedy occurred near the state penitentiary, still guarded by the National Guard, and a guardsman fired the fatal shot after the man refused to halt. Within forty eight hours guardsmen have twice halted suspicious persons near prison walls, prompting heightened vigilance. The body was identified by a local Catholic priest who said Etsy worried about the rectory and church for some time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jackson, Mich
Vaniercook
Michigan National Guard
John Etsy
State Penitentiary
National Guard
Walla
Eley
Chinese loan defeated despite Anglo American opposition
London reports the opposition to a new 50 million dollar loan to China failed. The United States and Great Britain cooperated to oppose the loan, with State Department views influencing British policy toward Peking. Objections cited relief needs and foreign supervision over China’s expenditures, urged by a five-power backer group.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
China
United States
Great Britain
American State Department
British Foreign Office
Peking
Marines Plan Rescue of U S Girls in Nicaragua
Washington dispatches report American Marines under Mar Smedley Butler moving to rescue a group of French American and native girls held at a Granada Nicaragua girls school. The government said rebels have surrounded the school and risk starvation. Rear Admiral Southerland has been asked to deploy Marines.
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Washington
Mar. Smedley Butler
Sehool
Granada
Nicaragua
Navy’ Department
Weltzel
Managua
Southerland
Heroseue
Lightning Strikes Kill Kentucky Girl in Field
Owensboro Kentucky September 19 A sixteen year old girl Myr tle Johnson was killed by a bolt of lightning her clothing stripped from her body her brother was knocked unconscious by the same strike authorities investigated the incident in a rural field during a storm.
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Birk
Owensboro
Progenig & Field
Myrtle Johnson
Rebel Chief Zapata Threatens Invasion and Overthrow of Madero
In a letter to the New York Herald Zapata warns of invading Mexico City to topple President Madero. He claims 18,000 armed men across eighteen states and criticizes Madero while calling for honest elections and reforms. Separately, Yaqui unrest near Douglas, Arizona, raises fears of cross-border violence as rebels gather and rumors of forces align with Gen Zarco.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
United States
Mexico
Siexico Chry
New York Herald
Emiliaco Zapata
Republic
Madero
Zapata
Botton
Pascual Orozco
Ghail
Orozco
Douglas
Ariz
Arun
Prieta
Oporto
Cordova
Salazar
Rebela
Nacozari
Atos Moantaing
Campa
Banker Snead Indicted in Amarillo Murder Case
Amarillo banker B. Snead has been indicted by the Potter County grand jury for the Saturday murder of Al G. Boyce. Sheriff Burwell read the writ as Snead remained composed and offered thanks. A habeas corpus writ will be sought and a Monday hearing set. Snead cannot be tried in the January district term here. he faces a November trial in Fort Worth for the father’s murder.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo
Tex
J. B. Snead
Allery
al G. Boyce
Potter County
Snead
Burwell
Boyes
Fort Worth
Haywood pleads not guilty in Massachusetts switch conspiracy case
Lawrence Massachusetts September 17 William D Haywood general organizer of the Industrial Workers of the World was arraigned in the superior court before Judge Quinn after arrest in Boston at the close of a mass meeting on the common He faced charges of conspiracy by threats to prevent workers at various mills from working during last winter textile strike He pleaded not guilty and was represented by Attorneys Joan P S Mahoney and John Moore of California.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrence
Mass
William D. Haywood
Industrial Workers of the World
Boston
Superior
Quinn
Joan P.S. Mahoney
John Moore
California
Man leaps to death at Masonic Temple in Chicago
Chicago. Carl R Rasmussen, a young insurance agent, killed himself by jumping from the Masonic Temple roof. He landed on the Martin J Regerson building. every bone in his body broken. Police say death may have been planned, though no witness saw the fall. Washington. After 36 years, the Edison and Harrington suit against Atlantic & Pacific Telegraph and Jay Gould over telegraph patents may be dismissed for lack of jurisdiction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Carl R. Rasmussen
Masonic Temple
Martin J. Regerson
Washington
Supreme Court of the United States
George Harrington
Thomas A. Edison
Atlantic & Pacific Telegraph Company
Jay Gould
Goulds
Nogi and Wife Buried After Large Tokyo Funeral
Tokyo September 4 The double funeral of Gen Count Mareuke Nosi supreme military councilor of Japan and his wife the Countess Nogi drew vast crowds. The funeral cortege moved through Akaseki to the Aoyama cemetery where the imperial body lay en route to Monoyama. The warrior general rode in a car with the countess in a hearse pallbearers drawn from top army and navy ranks served as guards of honor.
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Tokyo
Mareauke Nosi
Japan
Nogi
Muteulito
Tokyo City
Monoyama
Aoyami
Akaseki
Aoyama
Onuntesa
Fatally Hurt by Bandits In Peninsula Hold Up
San Mateo City Attorney Charles M. Kirkbride was fatally wounded when masked bandits robbed two San Mateo cars near Burlingame. A conductor William Sterett was grazed by bullets as bandits fled in an automobile. an all night search on the peninsula followed. Kirkbride died while grappling with a robber who forced passengers to surrender money and jewelry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Cal
Charles M. Kirkbride
San Mateo
Easton
Burlingame
Tessden
Kirbridge
William Sterett
Peninsula
San Jose
Kirkbridge
Work on Guns Halted by Colt Strike in Hartford
Hartford work stoppage disrupts urgent government orders for army rifles pistols and machine guns. About 1000 Colt Revolver works employees walked out, the first plant strike in a decade, halting thousands of rifles revolvers and hundreds of machine guns in various stages of construction amid rushed orders to fulfill government offers for newer arms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hartford
Conn
Colt Revolver Works
Arcia
Woman Licensed to Fly in New Record Flight Height
Westbury Sept. 8 The Aero Club of America awarded a pilot license to Miss Barnetta Adame of Canton Ohio making her the only woman in the nation to hold this honor. The license covers a motorsport series with flights here. She attained sixty miles an hour in one stunt and climbed to 1600 feet.
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Westbury
N. Y
Aero Club of Americs Ta Mes Barnetta Adame
Canton
Miss Woods Ends Life by Jump From Seventh Floor Window
New York report of Miss Julia Woods thirty dies after leaping from the seventh floor of her apartment building. She was daughter of LC Woods chief of the naval academy division in Washington and had been under a physician care for a nervous disorder.
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New York
Julia Woods
LC. Woods
Mival Academy
Navy Department
Washington
Misa Woods
Four Robbers Bound Mail Clerks In Southern Rail Heist
Four bandits robbed the New York and Memphis fast mail on the Southern railway at Stevens Gap Alabama. They bound and gagged four mail clerks, stole three sacks of registered mail, and escaped as a posse with bloodhounds formed at Huntersville pursuit. Officials expect losses near 300000 dollars with no shots fired at passengers.
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Memphle
Venn
New York
Memphis
Southern Railway
Stevens Gay
Ala
Stevens Gap
McMahon
James Flint
Filpt
Bia
Frank Hamilet
John Bruce
L. E. Powers
Huntersville
Roosevelt to Testify October 1 in Campaign Probe
Col Roose vel will testify in Washington on October 1 about a $100,000 Stand ard Oil contribution to his 1904 campaign fund. Chairman Clapp of the Senate campaign expenditures committee will arrange for the hearing at the Capitol afternoon session. A mass meeting in Washington is discussed for October 2 as part of the plan.
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Washington
Roosevale
Frank J. Hogan
District of Columbia
Clapp
Senate Campaign Expenditures Committee
Col. Roosevelt
Standard Oil Company
Gol. Roosevelt
Capitol
Mr. Hagen
New York Progressive
Allen defendants taken to cells after courthouse attack
Roanoke report states Sidna Allen and Wesley Edwards, tied to Carroll county courthouse killings, were moved from Des Moines and jailed near convicted kridusmen. Floyd Allen and Claude Allen face death sentences, Friel Allen received fifteen years. Maude Iroller, Edwards' sweetheart, stays nearby.
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Roanoke
Sidna Allen
Wesley Edwards
Carroll County
Des Moines
Seek Change of Venue in Hillsville Killings Case
Roanoke dispatch reports Sidna Allen and Wesley Edwards, held in Des Moines, engage attorney J. G. Buxton to defend them. They seek trials at Hillsville where the crimes occurred, while other gang members already convicted were tried at Wytheville. Commonwealth’s attorney opposes the venue shift.
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Roanoke
Sidna Allen
Wesley Edwards
Des Moines
Hillsville
J. G. Buxton
Mount Atry
N. G
Allen
Edwards
Wytheville
Commonwealth
Verge
Aillstyne
Allons
British Auto Men Form $25 Million Combine
Representatives of seventeen British automobile manufacturers announced plans to unite in a $25,000,000 combine aimed at resisting the invasion of the American low priced car.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Truet
New York
Land deal pending on White River tract in Bayfield County
Edward Hines Lumber of Chicago plans to sell 87 000 acres of Bayfield County land to a Chicago syndicate for around 3600 000. Mrs Hudson and Depton Fitzer have been in the area drafting abstracts. The White River tract sits in the county’s middle western area and includes cut over timber and several cultivable parcels. Purchasers intend to market the lands to settlers.
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White River
Say Held
Beloit Officials Clash Over Lane Between School and Council
A legal fight unfolds between Beloit council and the school board over a lane west of the high school. The council voted to pave the lane but Mayor Cunningham vetoed, arguing the alley is not a thoroughfare and the board opposes improvement. The board began grading the alley. Lipman obtained an injunction to halt work, setting the dispute for court to determine control between school land and municipal authority.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beloit
KE. Lipman
Cunningham
Lipman
Fire destroys large Milwaukee flour mill after basement explosion
A basement explosion at the Berger-Crittenden flour mill on Cherry and Commerce streets in Milwaukee destroyed the mill and a bonded warehouse. Estimated losses range from 100000 to 150000 dollars. Fifteen workers escaped unharmed as flames consumed over 100000 barrels of flour. a Lehigh Valley freighter docked at the mill was towed away before ignition. The mill operated three shifts and was one of the city’s largest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milwaukee
Berger-Crittenden Flour Mill
Cherry and Commerce Uatreeta
Joss
Storm Causes Heavy Loss in Sheboygan Readiness
A severe reo storm hit Sheboygan causing extensive flooding and damage. One hour rainfall reached 31 inches, weekly total 5.23 inches, flooding streets and stores. Cracker Chair company factory flooded two feet, stock damage about 14,000 dollars. residents waded through water over shoes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sheboygan
Cracker Chair Company
Enlargo Green Bay Gas Plant Expansion Plan
Green Bayne Wistonain Securities Co has bought land near Green Bay Gas and Electric for two city blocks adjacent to the gas works. The purchase covers 4,000 feet of Fox River frontage and Hast livery property, valued at 50000 dollars. The company intends to construct a coal dock on the livery and develop other property as business grows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Enlargo
Green Bay
Green Bayne Wistonain Securities Company
Green, Bay Gas and Electric
Blood Poisoning Fatal in Sheboygan Youth
Blood poisoning caused the death of Arthur Baumas, 23, in Sheboygan after a deep cut at a factory worsened. Doctors failed to save him as infection developed, leading to his demise a week later.
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Sheboygan
Arthur Baumas
Aba
Fire destroys farmhouse near Cumberland
A fire consumed the Alfonso Ricci farmhouse and its contents three miles south of Cumberland, destroying the residence, furniture, and clothing. No injuries reported as investigators begin common fire scene inquiries.
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Cumberland
Houes
Alfonso Ricci
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