Damaged Illinois and Alabama Sailors Buick to Repairs
Newport RI August 3 The board of inquiry continues aboard the Illinois into the collision with the Alabama southeast of Brenton's Reef Lightship. Divers inspect hulls as guns and shafts show damage. Both battleships head to navy yards for repairs. Seaman Corbett lost a leg and later an arm. Seaman Hanley has a fractured arm.
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Newport
R. I
Illinois
Alabama
Brenton’s Reef
Ilinois
Ben
Jamin
Tilly
Iowa
Navy Yard
Corbett
Clinois
Hanley
Examinations Announced by Civil Service Commission
Concord August 3 The United States civil service commission announces examinations to take place soon On August 29 examinations for en
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Concord
The
United States Civil Service Commission
Civil service exams offer various posts in Philippine and U S offices
Vacancies include forest assistant in the Philippine Islands, inspectors of sewers and water works in Manila, architectural draftsman for supervising architect offices and West Point, civil engineer posts in the Philippine Islands, and Warm Springs Ore. Applicants may apply to the U S Civil Service Commission in Washington or the examining board in this city. Bert Wood Curtis Call Eugene McCue and Mr and Mrs Howard Spinney attended F O Bailey horse auction in Portland on Thursday. Weather tomorrow in Washington: fair with light to fresh southeast winds.
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Washington
Bert Wood
Curtis Call
Eugene McCue
Howard Spinney
Portland
Forest City
Officers Installed In Naval Lodge No 184 And Whipple Lodge
The August meeting reports Past Master David G. Walker installing Naval Lodge No 184 officers led by Worshipful Master George W. Collins and Senior Warden F. E. Robbins, with other posts filled. Whipple Lodge of Good Templars No 98 also installs officers led by Maurice Parker assisted by Cora B. Prince and Minnie Froh. Death of James C. Rundlett aged about 54 noted, with services planned.
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C. &. Gowan
L. T. Williams
E. S. Chaney
Tyler
L. B. Colburn
Amos S. Rundlett
D. G. Walker
W. H. Chick
Portsmouth
Whipple Lodge of Good Templars
No. 98
Grange Hall
Lodge
Maurice Parker
Cora B. Prince
Minnie Froh
Templar
Nelson Webber
Lucy M. Burnham
Nellie F. Meyer
Lillian Goodrich
Italians Strike Over Wages at Pulpwood Yard
A group of Italian laborers unloading pulpwood from railroad cars at the paper plant walked off on Thursday after a wage dispute with the contractor hired to unload cargo to the store shed.
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Sheda
Tragic Mower Accident Hit Three Year Old Child
A boy from Roy Staples of South Eliot ran into a mowing machine blade early Friday. The right leg was nearly severed above the ankle and cuts from running gear were sustained. Doctors Durgin and Whirlis attended, attempting to save the limb.
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Roy Staples
South Eliot
Mr. Staples
Durgin
Whirlis
Dredge MTothfield Beached and Tug Patapsco Nearing Commission
The MTothfield dredge sits beached above low water as pontoons finish, then towed toward Boston. The government tug Patapsco will be built near the Franklin ship house, about 167 feet, while the Paul Jones at 189 feet is the largest coast tug. Charles Billings will receive a 22 foot gasoline launch Saturday built by Blaisdell of Portsmouth. Prisoners for the South arrive in small squads. heavy awnings shield deck prisoners from heat. The Strew whistle caused harbor rumors of a naval vessel, but it was only the tug Confience. The old coal shed sold to J. R. Knight of Kittery is being removed. Yard workers plan a Saturday half-holiday outing. Yardmaster Rose coordinates shipping boats for the St. Louis at the League II.
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Newmarch Street
Charles Spinney
Lynn
Mass
Sexton
Rogers Road
Hattie Wentworth
Spencer, Mass
Carrie Phinney
Massachusetts
George Philbrick
Marcia Grant
Ipswich
Laura Sprague
Brooklyn
J. Wilson Hobbs
Milton
Cochrane
New York
Edson W. Kelley
Concord
N. H
Charlotte Prescott
Charles Fish
Dover
Bath
Fred Bradbury
Kemah
Cole
Main Street
Williams Avenue
Amos Goodwin
E. G. Parker Post
Grand Army
Odd Fellows’ Hall
Amy Windrich
Manchester
N.H
Newell K. Howe
A. C. Foss
Hattie Woodworth
Harold
Malden
Adam Lutts
Georgia Place
Eliot
M. T. Cochrane
Herbert Hartshorn
Boston
York Beach
United States Marine Corps
Kittery
Able
Godfrey and
Sullivan
Marines
Lorenzo Hatch
North Kittery
Congregational
M. Mitchell Davis
Whales Back
North Atlantic Squadron
Boston Towboat Company
Bothfield
Ellen Frisbee
Lowell
Agnes Sullivant
T. S. Sulivant
Mary BD
Fagan
Frank Jordan
Lewiston
Josephine Frisbee
Thomas Burton Hoyt
Addison W. Tobey
Oscar T. Clark
Thomas B. Hoyt
Thurston D. Patch
Lillian Walker
Edith Payne
Halene Seaward
Nellie A. Tobey
Frank Getchell
Harold Walker
John M. Tobey
H.everett Doughty
Willis Dennett
Zetta Marsh
Northwood
IL. M. Keene
Patapsco
Franklin Shiphouse
Paul Jones
Reading
Charles Billings
Mr. Blaisdell
Portsmouth
Navy Gunboat Eagle Docked with Coal Barges at Noon
Report describes gunboat Eagle and two coal barges docked at noon on Friday in the basin. They will be repaired and cleaned aboard. A submarine blast at Hendersons Point around noon Friday sent water high and was felt on the Portsmouth side. Massachusetts Contracting loading another locomotive at The Point bound for Oaks Pa. Other locomotive recently shipped to New Jersey. Beach witnesses observed the Eagle docking with barges. John Barry, former fireman at Frank Jones electric plant, called for electrical work in equipment department.
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Eagle
Henderson's Point
Portsmouth
Massachusetts Contracting Company
Oaks
New Jersey
John Barry
Frank Jones Electric Plant
Department of Equipment
Two Eclipses This Month Displayed Across the Sky
The article notes two eclipses in Augustнач a total moon eclipse on August 4 visible in Alaska Asia and Australia and a partial solar eclipse on August 19 visible in Arctic regions and western North America. It adds planetary conjunctions with Saturn on August 6 Jupiter on August 15 and Venus with the moon on August 22, describing rising and viewing conditions.
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Alaska
Asia
Australia
North Pole
Arctic
Tacoma
Seattle
British America
Fracture of Skull in Polish Lumberman Case
An autopsy of Adam Carpiska, the Polish lumberman, held for murder, was conducted by Medical Referee John E. Proctor and two local physicians. It found death due to a blow to the head causing a fracture at the base of the skull. Vaschi Czenovos remains held for the grand jury.
Picnic of Union Rebekah Lodge at Rand's Grove
The Union Rebekah Lodge picnic was held Thursday at Rand's Grove in Jennese Beach. Attendees enjoyed a tempting picnic dinner and a pleasant day. The report notes a humorous aside about motor boat engines affecting popular pastimes.
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UNION
Rebekah
Union Rebekah Lodge
Rand's Grove
Jennese Beach
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Board of Inquiry
the Herald
Department of Ladies
Wadnut
Roger and
Guallet
Tery
Newsy Lems
James C. Rundett
Merwin G Ford
Fannie Y. Fernard
Lucinda A. Hayes
Walter B. Donnell
Margaret W. Jackson
Mary M. Edson
Frank E. Donnell
James C. Rundlett
Echo Street
Mr. Rundlett
Amos
Rundlett
Kittery Grange
Beatrice P. Goodwin
Grange
Miss Goodwin
Viola Bunker
Ansel W. Paine
Pemaquid Point
Gladys Clark
Leslie Clark
A. R. Young
Guy Amee
Edward Dodge
North Carolina
Kittery Point
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Now
Ng Machin
Southery
Fort
J. R. Knight
Yards and Docks Department
Wil
Rose
St. Louis
Saturn
Jupiter
Venus
Alpha Delta Phi
Adam Carpiska
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