10 Aug 1901
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Newspaper
Portsmouth Herald
Location
Portsmouth, New Hampshire, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1901
Page
1
Rounding trip fare set at 50 cents with single fare also 50 cents for a day in sun. The notice names Willard Bilisen as General Manager and emphasizes good on the day of sign sun only for arrangements on the wharf.
Harbor front items list arrivals including Steamer John Wise and barges for John Pieros Co and Eliot tug Piacataqua with stone. ships City of Fitchburg and others with merchandise passengers. departures show Tug Piscataqua towing bricks and City of Fitchburg sailing to Boston. schooners Edith and May heading east.
Reduced round trip fares from New England cities via White River Junction and Central Vermont to Burlington St Albans Montpelier Barre and intermediate points. Fare 16 dollars with stopovers at Lake Champlain Montreal Thousand Islands and St Lawrence river. Inquiries to depot agents or HH Hanley Pan American folders from 806 Washington Street Boston MA.
National League results include Pittsburg 1 Chicago 4 in Pittsburg Philadelphia 13 New York 2 in Philadelphia Brooklyn 4 Boston 3 in Brooklyn Cincinnati 6 St. Louis 13 in Cincinnati Boston 9 Baltimore 1 first game Beston 6 Baltimore 2 second game at Boston Washington 4 Philadelphia 5 first game Washington 4 Philadelphia 9 second game at Washington Cleveland 8 Milwaukee 3 in Cleveland Detroit 12 Chicago 1 in Detroit Eastern League Buffalo 2 Worcester 4 in Buffalo Toronto 5 Hartford 1 in Toronto Montreal 5 Brockton 4 in Montreal Rochester 19 Providence 6 in Rochester New England League Lowell 14 Nashua 6 in Lowell Haverhill 5 Lewiston 4 in Haverhill Manchester 8 Portland 2 in Manchester.
Dover N H August report from Granite State park harness meet notes a serious accident when Tonita 8 broke and struck Ambulator’s sulky throwing Weiand to the ground. Weiand suffered a fractured jaw and head injuries, taken to Hayes hospital in critical condition. Emma E. won the 2.10 pace ahead of Marion G with Anna R taking the 2.24 pace and Consuelo 8 claiming the 2:14 trot.
Portland workers lay a new telegraph line from Portamouth to York Beach for commercial use by the Boston and Maine railroad. W. H. Manshan of Hillaboronh auctions twenty five house lots at Ognngnit with front lots selling 400 to 650 dollars and back lots 100 to 800 dollars.
Aug 9 dispatches report United States Steel urging dismantling of the DeWees Wood plant at McKeesport and transfer to Kiskinetas valley. AFL leader Gompers pledges moral and financial support to the Amalgamated during the strike after talks with Amalgamated president.
Readville owners have named horses for the $10,000 Massachusetts stakes at Readville trotting week after next. Hon. Frank Jones will race Kleata, winner of the M. and M. stakes this year, facing Lady Geradine and a field of other fast trotters.
Cuamparin Inn Aug 9 A large fire destroyed the business portion of Rantoul a town of about three thousand people Telegraph service was cut early and details are scarce The blaze began in a grain elevator then reached the Illinois Central depot and consumed most of the commercial area
San Draco Canada Aug 9 The U S Ranger now at this port will leave for Panama in a day or two to protect American interests during the Colombian revolution Capt Field in command has orders to prepare for sea at once The Ranger can depart within twenty four hours if ordered She will take three months provisions
The training ship Chesapeake with a detachment of naval cadets arrived in Portland this afternoon and will likely remain over Old Home Day next Thursday. The Dolphin with Secretary Long arrived this morning, and the secretary and Mrs. Long left for Buckfield this afternoon.
Weather indications show showers for Saturday and Sunday in the eastern portion. Winds turn from south to east with developing westerlies, as a weather system approaches the coast.
Three plays will tour next season under Jules Morry. Faust stars Mephisto in a return to form, Lost Liver a merged Park Theatre hit with elaborate scenery, and Vermont a new comedy revealing Archie Boyd in a breezy Western to New England life, with diverse characters and added humor in a Vermont setting.
Leola Maye and William Heck cast in The Pariah Priest with Joseph Holland for William Faver sham's company. Francis Gaunt for the title role in Barbara Frietoue. Gua Weinberg for The Rogers Brothers in Washington. Florence Webster and Frank Hartwell for Lover's Lane. Charles H. Wupert leads juvenile in The High Bells. Jeffreys Lawin for Sadie Martinez's company. James G. Brownee manager of Dave B. Lewis' Fastern Uncle Josh Sprace. Charles Th. Clark for ninth season with Deoman Thompson in The Oh! Homestead. J. J. Colman engages Peter Rice as business manager for Flarry D Bacres ford in The Wrong Mr. Wright. A Dudley Hawley reengaged to play the Imp in Morris and Rice's When We Were Twenty One. Saymore Stuart Mollie Main and Dorothy Waters, three English beauties, engaged by John O. Fisher for Pretty Maidens in Florodora. arrived from London on Saturday.
Daniel Sully's company begins The Parish Priest in Bridgeport on Sept 2 with Ida Van Sielen Helen Nelson Leola May Chrystie Miller Robert Blaylock F Stanton Hesk and John D Griffin. A complete new scenery set is painted for the production. William H West opens his twenty seventh season as manager and proprietor of a minstrel company at Ulmer Park Bensonhurst NC July 25 featuring Bill Von John A King Tim McMahon and others.
Judge John I Young will preside over the Keene term opening October 1 and over Ports mouth October 15 and Lebanon November 19. Judge Ponalea will preside over the January Exeter term and Judge Pike over the April term.
They are vitiated fluids in the blood causing skin eruptions pimples and boils weakness and debility. Caused by defective digestion or inheritance they are expelled by Hood's Sarsaparilla which also builds up the system. It is promoted as the best medicine for humors.
A Friday afternoon benefit game at Maplewood Park drew about a thousand spectators for the Cottage hospital fund. The Lawyers defeated the Doctors 23 to 12 in five innings, amid a lively scene with colorful attire, banners, and notable local figures assisting with management and gate duties.
Alvah II Frost, a man in the steam engineering department, leaves today for a ten day vacation to be spent at Sebago Lake. The Thursday disaster scene was visited Friday by Lundreda and others. Sentries at the barracks kept people away from the roped area. Large schools of mackerel were reported at Boon Island on Thursday.
The funeral of Mrs Mesley, who died when the big shed collapsed during the cyclone, was held at the United States naval hospital on Solvey’s island. Interment was at the navy yard, later to her home in St George. Joel Pierson’s body was sent to St George for funeral services. Wrecking work proceeds and no further deaths are reported.
The Rebekah iolgs at Haven hangion, lelington at rest, hosted a garden party Friday evening. About 100 guests attended in frosty weather. Lanterns, electric lights, bunting, and color decor brightened the grounds while the Punch and Judy tent, fortune teller, schooling range, and iced cream tables drew patrons. An Italian trio provided music. The lodge expects a substantial sum from the event.
Advertisement asserts deafness stems from inflamed Eustachian tube and catarrh, claiming only constitutional treatment works. Promises $100 for any deafness case caused by catarrh not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Includes Toledo company address and drugstore pricing.
The Pepperrell family reunion at Kittery Point on August 16 includes a reception, church exercises at Free Baptist church with an address by Hon. Joseph A. Locke of Portland, a poem by Cecil Cutts Howard, and an address by Rev. William Salter D D. The program features music and readings from notable figures in a long celebrated lineage.
The Locke Family Association will hold its eleventh annual reunion in Rye on August 28 starting at ten o'clock. All descendants are invited to attend and enjoy an evening entertainment. An electric car service runs every half hour from Port Month.
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