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...cooks were working in the crew's galley when the wave struck. It stove in the door, ripped open a steel bulkhead, and as the cooks crouched by the wall drove the stove and two half-ton boilers straight through the rear bulkhead. Seaman H. J. Johnston of Portsmouth was in the alleyway. Fifteen minutes later when the water had ebbed enough for an officer and a quartermaster to wade in, Seaman Johnston was found dead, smashed against the wall. On Christmas Eve they buried him at sea. Captain Trant read the service and they slid his body over...
Playing indoors at the Chicago Stadium to settle the National Football League championship, the Chicago Bears beat the Portsmouth Spartans...
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...gift was officially recognized in the Probate Court yesterday. Theodora Lyman of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, was named as residuary legatee. The bequest will be known as the Andrew Preston Peabody Fund. The estate under the will, which was drawn in 1915, was estimated...
...with an articlee in Contemporary Japan to explain that he was the person to whom President Roosevelt had suggested a Japanese Monroe Doctrine. The Viscount said it had occurred during a rocking chair conversation at Sagamore Hill in 1905 while Russian and Japanese delegates were negotiating the Treaty of Portsmouth which ended the Russo-Japanese War. He explained that it has never before been published because he had promised President Roosevelt not to do so while the latter remained in office or afterward except by special arrangement. T. R. went hunting in Africa, then returned to start the Progressive Party...