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Al Southwick: Sacco and Vanzetti and the Worcester connections Al Southwick The news stories about the Sacco and Vanzetti exhibit in the John Adams Courthouse in Boston brought me back to a day in October 1932. My father drove our old Essex slowly up Institute Road from Park Avenue and stopped at Beechmont Street. There we and others gazed at a wrecked house on the corner. It was the home of Judge Webster Thayer. It had been blasted by a bomb the night before. A policeman watched warily as we took in the scene. The crime was never solved, but few doubted that it was retaliation for Judge Thayer’s role as presiding judge at the Sacco and Vanzetti case 10 years before. That case was an explosive episode with worldwide repercussions. When, after years of appeals, delays and newspaper frenzy, the two were finally electrocuted at the Charles Street Jail on Aug. 23, 1927, the funeral procession up Hanover Street in Boston was watched by thousands, many weeping, others prob ....
From the foreword to Marshall Taylor s autobiography, The Fastest Bicycle Rider in the World Marshall Major Taylor s exploits on the bicycle tracks of three continents are legend. From 1898 to 1904 he was indeed the fastest bicycle rider in the world. In 1899 he set seven world records in the quarter-mile, the one-third-mile, the half-mile, the two-thirds-mile, the three-quarter-mile, the mile and the two-mile. He did the mile (from a standing start) in 1.41, a record that stood for 28 years. He did the paced mile (behind a five-man windbreaker bike) in 1.31 and in 1.22 behind a motorcycle pacer. He also raced and won in the longer meets two-mile, five-mile, etc. He even once competed in a grueling six-day race at Madison Square Garden and came in eighth, having logged 1,732 miles over the 142 hours of competition. ....
Al Southwick: Worcester fire almost wiped out valentine card industry in 1910 By Al Southwick Many Worcester folks know about Esther Howland and how she jump started the Valentine’s Day card industry from her home on Summer Street in Worcester. But how many have heard of the raging fire on Jan. 15, 1910, that almost wiped out the valentine card industry in America for that year? It was an epochal event in the saga of Worcester fires. That was years after Ms. Howland retired and sold her thriving business to George C. Whitney, a former employee. Under his guidance, the company became the largest producer of valentine and other cards in the land. In January 1910, its storehouse at 67 Union Street was packed with cartons loaded with Valentine cards headed for shipment across the country. But the fire that ripped through its premises on Jan.15 wiped out untold reams of valentines and, according to one estimate, led to a substantial shortage of valentines nationwide. ....
Al Southwick: When steam power conquered the sea Al Southwick On April 23, 1838, the British ship, Sirius, steamed into New York Harbor after a 17-day journey from Cork, Ireland. It was the first to cross the Atlantic entirely by steam power and it set off a competition among shipping interests. For the next 20 years, the Atlantic trade was seen as the golden route to fame and riches. It proved to be the watery graveyard of many hopeful entrepreneurs. Ships then were mostly sailing ships or steam-powered side-wheelers with auxiliary sails. They were slow and cumbersome and had a hard time meeting strict schedules. Among the men who planned to change that was Edward Knight Collins. The Collins Line would prove to be the unluckiest steamship line ever launched, but it also made maritime history with its radical new vessels. ....