Word: seamen
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...among the sparse and needy population. On one of his voyages he made the first chart of the coast which is in any way accurate. Dr. Grenfell is a magistrate, a holder of the Board of Trade certificate of competency as mater-mariner, an agent of Lloyds in pursuing seamen who wreck their vessels for the insurance, and an active opponent of the fraud, the oppression and the drink evil, which find peculiarly helpless victims among the fisher-folk. He has recently been made a Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George by King Edward...
...inhabitants a life work. He has charge of four hospitals, and by means of his hospital ship and his dog-teams, he covers great distances in his tours among the sparse and needy population. Dr. Grenfell is a surgeon, a mariner, a magistrate, an agent of Lloyds in pursuing seamen who wreck their vessels for the insurance, a manager of a string of co-operative stores, and an active opponent of the fraud, the oppression, and the drink evil which finds peculiarly helpless victims among the fisher-folk...
There are still clothes needed to fill the boxes which are to be sent out by the Phillips Brooks House Association to various charitable societies and institutions throughout the country. A box is to be sent to the Seamen's Friends Society, for which thick suits, overcoats, and heavy shoes are desired; small suits are needed for a case which is to be sent to the City Prison of New York; for an anti-tuberculosis institution in New Hampshire, heavy overcoats, thick clothes, and sweaters are in demand; and medium weight business suits are desired for a box which...
Last fall cases of clothing and periodicals were distributed among the following organizations: Tuskegee Institute, Alabama; Seamen's Friends Society, Boston; Morgan Memorial, Boston; St. Vincent de Paul, South Boston; Cambridge Associated Charities; St. James's Parish, North Cambridge; Newspaper Hospital, Boston; Cambridge Hospital; Holy Ghost Hospital, Cambridge; T. Wharf Sailors' Reading Room, Boston...
...Review for April, which appears today, contains the following articles: "Presumption of the Foreign Law", by Professor, A. M. Kales '96; "Liability in the Admiralty for Injuries to Seamen", by F. H. Smith; "Respondent Superior in the Admiralty"; by F. Cunningham...