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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1914
Page
1
North Reading April 3 thousands of quarts of pure milk will be distributed in Boston daily at no cost beginning Monday. Dairy producers say market conditions leave hundreds of gallons unsold and unused.
Milk flows on North Reading and Middleton farms with no buyers as contracts expire. Producers say 2000 quarts daily are wasted while dealers shift to cheaper sources from New Hampshire, Vermont, and Canada. Bradley Olmstead leads a push to donate milk in Boston despite high quality output.
For two hours last evening W Bourke Cockran excoriated President Wilson and his Panama tolls policy. He called Wilson near treason and hinted at impeachment while denouncing him as frightened and violating the nation’s honor. He also attacked William Jennings Bryan as a political embezzler.
At Hibernian Hall Roxbury a large crowd heard a rostrum attack on judges and court made law. The address urged that constitutional policy be decided by the people, backing Connolly the Progressive candidate for Congress against the canal toll policy.
To California, Washington, Oregon and far West, March 14 to April 14, via Nickel Plate Road. Write L. P. Burgess, 312 Old South blog, Boston. advt.
In Juarez Mexico on April 3 after alarm over the fall of Terreonm last night the city slept calmly today. General Villa issued no new details beyond promising full dispatches tonight as both sides tally losses and await full reports.
Great interest centers in definite information as to the number of federal details. Continued on page four in seventh column.
Eighteen freight cars carrying milk lumber and hides for Boston left the Boston and Maine line at Webster Lake tonight. They tore up rails for a mile and many cars turned turtle crashing down an embankment. Traffic on the Concord division was tied up. The accident was caused by a broken truck frame.
Fireman Carl E. Johnson of Ladder 18 narrowly escaped being burned when flames engulfed the W. H. McElwain Co shoe factory at 348 358 Congress street in a $150000 fire. Driver Cornelius Sullivan of Engine 8 was tossed from the hose wagon after it struck a street car at Salem and Hanover streets but suffered only minor injuries. James F. Cullen of Engine Company
A blaze started in the engine room and spread through to upper floors. Three men including 38 and Coleman J Hogan of Protec tive Co 1 were overcome by smoke and taken to Relief Hospital. Firemen faced explosions and dense smoke as the flames raged for nearly two hours before being controlled.
Flames confined to one building but smoke and water damaged two adjoining structures separated by fire walls. Water from the fifth floor passageways affected a large stock of upper leather in the 12 18 Pittsburg street building as it flowed through from the Congress street block.
In Peabody Walter Hills 56 and Miss Pearl Frost 20 were shot by George LeFave 35 the rejected suitor. LeFave waved a 38 caliber Colt pistol at police before an officer wrested the weapon and arrested him for murder. The doomed girl uttered a final plea to marry him as she fell.
A fragment states he fired two bullets into her body and she died almost instantly. The report continues on Page 9 Fourth Column.
The text notes the 94th day of the year during spring with day length 12 hours 51 minutes and a 3 hour 45 minute increase. It lists celestial objects including Venus near and Mars Saturn, Jupiter as the morning star, and a lamp reminder before 6 42. It recalls anniversaries from 1738 Chelsea departing Boston and 1609 Henry Hudson’s Holland voyage, plus a year since Miss Ethel Roosevelt wed Dr. Richard Derby.
Fair and continued cool Saturday and Sunday with moderating northwest winds. In Eastern New York and New England the forecast calls for fair skies, continued cold conditions, a slight warming trend, and winds shifting from moderate northwest to variable.
The entry records times at Thompson's Spa with coded figures and temperature data. It notes an average yesterday of 37 degrees and an average one year ago of 44 degrees.
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