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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1909
Page
12
Thousands of workers across New England were kept idle as manufacturing plants shut down due to high water in wheel pits. The freshets rose along the river systems reaching near record heights, causing temporary closures and loss of working time without major structural damage reported.
Androscoggin River mills at Lisbon Falls and Brunswick and the Nashua cotton works at Jackson Nashua halted operations. The Cascade mill in Berlin was idle as floods rose. Vermont factories along the Connecticut River mostly reopened after receding waters. Springfield and Holyoke saw high flood levels with subsidence by noon. Most rail washouts have been repaired and trains run normally. Plants expected to resume today.
James W. York age 60 died of heart failure at Lawn Dale Avenue home. John Lasman age 22, who recently came from Russia, died from accidental gas asphyxiation after turning on gas in his top floor room at 6 Chestnut Terrace. Medical Examiner noted the causes as heart failure and gas asphyxiation.
A Liverpool dispatch reports that two revolvers used by Margaret Clarke and Annie Miller, who died by own action on the steamer Lucania from New York, bore secret marks not trademarks. It suggests a death by own action club may have existed among them.
Timothy Drake, who has spent much time gathering data on the play, will give a lecture on the Passion Play with many stereopticon illustrations at the Boston YMCA tomorrow at 4 15 in the afternoon.
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