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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1914
Page
3
Mrs. Fred Brown died after a quarrel with her husband who struck her with a flatiron in Colebrook New Hampshire. Brown, a farm hand, fled and was last seen driving toward Diamond Ponds toward the northern wilderness as authorities search for him.
Report recalls Brown’s prominence in the Chaffell death inquiry in Pittsburg New York. He allegedly entered a neighbor’s house with a rifle and a razor where Mrs Brown and her daughter lived. Two women wrestled away the razor and Brown beat his wife then fled toward Stewartstown woods with a gun as Sheriff Kelsea mobilized 50 deputies to pursue the fugitive.
Dr. Horace A. Jones faced Judge Wait in Superior Court seeking a modification of the $2 a week alimony decree to his wife Florence S. Jones. The hearing focused on the petition without vacating the original decree, with Jones citing poor business and high expenses. The case was adjourned to August 1 for a fourth hearing.
John Kenney died at Rhode Island Hospital as the fourth casualty from the Long Meadow automobile electric car crash on Sunday. Rose Dewey remains critically injured and is not expected to survive the night. Other injured members of the party may recover. a woman burned to death remains unidentified.
Harko brand suits marked down to 7.75 with fine pencil stripes checks tartan plaids. Choice of all $5 and $18 suits at 7.75. Balmaceans in Scotches and home spuns 15 value at 7.75. Thousands of $4 and $5 pants 1.98. Located at 662 672 Washington Street.
Mrs Susan I Fullam died after a long illness in West Brookfield. Widow of Lemuel Fullam a known local boot and shoe maker she helped lead church and charity efforts. Survived by children Frank L and Martha F. Funeral at 4 pm Thursday at the home.
Chicago Aug 4 Mme Ernestine Schumann Heink the grand opera singer cabled her Chicago attorneys for help to depart Germany She said she was stranded at Bayreuth and asked when America would send for its citizens Her counsel said the United States would assist citizens in Europe with money and transport She had gone to Bayreuth for the Wagner festival after a Chicago divorce from William Rapp Jr
Frederick Ayer Jr and Hilda Proctor Rice marry at Turner Hill Ipswich atop a hunting field romance. The ceremony was conducted by Rev James P Franks with the bride daughter of Charles G Rice and prominent in Boston society clubs.
Mrs. Frederick Ayer of Common wealth avenue and Pride's Crossing. Young Mr. Ayer, Harvard 1911 graduate, is a member of the Tennis and Racquet Club the Riding and the Country and other clubs.
The time to file an answer in the government dissolution suit against the New York New Haven and Hartford railroad was extended to Sept 16 by Judge Grubb. Other defendants received same extension. Grand jury criminal probe of New Haven management, urged by President Wilson, is deferred until jail due to witness vacation.
Funeral services for the Rev. John W. F. Power of Portland Maine were held at the Mission Church in Roxbury with nearly 2000 mourners in attendance. Power said his first mass at the church four years ago.
Mrs Kermit Roosevelt has shown improvement after a typhoid fever illness that began last Saturday at a New York hospital. Roosevelt himself has taken a room at the hospital and canceled a planned trip to South America. General Nelson A Miles contributes to the next Sunday Post Magazine with an article titled A Prehistoric Animal Trap.
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