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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1913
Page
2
Two masked white men boarded the Louisville and Nashville Mail No. 4 northbound from New Orleans in Birmingham and held up the mail clerks. All registered mail was taken and an exact amount could not be determined tonight.
The so called wild man of the Charles, who alarmed residents of Waltham, Newton, Belmont and nearby towns, was located yesterday afternoon by an amateur sleuth. He is a Weston citizen who believes in the simple life and has discarded clothing.
Yesterday afternoon a group of Waltham youths formed to pursue a reported wild apparition. Residents have avoided outdoors after dark and Charles River canoeing has lagged. The man’s identity, once found, will end the search. He lives in a cottage on the Weston Wayland border, four miles from neighbors, and travels with clothes only when supplies are needed.
Newburg, Aug. 5 One fourth of the $75,000 estate of John Garrison goes to fight tuberculosis in memory of his wife. The bequest is left to the State Charities Aid Association.
The Cunard liner Franconia departed noon yesterday for Liverpool carrying 130 saloon passengers 175 in the second cabin 350 in steerage. Boston notables include President Richard C McLaurin of Technology Arthur B Chapin and Mrs Chapin and others. Cargo aboard totals 70 00 bushels of wheel 600 tons of provisions 300 hogsheads of tobacco cold storage refrigerators and other freight.
John Henry Mears touring the world via rail receives a marriage proposal from an adoring admirer in Milwaukee. The envoy promises wealth and asks a meeting, prompting Mrs Mears to discuss divorce as the couple laughs at the surprising offer and the traveler weighs his response.
The Green Acre Colony braces for a court proceeding over the will of Mrs. Helen E. Cole and the plant of a nine trustee board, with Miss Farmer asserting proxy authority and Abdul Baha Abbas named in opposing factions. Proponents recount Miss Farmer's will as supreme and seek to replace current trustees with three from her proxy. A Cape Cod Pilgrim Memorial tribute honors Captain J Henry Sears for nine years of lead work on the Provincetown monument project.
At the Detroit convention a plan to establish a Baptist pension system is discussed. A fund equal to 10 percent of total church expenses would finance annuities for pastors over 60 or disabled, with New England churches alone needing about 180 000 dollars of the fund.
The teaser promises a lighthearted read about Torchy, a beloved figure, as readers anticipate a feature in the Post Magazine. The piece hints at humor and broad appeal without revealing specific details.
The train reached Birmingham on time at 8 37 pm with mail clerks George Hoover and E G York found handcuffed together and fired upon by robbers who boarded at Calera three miles from Birmingham. Chief Clerk Harry Everett had his thumbs bound with twine as the robbers fled the train at Fourteenth Street. York had previously been in a Louisville and Nashville mail car robbed near Boyles about a year earlier.
The Cape Cod Pilgrim Memorial Association convened in Provincetown. William B. Lawrence was re elected president and E J Carpenter was re elected secretary. Howard F Hopkins declined re election and I A Small of Provincetown was chosen treasurer in his place.
Nearly 8000 persons ascended the monument over the past year while the association reports prosperous finances. Grounds improvement work proceeds favorably and resolutions on the death of Captain J Henry Sears were adopted.
A medical examiner will conduct an autopsy to clarify the sudden death of Mrs. Josephine Boyle aged 52. Her body was found at the bottom of an unfinished sewer manhole on Lynn marshes near Broadway in Revere, away from her Chelsea home. She was found without shoes and a hat, raising questions for police and family.
Mary Boyle reported her mother Mrs. Boyle missing after 9 PM Monday. Police found her body at the bottom of an unfinished sewer manhole at about 7 AM, with minor bruises possibly from a fall. no assault marks observed.
The Bedford Board of Assessors announced a tax rate of 3.22 per $1000 for this year, one of the town’s highest. Last year the rate was 1.80, reflecting a $0.42 rise per $1000 due to a larger town grant and higher state taxes totaling about $1,000 more than in 1932.
Baltimore August 5 Today's session of the 15th annual Fraternal Order of Eagles convention focused on grand officer reports. The findings portray the order in a highly prosperous condition and describe the past year as its most successful in history.
A woman driver led a car carrying three women and two men to crash into a steam roller and hit a tree near Winchester. Driver Mrs Minnie Fisher aged 64 at 64 West Rutland square is seriously injured. The car, owned by I L Gillett of 437 Broadway Somerville, was badly wrecked.
A car carrying Mrs. Fisher and four others from Mattapan to Winchester veered past obstructions on Forest Street. Mrs. Fisher suffered possible broken breast bone and Babin fractured knee after the auto struck a tree, with all four other passengers shaken and thrown from the vehicle.
Five bicyclists cycling through Attleboro were jeered by youths. In a ensuing scuffle Joseph Lafayette, 28, was shot in the thigh and Nelson Lees, 18, was stabbed three times in the back.
A brawl at Washington street and Mendon avenue ends with Tony Romain arrested after he allegedly stabbed Nelson Lees three times in the back. Lafayette, shot in the mêlée, was taken to Memorial Hospital Pawtucket. Lees to his home for care. Police arrived as Romain was captured. Lees, son of Pawtucket Fire Chief William J. Lees, survived with non fatal wounds.
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