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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1914
Page
3
Mrs. Annie Dickinson of East Cambridge lost 140 dollars hidden in an old rug after a man and woman Syrians offered to buy goods. The pair, later identified as Mary and Charles Arbeck of Boston, were arrested in Watertown and held in Cambridge for larceny.
The life boat Lundin abandoned plans for an Atlantic crossing due to the war. The craft left yesterday for Plymouth and then Long Island where she was built. Einar Siward of New York, who organized the voyage and was to be joined by his bride, canceled plans after hearing war updates.
A local advertisement promotes leather goods including Packard Ox fords at a price of 2.95. The listing notes Harrison Co at 662 672 Washington street corner Beach as the contact point for the sale.
The Chamber of Commerce committee on maritime affairs chaired by ex Mayor John F Fitzgerald will send appeals to business leaders trade boards and commercial organizations urging them to seize new opportunities for South American trade created by the European war.
At a committee meeting yesterday a plan emerged for a mass business gathering to secure shipping and banking facilities for New England. Mr. Fitzgerald urged seizing the South American market disrupted by European wars, noting New England’s ties and Spanish speaking growth, and stressing the need for ships and finance to act quickly.
Andre Maquarre solo flute player with the Boston Symphony Orchestra returns home to join France in the war. Other members like Dr. Karl Mack and Karl Stumpf remain abroad or in Germany, with George Longy in France. Officials plan concerts next fall as if war ends soon.
President Wilson nominated Representative Andrew J. Peters of Boston for the post, a choice long anticipated as Peters had said he would not run for re-election. The appointment expands the Treasury leadership with an incoming assistant secretary.
Bar Harbor Maine August 6 1914 officers of torpedo boat destroyer Warrington and revenue cutter Androscoggin report no definite transfer of 10 million dollars in gold aboard the German liner Kronprin zessin Cecilie. A semi official Washington source says Androscoggin ordered to take the gold to New York with Warrington as convoy.
De Lloyd Thompson of Chicago flew an American-built aeroplane to 15 600 feet at Kansas City breaking the American altitude record. The prior mark of 11 260 feet was set by Lincoln Beachey in Chicago in 1918, during an Aero Club of America exhibition.
Five Cambridge men filed nomination papers for the fall primaries yesterday. They include ex-Representative James M. Donovan for the second Middlesex district, Representative J. H. Glynn seeking a second term in the second district, T. Leo Hanlon for County Commissioner, and ex-Councilman Bernard J. Brogan in the second Middlesex district.
President Ernest S. Nichols of Dartmouth College canceled his sea voyage from San Francisco due to the European war. He had joined a party of American scientists invited by the British Society for the Advancement of Science to attend meetings at Auckland, New Zealand.
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