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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1912
Page
5
Fred Oder, a Farnum Fish mechanic, piloting an Abaroe monoplane at Atwood Park Saugus, escaped death when the propeller broke during a trial flight at about 1000 feet. He was unharmed.
A machine headed toward the Saugus poor farm was steered by Oder with rare presence of mind to a safe landing, though wrecked. Oder sustained minor head and body injuries yet left for home at 3871 Lincoln Avenue Cliftondale, apparently unscathed.
In East New York on August 8 Mrs. Lena Schatz was knocked down by a speeding team and trampled after guiding her two children to safety. She later gave birth to a dying infant and remains in critical condition at a local hospital.
Representative Levy of New York introduced a resolution in the House for an international maritime conference in Washington on April 13, 1913. The meeting will address an international patrol of North American steamship lines an international wireless system and an agreement on life saving appliances for deep sea travel after the Titanic disaster.
Six hundred striking carmen were rehired on the Boston Elevated system yesterday. Boston employment offices were flooded with applicants for positions, with 250 applicants entering at the Free Employment Office on Kneeland Street, per Superintendent W. L. Sears.
The employment bureau at M. E. Finn on Washington street reports 800 men reinstated or hired after the strike. Most returnees fill heavy labor or excavation posts while some join new railway and elevated system work. Union leaders, including Fred Fay, toured division meetings as thousands of workers pour into the union, with Division 10 awaiting reintegration.
Aug. 8 Berkshire Cotton Manufacturing Company's four mills hired off strikers and other workers after a weeklong shutdown caused by a weavers strike. Many idle workers left town for vacations. A meeting of the strikers is set for tomorrow.
Keen departmental rivalry and a desperate race for first water escalated into a fight leading to the discharge of Lieutenant Fred S. Boardman from the Melrose fire department. Boardman, with nearly 25 years of service at the East Side Hose Company, was discharged yesterday.
In Melrose Franklin Block blaze five weeks ago two fire companies raced to the single hydrant. H B Adams of Highland Auto Chemical accused a Melrose lieutenant of priority. With Fire Chief absent, Mayor French severed the lieutenant’s department connection. a further appeal is expected.
Washington August 8 William J Flynn head of the New York division of the United States Secret Service is likely to be named chief of the service if Treasury Secretary MacVeagh fills the vacancy created by John E Wilkie two years ago. The salary proposal seeks restoration from 3600 to 4000. Flynn previously served as deputy police commissioner of New York City.
The Floating Hospital conducted a Newspaper Night funded by a trustee. Mrs. S. P. Mandell arranged to transport 220 babies via the hospital ship from South Congregational Church in memory of Edward Everett Hale. Dr. John Foote of Providence Hospital praised the ship after visiting yesterday morning.
An advertiser cites E Marks of Brooklyn reporting a year long pimples outbreak on hands and face. After using Cuticura Soap and Ointment with hot baths, itching stopped by morning and within three weeks no signs remained. Samples offered and free skin book via Cuticura, Boston.
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