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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1915
Page
5
Miss Helen Vinnie Driscoll of East Boston described a late Friday night automobile ride with Thomas A. Cunningham from Quincy to Nantasket. She bumped her head on the canopy while adjusting a hat, grew ill, asked to be let out near Hingham, then fell and struck her head. Police will take no further action.
John J. Doolin aged 25 in Charlestown District Court found guilty of ringing two waterfront fire signal boxes on Saturday night. He received a six months sentence in the House of Correction and filed an appeal.
Secretary Redfield will lay before President Wilson results of the Commerce Department probe into the Eastland disaster at Chicago and a report on steamship inspection changes. He resumes vacation at Woods Hole with the record and a partial report. further steps depend on Redfield’s advice to the President.
The Zionists Bureau for New England director attends a monster mags meeting where plans for a world congress of Jews are discussed. The session aims to organize a global Jewish congress shaping international relations and community representation.
A mass meeting of the Jewish people of Greater Boston will be held at Tremont Temple next Tuesday evening. The gathering aims to organize a Jewish congress to improve conditions for Jews globally and seek political freedom in Europe after the war, as part of a nationwide effort to gain recognition in postwar peace talks.
World wide speakers emphasized the need for Jewish unity with focus on the United States. Notable figures include Phineas Ruttenberg of Russia and Jacob de Haas of the Zionists Bureau for New England. Plans for meetings extend to New York Chicago Philadelphia and St Louis with a large Cooper Memorial gathering recently held.
At Sheffield station Doctor Billy Jackson arrives to a festive Willett dinner where Sam and Lem discuss a new dairy separator patent. Mary Alice and Francis announce a plan to donate store profits to Belgian relief as a marriage nears, with Billy invited as a guest of honor.
Several arrests were made yesterday in department stores of alleged shoplifters who face arraignment at Pemberton Square. Ernest Bohr a 39 year old from Hammond Indiana is accused of stealing a leather bag a camera and a medicine case. Total value 34 dollars. Mary Plata 20 of South Framingham charged with taking dress goods and gloves worth 27 dollars. Also Mary Lofano 30 of East Boston and Somna Nata from Cambridge were nabbed for waists shoes gloves and small items.
The steam yacht Noma owned by Vincent Astor arrived at Rowe's Wharf yesterday from New York and will embark today with Astor and his wife for a cruise. A steward ordered ample supplies and the craft drew much attention for its size and luxury. The Noma is noted as one of the era’s finest pleasure craft, rivaling the Hohenzollern.
Nat Maynard Brigham 59 of Wheaton Illinois a Harvard graduate class of 1880 and noted lecturer dropped dead yesterday at Hamilton Ohio while boarding a train for his home.
A mini war game at Camp Sandwich pits three Sixth Regiment companies against L Company of Boston defending a knoll a mile from Peter's Pond. After a lively battle with blank rounds, umpires declare L Company held the position. The regiment enjoys encampment with good weather, and tomorrow mirrors today's drills as battalions practice maneuvers.
The Rev. James W. Keyes S J of Roxbury will celebrate his first high mass at the Church of the Immaculate Conception on Harrison Avenue and East Concord Street next Sunday at 10 30. The Feast of the Assumption will mark a solemn high mass with sermon by the Rev. James L. McGovern S J, ordained with Keyes. Both priests are Boston College graduates from Roxbury. Keyes formerly taught at Boston College and Brooklyn College, McGovern at Fordham University for five years.
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