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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1917
Page
3
A fragment of Plymouth Rock was left in the will of Mrs. Elizabeth C. D. Chandler filed for probate in Suffolk registry. The bequest to Victor M. Chandler directs mounting in gold and wearing as a scarf pin.
The will of Mrs. Chandler, dated February 12 1912, bequeaths a Lafayette era bureau to William Dowse of Scituate, multiple paintings to the Museum of Fine Arts, volumes to the Boston Public Library, and extensive engravings and art objects to Harvard University, with residuary estate to three nephews, grandnieces and a grandnephew.
Abe Lambert, a well to do meat dealer, kept meat remnants and a blackened side of beef in a run down Ashland street tenement. Health Officer McCaffrey described careless stunts and flies. He was ordered to clean up within 24 hours and sentence was set for today.
Washington announces the next bond offering under the war revenue bill will be designated The Second Liberty Loan of 1917. Details including the issue date have not yet been released.
Mayor Curley seeks Governor McCall to direct Police Commissioner O'Meara to overlook street market laws. He aims to open six municipal markets next week on city owned land in Sullivan Square Charlestown Columbus Avenue Roxbury Christopher Gibson Dorchester Portsmouth Street Brighton Randolph Street South End Newman Street yard South Boston.
Mayor Curley announced a new price scale for the Head House in South Boston after complaints of high bathing costs. The maximum charge is now 20 cents with equal rates for men and women and unlimited use of suits. The lease of Henry Wansker runs to January 1921.
General Edwards commander of the Department of the Northeast and several officers reviewed Harvard Reserve Officers' Training Corps at Camp Azan Barre. Rain disrupted plans but the inspection proceeded. Edwards praised the corps for intensive training and the military problem they solved. The troops will march to Barre station then return to Cambridge arriving around 10 a.m. They resume barracks duty Monday morning.
For seven years an incurable patient at City Hospital on Blackwell's Island is believed to be named Daniels and from Boston. Miss Josephine Upham of Charlestown, a missionary with the American Seamen's Friend Society, learned the clue by arranging letter blocks, while the man had been unable to speak or write since 1910. The blocks yielded the message D Daniels Boston.
The post office will deliver American mail to England or France at domestic rates and charge 12 cents per pound for parcels. Ordinary mail may be sent for two cents to England or France, with magazines and newspapers at one cent but without addresses. No registered or insured mail is accepted due to war conditions.
Boston prepares to honor the Grand Army of the Republic with a citywide flag display during encampment week from August 19 to 25. Mayor Curley, J Payson Bradley and Ralph Adams Cram approve a decoration scheme with landmarks like Copley Square Library Hall and Faneuil Hall to be adorned.
Danbury Conn Aug 10 A group of about 200 teachers attending the summer session of the State Normal School placed themselves under Professor J R Perkins head of the school to learn handling a military rifle and marksmanship during a practical training period.
An urgent appeal was sent to central Pennsylvania bituminous coal operators by James J. Storrow of the New England Coal Committee urging them to accept orders and ship soft coal to New England manufacturers. The appeal seeks a meeting to address the coal supply refusal and the urgent need for relief.
Mrs. Marie L. Somers, 89, mother of nine, arraigned in Police Court on assault with intent to kill and held without bail for Aug. 18. Husband gravely injured in hospital.
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