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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1913
Page
9
Mrs. Clara L. Colby faces Quincy Board of Health action over alleged 49 cats and 12 dogs at 43 Cummings Avenue. Board orders reduce to nine by August 25, while Colby plans to move and defend her care for animals she rescues and rehomes.
Mrs Colby calls neighborly actions personal harassment and vows to sell to the first Chinese laundry aiming for a nicer district. She cites a crowing rooster, barking dogs, and a noisy boy as proof of nuisance, noting a visiting dog and a chained shepherd greet guests.
W A Varney invites three New England business men to investigate Varneysis the remedy claimed to cure rheumatism. He will pay their expenses and publish findings from cases hospitals deemed incurable. He cites addresses in Lynn and ongoing public meetings at Riker Drug Store to explain the treatment.
The historic Saugus town pump on Main Street is shut after the State Board of Health ruled the town well an unsafe water source. The pump handle was removed and a no trespassing notice posted hours after the ruling. Local officials and citizens had debated removing the pump for years.
Providence Aug 12 Chief Reuben Weeks and five firemen were injured by a hot air explosion during a fire in the Fox Point district. All were hospitalized but none seriously hurt. The blaze damaged three small buildings and the loss did not exceed $4000.
A competitive examination for investigators under the Industrial Accident Board will be held by the Massachusetts Civil Service Commission at the State House on September 2, 1918. The salary is not fixed yet but is expected to be about 1800 dollars a year.
Uncle Man Dolly Dimple the Tiny ads Noazark and Gaso lene Gas star in the comic section of the upcoming Sunday Post with humor and doodles.
A morning conference before the Railroad Commissioners will address the dispute between banking interests led by IF Mosley Co and Kidder Peabody and the Hampden rail promoters over temporary operation. The Boston & Maine line would pay a 5 percent rent on a $3.1 million to $? project, with bankers seeking higher costs and a quicker ruling on financing and the lease. The Public Service Commission intends to hear all sides as negotiations continue.
Miss Sadie M Lipner, the first woman lawyer to appear before the South Boston District Court, won her first case yesterday. She defended John da Loska, charged with breaking into a freight car to steal shoes, and earned Judge Fallon’s approval for her performance.
The secret marriage of Miss Julia McEnroe of 15 Abbott street Lynn and Chief Joe Neptune an Oldtown Indian who played with the Lynn baseball club in the New England league has been revealed. Miss McEnroe resigned her position recently but had been the chief's wife for some time.
Boston artist Joseph Knowles begins a two month experiment living naked in Maine woods to test if a civilized man can sustain himself as primitive humans did. Harvard's Dr. Sargent and Maine guides call the undertaking serious and potentially revealing about human endurance in the wilderness.
Communications from Knowles will be published during his two months away. The Bostonian hunter will relate first fish and hut building without tools. Born in a Maine log cabin he aided his family with a Winchester before sea service and navy enlistments. He later guided in Maine and painted wildlife.
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