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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1911
Page
5
Pope Pius suffers unsettled sleep and knee pain with a slight temperature rise. Doctors forbid exertion to prevent relapse while kidneys show improvement and the knee is treated with flaxseed poultices. The pontiff seeks relief in an arm chair due to restlessness from lying still.
Despatches from around the world please the Vatican as Pope Pius rests. The mayor of his birth town Riese sends a personal reply through Cardinal Merry del Val. Photographers delayed by police while the pope questions the church in America with Cardinal de Lai.
Aviation ace Atwood from St. Louis arrives in Capitol Park Chicago after a fast flight from St. Louis with 98 miles to Springfield and 91 more to Chicago. He reports high altitude brief climbs, a smooth journey, and plans to continue eastward along Lake Shore railroad at dawn.
Humorists led by Warman of Montreal arrive at Hotel Brunswick for a convention set as they tour Norumbega Park. Notables include George Fitch, James Melvin Lee, Homer Croy, W. J. Johnson, Douglas Malloch, and John D Rockefeller via a playful telegram. The group plans a Boston harbor trip and a Shubert Theatre outing.
Harry N. Atwood nears completion of a 1460 mile flight from St. Louis to Boston landing at Squantum on opening day of the Harvard aero meet. Boston Aviation Society to present a silver cup for his historic relay flight with five Boston reporters.
Chief Mullen, a Boston fire leader born in South Boston, denounces rumors of a plot to push him from his job. He recounts service, injury, and fights with Mayor Fitzgerald over fire policy, denying any theft or embezzlement and threatening slander suits if harmed by accusations.
Catherine McDonald aged 40 committed suicide at 67 Sterling Street Roxbury by taking cyanide of potassium. She left a note stating she pawned her shoes to secure potassium and told a drug clerk it was for silver polish. Roxbury police seek the drug clerk.
At the Chicago aviation meet on August 14 two planes sank in Lake Michigan with pilots Rene Simon and Lee Hammond rescued by motor boats. Earle Ovington's new biplane crashed near a pylons, but he escaped injury. Simon's hydro-plane briefly floated then sank, Hammond swam to a rescue boat, and Brindley topped altitude as darkness fell.
J A D McCurdy flew near the ground and struck high voltage wires near the Chicago Yacht Club clubhouse. The plane burned, McCurdy escaped uninjured, but the aircraft was destroyed and wires dangled over 20 000 spectators guarded by police. French aviator Simon landed upright in the lake after engine failure while carrying a life preserver.
Elizabeth J. Higgins, 55, who runs a dry foods store on High Street, lay in a stupor for 12 hours before aid arrived. A fellow resident found her and Dr. Shackwell forced the door open. Diagnosis showed partial paralysis on the left side with expected recovery in weeks.
Anty Drudge extols Fels-Naptha soap as gentler on fabrics and skin while cutting washing time. The dialogue promotes cool water use and soaking to dissolve dirt, claiming better results and coal savings versus boiling and scrubbing.
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