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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1911
Page
7
A garbled reminiscence describes a past prank involving tying firecrackers to a goat and loud laughter. The speaker recalls playful chaos and a sense of nostalgia for happier days in a distorted, colloquial voice.
The Public Franchise League issued a statement urging West End stockholders to support the legislative act for consolidating the West End company with the Boston Elevated system. The document outlines key reasons for the proposed merger.
The West End stockholders confront a decisive choice on an act to consolidate the elevated and West End street railways. Directors urge acceptance to proceed with far reaching transit improvements, while a protective committee warns against constitutional and security concerns.
Agnes Kearns is 2 and in the Relief Hospital on the dangerous list after an 8 year old boy set a baby carriage ablaze with a lit match on Lyndeboro Street near Essex. The mother narrowly left the child unattended two minutes earlier as flames enveloped the carriage.
A blaze on the fifth floor of 14 Moore Street Cambridge near School street prompted swift rescue by three officers. Mrs Haley, Frances Haley, and boarder John Siggens were saved, all overcome by smoke and led to safety via skylight and stairs. Others escaped with minor injuries as the upper floor burned. Loss estimated at 2000 dollars.
Labor trouble hits the Boston Stock Exchange as thirty floor boys plan to strike next Saturday over a proposed pay reduction from seven to five dollars weekly. Management cites business decline and expenses while noting booths yield $1000 yearly and the treasury exceeds $1,000,000. Workers aged 17 to 24 say advancement is scarce while some board men earn far higher salaries for minimal daily work.
Thomas F. Kelly a 30 year old resident of 22 Church street Dorchester fell from an outward bound Meeting House Hill car in front of 589 Dudley street late last night. He suffered a fractured skull and serious injuries and was taken to City Hospital where he is not expected to live.
A massive 3500 square foot canvas sign hangs over the National Theatre on Tremont Street near Berkeley announcing its opening in early September. The display marks the largest sign in the city and highlights the grand new venue.
Lindsey Loring of the Eastern Yacht Club torched his $12,000 imported cutter Felin to avoid a $500 annual federal tax on foreign built yachts. The boat burned and now rests as ashes on Lawley's Yard sands in Neponset.
A hull of the Eelin, built in 1899 by Summers and Payne in Southampton and designed by A E Payne, was set on fire around 10 am and burned in an hour, destroying the hull valued at 9000 dollars after theft of masts and other valuables. The vessel measured 88.6 feet overall and 11.7 feet deep, with a 58.1 foot waterline, and had a fitted-out value of 12000 dollars.
Halifax Aug 14 More than half of Clyde River village is destroyed by a forest fire amid a northwest gale. Thirty three houses two mills and several barns burn. 20 families homeless. one man James Searles missing. Property loss at least 75000. fire hampered by drought and scarce water. Port Clyde Cape Negro at risk. Beech Hill Hunt's Point Ragged Head timber losses and mills threaten 5 million feet. Telegraph lines and trains disrupted as firemen struggle to approach the blaze.
Miss Elizabeth Daley of 6 Sprague street suffered a possible concussion and hysteria after a baseball struck her at Peabody Park while she watched a game with a companion. She was found on Conant street in Danvers and remained under medical observation as doctors planned further tests.
Theodore Collins a 14 year old from Cambridge drowned in Nutting's Pond while trying to save Ethel Lucas of Dartmouth street Boston whom he was teaching to swim. The incident occurred in Billerica on August 11.
Collins in street clothes rowed a skiff with Miss Lucas in bathing costume on a lake. She sank after losing grip, but Samuel McCann rescued her. Collins dived after her and disappeared, later found dead. He was a Cambridge Latin School pupil, son of Elmer E. Collins.
Chief Watts backs a crackdown on street thieves ordering three well known New York Chicago pickpockets to be charged as vagabonds. William Wilson Thompson Gallagher Martin and John Butler Hayes Ryan appeared with bonds set at 500 dollars and cases continued to August 26 before Judge Bennett.
An advertisement touts Gets-It as a safe corn and callus remedy that removes corns by shrinking and lifting the tissue without irritations. It claims stockings won’t stick and warns against shaving with a razor to avoid blood poisoning. Available from druggists at 25 cents.
In Atlantic City on Aug 14 a missing Eugene Kelly advertised to meet George Clark at Pennsylvania Station at 9 p.m. Sunday. Kelly, unnamed companion, wandered the Boardwalk with no money while Clark held the return ticket. Clark saw the plea in a local paper and located Kelly, reuniting them and continuing their trip.
George F. Putney 54 of Unity New Hampshire died after a bee sting while gathering blueberries. He fainted and told companions to take him home then died before reaching his residence. He had survived prior stings three times, each rendering him unconscious for hours.
Henry Laflamme, a devoted Newark baseball fan, is hospitalized with a severe forehead wound. He collapsed while dreaming of a game after seeing Joe McGinnity in the imaginary box and the score tied, then leaped up and dived to the floor.
Justice James Reid, a 397-time marriage officiant, offered to wed John Jacob Astor and his fiancee Madeleine Force in Logansport. He joked the match would cost nothing and that he would only demand a single kiss from the bride, noting Astor’s age and looks.
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