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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1913
Page
2
Morris Segal proprietor of a gentlemen's furnishing store at 398 Tremont street says he expelled a robber who entered his shop yesterday after shoving a gun in his face and demanding money. Segal called the robber impolite and threw him off the premises.
Mr. Segal confronted a young man at the shirt department door, who produced a revolver demanding money. Segal fired on the robber, who fled, escaping around Castle street to Shawmut avenue before heading south toward Ponkapong. Segal vows to defend his shop against such attempts.
Four members of the fire department announced resignations to become policemen. Bernard J. Hallberg Ladder 27 Austin G. Durham Tower 3 John H. Rowe and James A. Sheffield Engine 9 will take effect next Monday after passing entrance exams and joining the police force.
Lynn Morocco firm Thomas A Kelley Co. assigns to James H Sisk city clerk says assets and liabilities not yet disclosed. The Kelley company operates two Lynn factories and employs about eighty workers with immediate manager James H Sisk taking charge.
A $45,000 brick bungalow will replace the present wooden house on the South Lincoln estate of Donald L. Gordon of Back Bay. Mrs. Gordon relies on nature’s autumn and early winter beauty and desires the comforts of her city home with fireplaces and steam heating.
Charlton, accused of murdering his wife Mary Scott Castle, left Boston on the steamer Re D Italia for Genoa after being held aboard the ship under guard. He spoke briefly to a Post reporter denying the crime and saying he would return a free man.
Michael J. Ryan of Philadelphia arrive in Boston to confer with Thomas B. Fitzpatrick on choosing a national secretary after the death of John O Callaghan. The John O Callaghan fund totals 6422 dollars, with a $500 contribution from Fitzpatrick among major gifts.
I H McMichaels former chief page described lobby work for the National Association of Manufacturers from the House floor to a House investigating committee. He spoke vividly and smoked at the witness chair while recounting how pages were paid.
McMichaels testifies he was on Mulhall payroll from fall 1909 to January 1912 at 50 dollars a month while serving as Democ ratic chief page, press gallery attendant, and Capitol elevator conductor. He says he arranged meetings with Rep James E McDermott and Mulhall, fueling suspicions of illicit payments and plotting to publish Mulhall correspondence.
About fifty veterans of the Forty Third Massachusetts Regiment gathered at Nantasket Beach with around one hundred guests to commemorate their return from war and muster out 50 years earlier. They sang war songs, enjoyed seafood, and heard several speeches followed by a band concert led by Post 66 Green Club of Medford. Samuel Souther, aged 88, oldest living member, attended from Hingham. event organizers were Albert Webb, Luther Bixby, and Thomas Appleton.
The article warns of potential delays in Knowles message delivery during his forest experiment. Fears include accidents, illness, wild animals, poisonous snakes, and falling limbs. Friends fear he could be stranded without a weapon and hope his resourcefulness keeps him safe until contact is reestablished.
In London the International Medical Congress debates whether prehistoric humans had brain power equal to modern men as Boston artist Knowles tests his theory of modern man’s self sufficiency. A Piltdown skull dispute and a Knowles article frame the clash between civilization and primitive adaptation.
The floating body found in the harbor off Hingham is identified as Carrie M. Perry of 142 Timson Street Lynn. Identification was made by Scott Jones, Abbie A. Jones’s son, and Boston attorney Gilbert Kemp, a cousin of the deceased. Mrs. Perry left home last Saturday night at 7 30 saying she would walk. Mrs. Jones kept vigil from Saturday night through Sunday.
A runaway horse hitched to an Eaton Ice Company wagon caused chaos in Quincy Square yesterday afternoon as it dashed among about ten electric cars and nearly a hundred bystanders. The wagon struck a porch at Dr. W. Bradshaw's City square home, injuring Conductor Dunham Dunlap who pulled himself free after a fall.
Ernest Jemusen a German newspaper writer who called himself a Socialist Democrat was ordered admitted to the United States today by Commissioner General Caminiti after being held at the Boston immigration station since August on grounds he might become a public charge. He had escaped from Russia where he was sentenced to five years for political activity and received support from Representatives Peters and Sabath in Boston and Illinois.
Attorney General Swift broadened an ice price investigation to include Hyde Park firms that raised ice to 70 cents per 100 pounds, up 20 cents. He received rate cards from two companies and said he would act under the law if collusion is found.
Miss Jane Addams of Chicago spoke at a mass meeting in Washington ending a conference of the National Council of Women Voters representing about 4,000,000 women voters. She urged universal woman suffrage to enable enactment and enforcement of humane legislative reforms.
The speaker argues that legislators modify laws to misserve the very people they aim to protect. She cites child labor exemptions, inadequate pensions for mothers, and risks of women in public enforcement roles. The council endorses motherhood pensions, minimum wages, health certificates, and several social reforms.
Scores of railroad workers traveled to the Cape fire district by special train and battled a forest blaze that had raged for two days, finally gaining control early tonight.
After a day of control, a wildfire surged again driven by a light wind. Fire Warden John Condon and James Kerien from Harwich were trapped but, covered by coats, they ran through the blaze to safety leaping into Hinkley Pond to cool burning clothing.
The Feast of the Assumption was observed in all Catholic churches of the city yesterday with Masses at usual Sunday hours to accommodate thousands attending.
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