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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1914
Page
5
Frank N. Blanchard aged 33 of 19 Devens Street Charlestown was badly beaten and robbed at Revere last night. He is in Frost Hospital Chelsea and is feared to die. The assailant fled after striking him on the head with a blackjack and taking his watch and a small sum of money.
Blanchard staggered into Revere Beach police station with blood streaming from head injuries after a blunt weapon was used from a shadowed building near Crescent Beach on the Boston Revere Beach Lynn line. He was later found unconscious at Broadway and the Boulevard and taken to Frost Hospital with a fractured skull.
Five ships, four merchant vessels and one yacht, transited the Panama Canal yesterday. Two more ships are set to pass tomorrow and on Tuesday the Peruvian torpedo boat Teniente Rodriguez will become the canal’s first naval vessel to use the route.
Rome reports Italy has withdrawn 500 men from Scutari after Britain France Germany and Austria recalled their detachments. The action underscores Italy’s aim to maintain neutrality in the war.
W A Varney the Varnesis discoverer warns of a prevalent rheumatic neuritis. Painful shoulder and arm, night pain, possible progression to weakness and numbness. Early treatment urged at Varney headquarters and offices in Boston New York and Lynn with free rheumatics paper offer.
Public Works Department officials were charged with letting contractor Peter F. Hill remove $1500 worth of tools and stock from an abandoned sewer yard without authority. The Finance Commission said the property left Dorchester sewer yard on June 19 20 and 22 and remained unclaimed or unpaid nearly two months later.
The commission says some Public Works Department members attempted to transfer valuable property to a private contractor without adequate compensation. It notes objections by yard caretakers, denials by Edward F. Murphy and Edward M. Richardson, and calls for restitution, legal review, and bid procedures for large sales.
Two men Nedardi Lusangalo and B Colasso, both 20 and 28 from Readville, died when their rowboat capsized a quarter mile from the Dedham boathouse on the Charles River yesterday. A third occupant, Joe Peter, 20, was rescued by Arthur Levangie after a canoe arrival.
Spokane couple Gilbert F. Counts and Miss Daisy Schultz plan a five year honeymoon by enrolling together at Spokane University after a trip through Oregon. They will take the same courses and graduate simultaneously five years later.
Seven year old Carl Goodacre of Smith Street Allston spoke in his sleep Saturday night revealing that his chum eight year old Christopher Herd of Western Avenue Brigh ton had drowned while they fished Saturday afternoon on Magazine Beach near the River Street bridge.
Carl Goodacre recalled a fishing trip with a friend when a floating log toppled Herd into the water. He described seeing the blow stun him then fleeing home. Police recovered the body after a two hour search as parents notified authorities.
Police say Tony Rosco shot Mr. and Mrs. Corenzo at their Henry Street home after being asked to leave. The couple was wounded and hospitalized. Rosco fled and remained at large tonight.
Boston awaits the Red Star liner Marquette from Antwerp delayed by fog. The ship carries about 400 American passengers stranded in Europe by the war, far more than its usual load, with no wireless contact reported.
More than five thousand laborers gathered on the Boston Common under the Boston Socialist party to denounce the European conflict. Edmund Trowbridge Dana, Longfellow grandson, called the war a "great wholesale murdering match" and the gathering adopted protests urging workers worldwide to wage war against war.
Speakers denounce war as a profit engine for armament trusts and bankers while harming workers. Miss Leitner urges women to protest. a Boston Socialist rally condemns imperial violence and mourns Jean Jaures' murder, pledging fight against militarism and capitalism.
The Convention Garden lies less than two blocks west of Boylston Street and Massachusetts Avenue. All Boylston Street cars from Park Street stop near the garden, and Chestnut Hill cars pass by it.
English cruisers pursued the German cruisers Goeben and Breslau after their arrival from the Orient. The German ships reportedly avoided capture, with damage cited and possible refuge in the Dardanelles after being attacked several times.
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