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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1913
Page
2
Miss Mary Coes dean of Radcliffe College dies after operation at Corey Hill Hospital. Funeral services set for 1 30 PM in Appleton Chapel Harvard with interment at Mt. Auburn. She reportedly worsened Saturday after initial recovery from surgery.
The Radcliffe College president laments the loss of Miss Coes a devoted 80 year servant of the college. Born in Worcester on March 24 1861 she earned Radcliffe degrees and held key roles including assistant secretary secretary and acting dean. She led the Boston branch of the Association of Collegiate Alumnae from 1898 to 1900.
Miss Coes held the Radcliffe College Alumnae Association presidency from 1905 to 1908 and served on several boards including the Women's Educational and Industrial Union of Boston and the Harvard Teachers' Association. A noted educator, she focused on developing the college girl and maintaining personal relationships with Radcliffe students.
Novice driver William Cook of New Bedford struck 11 year old Reginald Ivory on Newport avenue Martha's Vineyard. Ivory was taken to hospital with possible skull fracture and poor prognosis as community mourns first season accident.
Funeral held at 22 Moreland Street Roxbury with Masonic rites by Mt Tabor Lodge Fast Boston led by Worshipful Master W H Dolben and church service by Rev E H Miller of the American Lutheran Church Roxbury.
Firemen flushed Boston streets with short hose and ferries waived fares as thousands sought relief from a sun baked night. Thermometer on Boston Common hit 102 while several places reached 19. Clouds later offered slight relief but August 1900 style heat set state records.
In Brookfield a 42-year absence ends as Joseph Maxfield, a Vermont veteran and cobbler, returns to his wife Susana and children. The reunion unfolds under maple shade with a mixed reaction from his family. He plans to stay or leave as business and fate dictates.
Police disrupted a house party at Gui Fania's Charlestown home on Main Street last night. Officers confiscated two gallons of beer and one gallon of whiskey as guests left, leaving Fania upset by the incident.
Peter Murray aged 60 of 11 Savoy Street was struck by an inbound Franklin Street car in front of 1202 Washington Street South End last night. He sustained a compound fracture of the right leg and his name is on the dangerous list at City Hospital.
In Zurich on August 17 a grand funeral procession carried German Socialist leader August Bebel from City Hall to the crematorium. About 20000 Socialist members and club affiliates from across the republic attended the service.
The Countess Tarnovska, once convicted in Venice in 1910 for complicity in Count Kamarowsky's murder and pardoned last year, was found hanged on a St. Petersburg Kiev express train. Police investigate whether it was suicide or murder on August 17.
The Countess Marie Tarnovska was found guilty of persuading Nikolai Naumoff to travel from Vienna to Venice to kill Count Kamarowsky for a $100000 life insurance policy on the count. Naumoff was also found guilty but mentally unbalanced and sentenced to three years.
At Winthrop Beach a regatta day drew about 3000 spectators. Ruth Myers won the girls race from the Dolphin to shore in 17 minutes 49 seconds. Lawrence Cox and Nicholas Snow tied in the men’s Dolphin round trip in 16 minutes. Captain Tong’s crew won the two-boat race in 11 minutes 49 seconds.
A Parker machinist at Dennison Manufacturing and his son Eugene were injured when their car struck a Boston and Worcester street car around 9 30 PM at the Concord and Clinton streets corner in South Framingham. The elder Parker suffered facial head injuries and was hospitalized. Eugene was only slightly hurt. no trolley passengers were injured.
Peter Finck 70 of 28 Walnut Street Charlestown suffered a basal skull fracture after falling from a trolley in front of 352 Bunker Hill Street. He was taken to Relief Hospital where his condition was listed as probably fatal.
Ottavio Rifio, 38, of 83 Water Street Quincy, was shot twice by Michaele Rosa, 21, of 22 Granite Street, during a quarrel with Rifio and Salvatore Mannilli near the Granite Street Bridge. Rifio received stomach and bowel wounds and is at Quincy Hospital with hopes of recovery. Rosa fled toward Boston as police seek him.
In New York on August 17, George H. Schuenhoff, 51, once a prosperous grocer in Long Island City, was found dead by his son with a bullet wound to the right temple and a revolver in his hand. The incident is reported as a suicide.
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