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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1913
Page
8
Mrs John H Hanan plans to close Shore Acres in Narragansett Pier Rhode Island and sail to Europe with her husband for his health. Detectives believe the stolen jewels worth about 150000 dollars will not be traced for many months and likely more than a year, as the thief waits for public interest to wane. They will sail from New York on Saturday.
The Osmo-Chemic physicians announce a limited time offer giving one free month of treatment and medicines for chronic diseases to patients who begin or renew by August 30. The offer includes consultation and aims to cure conditions from catarrh to rheumatism at their Boylston Street offices.
Permanent offices for Eye Ear Nose Throat Chest and Chronic Diseases located at suites 9 10 entrance No 18 Boylston St Boston. Office hours are 9 to 12 morning 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. Closed one day.
At Rockingham Park in Salem New Hampshire the grand circuit opened with fast heats. Peter Sims driven by Chester Lasell won the Merrimack for 2:24 trotters setting a new mark for the horse. Lew Perkins bay gelding drove by Hugh Milam won the New England 2:17 pace in all three heats.
In Municipal Court Judge Cohen suspended a jail sentence for Mrs. Alice Penfield of Back Bay after her tuberculosis was presented as a mitigating factor. The Board of Health said it had no jurisdiction to intervene. Penfield faced two dress theft charges and was kept on $200 bond as the case was continued to Friday.
Mrs Lena Ryan of Milford Street Boston refused to implicate her husband in her arrest claiming she would rather serve six months herself than have him jailed. Judge Cohen ordered six months at State Farm. Officers escorted her from the courtroom as her husband tried to comfort her.
Four workmen were injured and more than a score escaped serious harm when staging on a new General Electric office building in West Lynn collapsed. The E. J. Strout Company built the structure and about 20 men were on the staging. several were seriously hurt and some jumped through windows to escape.
Aug 19 story about Elbridge Noyes of Newbury who moves his house while staying in his familiar home and does not move out during the operation. The piece humorously notes his preference for changing views from his parlor window without leaving.
The Noyes family remains in their home as movers with horses and machinery relocate the house up High street Newbury to near Hay street. Mrs Noyes praises the careful move and the family plans to stay until completion next Saturday with a moving party tentatively planned for Everett and Raymond Neyes.
Samuel D. Kelley an architect aged 65 with Boston ties applied for a marriage license to wed Grace Strickland aged 30. The couple planned a wedding this week with Strickland reportedly at a Vermont Hills resort, while Kelley offered few details.
The Boston Central Labor Union educational committee endorsed creating a free state university in Massachusetts. It urged Chartered State Association delegates to push the proposal at the A F of L Massachusetts convention in Fall River on September 15.
A newly married couple and an elderly woman suffocated by gasoline fumes while sleeping in the cabin of a Canadian government auxiliary packet on the Labrador coast. Details and names were not disclosed to the Newfoundland mail steamer passengers who received the first word of the tragedy.
Patrolman Patrick KE Carr was exonerated after a board of Captains Hanley Brickley and Goodwin found him not guilty of conduct unbecoming to an officer. Commissioner O'Meara announced the board's finding at roll call last night.
City Hall announced by Mayor Fitzgerald and Fire Commissioner Cole the promotion of two district chiefs, two captains, and three lieutenants in the fire department. Retirements and nine permanent probationer appointments accompany three new hires and six transfers.
A party of 36 men including many former Massachusetts rapid transit committee members left for Augusta Maine yesterday to be guests of John R. Graham, a former rapid transit official and current street railway company president in Maine, for two days.
A new series titled Chronicles of Circus Life by Fran cis Metcalf will debut in next Sunday's Post comics section. The pieces invite readers to imagine under the Big Top inhaling freshly cut saw dust.
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