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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1914
Page
3
Platt Brush 35 of Babylon, employed near West Islip, is jailed and to face Justice L W Young at Bay Shore on a kidnapping charge. Etta Weeks 14 of West Islip fled from home after letters read by her mother, le d police to locate her in a grapevine hut with a raincoat and shoes.
The Rev. Dr. W. W. Bustard of Euclid Avenue Baptist Church Cleveland known as Rockefeller's church will occupy the pulpit at Dudley Street Baptist Church next Sunday. Suzanne is a langoist. See Orson Lowell's series on the comic side of life in the next Sunday Post.
A Burlington Route promotional notice touts Personally Conducted Parties to California with low fares and Pullman Tourist sleeping cars. A Boston agent, Alex Stocks, invites readers to visit the office at 264 Washington St to learn details of the program.
Chicago readers recount two children plagued by red pimples and itchiness. Mittens failed to stop scratching until Resinol Ointment and Soap eased symptoms after two applications. The writer claims complete cure with no recurrence. Trial free offer from Resinol department in Baltimore.
Aug 20 Nantasket Beach hosts the New England Veteran Firemen League play out. Union No. 1 of East Braintree defeats 19 entrants to take top honors, with Fire King of Pawtuxet second, Winnisimet of Chelsea third, and Nonantum of Newton fourth. Portland Maine’s Joseph W Plaisted Co. wins $25 for longest distance. prizes awarded: $200, $150, $100, $50.
Mrs. Victor E. Innes, held with her husband on a murder charge linked to the disappearance of Mrs. Elois Nelms Dennis and Miss Beatrice Nelms of Atlanta, was brought to Eugene Oregon by a deputy sheriff. She is guarded in a hotel room with a nurse awaiting Texas governor requisition.
Aug 20 Paris reports via diplomatic circles that King Alfonso of Spain met with French and English ambassadors to persuade Spain to reinforce the Morocco garrison to permit France to withdraw part of its 106000-strong force. Naval matters were also discussed and a State Department statement is expected soon.
The British schooner Ponhook ran ashore on Squash Meadow Shoals at night and was floated today by the revenue cutter Acushnet. She was bound from Cold River Nova Scotia for Vineyard Haven for orders and towed in apparently undamaged.
A Rome dispatch to Havas says Montenegrins advance in Bosnia continues. Austrian airplanes flew over the mountains and bombed Montenegrin forts but caused no damage.
A total solar eclipse will sweep a band from Riga to the Crimea today, burying Europe and parts of Africa Asia and North America in shadow. The event, the year’s most significant, will affect Labrador Newfoundland eastern Canada New England and broader areas within the penumbra.
A vast eclipse path will span Polk regions in North America and arc around the globe through Scandinavia, Russia, Asia Minor and Persia to Beluchistan and southern India. Totality will briefly obscure the sun and reveal the corona, while partial areas see the sun only gradually dim.
A solemn high mass of requiem for the late pontiff will be celebrated in all Catholic churches of Maine on August 26. Bishop Louis F. Walsh notified the diocese clergy of the observance today.
Mabel T. Boardman, head of the American Red Dishes Society, contributes an illuminating article for the upcoming Sunday Post Magazine.
In Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvanias Heights and nearby areas a fierce electrical storm struck causing five deaths including Anna Burnesky and Katie Smith and injuring 32 others. McFarlanes silk mill was wrecked and Hillside Church toppled while 30 to 40 homes were rendered uninhabitable and communications were damaged.
C Haz eltine Basshor husband of former Mrs Isaac E Emerson is in serious condition at Cambridge after a gunshot wound to the head. He was found at the foot of stairs at his residence Algonquin Manor unconscious and bleeding. Mrs Basshor was away and has not answered calls. Dr Brice Goldsborough says the wound was an accidental self inflicted shot.
New York Aug 20 Solemn high requiem mass will be celebrated at St Patrick's Cathedral on the ninth day after the Pope s death. Mass will occur simultaneously with Rome and all priests in the archdiocese will offer a daily prayer until a new pontiff is chosen. Administrator Msgr Joseph F Mooney announced in Cardinal Farley s absence in Switzerland.
One of the best war maps yet published will be given away with every copy of the next Sunday Post. It lets readers follow the great war of the powers day by day in color.
Jillian D Solomon known as Dorothy Russell, daughter of Lillian Russell, wed Edward O’Reilly a Pittsburgh broker in a secret ceremony on Wednesday. She had been married to Abbott L Einstein in 1893 and divorced in 1905, resuming her maiden name.
The Board of Election Commissioners sets the caucus closing hour to eight o’clock for the September 22 state primary. Previously four o’clock caucuses limited voting time under the joint primary act. The change responds to complaints that four o’clock did not allow enough time to vote. The board announced the decision yesterday.
Paris reports that Paris dressmakers will open shops in New York to serve customers in the Americas during the war. The plan includes keeping French houses in New York after the war to continue operations.
Three hundred ninety six Americans left Carlsbad today by a special train via Bodenbach for Holland en route to London and Copenhagen, traveling at 2:05 a.m. local time.
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