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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1916
Page
5
John J. Foley a private in the Second Ambulance Company at Camp Whitney Framingham and South Boston resident was accidentally killed Sunday night while returning to camp from Boston on a freight train with two fellow company members.
West Springfield police found Private Foley in a coal car after a freight ride from Boston toward Framingham. He and two ambulance corps members had left Camp Whitney on Sunday with no fare and rode freight to Framingham, where Foley reportedly fell from the box car and died from a fractured skull and other injuries.
Overheated nerves and restless days trouble many during hot months. The ad promotes Margo a nerve remedy promising quick relief within twenty four hours by cooling blood and soothing nerves. It claims no habit forming drugs and offers money back guarantees from Boston druggists.
Miss E M Davenport and Dr Sarah E Palmer of Boston were struck by an automobile on Montgomery street. Davenport suffered a fracture of the right thigh while Palmer had broken teeth a torn lip and contusions. No arrests were made. Dr Palmer is a noted physician with ties to multiple hospitals and medical societies. She is 50 years old.
United States Senator Henry Cabot Lodge led a Republican rally in Burdett Hall Lynn criticising the Wilson administration over Mexican policy and foreign affairs. Several hundred gathered after outdoor plans were thwarted by weather with about 200 paraders leading to a large banner of Hughes Fairbanks Lodge.
Three domestics from Walter Damrosch summer home near Bar Harbor were found early today after spending the night lost on Green Mountain. Fog, darkness, and a thunderstorm plagued the searchers but the girls sustained no injuries.
About 150 recruits from all branches of the United States service, staged at Fort Banks, will depart Thursday for the Mexican border where they will be assigned. Last night the group presented a gold watch to Corporal Cooley in appreciation of his leadership as drill master.
Wareham High School and ninth grade will open on Tuesday September 5. Other grades begin on Monday September 18, earlier than usual. Howard W. Dunn Jr. will replace retiring Belmont High School principal Charles Pemberton Savary.
Rear Admiral J M Helm reviewed over 2000 civilian naval volunteers at Fortress Monroe Virginia praised for their snap and precision during maneuvers in preparation for a naval preparedness demonstration in New York next week.
Navy volunteers tour a fortress with a history linked to Jefferson Davis and the Merrimac Monitor clash. The reserve fleet prepares for Tangier Sound target practice as Captain Plunkett lectures on guns. City figures from Worcester to Newton staff ship police and messengers, while minor accidents occur in gun drills onboard.
The Ballot Law Commission meets today to hear Joseph B. Brown Brookline’s objections to signatures on State Auditor Alonzo Cook’s nomination papers. Brown is Cook’s Republican opponent and alleges many signatures are non genuine. The panel will also decide if uncertified Prohibition Big Six signatures should have been certified by county registrars.
Immigration officials freed John Wadsworth an 18 year old stowaway who arrived from England aboard the Sagamore. He was penniless with a side wound from the Somme battle while serving in the English army. His mother in New York organized his release and transport to the city.
Adjutant-General Pearson announced a detail of officers will be sent to the American border to correct the rolls of the Massachusetts militiamen at the front. If inspectors of small arms practice rejected for Federal service are available on the ground they will be used. otherwise the detail will be formed from Massachusetts officers.
Shamus O'Brien was matched for two fights today. The first bout is against Rocky Kansas Friday night at Buffalo, followed by a bout with Ritchie Mitchell in Milwaukee on September 13.
A 61 year old woman, Mrs Mary Butler, was wounded with a bullet to the right arm by her daughter Mrs H McKinley in Revere. Police say the daughter fired after hearing breaking glass and believing an intruder burglarized the home. An arrest is expected as the scene showed a burglary attempt.
Mayor Curley rejected Fred Green’s petition for a 2196 Washington street Roxbury movie theatre license. He ruled that the area could not justify another cinema, despite plans by the Temple Theatre Company to invest $85,000 in a new building with stockholders William D. Bradstreet George A. Carpenter and treasurer W. H. Smart.
The Rev. William Ward D D longtime editor of the New York Independent for 49 years died at his home in South Berwick Maine aged 81 He was a Wolfe expedition director author and Amherst College trustee He contributed to the American Bible Society and other religious groups The funeral is set for Thursday afternoon in South Berwick
Twenty boys from Boston tenement districts arrived at Winning Farm near Lexington to spend a week under the South End House program. John Goff leads the group, the sixth visiting this summer, with four groups of girls and two groups of boys. they return Labor Day September 4.
A southeast storm swept off the sea reducing temperatures to 59 degrees by 6 pm and 69 degrees by 9 am. A northwest wind aided the cooling. The day was not a record for August cool days.
Mrs William G McAdoo daughter of President Wilson is reported steadily improving at Spring Lake New Jersey after typhoid fever. Dr William Gray Schauffler said she had a comfortable day and a lower temperature following her illness at her summer home.
The assault case against David Sokol was continued in Central Court yesterday and again postponed until Sept 7 due to illness at City Hospital. The West End man, beaten by police, is accused of disabling an officer who went to his home to serve a warrant.
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