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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1914
Page
9
Mayor Curley approved contracts totaling 10000 for bithulithic street surfaces on Westmoreland Dorchester and Saybrook in Brighton. Brighton job costs 6421.55 dollars, Dorchester 3584.19 dollars, with work to begin immediately.
The Christmas sale at Gilbert Hall Tremont Temple organized by the Ladies Aid Association runs tonight. Attendance was good yesterday at the booths and cafe. Proceeds support Christmas gifts for veterans at the Soldiers' Home in Chelsea.
Harvard students in the German club presented Die Journalisten a comedy of newspaper life in a German village fifty years ago in Jordan Hall last night. Radcliffe girls assisted in the feminine roles before a large audience.
Washington December 17 The House rivers and harbors committee completed the annual bill carrying 34,138,586 for waterway improvements nationwide. It funds Boston Harbor at 203,000 and lists multiple harbor and river projects in Maine Rhode Island Connecticut Massachusetts and other states with varied sums, while many large projects are reduced from army engineers estimates.
William H. Wagner aged 41, under observation at the Psychopathic Hospital in Roxbury, jumped from a third story window yesterday afternoon in an apparent suicide attempt. He was brought to City Hospital with multiple injuries, not on the dangerous list but in serious condition. His home is 31 Allston Street Charlestown.
Charles H. Rutan, 63, of the architectural firm Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge with offices in Boston and Chicago, died yesterday morning at his home 481 Boylston street Brookline after about two years of illness.
Funeral services will be held at his residence at 2 30 p m tomorrow conducted by Rev Am brose Dermin of the Harvard Congregational Church Brookline Rutan born Newark New Jersey March 28 1851 educated in public schools in his city He practiced architecture in Boston with H H Richardson later with Gambrill Richardson New York and followed Richardson to Brookline He served as treasurer and trustee of several institutions including Fisk University and Constantinople College He helped design the Ames Building South Station Harvard Medical School and other area landmarks.
The notice outlines connections of Mr. Rutan with the Chicago Public Library Art Institute and University of Chicago buildings, mentions his survivors including wife two daughters sister and two brothers, and recounts a night incident where a man fled after wheeling a truckload of paper to a junk shop and striking at a patrolman.
Patrolman Driver of City Hall Avenue station opened fire on Broad street while pursuing a colored man. The suspect escaped after dropping his coat during the chase near the bookbindery of Robert Burlen at 15th Pearl street.
Paul Mason, a Boston customs inspector for 13 years, died at his home in Winthrop aged 66. He began as an assistant weigher in 1887 and is survived by his wife and two children.
John Kendrick Bangs presents a remarkable interview in the next Sunday Post Magazine titled Resuscitation of Santa Claus. The feature promises a witty exploration of holiday myth and modern imagination in a period voice.
Mrs. B. Hussey of Milo Maine reported three months of scalp itching dandruff and hair loss. She used Cuticura Soap and Ointment washing and applying daily, and within five weeks her hair stopped shedding the sores healed and dandruff disappeared.
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