26 Dec 1914
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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1914
Page
1
Fighting between Carranza and Villa factions flares outside Vera Cruz as Villa troops press advance. Carranza forces retreat under heavy pressure. Censorship tightened in the port city.
News from Tampico reports that followers of General Villa were defeated at Ebano Station near Tampico. The Cedillo brother, once with Carranza, was killed and Villa's force is said to have suffered heavy losses. Carranza's troops reportedly seized three cannon and several machine guns.
Rifles cracked intermittently almost all Christmas Day in the Mexican trenches around Naco Sonora. No injuries occurred from bullets falling on American soil as Brigadier General Hugh L. Scott’s plan for keeping the fighting at a safe distance attracts approval in Washington.
Antonio Buch 26 and his brother Stanley 20 of 116 New Allen Street Hyde Park drowned while crossing thin ice on the Neponset River at Fulton Street foot. Companion G H Brown of 20 Eastern Avenue was rescued by C A Norton of 1412 Hyde Park Avenue.
Passersby rush to summon help after a thin ice collapse in the newly dredged 12 foot channel. Mr Norton rescues Brown while the Buck brothers are swept away. Hyde Park police take over an hour to recover both Buck brothers.
Alpheus I. Webber perished in a blaze that destroyed his farm buildings in Dexter Maine. The Civil War veteran had lived alone and previously worked in the local hotel trade.
Reindeer of the Post Santa Claus completed their work after midnight ending a three day delivery of about 20 000 toy and clothing packages to poor children in Greater Boston. This total nearly doubles last year’s record distribution.
Last year 11,000 packages were sent. By Thursday night this year 15,000 had gone out and at Christmas the Post Santa and helpers found nearly 5000 children’s prayers unanswered. They worked through the night and into Christmas Day.
The thermometer fell from 24 degrees to 6 above early today with a northeast snowstorm forecast. Weather experts warned of light flurries or a hard northeast storm as a storm off the South Carolina coast moved northward.
The day stayed cold with a light snowfall that carpeted outskirts while downtown mobility suffered. Boston braces for a pending storm with cloudy skies and a drop in temperature toward near freezing over the next 24 hours, as Christmas morning readings show fluctuating lows around the teen and 20s.
The note lists moonrise and moonset times, first quarter on Dec 24, full moon on Jan 1, and other lunar phases. It notes Jupiter as the evening star in the southwest at sunset, Saturn and Venus as morning/evening stars, and sunrise/sunset times. It also mentions street lighting times and today’s anniversaries including Saint Stephen’s Day and Admiral Dewey’s birthday.
Forecast for southern New England calls for cloudy and colder conditions with a chance of snow on the south coast on Saturday. Sunday should be fair, with generally fair weather across northern New England. Strong northerly winds accompany the unsettled pattern in Boston and vicinity.
The wounded Harry J. Cook suffered a gunshot to the groin from a patrolman during a South Boston fracas while attempting to rescue a prisoner. Police reported a riot call and the Broadway station squad rushed to aid Reserve Officer Florence O'Reagan who was gravely injured amid the chaos. More than a dozen would-be rescuers were arrested as the incident unfolded yesterday.
Edwin Malway was arrested for drunkenness on the corner of E and West Third streets in South Boston. A scuffle left the officer downed and his club taken, followed by gunfire that scattered the crowd. Police reported 72 to 15 arrests and a riot call, with mystery surrounding details. The victim’s mother said her son, home four weeks from the West, died not, yet bled all night and was sent to hospital.
Police seek assailant of Dr. F. G. Brigham of 192 Walnut Street Springfield who was stabbed in the abdomen near the Ashmun and Central streets corner early today. He called for a doctor after the attack.
Dr Brigham received a telephone call claiming a resident on Ashmun street was seriously ill. He met a foreigner at Ashmun and Central streets who greeted him then stabbed him in the abdomen. The doctor walked to an apartment entrance, summoned help, and was taken to a hospital in a dying condition. No motive is known.
Hoseman Thomas W. Devney died after slipping from the sliding pole in the Congress street firehouse during a dizzy spell following a roof collapse on Pearl street. Investigators believe his illness during the three alarm blaze contributed to the fatal fall early yesterday morning.
Peter Devney, one of 17 firefighters nearly killed when a roof collapsed, died after fainting at the fire house following a grueling shift. He had climbed an 85 foot ladder with a hose and faced heavy smoke before being found by John Harrington. Devney, beloved at the Jamaica Plain station, lived with his invalid mother at 17 Hall Street.
Grimsby reports the trawler Ocana was sunk by a mine today off the coast. Eight crewmen drowned, with only the second engineer surviving. The vessel's loss follows earlier wartime dangers to fishing fleets.
Two ships tied at Commonwealth docks yesterday mirrored a world at war. The Harpalyce, a British charity carrier for Belgian relief, toasted the King as German Willehad from Bremen toasted the Kaiser. Officers on both vessels celebrated aboard while crews played tunes and drank, separated by only a short distance. Continued on Page 7-Fourth Col.
Mary Ford a 70 year old woman was overcome by smoke and seriously burned about the chest in a blaze at her home 5 Stamford street early yesterday. She is in a dangerous condition at Haymarket Square Relief Hospital.
Handsome blue black and gray heavy chinchilla great coats half price. Balmacaans in Scotches and rough cheviots seven dollars seventy five cents. Harrison's sale coats and over coats at 662 to 672 Washington Street near Beach. Open till 10 p m.
A wireless from the Chilean torpedo boat Tome reports the British cruiser Newcastle shelling 15 miles from Valparaiso. She is said to engage the German cruiser Dresden and the converted cruiser Prinz Eitel Friedrich as a British squadron and Japanese ships patrol nearby.
Italian marines landed from the Misurata and took possession of Aviona, Albania on the Adriatic coast in a bloodless move likely to hasten Italy toward war with Austria. Rome dispatches stress that Avlona is, for now, an Italian city.
A German biplane raided the Thames, but British naval air units and anti aircraft fire repelled it. The fight, at altitudes around 4000 feet, ended with the German plane limping away toward the sea as three British planes gave chase.
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