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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1915
Page
6
Three auto thieves stole a runabout from Dr Conrad Wesselhoeft's car in front of the Homeopathic Hospital on East Concord Street. Their spree ended when they crashed the stolen car through a plate glass window at West Brookline and Tremont streets.
Four young men in a drunken car theft era through West Brookline toward Tremont street. The runabout skidded on a wet road, missing the main plate glass by inches and striking a narrow side panel. The quartet fled in different directions, leaving a hat and a glove behind.
Plymouth December 28 mystery surrounds Jose F Castanha a young Portuguese worker who disappeared after leaving Plymouth Cordage Company on Monday December 20 with many others. No clues to his whereabouts have emerged.
Mollie Waddy and Tony the Franklin Park elephants will host a New Year party with the battleship Nebraska crew and over a hundred children from Christmas Day invited. The trio plan their best tricks and a rumored special new act for the audience.
Grace Baker explains she receives thousands of letters seeking personal answers and clairvoyant guidance, while offering stage and behind the scenes insights. She notes her openness about acting life and advice on fashion, hair, and morality in moving pictures, and endorses discussions on film as a moral educational force.
Fahog Mary Pickford will appear five days a week in the Daily Post and every Sunday in the Sunday Post. The feature showcases the actress in ongoing discussions and entertainment commentary.
It is always gratifying to be told that I have made a success of any role and Madam Butterfly was very difficult as I had to submerge my own American mannerisms and become a little Japanese girl. It takes about six weeks to produce a five reel picture.
A funeral mass for Dr Thomas J Leahy, a leading Cambridge physician, was held at St Marys Church Cambridge with leading civic and professional figures in attendance. The procession began at 331 Broadway and ended with a requiem mass sung by Rev M J Doody.
William Mahood of Chestnut court Somerville is critically ill at Somerville City Hospital after taking poison. He claims his wife gave him the drink. she denies it saying he came home intoxicated with stomach pains.
Mahood told hospital authorities he returned home yesterday evening about 6. He said his wife served him gin and he immediately felt stomach pains and screamed. Neighbors rushed him to Somerville Hospital where Dr. White used a stomach pump. Police found an almost empty bottle of wood alcohol in a nearby yard.
Antonio Marr of 798 Winter street Providence was jailed for one month in Charles Street jail by Judge Sheehan in Municipal Court for carrying a loaded revolver. He allegedly used the weapon to threaten 17 year old Helen Yunis and her party on a Boston trip after a disturbance aboard a train at South Station. An added charge of malicious destruction of property was filed.
Demonstrations of new practices and devices marked the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology meeting at Harvard Medical School. Exhibits included a mine rescue breathing apparatus, improved blood counting slide, motor driven air blast interruptor, and a respiration study method in rats by Barbour and Maurer.
Community church notices preview a Maverick Congregational Club debate on socialism versus the Republican party in East Boston. Cottage prayer meetings open in Braintree and Jamaica Plain hosts. Boston University evangelistic band directs a two week service with Rev Edwin Cox preaching. Jamaica Plain UU holds Christmas festival for children at 6 and an adults program at 7 30. Chelsea Mt Bellingham M E Church Ladies Aid to hold annual supper. Malden First Baptist nears completion after fire and stained glass window restoration. grounds cleanup pending occupancy.
Mrs. Mary B Jacobs aged 72 living alone at 11 Park Street Hyde Park was found dead in the kitchen by a neighbor. Police deem likely natural causes. Medical Examiner Leary to report today.
Prominent West End residents launch a second fund to aid the families of Hosemen Charles A Willett and David W Welch killed, and Hoseman Edward F McCarthy injured, in a December 21 fire. Committeemen invite contributions through E V R Thayer at Merchants National Bank. Box 52 Association Fund serves as trust for six children. previous receipts bring total to 1804.15 with 3843 previously received.
Hugo Oklahoma reports Claude Jones died from gunshot wounds after a bank robbery at Grant. Jones and accomplice Walter McFarland robbed the Bank of Grant of $4000 yesterday. both men were shot by cashier Webb, with money recovered. McFarland remains in serious condition.
Peleg E. Champlin an inspector for the street car company pleaded guilty to murder in the second degree and was sentenced by Judge Rathburn to seven years in the state prison. The case involved Frederick H. Bishop husband of Champlin’s longtime lover. Champlin is the first defendant charged under Rhode Island new law effective Sept. 7.
Patrick Grinham of Roxbury leaves 100 dollar gifts to multiple religious institutions including Little Sisters of the Poor Roxbury Catholic Home for Consumptives Dorchester House of the Angel Guardian Roxbury Mission Church Roxbury and St Marys Infant Asylum Uphams Corner Also gifts to relatives The will dated October 30 1913 was filed yesterday in the Suffolk Registry of Probate.
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