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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1910
Page
5
Manning vn twenty four year old man was scalded in the fireroom of a dredger tied at a wharf off Border street East Boston yesterday. He attempted to pull a boiler plug when it released the steam and hot water, threw him to the floor and left him enveloped in scalding liquid. Death is expected.
Madame Mazarin, star of Elektra, appeared in Night Court to compel Mrs. L Bois, a boarding house keeper, to relinquish eight trunks. Bois said she held the trunks as security after Mazarin left three rooms and agreed to keep them until the opera season ended.
Chief Sewall M. Rich imposes new rules on Somerville fire captains shortening meal hour from 75 minutes to 60 and barring outsiders from loitering at stations. He warns of enforceable standards and replaces the term intoxication with under the influence of liquor in the discipline rules.
Daily fire record notes several minor fires with slight losses. Incidents listed include Tremont street Beacon Theatre area at 12 40 p m Box 25 55. State street Richards estate at 6 05 p m Box 27 110. Wing Motor Car Company area Stanhope street at 6 17 p m Box 96 51 to ST. Bowdoin street Dorchester Angell Goldstein with loss R25 ta m Box B2u4 2712. Harrison avenue William McGee Co with loss 100.
A Boston Chamber of Commerce and Pilgrim Publicity Association gathering at the Somerset advanced a new economic alliance for New England. Erman J. Ridgway urged aggressive publicity to showcase New England’s health and wealth and urged business leaders to expand in the age of publicity while noting strong regional brands and traditions. Speakers including George W. Coleman Lorin F. Deland and W C Freeman emphasized practical advertising, national alignment, and leveraging the region’s female population as a marketing asset.
James Ditrano aged 18 of 111 Everett Street East Boston was seriously injured when a descending elevator car struck him near the shaft in the building at 528 Washington Street late yesterday afternoon. He was unconscious and taken to Relief Hospital where doctors diagnosed a jaw fracture and possible skull fracture.
The Massachusetts Reform Club held its annual banquet at Young's Hotel. Speakers included ex-Representative Robert Luce and Moorfield Storey debating the proposed constitutional amendment on taxation with Jyce supporting and Storey opposing the measure.
Representative Claude Kitchin of North Carolina attacked the new tariff bill during general debate on the post office appropriation bill. He cited starving children and jobless workers in large cities, calling the Aldrich-Payne bill a blessing to the rich and a pain to the hungry.
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