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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1914
Page
11
Miss Hattle Bi Conant an aged invalid died when a fire destroyed the Brookside Invalids Home between North Leominster and Lunenburg. Nurse Miss Grace Russ rushed in twice to save Conant but was badly burned and inhaled smoke. Five other women patients were rescued as nurses fought the blaze with hand extinguishers.
Cattaraugus County grand jury returns four indictments against Edward Beardsley the former outlaw who held Sheriff Anderson and a posse at his farm. Three indictments charge assault in the first degree for shooting Overseer of the Poor J W Putnam and attempting to shoot Sheriff Anderson. The fourth accuses him of larceny in stealing a harness.
Miss Alma Gluck announces engagement to Russian violinist Efrem Zimbalist the probable wedding in June at the Fels home in London. Zimbalist is touring Russia. Zimbalist is a protege of the late Joseph Fels.
Charles P. Fernald of Wareham was sentenced to life in the State prison for second degree murder in the death of Joseph H. Helleur at Onset after a quarrel. Fernald struck Helleur with a cue during ejectment. Helleur died days later. He had faced an earlier conviction and appeal, and cried at sentencing before thanking officers and the district attorney. Fernald formerly lived in Portland, Maine.
Fellow patrolmen selected by Captain Rowley of the Adams Street station Dorchester will bear the casket and a detail from the department will escort the funeral of Patrolman John H Lynch who died suddenly early yesterday. The cortege leaves the residence 77 Topliff Street for St Peter s Church Meeting House Hill where a high mass of requiem will be offered at 19 o clock tomorrow morning by the pastor the Right Rev Mgr Peter Ronan.
Rufus Kimball aged 84, longtime Lynn newspaper man and father of Massachusetts House clerk James W. Kimball, died at his Lynn home three weeks after his wife’s death. Born Ipswich March 13 1829, he worked as printer reporter and publisher for the old County Whig, helped found the Lynn Transcript, edited the Lynn Item, and served as city official and JP. He was a charter Odd Fellows member and trustee of the Lynn Five Cents Savings Bank.
Mrs Theresa A Crowley chairman of the Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association spoke to about 200 Harvard and Radcliffe students in Agassiz Hall about the problems women face in winning the ballot. Her address drew long applause at the end.
Pittsburg Feb 26 William Ulrich a member of the Pennsylvania Legislature hanged himself in a sanitarium here today. Ulrich was formerly superintendent of Latrobe public schools in Penn.
Wilbert H. Jerauld, 20 years a section foreman, was struck by the Federal Express on the New York New Haven Hartford viaduct at 10:35 am. He was hurled 60 feet and fell on Neponset street in front of his home, dying moments later. He had been supervising snow removal when he stepped into the train’s path. The express was moving at full speed in the opposite direction.
President Wilson will not attend the Evacuation Day exercises in Boston on March 17. A telegram from the President's secretary to the Mayor says he is not accepting invitations outside his direct line of official engagements.
Miss Florence Bowser, 35, chief of the order department at Commonwealth Shoe and Leather, of Lincoln street, was struck and killed by an express train from Providence yesterday at 7:45 am while waiting for her Boston-bound train at East Foxboro station.
Mrs Horatio Nelson Slater opened her Beacon Street residence for an illustrated talk by George Leland Hunter Harvard 89 on tapestries their origin history and renaissance The Rittersdale rooms newly opened last week with walls displaying fine old tapestries five from Artemisia set Patronage included Mrs Slater Mrs John Jr Gardner Jean Guiffrey and Frank Gair Macomber About 150 attendees
London reports British officials are checking Alfred Charles Sam claim to land concessions in the Gold Coast colony. Colonial authorities say no land has been conceded and note American Negro colonization would face lack of local opportunities, prompting inquiries to Washington.
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