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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1916
Page
3
A spectacular rescue occurred at a Charles River dam lock yesterday afternoon. Metropolitan Park Police officer P. H. Martin and former oarsman Jim Butler pulled a person to safety from the water.
Two men in a row boat pulled George Guyot of Littleton Massachusetts from an ice jam. Officers quickly tracked him with grappling irons amid fast moving water and debris to bring him to safety ashore.
Guyot stood watching the water pour into the lake and then jumped or fell in. Rescued, he was taken to the Metropolitan station emergency room and later moved to Relief Hospital where doctors expect recovery though observation may follow. Butler, a West End resident, is noted for life saving medals and past oarsmanship.
Bainbridge Colby a New York lawyer told a pro ally meeting at Tremont Temple yesterday that American diplomacy has reached a stage of diplomatic blind staggers. He argued Europe now questions U S patriotism once seen in Washington Adams Jefferson Monroe and Webster.
Colby and fellow speakers urge end to neutrality and stronger U S leadership. George Haven Putnam and Benjamin Apthorp Gould back vigorous support for Britain and allies, arguing shared ideals and economic ties justify direct cooperation.
Prospect of including college coaches as faculty members gains traction in a Harvard Yale context. Mike Dorizas argues in Harvard Illustrated Magazine that coaching pay fuels commercialization and tenure would be safer than win totals.
Three Concord contests fill the afternoon and evening ballot for school board municipal light board and board of assessors. Heavy voting expected with Flora M Bean a woman candidate. Other nominees include Dr Theodore Chamberlain Edward Dee and Thomas F Shaughnessy.
A romance begun in Russia between schoolmates ended in a wedding last night. Mollie Fisman of East Cambridge married A Greenberg of West End at Mt. Bowdoin Hall Dorchester completing the long anticipated union once interrupted by immigration.
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