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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1910
Page
2
Boxford report notes Ada Van Vranken former Boxford resident and ex superintendent of nurses at Concord New Hampshire State Hospital is now ministering to a native leper in the area. The item highlights her nursing leadership and current aid work in the community.
Miss Van Vranken, a former NH State Hospital nurse, travels to Alaska last fall to help native leprosy patients. She works in a 400 mile district, teaching sanitation, provides daily food and water, and has earned the title The Little Angel among natives. Washington will decide her future disposition as government medicine arrives from Seattle.
Providence police press forward to locate the wealthy young woman said to be engaged to Ernest Wilhelm Lorenz. Detectives hope she holds clues about Lorenzs whereabouts the night Laura Regester was murdered. Lorenz claims she is a Germanborn prominent manufacturer’s daughter but will not name her. He chronicles many female acquaintances across several cities and bragged of a New York brainstorm during which he threatened public officials. Fingerprints from Lorenz are being compared to those found on Regesters neck.
A bill of 81 pages filed with the House clerk by Representative McKirdy would create a double headed Public Service Commission. It would take over the powers of the Boston Transit Commission the Railroad Commission and the Gas and Electric Light Commission. The new body would also supervise and regulate corporations in addition to existing transit railroad gas and electric duties.
Fifteen men were killed and five injured in a premature nitroglycerine blast in a tunnel near Fishkill Landing New York. The tunnel is part of a huge aqueduct project from Ashokan dam in the Catskills to New York City. Three of the dead were American. five injured survived near the mouth.
Bodies removed to an improvised morgue near the disaster while injured were rushed to a hospital camp run by contractors. Cause undetermined tonight but believed a torchman tripped a fuse igniting nitro glycerine in preparation for an exit from the tunnel. Twenty men worked the section. fifteen died in the rear as five foreigners led toward the tunnel mouth amid a roar that shook the countryside. the firm R. K. Everett & Co employs about 150 men.
The bill splits the state into Boston Metropolitan and rest of state districts each with a five member, five year term commission. Offices in Boston and Worcester, salaries for chairman and secretary total 13 500. Commissions gain Interstate Commerce like powers over rails coal gas and electric utilities with broad audit and sanction authority. A 150 000 appropriation is set for both districts and the act allows summons for witnesses and papers.
The Hanson sailed from Boston in November, loaded coal at Norfolk, and hit a hurricane near Porto Rico. A 21 year old passenger Silas Olmo from San Juan wore shoes three sizes too small, causing a foot injury that may require hospital care or amputation. Mrs Hardy, the captain’s wife, displayed notable courage aboard.
A Bangor couple aboard a schooner faced 150 foot waves with the stern rising and heavy seas washing away fixtures. The wife, married 11 years to the captain, steered at times and cheered the crew while the captain praised her steadiness. They live at 8 Poplar street.
Government aid kerosene and quick lime will be used by Marshal Henkel and deputies to destroy 464000 spoiled sardines shipped from Lubec Maine. Street cleaning scows will dump the remains into the sea after a court order from a pure food inspector.
An advertisement touts Bromo Quinine as a universal cure for a cold in one day and urges readers to seek the signature of E. W. Grove, a claim presented as used worldwide.
After two hours of effort rescuers reached the scene where workers were killed. Identification was impossible by sight and would rely on a roll call of the contracting firm’s employees, with the casualty list not yet announced.
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