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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1916
Page
3
The blind and crippled pedlers who have sold wares along Tremont street between Scollay square and Boylston street for years are ordered to stay on the move by a new police edict.
Superintendent Crowley orders all street sellers to move freely and not linger at stands to curb traffic obstruction. Blind vendors John Dolphin and Angelo Ferrari were missing from their lifelong spots near Old Granary burying ground and cemetery wall, citing income fears and personal hardship as they cope with the crackdown.
Frank A. Munsey buys the New York Sun after 23 years of independent news gathering. Beginning Monday the Sun will join the Associated Press, gaining morning AP membership and lower news costs. The Sun will price the paper at one cent.
The will of Field Marshal Earl Kitchener, who died in the Hampshire sinking, was admitted to probate. It shows an estate valued around $850000 with $100000 to his nephew Henry Hamilton Kitchener and Kent lands to Commander Henry Franklin Chevalier Kitchener. He also bequeathed $1000 to several officers and lands in British East Africa to Colonel Oswald A. G. Fitzgerald. The will is dated November 2, 1914.
The Georgia battleship baseball nine will face Ward 17 Tammany Club this afternoon at the William Eustis playground in Roxbury. Commander Stone arranged the outing and the full band from the Georgia will accompany the team and perform a concert for local residents.
A marriage license was issued yesterday to Frank Nathaniel Bemis a journalist aged 47 of Saugus and Miss Helen Monro Jackson of Dorchester 21 Alexander Street.
The National Association of Manufacturers of Medical Products approved a resolution pledging member cooperation to mobilize medical and surgical supplies for the army and navy in event of war with Mexico. It urged mobilizing private resources for prompt delivery and emphasized medical readiness as crucial to national preparedness.
Andrew B. Lofstrand died in this city on June 30. Funeral from Tallbert's chapel Sunday July 2 at 2 p.m. Relatives and friends invited. Member of Scandinavian Hundred Men and Mt Pleasant Lodge I O O F.
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