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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1918
Page
10
Cairo Illinois June 30 Florence Wilkerson aged 18 swam the mile wide Ohio River in just over an hour becoming the first woman to complete the feat. The record marks a milestone for female swimmers in the region. The accomplishment drew attention from local officials and onlookers.
The Harvard Medical School appoints Dr David Linn Edsall as dean effective Sept 1 succeeding Dr Edward H Bradford whose resignation was announced last Friday. Edsall has served since 1912 as Jackson professor of clinical medicine. The announcement was made in Cambridge.
Churches in Boston held Loyalty Week services urging parishioners to back their government and soldiers in the trenches with constructive acts to aid the war effort.
An American aviator recalls the Lafayette Escadrille, praising comrades like Kiffin Rockwell, Norman Prince, Victor Chapman, and others. He notes their wartime exploits, injuries, honors, and sacrifices, ending with a tribute to fallen and a promise that the story continues daily.
A Cambridge man, John Mackey, 48, a special policeman for Boston and Maine railroad, was killed when an automobile ran him down at the Medford and Washington streets junction in Somerville and sped away. A patrolman, only witness, described a covered car with two men, as police widen a dragnet for the suspects.
Members of the Tammany Club led by former Mayor Curley presented William H. Mealey with a silver chest at a wedding reception held at the Mealey home 63% Columbia road Dorchester Upham's Corner. The event featured entertainment by prominent local performers including "Happy Tom" Coffey and drew many North End families. Guests included John J. Curley former city treasurer Philip O'Brien Glynn Jacques William Mayer and William A. Creeney.
Lieutenant Georges E. Turnure of an American flying unit in France has claimed his sixth German aircraft since joining the war a year ago. His father Major George E. Turnure reports in Paris that Turnure earlier downed three planes with a French escadrille and earned the Croix de Guerre with palms. He requires two more victories to be proclaimed an ace while Major Turnure serves in Paris with canteen work.
Stephen Kerwin, 40, of 276 Third Street Troy, formerly of East Cambridge Massachusetts, was struck by a Boston and Maine express at Middlebury Street crossing in Troy. He is at Troy Hospital with a fractured skull and is not expected to survive.
A May 12 letter from Catherine Breshkovsky, the “little grandmother” of the Russian revolution, arrives via Miss Alice Stone Blackwell. She denounces Bolshevik opposition, hopes Allies aid Russia, and expresses faith in humanity despite imprisonment and ongoing danger.
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