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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1915
Page
4
A playful verse laments the missing custom house clock and jokes it may arrive in nineteen ninety five. The piece sits under the Chansons of the Treasury Department noting the clock’s absence from the towering customs building.
Local engineers and the Treasury clash over motive power lighting for the Boston customs house clock. The original plan for an electrically driven dial with full illuminated hands faces opposition as Washington favors tip lighting and frosted globes, while the clock company argues for heavier hands and a mechanically controlled movement. Until resolved, the clock remains unlit, delaying Boston’s famed timepiece.
Governor Walsh ordered that no department officials may attend conventions in San Francisco this summer at the State’s expense. Officials had sought to attend many conventions in San Francisco, drawn by Panama-Pacific exposition events, while other sites drew less interest.
The last delegate reached South Boston yards after 8 PM crawling from under a freight train. William J. Kane of Newark New Jersey attended the Boston convention as a Brotherhood Welfare Association delegate with no funds or luggage.
After registering with the Welfare Association official, Cora D. Harvey of Oklahoma joins delegates at the East Cambridge freight sheds for the hobos eastern convention opening.
Hobos gather at Faneuil Hall after a parade from the Morgan Memorial on Shawmut Avenue. Leo Lippa organizes the Hotel de Jobless and delegates press for reform of vagrancy laws while calling for jobs and a permanent hotel for the unemployed.
The Boston Elevated Railway Company extends the Harvard Square Central Square line to the Boylston Street subway entrance at Kenmore via Pearl Street Brookline Street Cottage Farm Bridge Commonwealth Avenue and Beacon Street. The existing Hanover Street to Cottage Farm Bridge route via Massachusetts Avenue and Pearl Street remains in operation between Hanover Street and Central Square.
A description of the June 15 Zeppelin bombardment of the English northeastern coast, not fully released by British censors, was brought to New York by passengers aboard the Lapland from Liverpool.
Reports say Zepplin airships achieved greater military impact than earlier craft over England. Janey caused damage to Palmer's Newcastle foundry now a munition factory. The raid began Grimsby with Immingham docks spared. Zeppelins targeted Newcastle factory with heavy explosives and incendiaries causing significant damage.
Captain John Bradshaw found chalked on his cabin floor the German message Kaiser will get you yet as the Lapland sailed from New York to Liverpool. The ship carried 2313 officers and men of the first Canadian contingent and a brass tablet in Liverpool noted their departure from Quebec. Walter W. Gray of Lowell was found as a stowaway and held for immigration authorities.
Mrs Caroline Glickman said through her attorney she did not kidnap her son Julian born 1907, taken from grandparents in Brockton. She cited marriage to Louis Glickman in 1907 and a 1915 divorce decree with no custody ruling, noting custody was arranged and access allowed.
Serious bouts of hiccoughs have left Bernice D. Conahan of Bow street Everett in a precarious condition at home. The ailment began about a month and a half ago with two days of hiccoughs.
Report on the National Association of Clothing Designers convention at Copley Plaza. Designers critique their own attire while outlining 1916 men’s fashion with military influence, bold shoulders, slim lapels, and fitted coats contrasted by the exhibitors' baggy, padded styles.
Delegates and officials from major New England cities plan to attend the 63rd session and reunion of the Elks in Los Angeles California the week of July 13. They depart South Station this afternoon at 1 45 en route aboard a ten car special train noted for its fine equipment.
Mr and Mrs Joseph Grafton Minot announce their son Grafton Winthrop Minot will wed Miss Constance Gardner on Saturday July 24 in Montreux Switzerland to be followed by a move to Berlin where Minot resumes his diplomatic service as secretary at the American embassy. Constance Gardner sails from Montreux to be in time for the wedding.
Two boys aged under eight visited North Adams Fire Chief Montgomery with ten sticks of dynamite in their pockets. One stick broke on the floor, but the youths continued to retrieve more dynamite from their pockets, prompting concern and police involvement.
A storehouse break in at Natural Bridge quarry led the fire chief to a group of small boys who admitted starting a bonfire and burning two sticks of dynamite. Ten sticks remained and the youths were reprimanded, frightened by the explosive potential.
Pittsburg Penn July 2 Niels Hougaard Nielsen leading musician and registrar for the Pittsburg Society for the Improvement of the Poor died in a hospital from injuries suffered last Monday. A pair of horses attached to a relief wagon ran away killing the driver and Nielsen volunteered to return them to the stable. They again ran away and he was badly hurt.
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