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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1912
Page
4
Worcester July 5 Frank Samson 27 an employee of Worcester Pressed Steel at Greendale fell into a large vat of carbolic acid solution and died at City Hospital despite rescue by fellow workers. Several men who pulled him from the vat suffered severe burns.
The Rev. Father bonaventure aged 81, a founder of Capuchin monasteries in the United States, died in Detroit at the local monastery. He established the order's novitiate house in Detroit.
The Automatic Bargain Basement announces new stock for sizes 36, 38, and 40. It highlights manufacturers' sample lines and surplus model pieces, filling hundreds of lots as a budget shopping spot for affordable new clothes.
West End youths cool off at Frog Pond as a substitute for the beach. From morning to dusk hundreds swim in shallow muddy water and spectators hope to join in. Boys arrive in street clothes with bathing suits underneath and change quickly to bathe and resume their day. Dogs accompany many swimmers for a dip.
The Greater Boston area endured a three day heat wave with temperatures above 90 degrees in the afternoons. One person died and nine prostrations were reported as humidity remained high and relief came only in the early morning hours.
The thermometer peaked at 91 degrees as a heat wave continued in Boston. Public discomfort grew with prostrations reported citywide. Officials anticipate showers and cooler weather, but rain may not arrive before nightfall, risking a fourth hot day. Acting Public Works Commissioner James H. Sullivan ordered watering carts deployed citywide.
Arthur Broderick of 59 Shirley street Roxbury overcome at A C Harvey's 374 Congress street taken to Grace Hospital died soon after Herbert Smith of Portland Me overcome on Commercial wharf Relief Hospital Theodore Underwood Montgomery street overcome at State House Relief Hospital Edward Denny Devon street Charlestown collapsed at Wellington Wild Coal Company wharf Charlestown John St Peter 16 Lynde street overcome on Cambridge street Relief Hospital Thomas Mullen Glover place Dorchester overcome at 31 Milk Paolo Bellino 21 Beacon street Chelsea overcome while working on building at 28 Fleet street suffered concussion brain and severe scalp wound Relief Hospital Amal Strom 271 Corey road Brighton overcome at Kirkland and Trowbridge streets Cambridge Cambridge Relief Hospital Allen Hutchinson 37 Moreland street Roxbury City Hospital Mary Lunney 11 East Dedham street City Hospital
Last evening streets in congested districts were wetted as a heat relief measure. Watering carts will operate every evening during the hot spell. North and West End streets were flushed. Seats will be placed on bridges and the Common may be opened for sleeping if the heat continues. Independence Day showed the drought with dust in suburbs and parched fields.
Adolphus Alsowski a sixteen year old of Loring street Hyde Park was shot in the forehead by an Italian named Frank Peters of East Dedham in a field off Business street Hyde Park last evening. Mrs Mary Papsodi of 82 Business street who stood nearby with an eight month old baby caught Peters as he fled but could not hold him.
Rocco Strongoli was arrested after allegedly forcing friends to keep away from Peters with a long knife. Peters fired three shots at Alsowski wounding him near the eye. Alsowski survived but is in serious condition. Dooley restrained Peters until Strongoli drew a knife. crowd restrained both men and police were alerted.
Portland Ore July 5 The judiciary committee of the Grand Lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks made its third attempt and the ritual its second to get down to work today. Both adjourned without transacting any business due to numerous Fourth of July diversions.
The Post notes a typographical error in Pelletier's speech where the third paragraph should begin Is it an insult to the people. The first two words were transposed by mistake.
Dora Greenwell Mc Chesney author died in London at age 54. Born October 1, 1871 in Chicago she studied the English Civil War and produced a substantial body of writing.
Medical Examiner William H. Watters and his chauffeur Donald Hepron were thrown from a doctor's car on Shawmut avenue at West Newton street when a car carrying Elevated road officials and policemen struck from the rear. Both occupants escaped serious injury. the doctor was en route to Hotel Thorndike after a death in the city.
The Indiana Supreme Court declared the new constitution drafted by Governor Thomas R Marshall unconstitutional. It held that the right to amend rests with the people and that amendments should have been submitted to a constitutional convention rather than the Legislature.
Wolf's My Clothier at the corner of Hanover and Portland streets reports June sales up by 20,415 over the same month last year. The gain averages 851 additional sales each of the 24 business days in June.
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