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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1913
Page
6
Joseph F. Slocum of Cambridge weighing 270 pounds saved Miss Maida Wilson from drowning at Sconticut Beach. Though unable to swim, he waded over 200 feet into the sea to reach her and brought her safely to shore.
Miss Wilson, a vaudeville actress on vacation, cried for help as a strong current swept her near the neck. Slocum, a Cambridge resident, leaped in without removing his clothes and dragged her to shore, then called a carriage and disappeared. Jocum, unable to swim, also waded in and aided briefly before Slocum acted.
Sergeant Daniel Toomey and officers from Station 15 raided Mary Carney at 50 Henley Street yesterday with a search warrant. They seized whiskey and lager beer and a number of empty bottles.
Mrs Alice B Frost shot herself in the left breast and wounded friend Arthur T Holt at their Somerville home. Frost rests on the danger list at Somerville Hospital with a punctured left lung. Holt remains hospitalized as an outpatient after an X ray is taken. Frost is husband George N Frost’s wife and mother to Blanche and Melvin, who stay with grandfather James N Frost at 12 Albion Street.
Erie Pennsylvania observes the 100th anniversary of Commodore Perry's Lake Erie victory with bell ringing and a Peace Sunday across churches. The program includes mass meetings, prayers, and speeches by State Senator Henry A. Clark and Erie officials. The Niagara and Essex ships anchor in the harbor as a reenactment area opens for visitors.
Christine Frederick argues for scientific home management applying factory efficiency to households. She endorses a wage schedule for servants and a bonus system, plus a standardized kitchen with affordable tools including a disappearing icebox a dish drying rack a turbine egg beater and a vertical letter file for cookery recipes and a wheeled tray for table service.
The speaker details a 1000-card time and worry saving cabinet with classified items like David's winter wraps at the cedar chest. She proposes a pay linked to performance, fixed hours, vacations, and a scientific system for maids, foreseeing a shift toward live-out houseworkers and an end to a permanent servant class.
Milford July 6 Leaders of the Industrial Workers of the World deny a local report that the Draper plant strike was called off. While some workers have returned, hundreds remain on strike and will continue until a settlement with management. The union says enemy forces issued the earlier statements.
The Rev Dr Charles E McClellan pastor of Fairhill Baptist Church in Philadelphia warned police he may need a cell and a hospital cot as he threatened to attack a man during a planned church gathering. The incident followed his plan to treat the congregation to a special event.
The preacher planned a long sermon and rented the Garden Theatre to present an illustrated lecture using a moving picture apparatus for the congregation.
Dr McClellan ordered the operator to start a crowd scene but someone dismantled the projector leaving it useless. He sought a jail cell for the suspected vandal and a hospital cot for the offender while vowing to publicize the deed. Congregants then attended services at the church two blocks away.
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