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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1910
Page
4
Early arrivals at Laurel Lake Fitzwilliam New Hampshire mark a lively season opening. A Friday July 8 clambake hosted by Captain Lewis A Gray of Springfield featured a lawn spread music and dancing for guests at Laurel Lake Farm.
The Dorchester Catholic Club will host the first shirtwaist party of the season at Brown's Dancing Pavilion on Hough's Neck tomorrow evening. The ladies committee features Rita Bladgen, Helen Bladgen, E Billie Brown, Lillian Forbes, Fannie Conlon, Agnes Devine, Kittie Lynch, Jennie McAllister, Angie Newcomb, Marion O'Neill, Irene Sullivan, Frances Cahill, Lilian Cahill, Louise Casey, Anna Conlon, Katherine Conlon, Ruth Devine, May Doran, Nellie Grady, Elsie Hongwill, Josephine LaVache, Mollie Madden, Minnie McLaughlin, Agnes O'Brien, Eileen Slane, Mary Chisholm, Margaret Donovan, Katherine Hayes, Margaret Hughes and Elizabeth Tully.
A midnight temperance parade is set for next Saturday night in the West End. Organized by Charles Howe Manley of the West End Mission, the event follows a crusade kickoff at 292 Cambridge street. Banners and lanterns will be paraded by Boston and suburban church groups with speeches planned along congested streets to recruit participants.
The Grant Private Hospital at 51 Sawyer Avenue Dorchester opened yesterday afternoon under matron Mrs Newhall. It will admit all surgical and medical cases except contagious ones. Fifteen beds are available. the first patient will arrive this morning with several trained nurses and physicians on site.
Worcester July 9 James Sullivan 27 was drawn into a shafting while tending machinery at the Holyoke Machine Company and hurled about 30 feet before being dropped onto the punch. He sustained only bruises and was uninjured beyond that.
A. L. Pfitzner of Hammondsport New York in a Burgess bir plane crashed into Plum Island River after two test flights over Plum Island. He escaped from the wreck, badly shaken and bruised but not seriously hurt. the plane was wrecked and a physician treated him on shore.
Congressman Joseph F. OConnell, back from Washington, predicts a Democratic majority in the next House. He blasts the tariff and Taft era, praises certain railroad and postal measures, criticizes Republican leadership, and argues a reformist agenda will prevail with a Democratic speaker and revised rules.
Boston blacksmiths business agent J. Ryan denounces President Jordan’s alleged remarks belittling blacksmiths and boilermakers as untrue and insulting. He argues ironworkers possess rare mental aptitude and strength, labels college education as money dependent, and warns against fueling class prejudice and union hostility.
Wise is the man who can keep his face closed at the right time. It is a great pity that the chap who invented trouble didn't take out a perpetual patent on it. It is well for the average woman's mind rea
Gladys B Reynolds and Alexander G Hooper both 18 eloped to Nashua New Hampshire to wed. Parents learned of the plan and hurried to Nashua arriving to intercept. The four returned to their hometown and were taken to the police station amid a tense confrontation.
A celebrated New York artist announces a program to prove deafness is curable at home. He offers free trial treatment by mail to any person with ear trouble, directing requests to Dr Edward Gardiner at Suite 806 No 40 West Thirty third Street New York City.
The city drains fountains at sunset to save water and money, provoking letters from taxpayers who say the cooling spray offered relief for poor families and hot tenements. Water Commissioner Hannon says fountains mainly display value and the daily water waste drops from about $100 to half that, with no action planned until more complaints arrive.
The Massachusetts State Board of Health issued an order raising the minimum working age for minors from 16 to 18 in trades deemed dangerous. The action targets processes producing poisonous dust and fumes, notably affecting the printing trade, while allowing non dangerous tasks to remain open to younger workers.
John Leahey aged 20, suspected as the Hingham bandit, shot at Frank R. Smith on June 29. He was captured after a duel with Chief Amos J. Soring in East Braintree. Leahey received wounds to the left arm and chest, the chief to the right breast, neither fatally hurt.
Chief Loring chased Leahey through Howard Street and up to an attic during a pursuit that left Loring wounded by a grazing bullet. Leahey, who had been staying with his cousin on Factory Hill, was captured after a struggle and taken to Weymouth Landing for treatment. The revolver Leahey used matched a gun stolen from Frederick R. Smith, tying the suspect to a June 29 burglary and a Hingham shooting incident. Leahey to be arraigned Monday on assault with intent to kill charges.
Mrs Charles D Norton wife of President Tafts private secretary had an appendectomy at Beverly Hospital yesterday morning performed by Dr Samuel J Mixter of Boston She is reported to be recovering rapidly After arriving at a Long Island summer cottage at St James she fell ill and Secretary Norton has stayed with her much of the past week
Fire and dynamite damaged the Lehigh Valley Railroad trestle under construction along Jersey City bay shore. Explosions shattered windows for miles, injuring workers and halting nearby activity in Greenville section.
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