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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1912
Page
3
Emila J. Putnam, 14, daughter of Sergeant Arthur Putnam of police headquarters, yesterday prevented a house robbery near her Jamaica Plain residence.
A young girl watched two men load heavy bundles from the home of doctors Walter A. Bradford and Harry B. Shuman in Castleton Street. She traced them to a field where they buried the loot a silverware set trophies and loving cups were recovered. Police seek to locate the burglars who cleaned the doctors’ house.
Former Police Chief Henry J. Cunningham was appointed commissioner of public safety yesterday by Mayor Edward Barry. The new post gives him full control of Cambridge police and fire departments, with a salary of 3000 dollars, and he was immediately sworn in.
Thousands of handsome suits in hot weather fabrics offered by S. H. Harrison Co. at 662-672 Washington St. Men’s worsteds cheviots flannels serges and homespuns priced around $7.75 and $7.50.
A terrific wind swept Fort Strong bay area wrecking the Coast Artillery Corps third battalion camp. Tents collapsed and canvas ripped as thunder rumbled and lightning lit the sky. Volunteers struggled in heavy rain to save the camp from drifting into the harbor.
The report says Colonel Lombard returned after camp repairs and Fort Strong crews plan mine practice with three loaded mines. Army officers in the Boston artillery district admit a manpower shortage across harbor forts. Fort Revere is closed with only a few guards from Fort Andrews.
Colonel W. C. Gorgas, chief sanitary officer of the Panama Canal Zone, has declined the position of chairman of the Boston Board of Health offered by Mayor Fitzgerald.
S. H. Harrison Co offers men’s suits crafted from fine foreign fabrics at 17 50. Located at 662 672 Washington street at the Beach street corner.
Citizens protest an alleged affront to Chief Engineer George Cushing as Commander Murrfin and naval magazine officers order the fire chief and crew from the reservation after an alarm. Lieutenant Johnson, a marine officer, directs the action despite the use of a town hydrant outside the grounds.
A barn fire near a naval magazine gate prompted town fire chief Cushing to respond. He was ordered off the grounds at bayonet point by a sentry and Lieutenant Johnson, amid tensions with Commandant Murrfin, as explosions could endanger hundreds of tons of explosives stored on site.
Boston city officials weigh a street extension from South Market through the Sun Tavern site on Dock Square. H D Forbes vice president of the National Shawmut Bank has written Mayor Fitzgerald proposing the tear down of the Sun Tavern and extending South Market to Exchange or Washington Street.
The Senate library committee adopted a plan to appoint a panel to pursue Monticello purchase but owner Representative Jefferson M. Levy of New York refused to sell. Levy said he will not part with the estate, despite renewed push led by Mrs. Martin W. Littleton.
Woonsocket Rhode Island July 10 Detective-Sergeant John T Sutton offered a 200 reward for information leading to the living return of Mrs Angele Parmentier-Delmor in connection with the murder case of a woman found in the Blackstone River. Deslouvre's attorney says body identity is not yet proven.
Auction or sale listing notes $30 men's suits and $15 finest English worsteds and Yorkshire tweeds English serges and Scotch home spuns offered by H Hersieen Co located at 68-673 Wash.
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