Heat Rages Across Boston as Mayor Orders Relief Measures
Citizens endure sweltering conditions as Mayor Fitzgerald orders ferries free for women and children, expands bath houses, flushes tenement streets, and installs seats on bridges and parkways. Officials note Gulf Stream shifts may explain the extreme heat while horses collapse and dozens seek hospital care.
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Mayor Fitzgerald
L Street
Fire Department
Columbus Avenue
Charlestown Bridge
Pink Pills Claim Nervous Disorder Cure With Blood Nourishment
An ad for Dr Williams Pink Pills asserts nervous troubles stem from impure blood and that pills build up and purify the blood to nourish nerves. It cites Mrs Winona Smith of Auburn Maine as a case, describes paralysis and paralysis symptoms, and offers the pills with mail order details and a booklet Diseases of the Nervous System.
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Dr. Williams
Dr. Wil Medicine Co
Schenectady
N. Y
Monday's Victims of Heat Rays
Emma Franklin aged 48 of 86 Pem broke Street James E Van Amburey 96 of Lynn Charles H Symonds 40 of Portland Me Seliz Graziano 35 of Providence Lieutenant Bartholomew Sullivan of the Plymouth Fire Department and an unidentified man about 45 were overcome with heat and one man died after a fall on Cross Street in a sequence of heat related incidents.
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Emma Franklin
Pembroke Street
James E. van Amburey
Lynn
Charles H. Symonds
Portland
Seliz Graziano
Providence
Bartholomew Sullivan
Fire Department
Plymouth
Cross Street
Heat Paralysis Cases Reported Across City Streets
A sequence of heat related collapses and fainting incidents are recorded citywide. Victims include John Johnson of 34 Warrenton street and Michael O Connor of 161 Medford street Charlestown, both treated at City or Relief Hospitals. Several others from 6 to 77 years old suffered heat exhaustion or injuries from falls with treatment at Relief, Lynn, City, or local hospitals.
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John Johnson
Warrenton Street
Dover Street
City Hospital
Barnet Gonderesz
Erie Street
Milk Street
Relief Hospital
Michael O’connor
Medford Street
Charlestown
Mamie O’brien
Tufts Street
Nathan Rosenthal
Lyman Street
Atlantic Avenue
Dennis J. Eagan
Wheeler Street
South End
William Bohn
Reading Street
Colonen
Pemberton Square
Relief Ospital
James F. Hurley
Anderson Street
Pleasant Street
Jacob Lebin
Cornell Street
Green and
Hales Streets
Emily Reynolds
Regent Place
Lynn
Lynn Hospital
Edward Swift
Day Street
Jamaica Plain
James Crowley
G Street
South Boston
Broadway
Jeptrick Lucy
Prentiss Street
Roxbury
Tyler Street
Grace Hospital
Stephen Ewaspi
Salem Street
Hanover
Washington Streets
Tony Acheto
Commercial Street
Charter Street
Edward Denney
Warren Avenue
Wellington Wild Coal Company
John A. Fitzgerald
Norfolk Street
Dorchester
Cornhill
William H. Jackson
Grant Avenue
Medford
Malden
Bennie Bapron
Quincy Street
Bowdoin Square
Timothy Breenahan
The
Little Sisters of the Poor
Dudley Street
Hampden Street
Heat Bakes City as Sun Reaches 104 in Shade
Citizens endure extreme July heat with sunlight driving up temperatures. Clerks and workers remove coats, fanning and dabbing sweat as a refreshing breeze offers little relief. Lloyd's thermometer at Milk Street read 104 in the sun by 1 pm, intensifying discomfort for laborers and shoppers alike.
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Lloyd's
Milk Street
Police Find Wanderer in Copp's Hill District
Police locate 96 year old Guiseppi Augustina wandering in the Copp's Hill area of the North End after an eight o clock call. Enfeebled by heat, he was helped by Patrolman Dolan of Hanover Street station and taken to the Chardon Street home for the night. He said he lived with Montani Molano of Melrose.
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Guiseppi Augustina
Copp’s Hill
North End
Dolan
Hanover Street
Allen
Augustina
Chardon Street
Montani Molano
Melrose
Heat slays him James E Van Amburg, oldest Mason
Lynn July 11 James E Van Amburg 96 years old died at his home 62 Williams avenue a heat victim He was captain of a sailing ship in the whaling fishing and trading trades He was the oldest Mason in Lynn belonging to the Lynn lodge and also a member of the Clafre lodge of Glasgow
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Lynn
James E. van Amburg
Williams Avenue
van Amburg
Lynn Lodge
Clafre
Glasgow
Tech Man to Attend Lost Love Funeral
Raynor Huntington Allen, Tech man and former engagement to Olma Adams Richardson, is expected to reach Boston to attend her funeral after a rapid decline from burns suffered at home. The couple’s romance began at a Vendome dinner, ended amid a famed clash of artistic temperaments and quick tempers, and culminated in Miss Richardson’s death at Massachusetts General Hospital.
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Tech
Lost Love
Allen
Allen-Richardson
Miss Richardson
Webster Street
Allston
Richardson
Athletic Association
Marlborough Street
Raynor Huntington Allen
Olma Adams Richardson
Boston
Massachusetts
Orma Adams Richardson
23 Deaths for Week in York New York Heat Drain
Tropical heat eased briefly but death toll rose again with 12 prostrations and 10 fatalities reported today. Maximum temperatures fell from 92 to 89. Health department records show 23 deaths for the week ending yesterday, up from seven a year earlier, and a weekly death rate of 1472 with a 1.92 percent increase.
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New York
Health Department
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