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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1914
Page
16
Seven of eight balloons started from St Louis in national elimination races. Goodyear piloted by R A D Preston of Akron Ohio with M D Tremelin of Akron as aide made the only impressive flight. It descended at Constance Kentucky near Cincinnati at 620 PM after about 320 miles
Balloons from the San Francisco 1915 and other craft landed across Illinois Indiana and Kentucky. Pilots Preston Kingsbury Assmann Berry and others reported landings near Constance Ky Princeton Ind Flat Rock Ill Enfield Ill Lewis Ind Terre Haute Ind and five miles east of Terre Haute. The San Francisco 1915 remained unlocated after passing Dahlgren Illinois.
Luke Dillon former Irish Nationalist leader in America was pardoned after 14 years of a life sentence for alleged conspiracy to blow up the Welland Canal. Mathew Cummings of Neponset helped secure clemency and Dillon joined his wife and four children in Philadelphia after years apart. telegrams of congratulation poured in from A O H leaders nationwide.
New York July 12 Frank W Woolworth owner of the Woolworth Building will occupy a 40th floor apartment the highest dwelling in the world. The entire floor about 2300 square feet will be divided into rooms. Previously the city’s highest home was the top floor of a Park Avenue Seventy Ninth Street building and before that Dr Thomas A Emmet’s roof loft on Madison Avenue Twenty Ninth Street.
Margaret Droulette of 2854 Massachusetts avenue Cambridge and Edward Bowsey of 24 Cameron avenue Cambridge were knocked down and run over by an automobile owned by John Lawrence of Concord and driven by his wife Isabella while crossing Powder House square West Somerville at 7 30 last night. Both were taken to Somerville Hospital. Miss Droulette stayed there thought to be injured internally. Bowsey was able to go home.
Clarence Mackay head of Postal Telegraph & Cable Company and his three children left New York yesterday aboard the Olympic for a long European vacation. The party plans to return to the United States in September as travel resumes.
They will go first to Paris then cross to London to visit Mrs. John W. Mackay in Grosvenor Square. In late summer they will motor through Normandy. Mr Mackay's children are Miss Katherine, Miss Eden, and Master John W. Mackay.
Worcester July reports the lake’s seventh drowning of the year as 36 year old William B. Lomquist of 116 Belmont Street disappears while swimming near Regatta Point. Police recovered the body late this afternoon. he leaves a wife and child.
Arthur Noble a long prominent Westfield banker and insurer aged 54 killed himself by cutting his throat after a period of shock and possible temporary derangement. He had been a leading figure in local finance.
In Baker Oregon on July 12 a nugget valued at eight dollars was found in the crop of a chicken shipped from the Burnt River country. Buyer W F Weeks paid one dollar twenty six cents for two chickens and received both supper and the unexpected eight-dollar bonus.
In Canton Ohio on July 12 physicians and electricians deem the lightning incident that melted the gold chain and locket around Miss Margaret Fife’s neck without harm a phenomenon beyond explanation.
Alfred A. Tripp of East Wareham was killed when he stepped into a car driven by Frank Cushing on the Onset East Wareham road last night. Cushing, a New Bedford shoe merchant, thought he hit a dog and stopped, finding Tripp’s body. Tripp, 64, leaves a wife and several children. witnesses are ready to exonerate Cushing.
Marion Carr a 25 year old night operator at the New England telephone exchange fell from a second story window at the Franklin exchange building early today died at the hospital. She struck the sidewalk fracturing her skull and breaking both arms a witness seeing her plunge from the window. Carr was well known and liked in the town and authorities consider loss of balance likely.
The Knights and Ladies of St Bren dan a Kerry lineage group in Painehall held a large meeting to discuss Ireland's crisis and voted to convene next Thursday to act on the Irish National Volunteer movement. They also agreed to award Dr Douglas Hyde a gold medal at the Gaelic League gathering in Killarney July 26 to Aug 1.
In Manchester Vermont on July 12 one woman was killed and several people slightly hurt when a car carrying Frederick Crane of New York and family overturned near Pawlet. The other vehicle was driven by EF Bowker Jr. of Rutland. The deceased was a domestic in Cranes employ.
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