Heat Kills Three As Storms Bring Relief Across Boston
Heat prostration killed Louis Rutman 17 in Revere and a lobsterman Samuel Gill 26 in Houghs Neck died after a stormy night on Boston Harbor. Lightning and high humidity spurred fires and property damage across Brighton Allerton Hull and nearby towns as thunderstorms moved through New England.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samuel P. Gill
Island Avenue
Hough
Joseph
Boston Light
Higgins
Gill
Hudson
Hast Freetown
New Bedford
Clarence Gaudette
Louis Rutman
Abraham Rutman
Beach Street
Revere
Rutman
Park Hotel
Revere Boulevard
Metropolitan Park Police
J. Stewart Morris
George B. Magrath
Boston
Angell Memorial Animal Hospital
Brighton
Daniel Goodnow
Chestnut Hill Avenue
Hull
Allerton
Moses Cottage
Allerton Hill
South Hingham
Ernest C. Shultz
Pleasant Street
Hough’s Neck
Lightning Strike Halts Power Plant and Telegraph Lines
A lightning bolt struck in Willimantic causing the Rockville and Willimantic Electric Light Company plant to fail. The outage cut power to about 250 telephones and 40 Telegraph wires, leaving homes and businesses without light and forcing the Willimantic Chronicle to suspend publication. A man was injured by the strike.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willimantic
Conn
Rockville & Willimantic Electric Light Company
Willimantic Chronicle
Three Killed and Six Injured in Buffalo Plant Collapse
Three men died and six were seriously hurt when a main Semet Solvay Company building collapsed on the Niagara River road near Buffalo. The collapse followed a storm and may have been started by a lightning strike on a tall chimney. Some workers trapped under bricks and debris were reported missing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buffalo
N. Y
Semet Solvay Company
Niagara River Road
Buffalo City Line
Storm Cripples Light and Trolley Service
Suffield Conn. suffered darkness as a severe afternoon storm toppled trees and pulled down electric wires cutting power and trolley service. About a thousand acres of young tobacco plants were damaged but losses were said to be light due to short time out.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Suffield
Conn
Storm Causes Major Tobacco Crop Loss in Windsor
Severe electrical storm drenches Windsor area on July 13 with hailstones up to walnuts in size. Canvas coverings for shade tobacco ignited and burned, destroying crops. Early estimates indicate damages may exceed $100,000 across the region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Windsor
Conn
Boston Health Department Hot Weather Tips
The Boston health department offers guidance for hot weather including eating lightly with little meat, wearing loose porous clothing, drinking plenty of cool water, bathing after breakfast, avoiding sun exposure, and abstaining from alcohol. It advises cooling sleeping rooms, minimizing furnishings, staying calm, avoiding overwork, and maintaining moderation to keep body and mind cool.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John H. Dillon
Park and Recreation Department
Fire Department
Wood Island Park
Boston
Richard C. Kinby
Curley
Prostrations and Deaths Attributable to Heat and Accident
A list of heat related collapses and fatal incidents across greater Boston area. Notable cases include Mrs Hanorah Lee and James Middleton who died after collapse, Louis Rutman and Clarence Gaudette who suffered exposure and a lightning strike respectively, plus others treated at city hospitals and named locations like Lynn Roxbury Revere Waltham Cambridge Allston and Boston.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hanorah Lee
Astor Street
Lynn
James Middleton
Church Street
Canton
Louis Rutman
Beach Street
Revere
Beach Boulevard
Clarence Gaudette
East Freetown
Johanna Brock
Bickford Street
Roxbury
Dudley Street
City Hospital
James Mahoney
Charles Street
Waltham
Dover
Washington Streets
Joseph Canney
Stoneham
Summer Street
Relief Hospital
Joseph J. Sullivan
Huron Avenue
Cambridge
Market
Brighton
St. Elizabeth’s Hospital
Jennie Grubb
Blossom Street
A. D. Fisher & Company
Lynn Hospital
Abraham Swartz
Bradford Street
Boston & Albany
Allston Yard
Massachusetts General Hospital
Brewer Dies From Heat in Providence
Providence July 13 another death from today's heat. John Stanton a brewer for the Hanley Brewing Company died at Rhode Island Hospital after being stricken at the plant at noon Sunstroke given as the cause. Several heat prostration cases were reported including a police precinct four patrolman. None of the others died.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Providence
John Stanton
Hanley Brewing Company
Rhode Island
Stanton
Hanley
Burlington Tour Promises Comfort Westbound
Burlington's Personally Conducted Tours offer an expert guide and courteous agents for a daylight journey to the Pacific Coast passing through Denver Colorado Springs Royal Gorge Rockies Salt Lake City and the Sierra Nevada. Office visits or postcards request yield folders maps and pictures of the West with agent Alex Stocks listed as New Eng. Pass. Agt. Boston.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burlington
Pacific Coast
Denver
Colorado Springs
Royal Gorge
Rockies
Salt Lake City
Sierra Nevadas
West
Alex Stocks
New
Eng
Pass. Agt
C. B
Washington
Boston
Eckman's Alterative Promoted for Tuberculosis Support
An advertisement advises rest, fresh air, good diet, and Eckman's Alterative as a lime treatment to aid vitality against tuberculosis. It claims the remedy is easily assimilated, safe, and free of opiates or habit forming drugs, with endorsements of beneficial results. From Eckman Laboratory, Philadelphia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eckman
Eckman Laboratory
Philadelphia
Cumberland County Light and Power runs street car line with Boston men
Cumberland County Light and Power Company operated its Congress street line for several hours aided by 100 men from Boston. The workers were on strike seeking union recognition and reinstatement of discharged colleagues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portland
Cumberland County Light and Power Company
Congress Street
Boston
City streetcar strike quiet after midday protests
From 3 PM to 7 30 PM cars ran with a policeman beside each motorman. Crowds jeered the streetcars while truck drivers interfered but no disorder occurred. At 7 30 PM all cars went to the barn and service paused until morning. A. M. Flagg of Auburn arrived to mediate after Mayor Chapman’s request. William D. Mahon urged a city petition to press the company manager to settle the strike.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Westbrook
Congress Street
Chapman
A. M. Flagg
Auburn
State Board of Arbitration
William D. Mahon
Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employees
Chauffeur Held on Reckless Driving Charge in Newton
Thomas F. Williams, a chauffeur for Dr. Frederick A. Davis of 896 Beacon Street, appeared in Newton District Court charged with reckless driving and fleeing the scene of an accident. The case was continued for a week with bail set at $400. Gertrude Trasher, involved in the accident, was not present.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas F. Williams
Frederick A. Davis
Beacon Street
Newton
Gertrude Trasher
50 Striking Operators Return to Their Jobs
More than 60 elevator operators porters janitors and watch men who quit Monday to press demands for a 15 dollar weekly flat rate overtime time and a half and an eight hour day returned to work yesterday. Most were rehired at a large store with others going back to office buildings and will earn 14 dollars weekly plus improvements. Their demand for 15 dollars remains.
Grand Jury Probes Haverhill Riot In Historic Session
A Massachusetts grand jury in Haverhill continues hearings into the riot that drew 78 summonses, with 41 appearing and 9 defaulting. District Attorney Cox vows strict enforcement, as witnesses include Dr. Herbert Wales, Rev. Atkinson, George Houston and other city leaders and residents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grand Jury
Haverhill
Lawrence
Henry K. Palmer
Georgetown
Cox
Post
Harry B. Campbell
Charles H. Morse
Eighth Massachusetts Infantry
J. F. Bagg
Herbert HB. Wales
Wales
Leyden
City Hall
Robert Atkinson
First Presbyterian Church
George B. M. Houston
McSweeney
Nicholas Vander Pyle
Center Congregational Church
Ministers’ Association
Percy B. Spofford
George W. Lee
Harry Post
James Chase
Frank Leake
Frederick L. Munsey
Guy Meyers
William F. Herlihy
Edmund B. Sargent
Joseph Langford
John J. Moynihan
Herbert E. Wales
Brockton Avenue
Colonel Corn's Readiness Camp Featured in Sunday Post
The Column highlights Colonel Corn's preparedness camp described as a rough life and previews the comic in the upcoming Sunday Post.
Body of Elevator Victim Identified
The body of Elmer Pembroke, 29, of 6 West Cottage Street Roxbury, identified at City Hospital morgue after being found wedged between the freight elevator and the wall on the fifth and sixth floors of 694 Washington Street. Identified by a brother.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Street
City Hospital
Elmer Pembroke
West Cottage Street
Roxbury
Sargel weight gain claims promise quick fat and muscle
Advert says Ohio men gained 12 to 25 pounds after using Sargel with claims of health and strength. It offers a free 50 cent sample and urges sending 10 cents for postage from the Sargel Co. 36 W Herald Bldg Binghamton N Y.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. E. Henninger
Ohio
R. T. ‘Sivells
J. C., Weaver
N. D. Sanderson
Sargel Co
Herald Bldg
Binghamton
Sargol Co
Binghamton, N. Y
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Northfield
Connecticut
Weather Bureau
South Atlantic
Central States
South Shore
Weather
Mahoney
Health Department
MILAN
New York City
A. W. Jones Co
Chauncy ST
Duffy’s
The
Duffy Malt Whiskey Co
Rochester, N. Y
Storm
Health Department of the
City of
Malden
California
Laconia
N. H
Ernest Benson
Nellie B. Rines
John L. Jackson
Frederick A. Croston
James F. Ryan
Ellis C. Johnson
Nellie D. Rines
Dr. Wales
John J. Mack
Police Department
Bradford
J. Franklin Babb
Main Street
Nicholas Vander Fyle
Haverhill Gazette
Columbus Avenue
Percy B. Spotford
Fourteenth Avenue
Bradford Heights
Aaron L. Reynolds
Cyrus B. Bruce
Thomas M. Colby
Paul Coppola
South Street
Vorenberg
En’s Outing
Palm Beach
Wm. Whitman & Co
Parker Wilder
Panamas
Orenber
Hanover AN Poe
N.Y
Eee Uate
Soc
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