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Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Jul 16, 1917

Page

3

Fire Captain Faces Hearing Over Alleged Misconduct

Mrs Ellen Griffin accuses Captain Philip Murphy of the Revere fire department, with a special hearing set for next Wednesday at 10 am in Revere City Hall. The mayor suspended Murphy pending the inquiry amid claims of vice dens on Leonard Street and bachelor apartments watched by the Watch and Ward Society.

Philip Murphy Revere Leonard Street North Shore Pemberton Square Portland Street Boston Griffin Watch and Ward Society

U Boat Shells Hit Azores Port With Large 15 cm Guns

Reports from Ponta del Gada say a German submarine attacked on July 4 firing 15 cm shells, nearly six inches, suggesting an unusually large sub of about 1000 tons carrying two or three guns. A girl was killed and several injured. an American transport helped the land batteries, and the submarine withdrew out of range.

Paris Ponta del Gada Azores Lisbon

Boston Elks Convention Ends At Lenox Brunswicks

Boston hosted a record-breaking Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks convention with Grand Lodge HQ at Copley Plaza and visiting lodges at Lenox and Brunswick. About 40,000 visitors praised Boston's hospitality as the group pledged a $1,000,000 war relief fund and plans to aid 50,000 boys in the coming year.

Boston Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks Elks Grand Lodge Copley Plaza Lenox Brunswick Union The Red Cross

City Farm cash spent on food conservation gardens

The Boston Committee on Public Safety reports extensive city garden projects under the Food Conservation sub committee. Thousands of plots and acres across Olmsted Park Pine Bank and Franklin Park are yielding peas beans and potatoes with school pupils and adults tending the plots under farm instructors. Expenditures include seeds tools implements and transportation totaling thousands while several hundred dollars funded cooking demonstrations and a base hospital. The program aims to provide healthful recreation and long term agricultural benefits with tenants pledging to give part of their yield to public safety.

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Teuton Correspondents Arrested for Plot

Paris dispatch reports Swiss police arrested the Berlin Tageblatt and Budapest Ar Est correspondents in Lugano for complicity in an espionage plot. The plot, said to have wide ramifications, has been unearthed.

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