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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1915
Page
3
The birthplace of poet Longfellow in Portland Maine is at risk of sale to cover a $300 plumber's bill. The property is held by a society pledged to its preservation and may be transferred to settle the debt.
Fred E. Wheeler of Portland files a bill in equity against the International Longfellow Society, buyers of the poet birthplace, for labor and materials totaling 330.34 dollars. Notices served on Arthur C. Jackson president of the society, George T. Edwards and Louis Waxman.
The plumber files suit demanding money owed and asks the court to order the Longfellow property sold to satisfy the claim. Officers and society members prepare to contest the action.
A roundup of patents granted this past week to New England inventors with assignees listed. The list names inventors from multiple states including Massachusetts Rhode Island Connecticut New Hampshire and Maine and notes diverse devices from wave detectors and self threading shuttles to safety razors and paper winding machines.
A East Weymouth crash on the Nantasket to Boston road left Louis Cohen a Boston attorney dead and Lionel Harris of Brockton badly injured. The Brockton jitney, speeding, flipped when Harris attempted a quick turn on a wrong street. Seven men rode, six were thrown clear, Cohen pinned beneath the wreckage.
Federal Trade Commission members arrive in Chicago for a two day session to investigate business conditions and gather facts about the lumber industry during their nationwide inquiry.
London reports a new invention board chaired by Admiral Lord Fisher to boost naval science. Central committee includes J J Thomson Cavendish Cambridge Parsons Glasgow Beilby Royal Technical College. Consultants feature Baker Bragg Carpenter Frankland Hopkinson Pope Strutt Crookes Dudell Lodge Rutherford Story with more to come.
The Rev. Frank E. Corbett, journalist and minister, died at his East Providence home on July 18. Born January 22, 1858 in Providence, he helped found the Worcester Evening Star later the Daily Times. He later led religious work in Rhode Island and Vermont and served as pastor at Block Island.
Washington July 18 Transport facilities at Archangel on the White Sea are under examination by Henry D. Baker United States commercial attache at Petrograd in a move toward resuming Russia s export trade to America. Baker reports his departure for the northern port as negotiations near completion on relaxing the Russian embargo under a plan the Commerce Department backs to ensure goods do not reach Russia s enemies.
The first suffrage forum in Lexington convened yesterday afternoon at 117 Waltham Street, hosted by the Lexington Equal Suffrage Association. President Mrs. Mabel Wing Castle chaired as Vera Perin Lane and Philip Davis spoke on Service Through Suffrage.
David J. Ryan of Ladder 29 Dorchester was gravely injured early Sunday morning when he fell 10 feet during a fire in a dwelling under construction, breaking three ribs on his right side.
Five thousand paddlers on the Charles River yesterday saw only three tipovers none serious. A youth tipped at Norumbega boathouse but swam ashore. A young man and woman capsized at Forest Grove and waded ashore. Later two men overturned at Fish Island and swam ashore.
Michael O Rourke aged 65 of 397 Chelsea Street East Boston was found unconscious behind the Bennington street cemetery by Officer Anderson. He was removed to East Boston Relief Hospital and pronounced dead by Dr Hagerty.
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