Charlie's Brave Treatment Journey To Sheffield
Mary Alice Brown visits the farm of Sam Thomas with her family after Lem Brown reforms from jail. Charlie Thomas awaits surgery as Dr. Jackson discusses faith and hope, while a limousine carries Charlie to Sheffield and Lem copes with separation and labor back at home.
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Mary Alice Brown
Lem Brown
Sam Thomas
Charlie
Lem
Thomas
John Willett
Jackson
Galahad
Billy
Martha
God
Lemmie
Sheffield
Mummee
Sam
Miss Bruce
Bruce
Lemuel
Thomases
Fragment from a rural scene with torn emotions
A man toils chopping firewood at Knotty Oak then halts, lost in thought. He mutters about a doctor’s label, calling himself a “little Sir Galahad” as a single hot tear marks his momentary vulnerability.
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Sir Galahad
Charlie Thomas improves after hospital stay and operation
Mary Alice Brown writes from Hillside Falls about Charlie Thomas recovering after surgery at Clipper Hill Hospital. The boy remains weak yet hopeful, with doctors predicting walking within a year, while he longs for letters and a race with friends as he regains his legs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Francis
Charlie Thomas
Jackson
Charlie
Hillside Falls
Miss Bruce
Clipper Hill Hospital
Billy
Bruce
Miss Brice
St. Michael's
Mary Alice Brown
Danish Steamer Alexandra Held Up by German Submarine
Captain Jens Nielsen of the Danish steamer Alexandra said German officers stopped the ship in broad daylight in the North Sea, inspected papers, and allowed her to continue. The submarine crew, courteous, joked about the war as the Danish flag was painted on the vessel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jens Nielsen
Alexandra
Copenhagen
North Sea
Nielsen
Blacksmith Louis Meshreau Ends Life in Maine
Louis Meshreau, a blacksmith in Houston Maine, fatally shot himself after borrowing four rifle cartridges and after his daughter refused to return home following domestic troubles. The event occurred in front of a neighbor’s home as he called for his daughter at a neighbor’s house.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Houston
Louis Meshreau
North Amity
Roof Garden Refuge Over Boston North End
Mr and Mrs Philip Davis of the Civic Service House at 112 Salem Street have created a roof garden that serves as a quiet breezy refuge above a crowded street. The garden hosts outdoor meetings for clubs of young people mothers suffragists and social science students and inspires thoughts of rooftop gardens bridging separated buildings.
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Civic Service House
Salem Street
Boston
North End
Philip Davis
Davis
Rancher Held for Ransom in Idaho Mountains
Earnest Empey, 85, a wealthy Idaho rancher, is held for 6000 dollars. A boy and a neighbor provided ransom delivery instructions for July 24 on a lonely mountain road, with threats of death if not paid. Officials suspect a fugitive holed up in eastern Idaho mountains.
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Idaho Falls
Ida
Earnest Empey
Empey
Here
Lady Bountiful Rescues Freckles in Wit and Humor
In the Wit and Humor Section of next Sunday's Post, Lady Bountiful rescues Freckles from the righteous wrath of a gang. The brief reads with light tone and touches on a daring rescue scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lady Bountiful
Freckles
Next Sunday
Post
Lawerence Mayor Challenged Over Board Member Brogan
Judge Carroll issued a mandamus to force Mayor Kane and the Lawrence Licensing Board to recognize Michael F. Brogan as a board member. The Aug 1914 appointment by Mayor Scanlan for a six year term is affirmed as valid, with Brogan deemed legally qualified per Cook vs Springfield, despite questions about sworn status. The case proceeds to the full bench.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carroll
Supreme Judicial Court
John P. Kane
City of
Lawrence
Michael F. Brogan
Brogan
Scanlan
Kane
Cook
Springfield
Body of Italian boy feared in Weston woods
July 20 reports a search by Weston and Wellesley police for a missing Italian youth believed buried in dense woods along Wellesley street near the Weston line. An automobile party found a fence rail with a diary leaf nailed to it, hinting at the boy’s disappearance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Weston
Wellesley Street
Weston-Wellesley
Death Note Found At Farm As Police Search
A note reading Will find dead a boy and Please help in the bushes led investigators to a Weston area farm of John Card. Chief Kingsbury and Miss Irene McAulliffe with Sergeant Sliney examined the site before pausing the search until morning. An earlier report said an Italian youth about 18 sought work there and left in despair, prompting belief the note described a possible suicide.
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John Card
Kingsbury
Wellesley
Weston Police
Irene McAulliffe
Weston
Sliney
Summer Story Telling at Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Thousands of Greater Boston children attend summer storytelling at the Museum of Fine Arts five days a week through August. A group of 62 Emerson playground children from East Boston were guided by Miss Alice Barry and Miss Catherine Gould as Mrs. Robert L. Scales used a stereoptical lantern to recount the tale of Hercules.
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Greater Boston
Boston Museum of Fine Art
Emerson Playground
East Boston
Alice Barry
Catherine Gould
Robert L. Scales
Hercules
Answers Letter on Jane Addams in The Post
A reader rebuts Sarah Wambaugh's defense of Jane Addams over Richard Harding Davis' charge about soldiers and alcohol. The exchange argues Addams did make the insinuation, and Wambaugh fails to clarify, mocking her as gullible. Eighth Regiment.
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Sarah Wambaugh
Richard Harding Davis
Jane Addams
Miss Addams
Davis
Jareh Wambaugh
Mr. Davis
Mr.avis
Mrs Addams
America
Europe
Eighth Regiment
2000 Austrians Taken Prisoner in Italy
In Udine Austria prisoners arrived from Lugano and Paris. Over 2000 Austrians have been confined as a precaution against disease. The rest departed on special trains with sanitary officers aboard. Quarantine stations line the rail routes to curb possible Asiatic cholera spreading among troops.
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Udine
Italy
Lugano
Paris
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Dr. Jackson
Galahad Knights
Fremont Stores
Tremont Street
Royal Worcester
Rmiarseilles
Old Butler Corner
Tremont St
Vs. Small, Maynard & Co., Inc
The
Daily and Sunday Post
Kiet
U. S
Victrolas
Victrola
Victor
Harvey
Boylston ST
Victrola XVIII
Victor Talking Machine Co
Camden, N. J
Civic Service
Bandit
Mandamus
Fine Arts Museum
National Biscuit Company
O'Sullivan Specialties Co
Lowell, Mass
Joseph E. Greene CO
Atlantic Ave
Purchase St
Iver Johnson Sporting Goods Co
Washington Street and
Cornhill
George Lincoln Parker
Boylston Street
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