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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1920
Page
5
Thousands gathered in Newspaper Row as the Post's special bulletin board flashed up to the minute race news on the Shamrock versus Resolute. Signals from the scene via wireless and telegraph fed a running chart map and expert analysis, with crowds cheering as the Shamrock led toward a conclusive finish.
A 90 foot brick stack at the old Watertown Pumping Station was dynamited. Bricks flew in all directions when twelve sticks of dynamite were used. James Day, 32, of Adams Street Watertown, was hit on the right leg and suffered a compound fracture. He was taken to Waltham Hospital.
Frank Kitinsky 35 of 72 Medford St Medford suffered a broken back crushed chest and multiple injuries after falling 40 feet from a derrick platform into a coal barge hold in Hull. Employed by Nan tasket Beach Steamboat Co he was transported to Sturgis Hospital then Massachusetts General Hospital in serious condition. He is married with three children.
Incendiary blaze consumes an abandoned Badger Brothers machine shop on Willard Street West Quincy just before midnight. The 60 by 4 foot granite structure housed a wooden interior and ignited surrounding shutters and inflammables, spreading to an adjacent polishing mill and gutting both buildings. The site had seen several fires in the years since it was abandoned about 12 years ago.
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