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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1909
Page
2
A ~40 year old woman, claiming to be a millionaire's daughter, caused a scene in Police Court as she faced drunkenness and malicious glass breaking charges after allegedly damaging a store near Northampton and Washington streets. The judge postponed the case to allow a sanity exam by an alienist.
A heavy iron girder detached from a derrick on Avon Street crashed through three floors to the sub cellar, killing 30 year old Donald McKenna of 88 Chandler Street, a bridge worker for the American Bridge Company. Dozens narrowly avoided injury as the girder struck and caused severe skull fracture and internal injuries.
William Wilson 15 of Dorchester was hurled from a bicycle in Copley Square by a touring car owned by Charles Tirthmann of Harrison New York and driven by Antonio Lambosi. He suffered a probable skull fracture and head wounds and was taken to City Hospital. The chauffeur Lambosi was detained at Back Bay station as police investigate.
Ex congressman Harrison H A has been named architect of an East Boston courthouse project valued around $80 000. The award was made weeks ago and details were secret until a Post reporter obtained preliminary plans showing Atwood’s involvement.
George A. C. Ernst addressed the Massachusetts Real Estate Exchange at the Rockland House Nantasket urging simpler ballots smaller legislatures and honest government. Harvey N. Shepard welcomed attendees then 60 members played ball in front of the hotel with Ernest Judkins’s team defeating Fitzgerald’s 7 to 3.
A blaze at the Black Stone Valley Agricultural Society park grandstand in Uxbridge damaged the structure and 50 yards of fence, with losses around 1500 dollars. Authorities suspect arson by local youths.
Paris July 21 President Fallieres will offer the premiership to Leon Bourgeois former minister of foreign affairs. Bourgeois is not expected to reach Paris from Hamburg until tomorrow and his attitude is not known. Parliamentary circles foresee he will decline due to frail health, though the cabinet crisis may be brief.
M Clemenceau Delcasse clash prompts leaders to back Briand as the President’s second choice after Bourgeois. They insist the defeat is a personal rebuke to Clemenceau and will not derail government policies.
In an exciting matchup at yesterday's game the South Boston Red Sox defeated the Missouri battleship team by a score of 6 to 5.
J Pierpont Morgan returned from a European trip and said he plans to be at his desk in the financial district tomorrow morning. He offered little on the United States Steel listing effort, calling it a French government matter, and noted $30,000 of art objects will be released after bond is filed with customs.
Watertown July 21 Patrolman Vernon Brown sighted two Cambridge men carrying bundles on Arlington street suspected of stealing Andrew Lamphear's game fowl. They fled, dropping the bundles. Charles Cavanaugh was caught and Charles Riley escaped then was later captured. Each was fined $25 in local court.
An early evening alarm from Box 702 reported a fire at the four and a half story brick dwelling at 15 Lowell Street owned by Louis Labovitz and occupied by Samuel Cohen The blaze was confined to the top floor with damage estimated at 300 dollars The cause is listed as unknown.
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