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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1914
Page
4
In Lowell on July 21 Batholomew Sheehan a mill operative drowned in the Merrimac River. His companion Thomas Murray a fellow textile worker died while attempting a rescue. Both men aged 22 and 24 lived on Mead Street. Neither body has been recovered.
London July 21 A Liberal caucus with over 100 members met to pledge steadfast support for Ireland under the Nationalists and the Irish home rule bill. The gathering showed resolve to push the cause to completion before appealing to broader parties.
An advertisement touts Kingsbery's Freckle To Reclove freckles and blemishes on a red haired boy showing half his face cleared. It promises painless removal without irritating skin and urges correspondence for proof and care instructions.
Ex Governor Guild receives early backing for a 11th district congressional bid amid a crowded Democratic field. In Massachusetts, Peters contemplates retirement while Republicans host a major gathering at the American House with local party leaders urged to build a stronger organization. Bull Moose candidates and party filings surface as officials push for party convention in Boston and state seats.
Wendell Phillips Thore, candidate for Progressive nomination for Governor, issues a statement urging noncontributory pensions as a humane social justice measure. He condemns wealth influence, calls for a pension fund funded by bequests and state money, and proposes drastic tax disclosure to unlock funds for a pension system in Massachusetts.
Dorothy Kimball, 10, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H E Kimball of Wells Avenue, Amesbury, faced peril twice. First trapped unconscious in an attic closet, then dragged from Patten's Pond after a dog caused her to fall in. Paul Bird pulled her from the water and she recovered.
Carol Ryan a 49 year old painter of 1161 Dorchester avenue is dying at City Hospital from injuries after falling 30 feet from the third story of a house at 121 Adams street Dorchester yesterday afternoon He was painting on a staging when he lost his balance Hospital authorities report little hope of recovery.
John M. Weare of the Hopedale Manufacturing Company was stabbed three times in the back in a dark street near Slater mills in Webster on July 21. He was found unconscious in a boarding house at 49 North Main street after fighting off a single assailant who escaped. He remains in precarious condition.
Miss Viola Young of Lexington narrowly avoided being struck by her own automobile after she released the clutch on Montvale avenue in Woburn. The car dashed 200 feet across a sidewalk into a tree as onlookers chased it. Mrs. Augusta Young escaped injury.
Thomas Cloughtery of Woburn, farm hand for the Mahans of Concord, is questioned and cleared as a possible link to Ada Taylor’s drowning. The body was moved from the City Hospital morgue to an undertaker in Roxbury with a temporary medical examiner certificate citing drowning and facial injuries. The case hinges on whether the death was accidental or foul, with letters found in the victim’s trunk at North Station aiding the investigation.
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