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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1916
Page
5
On Georges Bank two days ago the fishing schooner Rita fought a giant swordfish that rammed its three inch hull plank, driving the weapon three feet into the vessel. The crew harpooned the fish, which snapped the harpoon but swam off with it attached, later dying after being pursued.
The Boston Elevated ordered a mix of surface and elevated cars at a cost of 1.5 million dollars. Forty two elevated cars will have wider center and end doors, while surface cars introduce a new multiple unit type with low entrances and motorman compartments.
The body of John P. Doherty of South Boston, believed killed after a July 1 assault on a Hudson River towboat and thrown overboard, arrived in Boston yesterday. Funeral services are set for 11 a.m. today at the mortuary chapel on Broadway with Monsignor George J. Patterson presiding.
Madame Cleopatra the ostrich at Franklin Park Zoo has laid her first egg. The five inch long shell weighs over four pounds making a substantial meal or a potential show hazard if it were to break. Class outings to Cleopatra’s house have increased as she becomes a busy mother bird.
The storm that troubled crops and shipping yesterday shifted to the northeast and now centers off the southern Maine coast. Today brings fair weather with light to moderate westerly winds and little temperature change.
Madame Cleopatra vows at least eleven more eggs will be laid creating a nestful. The story follows her husband Mark who must incubate the eggs as the family question and digest the ostrich facts. The piece notes the bird is the world’s largest and details the ostrich’s behavior and anatomy.
Frazier Gilman of Brooklyn petitions to transfer jurisdiction of Anna K. Gilman’s will to Kings County Surrogate Court. The will reportedly totals 300000 in her own right and near a million in claims, with residuary trust for legal aid to executrix. He serves as sole living brother and committee of her property after her 1901 incompetency declaration.
A quarrel at the corner of Broadway and Williams Street Chelsea led to a stabbing affray. Frank Wozciechowski 24 fought with Frank Pieci kowski 25, who was taken to Frost Hospital Chelsea with knife wounds to the abdomen and back. Wozciechowski fled pursued by several youths.
Joseph P. Sullivan, 24, of Bennington Street East Boston, found guilty of assault and battery on Albert J. Mc Laughlin conductor on an Elevated railroad car in East Boston court. He was fined $10. An additional charge of drunkenness was placed on file.
Farmers report widespread damage to hay corn and tomatoes from yesterday's gale and heavy rain. Bay winds hit 50 mph while land winds reached 27. coastwise steamships delayed. Rainfall measured at 0.80 inch with high humidity and 78 as the day peak. Two heat related prostrations reported on Boston Common and East Boston. victims treated at relief hospital.
A large elm fell across the Weymouth Light & Power Company rails near the East Weymouth power station as a Bay State streetcar with about twenty passengers passed by. The wind was light and the cause of the uprooting remained a mystery. The car was traveling rapidly when the tree struck the rear portion.
Madrid reports the government has revoked its declaration of martial law though military censorship of press dispatches remains to prevent comment on the European war. Martial law began July 18 due to railway workers strike across Spain.
Price scale shows beans in Hub California pea beans at 22 to 25 cents per quart. Red kidney beans 25 cents, yellow eye 20 cents per quart. Beans now 25 cents a quart retail, wholesale seven dollars a bushel, highest in memory. Old prices 8 cents quart and four fifty per bushel wholesale thirty days ago.
Housewives boycotting beans force diners to swap to beef. Restaurants threaten price hikes on baked pods as bean plates shrink to ten cents. Merchants blame speculators and market corners shared by operators, jobbers, and wholesalers from California to Michigan.
The American bark Prinz Valdemar was captured by a German warship while en route from Philadelphia to Sweden with grain groceries or oil. The ship was taken to Swinemunde and owner George W. McNear Jr. pledged to file a protest with the State Department seeking its release.
Brown alumni and supporters gathered at Youngs in Boston for a luncheon to boost Charles Evans Hughes’s presidential drive. Organized by George F. Bean with attendance by Edward A. Thurston and notable alumni including Edwin Farnham Greene and Clifford S. Anderson among others, the session was described as nonpartisan and independent of any political organization.
Miss Lillian May Pearson of Reading married Otto A. Hendman of Springfield in the room where her parents were wed. The ceremony marked the 52d anniversary of her grandparents Mr and Mrs Robert C Ransom in Wakefield. Pearson a Smith College graduate 1913 has taught in Springfield for two years. Hendman is a Springfield businessman.
July 21 report notes Governor McCall to review five recruit companies Field Hospital No 2 and Ambulance Company No 2 at Camp Whitney. Recruits likely to en train Monday or Tuesday as the camp closes and activity moves to Fort Banks Winthrop. Six Guard officers relieved by Major General Leonard Wood. Dolan replaced by Captain Thomas J. Clifford as commander of the recruit battalion.
Frank Robertson, 27, of Cambridge Street, West End, and Charles Chester, 33, of Springfield Street, Somerville, were held for the grand jury in 2000 bond each in Police Court for robbing John P. McGlynn of Coggswell Street, North Cambridge.
Governor McCall refused yesterday to revoke the requisition for extradition of Louis Auerbach once a Boston broker indicted in 1912 for grand larceny of client stock. The defense said the stock was worthless while the state valued it at 35000 dollars.
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