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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1915
Page
10
Boston City Hospital doctors report snow therapy using pencils of frozen snow at 250 degrees below zero to treat skin cancer and lupus. The cold freezes away cancerous tissue in a painless treatment that leaves no scar and has cured hundreds of cases over about three years.
The 23 year old Mary Wheelock of 199 Ruggles Street Roxbury has been identified as the woman who died by suicide yesterday morning by jumping into the Charles River from the dam. Her father Charles W Wheelock a switch man identified her at the Northern morgue last evening.
The Custom House tower clock will switch from mechanical to electrical operation. Four dial faces will be driven by separate motors in sync under a master clock in the assistant custodian T L Foster’s office. Minute and hour hands will be large wooden structures coated in bronze and lit by internal bulbs.
Thousands line Chelsea streets as the Jankowski family victims of last Tuesday’s early morning fire are laid to rest. The procession moved from Richards Hall to St. Stanislaus Church and on to Holy Cross Cemetery in Malden. young Charles Jankowski mourns privately, unable to enter the hall to view his parents and four sisters.
District Attorney Pelletier urged the Governor and council to deny a pardon for Henry Jones who was sentenced last September to two years in the House of Correction for robbing a woman on Blackstone Street. The piece notes the grimness of war but emphasizes the human impact Nicknamed by the public.
Henry C. Attwill issued an order prohibiting city employees from appearing before the Finance Commission without a law department representative and a stenographer. The full opinion is not released yet though leaks reveal a directive. The gesture of thanks was made by Court M C O F and members for the AG. Father Doherty, formerly at St. Philip's, is now rector of Plymouth Catholic Church appointed by Cardinal O'Connell.
Attorney General notes counsel designation lies with the person to be interrogated and questions whether city law department members may appear as personal counsel at private Finance Commission hearings. Attwill says department heads may bar employees from waiving legal summons during work hours, but not after hours.
A large crowd attended a farewell reception for Rev. Father Austin E. Doherty last evening at Boyle O Reilly Hall Roxbury. He served for many years as the chaplain of St. Philip's.
A test of man carrying kites by Samuel F Perkins of Dorchester showed a kite reaching 1600 feet and sending messages to Portsmouth Newport and the Filene station in Boston. Wireless messages were received from Arlington Virginia and Bermuda. The battleship Georgia sent a message near Newport and two English battleships off New York harbor exchanged coded wireless.
Old Orchard Maine July 22 Tom Cleaves sent a detailed Maine style clambake recipe to Jefferson Kenney former city marshal and barber now in San Diego Calif The 3000 mile message explained how to prepare the entire Maine style clambake with all its accoutrements for a genuine old fashioned affair.
Formal proposal in Washington to form a great American cotton pool to handle exports to Europe under a British government agreement. It aims to equitably distribute among producers the trade Great Britain and allies permit with neutral countries without interference on the high seas.
Officials say any agreement restricting trade between neutral nations in non contraband would abandon freedom of the seas established in notes to Great Britain. The arrangement would have to be made directly between the British government and cotton interests without State Department participation or approval.
The text notes that despite ongoing settlement talks between two governments, American officials may aid cotton shippers in informal ways. Britain signals willingness to limit interference with cotton cargoes to neutral countries, provided shipments stay within normal consumption. The British embassy reports active negotiations and confidence a workable scheme will emerge.
The funeral of Rev. Arthur Howe Pingree pastor of the First Congregational Church was held after he died saving a young parishioner Helen Perkins in the Annisquam River. Flags were at half staff and business halted as townspeople honored the minister with a packed service at the church. Burial followed at Forest Hills Cemetery in Boston.
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