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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1917
Page
2
The new bi furcated garden garment for women resembles an ankle length skirt but avoids flapping when weeding. Made of khaki canvas or chambray, it is easy to wear, cool, and comfortable with two hip pockets and one on the blouse.
A man about 50 was killed instantly on the Boston & Maine express near Alewife Brook in Cambridge. The body, described as 5 feet 4 inches, 135 pounds with gray hair and blue eyes, was taken to Danehy's Undertaking Rooms at 344 Rindge Avenue. The clothing included a gray coat, black trousers, and a black felt hat with a gray band marked Grant & Co, Lewiston, Me.
A British freighter reporting from an Atlantic port described a bark rigged vessel with four masts and a smokestack sighted two thirds across the ocean from Europe and due west of the Spanish coast. The craft, believed to be a German raider, pursued the freighter on July 14 but was outdistanced at seven knots.
Four year old Anad Kazain, son of Mr and Mrs Adam Kazain of 92 River Street Haverhill, was struck by an automobile driven by Francesco Foaleraro of 147 Jackson Street Lawrence near the Pines amusement park in Groveland this afternoon. Officer Charles Wadlin, riding in the car, said the fatality was accidental and no arrests were made.
Molten metal spilled from a collapsing platform at the Wharton Steel & Iron Company in Wharton New Jersey started a fire causing 25000 damage. Two Hungarian workers fell into a vat and died later in a Dover hospital.
Casualties mounted to eight killed and 25 hurt as German raiders attacked Felixstowe Harwich and parts of London coast. Anti aircraft fire and British planes drove off the intruders amid hazy weather and intensified alarms. Londoners sought shelter as warning signals sounded then subsided with officials saying the raid failed to reach the city.
A correspondent describes an hour long air battle near London as seven German aircraft moved westward and were opposed by British planes. The Germans turned north, then east, with one German craft isolated and pursued by three British fighters, driving it off.
Notes describe a pursuit in which four aircraft were lost in a haze as they climbed to 15 000 to 18 000 feet. The remaining machines continued the chase until they were lost to sight.
Mr. Oscar West, a Hartford hotel clerk, reports Vitalitas cured his kidney and digestion troubles after three bottles. He regained appetite, slept better, gained five pounds, and recommends the remedy. Woodward's Drug Co. advertises Vitalitas at 102 Tremont Street.
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