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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1916
Page
7
The Massachusetts Volunteer Aid Association reports a weekly payroll of 2232 as relief funds dwindle. Town committees fundraisers, comfort kits, and supports for soldiers' families while investigations continue and applications are processed.
Two sharks about six feet long have been caught near Onset over the past three days. One 150 pound shark was netted by two 15 year old boys while fishing near the Point Independence bridge and shown at a local market. Both sharks are shovel nosed sand sharks, considered harmless, with the species now more common in the area.
A Cambridge benefit event last night at Inman Square Theatre included five motion picture reels and eight vaudeville acts. Representative Charles Chapman sang twice and delivered a monologue. The theatre space was donated by Michael and Dennis O Leary, with all performers and staff donating their services.
Late last night Dr Wilfred E Harris’s condition worsened with constant watch as doctors warn the crisis nears. Family and lawyers push for Harris’s survival while police pursue a poison source connected to Dr Adams’s death and insist mercury was involved though the form remains undetermined.
An advertisement touts Q Ban as the guaranteed liquid hair color restorer. It claims gray hair vanishes with daily application followed by sun and air exposure, producing darker, shinier hair. It urges readers to buy from Riker Jaynes Liggett stores and notes a money back guarantee.
In a Boston office a young osteopath dies after a night of mysterious events following alleged poisoning. Dr. Atwood is arrested and implicated in a web of romance, betrayal, and possible suicide as investigators weigh motives and the purchase of the poison while colleagues offer varying accounts. The case links to Dr. Adams and Dr. Harris with dramatic disclosures from Miss Dorothea Allyn and others. Separately two children, Leo Haggerty and John Hollywood, suffer fatal skull injuries after falls, one from a porch and one from a veranda, with both cases treated as serious injuries.
Bride Miss Isabelle Moynihan of Brookline wed John McElroy yesterday at St Marys Church of the Assumption with Rev Father Bernard O Kane officiating. Miss Julia Moynihan was maid of honor and Richard Kelleher best man. McElroy, formerly with the Brookline fire department, later became a chauffeur and then retired to enter the automobile business.
New York reports that with minor differences left, steps will be taken tomorrow to ratify the tentative agreement from yesterday. Benjamin Schlesinger says the referendum result will take about three days and a week for strikers to return, and picketing will continue until ratification. Sub-contractors’ status remains unsettled.
About 150 people from Canton Mansfield Sharon and nearby towns attended the Norwood Aerie 1822 F O E carnival at Lake Massapong Grove. The organizing committee included M J Dailey W F Rourke N L Geary P J Morris and others. A highlight was a baseball game where married men defeated single men 5 to 3.
Leo a three year old Brazilian parrot at Branklin Park bird cage is touted to start a fad with Brazilian dances. He teaches groups of children and conducts parrot classes, speaking English and dancing to the maxixe and tango. Keeper H R Wheeler praises Leo as the region’s only of his kind.
The Berkshire Superior Court will begin the murder trial of Vincenzo Patrella and Matteo Neapolitan for the 1915 Marcus Cresci killing near Dalton with robbery as motive. Sixteen witnesses are listed, District Attorney Joseph Ely leads, 100 jurors summoned, each paid $5 plus travel. trial expected to run three days. Michael Gangiano of Boston serves as interpreter.
Police at East Dedham Street Station search for the assailant in a second floor Shawmut Avenue room shooting that left Carmelo Fossatoro with a thigh wound. Fossatoro cannot name the shooter and witnesses say jealousy over a young woman sparked the incident. detectives note possible card game activity before the gunfire and seek a smooth shaved 30 year old Italian man, about 5 feet 7 inches tall.
Fred Oliver Schaefer of Stavanger Norway writes to Boston Police seeking his father Fred Schaefer Sr. He states the senior lived in Boston’s South End in April 1915 and has not heard from him for 15 years after leaving with his mother for Norway. Dedham Street Station cannot locate him.
Hyannis heiress Miss Marion Pomeroy Smith travels to Barnstable County Probate Court to seek removal of Charles C. Paine as her Massachusetts conservator and to oppose her grandmother Mrs Ruana E K Pomeroy's petition that she be declared insane. The Hartford win over Paine precedes expected sensational testimony.
Jotham Tl. Merritt, holder of the Boston Post cane and the oldest resident in this section, died at 92 at his daughter Mrs. A H Wallace’s home in Millbridge Maine. Born in Addison, he learned blacksmithing, later entered the hotel business and operated a hotel in Jonesboro and the Atlantic House in Millbridge.
The funeral of Civil War veteran and Cambridge former city official George H. Howard was held yesterday at Mt. Auburn Chapel. Rev. Austin T. Kempton officiated as the Lotus Male Quartet sang hymns and Julia Ward Howe's The Battle Cry of the Republic was read. The body will be cremated today at Mt. Auburn.
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