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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1913
Page
3
Police fear the July 16 discovery of a headless body off Georges Bank aboard the Jennie Gilbert signals murder. The richly dressed young woman, found by Captain Charles White, shows evidence of a sharpened head severing by someone with surgical skill.
Police suspect a 19 year old woman was murdered aboard a steamer around July 9. Captain White describes fine silk clothing and a severed head, noting a grave error in burying clothes with the body. Green silk skirt fragments and other items were found, but identity may be unrecoverable.
Knoxville news reports three Cooper children of Townsend killed by rattlesnakes late yesterday while an infant, placed near a stream bank by Mrs. Cooper, drowned. Funeral services for the four children were held today.
A prolonged and unusually severe quake struck St. Thomas and nearby West Indian islands early today. No damage has been reported so far.
A 16 year old Cambridge boy William H Lynch Jr died after a heavy truck collided with an electric car at River and Auburn streets. The auto mobile was struck while moving fast. Lynch was thrown from the running board and suffered a fractured skull. He died at Cambridge Relief Hospital.
Muggsy and Willie share a playful feature in the comic section of next Sunday's Post. The duo enjoys adventures and light fun that readers can enjoy on the comic page.
A huge blast at Melrose depot yesterday morning shattered 59 windows within 200 feet as an acetylene tank on a Portland freight burst. Fire spread to another five cars, crew saved others, and debris damaged the Goss Bros. grain elevator and the Universalist church roof. No cause is known.
The United Irish League of America holds a national executive meeting in the city Sunday to map finances and strategy for the home rule bill. Officials expect to raise about 40000 dollars to secure the bill’s passage by May next year with Michael J. Ryan and delegations from cities including Montreal Toronto Buffalo Toledo Cincinnati Indianapolis St Louis and Chicago attending.
A congressional commission studying the Boston pneumatic tube service expects the government to buy the system now used in six major cities. Second Assistant Postmaster General Joseph Stewart said a purchase would allow expansion to meet parcel post needs and department requirements.
King Ferdinand summoned the powers at Sofia and condemned the Turkish army for invading Thrace toward Tirnova Siemenli and Jamboli. He denounced village burnings massacres and panic, pleading Europe to end the Bulgarians' suffering and thwart the old oppressors.
New Haven Conn July 24 Mrs Annie F Monahan is held criminally responsible for the death of her 17 year old niece Miss Jennie Mc Namee on March 17 last Coroner Mix finds the death was due to white arsenic poisoning administered in small repeated doses
More than 200 printers gathered at the Quincy house for the amal gamation banquet marking Cambridge Typographical Union 61 going out of existence and joining Boston Typographical Union 13. Boston and Cambridge officials attended as guests with remarks from Aubrey B. Lavers John J. O Leary and Bert G. Brady.
Washington July 24 Protect and encourage the meadow lark for its diet of cotton boll and alfalfa devils grasshoppers and predaceous ground beetles. the bird causes some grain damage but its value as an insect destroyer is far greater according to the Department of Agriculture.
Coroner Seymour and state board representatives opened an investigation into the Binghamton Clothing Company fire that killed 41 garment workers Tuesday afternoon. Witness questioning began as officials gathered facts in the aftermath.
Ambrose Fuller, shipping clerk, testified he found the fire in a stairway between floors where old books were stored. Fire escape misuse and unsafe drills were noted while James Whiskeman alleged a stairway was moved to expand manufacturing, criticizing profit over life.
The drug store of Fred I. Hopkins at 289 Essex Street Lynn was raided by the liquor squad at 9 30 last night. Ten gallons of wine three gallons of whiskey twenty gallons of ale and a half pint of brandy were seized. Hopkins was arrested charged with illegally keeping and selling spirituous liquors and admitted to bail of 200. This is the third time he has been taken on the charge.
Westwood on July 24 a 30 pound rock was blown through the roof of the cottage owned by Mrs W H Spokesfield while proving a new technique to blast rocks and clear rock covered pastures.
The Walpole Dedham Norwood and Westwood group held an illustrated lecture and field demonstrations led by Abel Stevens of Dupont Cartridge Co. A rock lifted from Albert Dean’s pasture crashed into Mrs Spokesfield’s cottage roof though no one was home. Attendees picnicked as Mrs Susan A FitzGerald spoke and Attorney William Odlin urged women’s votes for government reform.
The Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals opens New England’s first free animal dispensary Monday at 73 Central Street in Boston. Dr. F. J. Flanagan and Dr. D. L. Bolger will supervise the free clinics until the animal hospital is completed, with work starting soon.
Inward bound South Boston cars will divert via Broadway extension through Dorchester Avenue Dover and Washington streets while tracks are relaid between Harrison Avenue and Washington Street. Outward bound routes stay the same. When inward tracks are done service resumes normal routes. Effort begins at 7 30 this morning.
London reports the wedding of Prince Arthur of Connaught to the Duchess of Fife will take place in the Chapel Royal at St James Palace on October 15 with the Prince of Wales as best man.
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