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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1913
Page
4
Two boys wandered along Revere Beach spending money recklessly on games and amusements. Sergeants Finn and Alvert observed their rapid foray through the carnival stalls and rides as the youths hopped from one attraction to another.
Officers halted James Fitzpatrick aged 14 and Oliver Richardson aged 15 of Lowell, seized $80 from a Globe Wine Store break in, and found new clothes including purple ties in their possession. They confessed after questioning and were taken to the police station for probation history.
John Kidd, a lodger at the National House in West End Boston, fell 30 feet over a third floor balustrade yesterday morning. He was slightly hurt. Bridget Walsh, 30, a chambermaid, suffered a fractured skull and may die. Kidd was taken to Hanover Street station after treatment at Relief Hospital.
The solemn high mass to welcome Knights of Columbus delegates to the supreme convention will be celebrated at the Cathedral on Tuesday August 5. Rt Rev Patrick J Supple D D will celebrate with Rev James J McCarthy Rev James N Supple and Rev Peter C Quinn. Rt Rev Bishop Anderson will preach. Rev Walter Quinlan is on vacation. Also 19 Sisters of Providence at Brightside Holyoke welcomed Sister Mildred born Mary G Quinlan daughter of Mrs Johanna Quinlan of Roxbury.
The Merchants and Miners steamer Persian arrived with a twisted stem and water in the fore peak after colliding with the steamer Millinocket in Pollock Rip. The Millinocket was beached at Vineyard Haven after being struck on the starboard side. the Persian carried 51 passengers from Philadelphia.
The Persian traveling from Philadelphia to Boston collided with the Millinocket in Vineyard Sound. Five steamers answered the SOS as both ships took on water and bailed out passengers. The Howard escorted the Persian to port while the Millinocket beached at Vineyard Haven.
Federal Judge today imposed fines aggregating 11000 on Harry C. Shimer and Adolph Toortgang, produce dealers, for making excessive claims against railroads upon shipments of aged eggs. The case involved bribing officials and discriminatory rates.
Dr D B Coles announces plans to survey and lay out a 40 foot wide street through Wharton Park to connect with New Salem street. He will fund construction and future maintenance himself if the town accepts the project, or refuses it and keeps it as his own.
Clemeon O. Michael leaves Chelsea Y M C A to take a Southwest position with the Young Men's Christian Association. First Baptist Melrose pulpit filled in his absence by P. H. MacDowell Davenport Aug 4, Newton Mercer Simmonds Elizabeth Aug 10, W A Spinney Philadelphia Aug 17, L C Barrett former Jackson College president. Summer School of Home Missions at East Northfield closes after a very successful session and substantial work.
Westfield report describes Charles White, a foreman at the New England Whip Company, dropping a diamond ring in his vest while cleaning. Believing it was burned with ash, he had three men sift furnace ashes. After hours of careful work, the ring and damaged gold were recovered, with the two-ct stone valued at $30. Mr White will have it re-***
Governor Foss declines to circulate papers for Republican nomination after a letter from Herman Hormel. Hormel believes Foss will decide on running, while Foss calls it a joke and says heat may affect GOP nerves.
Secretary Harlow says nomination papers can be gathered in 24 hours and that Governor Foss will secure the Republican nomination. Circulation of papers is led by ex-Senator Nye’s supporters in Barnstable county. The governor’s intent remains uncertain to some observers.
Colonel Roger Scannell owner of Rugby Park Mattapan asks for open Sundays in Dorchester court. Judge Merritt fines him 50 dollars for a public nuisance after police report football games quoits and 15 barrels of beer at the park. He appeals and is held on 200 dollars bail.
Japanese land owners in California use incorporation to bypass an anti land law aimed at removing ownership by death. They form stock companies to pass land to heirs, with 24 new Japanese land companies filing articles of incorporation, pushing totals over 59 in two weeks and more expected statewide.
Mr and Mrs Fort Staples will observe their 50th anniversary with a reception at 43 Franklin Street in Woburn. Residents of the town for 43 years they wed July 1863 in Bedford a month after Fort Staples left the Union Army. He served in Company G Fifth Massachusetts and fought at Whitehall and Goldsboro. Elizabeth Manning of Burlington was his bride.
Federal board of army officers opened an inquiry into claims a shot from coast artillery at Peddock's Island landed in Hull near a hotel. State militia also investigates though doubts persist.
Edward Lt. Tierney motorman and David Borden conductor of the street car that struck and killed 16-year-old William Lynch of 44 Grant Street were arraigned in Cambridge District Court on manslaughter charges. Tierney, 40, was too ill to appear and is recovering at his Cambridge home. Both men are held in bail of $1000 for a hearing on August 5.
Grover W. Foote an ice wagon driver was fined five dollars in the Chelsea police court for selling short weight ice. Sealer A H Upton and Deputy Sealer P R Long of the Chelsea weights and measures department prosecuted. Foote paid the fine for short weight in 300 pounds sold to Oscar Rosfield proprietor of a lunch room on Everett Avenue Chelsea.
The town of Lynnfield faces a peculiarity as a new model school in South Lynnfield lacks plumbing after a town meeting refused the $1,400 needed for installation. A renovation committee had increased spending to $10,400 for remodeling and land, but residents vetoed the plumbing funding, leaving the $10,000 school without sanitary facilities.
Merchants and yachtsmen in South Boston defend the City Point life saving station in Dorchester Bay amid complaints. Captain Sumner I. Kimball reports plans to add two lookout men and to commission a faster speed boat with improved signaling at the headhouse and yacht clubs to aid future rescues.
Commodore Thomas R. Willis of the Volunteer Life Saving Station Corps 35 warns that two young men are fraudulently soliciting funds for the corps. He says no one is authorized to collect for the corps and urges reporting sightings to the police.
John Walsh 14 and his parents of 46 Jewett Street Roslindale report their son crushed by a elevator weight at 55 Stanhope Street while delivering a radiator to the fourth floor. He was a Francis Parkman School seventh grader who left to work. Keefe Express denies employment.
Frank J. McPeake, manager of the Lynnway Club of the Point of Pines, pleads not guilty to maintaining a liquor nuisance in East Boston. Case continued with $300 bonds. raid by Walter T. White and Metropolitan police led to seizure of several hundred gallons of liquor. McPeake attended with about twenty friends. officers said the club had practically closed.
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