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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1917
Page
12
The organization opened their new home at 2712 Beacon Street last evening with a party of 35 naval reserves from the Commonwealth Pier in attendance.
Mrs Henry Gero, wife of a prominent ball player, told at police headquarters of a tale describing how she used their baby to deceive her husband after she was found gagged and bleeding on a neighbor's stoop early this morning.
A woman longed for a baby and, after disguising truth, fled with a foundling from Attleboro. She told her husband the child was theirs, triggering a police investigation when a flawed birth registry surfaced. She confessed she gagged herself, then later reconciled with her husband who plans to adopt the child.
Marjoriea Brown drowned while teaching another girl to swim in Goose River at Belfast Maine. The body was recovered.
July 26 Harvard Reserve Officers Training Corps names permanent officers with commissions through mid August. Notables include Sam Felton Ken Parsons and Francis Parkman among cadets. O C Wood named permanent captain. Officers listed span captains lieutenants sergeants and supply ranks across multiple companies.
The Public Service Commission voted to approve a six month operation of a staged fare increase on Middlesex and Boston Street Railway Company lines after negotiations among city and town representatives and the company. Fares vary by route from 6 to 8 cents with strip tickets and half price school tickets. An amendment allows a 20 ride strip book for $1.20 in the Natick to Cochituate zone.
The Pilot reports Cardinal O Connelly's decisions naming Rev. James J Farrelly as administrator of St Monica's Methuen and assigning Rev Garrett J Condon Rev Carl F Danbury and Rev John J Phelan to respective parishes. Appointments effective Wednesday July 25.
Two score children from Boston areas and Cambridge and Everett will ride in automobiles to Miss E. Gearing James's summer home in Middleton for a day of games entertainment and a noon spread ice cream chicken and lemonade provided after days of planning the outing begins with morning pickups and ends with a return ride home.
Harvard Professor Lawrence J. Henderson criticizes modern food waste and reliance on delivered meals. He notes that a tight budget could feed a person on 10 to 12 cents daily, contrasting with lavish dinners, during a lecture on Food Supply and Its Conservation at the Harvard Summer School.
Thomas Abel son of 4 Pierce avenue aged 38 was killed and Gladys Hamilton of Grant street Fram ingham aged 18 suffered a fractured leg when a motorcycle collided with an automobile driven by Devereaux Dennis of Salem Willows on Brimbal avenue early tonight. Dennis and Abelson were approaching from opposite directions when a stray.
A dog ran into the street prompting both drivers to dodge. In the confusion Abelson and Miss Hamilton collided. Abelson died en route to Beverly Hospital while Miss Hamilton was rushed there for treatment.
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