Brave little wings sail through the storm
A poetic fragment recalls brave little wings and hearts who faced a storm but were beaten at last.
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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1913
Page
6
A poetic fragment recalls brave little wings and hearts who faced a storm but were beaten at last.
Trustworthy reports describe appalling massacres by Turkish irregulars in Thrace as they reoccupy districts. Malgara near Gallipoli is cited as a site of vast slaughter with women men and children killed.
Bulgarian raids left Moslem villages burned and inhabitants killed while Turkish forces retaliated against Christian towns. Initial Turkish troops acted restraint but irregulars and Kurdish units escalated the destruction in Malgara and 18 nearby villages as refugees flood towns and borders. The Turkish government ordered officers to curb reprisals, yet mob fury persists amid European disapproval.
A large forest fire near Leominster in the Notown district endangers farm buildings and several hundred acres of timber. About 200 volunteers from Fitchburg, Princeton, and Leominster fought the blaze as winds drove it through brush and timber. Officials warned a substantial wooded section could be burned without heavy reinforcements.
Medical examiner Thomas M. Jurell will perform an autopsy on Albert Olcott who died at Somerville Hospital yesterday to determine if injuries from a beating caused his death. Friends of Olcott insist foul play is involved and doubt the official account.
The Catholic University at Tokio is recognized by the Japanese government under Jesuit direction. Rev. Father Gettelman, S.J., teaches philosophy in Missouri province. Rev. T. J. Mahoney of St. Monica's South Boston vacationing in Nova Scotia. Rev. William Dacey serves St. Monica's in his absence. Rev. William Brosnahan, S.J., at Woodstock College, visits St. Mary's North End. Rev. Thomas F. White, S.J., hosts. St. Mary's children plan a Randidge harbor excursion with Rev. Michael Hogan and Rev. Henry J. Rache. Rev. Frederick A. Murphy, missionary to China, visiting Canton before sailing for Rome.
Robert Baker of New York City, 20, is held for alleged bad checks that swindled at least five merchants. He refuses to name his companion who fled the South Station on a midnight train, leaping from a Pullman washroom window after a police grab. A photo of Baker and the unknown man was found among his baggage. Roy Baker, father, visited at the City Tombs and says his son claimed he planned a New England resort post arrest.
Dr. Arthur Allison Howard of 416 Marlboro Street is appointed physician in chief of the Hospital for Children and head of the children's outpatient department at the Boston Dispensary. He will succeed Dr. William Palmer Lucas who left to join the University of California. He begins in September and will lecture on children's diseases to Harvard Medical School students at the dispensary.
County Detective Blauvelt of Hackensack said the man arrested in New York is Frank Hart, who escaped Hackensack jail in November while awaiting sentence for robbing a motorcycle police officer at gunpoint. A $100 reward was offered for his capture.
Philadelphia July 27 The ashes of the mother in law of Captain Meyer commander of the North German Lloyd liner Koln are held until customs officials assign a value. Since human ashes are not duty free much red tape remains before burial.
Judge John F. Sims of Wyandotte County Probate Court refused to wed Henry Johnson unless he correctly gave the bride's first name. Johnson, an elderly Black man, said he had taken a day off to marry and faced further work delay due to license delays.
Wichita Kansas residents tired of the commission form press petitions for a special election to abandon the commission system. After four years of a commission government, many citizens favor restoring a mayor and council. petitions will circulate this summer.
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