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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1910
Page
14
July 28 more than 100 workers narrowly escaped serious injury when a three story wall at the Massachusetts Cotton Mills machine shops collapsed after an embankment washout. Water pressure and panic sparked a chaotic escape as rumors spread through the neighborhood.
John H. Hall, 40, arrested in New London charged with tricking sisters Jeanette and Nettie Reed of Manchester into transferring deeds worth about $30,000. Hall claimed vast Boston and New Hampshire holdings then vanished with the money. Investigators traced his activities from New London to Boston, leading to a warrant and his arrest on a fugitive basis. Police suspect a prior England record.
In Cincinnati court Percy Procter, scion of a wealthy family, sues to halt transfer of 46000 dollars of stock his wife Nadine Von Klifuss claims was given under a Berlin marriage contract. He testifies the stock was to stay in his name with her receiving income. he alleges a London solicitor and the baroness conspired.
STATE CAMP FRAMINGHAM July 28 Residents of Framingham Sudbury and New Boston were awakened by heavy firing as Sixth Regiment M V M formed two armies over a theoretical supply camp at South Framingham. The night camps, morning deployments, and outposts mirrored regular warfare with Major Sweetser and Lieutenant-Colonel Cook directing troops to secure stores while the Red and Blue forces battled across fields and woods. In the afternoon Company D defeated Company E in the regiment’s semi final baseball match as Lieutenant-Governor Frothingham planned to inspect the unit tomorrow.
Boston's Board of Health urged that every school child be examined by physicians at the start of the fall term. Each child would be cleared for full studies or given reduced work as needed. Dr. Samuel Durgin of the board spoke at a Tremont building meeting with Consumptives Hospital trustees seeking views on continuing the open air school for tubercular children in Franklin Park. He suggested integrating tuberculosis treatment with all city schools rather than maintaining one or two separate schools.
Harry Halligan an 18 year old Dorchester resident on vacation drowned while bathing with companions at The Point near his home. Unable to swim he went beyond his depth and his body was recovered. the incident occurred about 4 30 p m. He worked for National Biscuit Company and was accompanied by Herbert Angley James Welch John Foley and others.
In Providence on July 28, Napoleon St. Lawrence, 24, was sentenced to one year in the State work house after Eleanor Brooks, 19, testified she had been used as a "white slave" in the case heard by the Sixth District Court.
Dedham July 28 Michael Columbo the Italian man who struck Raffaele Ferari with a pool cue causing his death half an hour later was arraigned before Judge Grover and remanded without bail for the Norfolk county grand jury’s September session Four of the nine government witnesses testified the trouble sprang from Ferari and Charles D Onofero baiting by a cousin of the defendant as the cousin and Ferari were kept apart outside the pool room by bystanders when Columbo rushed out and struck Ferari on the left side of his head.
Marshall Hermes Fonseca, president elect of Brazil, flew today in the dirigible Perseval VI from Bittenfeld, Germany, in a 15 minute flight. The airship will depart for Munich tomorrow to resume regular passenger service.
Seward Alaska July 28 The Portland Oregonian New York Herald Mt McKinley expedition led by Rusk of Chelan Washington sailed from Seattle April 24 on the revenue cutter Tahoma and after following Cook's route along the Susitna and Chulitna rivers failed to reach the summit. The party ascended a peak ten miles below the true top and could not see the flag reportedly planted by the Lloyd party.
Senator Nelson W. Aldrich awards contracts for a three story country residence on his Warwick Neck Rhode Island estate. The planned home will exceed 300000 dollars, stretch nearly 500 feet, overlook the water, include a large garage and stables, gatehouses and lodges, with landscape gardeners at work and an electric light plant to supply arc lighting for the property.
Oyster Bay July 28 Theodore Roosevelt plans to assess the political landscape with trusted allies after the Ohio Republican State convention. He cited no comment on the convention’s action, awaiting reports from James R. Garfield Wade H. Ellis and Gifford Pinchot as they gather insights from Cleveland and farther west. Roosevelt did not indicate whether he will accept support.
Seattle July 28 The steamer Mackinaw carrying 200000 in gold bullion from Kotzebue Sound ports has arrived from Nome. Officers report the worst ice conditions in Bering Strait in 17 years. Captain Frank Mills says the Nome Kotzebue passage took 12 days, normally 3 hours.
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