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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1916
Page
14
Republican presidential candidate Charles E. Hughes will campaign in Maine on September 7 and 8 with a likely first Maine speech in Portland on the night of the 7th. The Maine election is set for September 9. Frank J. Ham of the Republican State committee reported the telegram.
City Hospital physicians trephined the skull of Harry Woppner aged 14 after a 40 foot plunge from a skylight at 31 Village street South End. He was unconscious on recovery and found to have a fractured skull and multiple injuries.
Colonel Willis W. Stover of the Fifth Massachusetts Infantry argues the Massachusetts Volunteer Aid Association should aid only families of well trained experienced soldiers. He urges discharging green recruits with dependents and replacing them with depndent-free recruits to keep troops in the field. He estimates tent flooring framing and screening costs at 24.75 dollars per large tent and 10.60 per wall tent.
Adjutant-General Cole urged the Governor's Council to provide funds to cover return fares for militia members mustered out at the border to support dependent families. If departmental appropriations cannot be used, he may seek emergency funds. Militiamen are paid $15 a month and return travel costs run about $80 per man.
Massachusetts Volunteer Aid Association reports $416 received yesterday for relief of families of militiamen, bringing total to $73,021.44. Donations include $100 from Eastern Drug Co and nine new aid applications, none urgent. Boston Red Cross workers sew base hospital gear. Cambridge to host a relief fund event. Revere managers donate Aug 8 profits to families of guardsmen.
Several areas including Washington Street business district Roxbury and South Boston lost power twice last night with over 1000 lights out. Edison officials scrambled crews while speculation blamed a water leak in a manhole causing short circuits in transmission lines.
Mrs Mary Howe and her daughter left Brooklyn to return home after the Adams board of health threatened to kill their cat over infantile paralysis fears. They rode to Adams from Canaan by trolley with the pet, defying police checks at the station.
Orleans, July 28. The tax rate rose 50 percent to 4.50 per thousand. The town remains the lowest tax rate in Massachusetts with 700 real estate taxpayers. Personal property valued at 4,000,000 provides most revenue, while real estate totals 850,000. Six years ago Dr Jeans valued property at 698,289, with 200,000 personal property. Summer residents boosted the town and lowered the rate, benefiting personal property owners.
Acting Chairman Matthew Hale of the Progressive national executive committee calls a conference of anti-Hughes Bull Moosers in Indianapolis next Thursday. The meeting aims to decide on continuing Parker as vice president nominee and whether Progressives may back Wilson Hughes or others, with Bainbridge Colby and J A H Hopkins weighing in after Perkins split.
Marlboro's new tax rate is 21.60 dollars, up ten cents from last year. Assessors announced the rate as the city's valuation rises to 11,376,445 from 11,280,491 a year ago.
Members of the Past Commanders Association gathered at the Revere House for a quarterly banquet last night.
Miss Frances Bogliano daughter of an Italian was detained by immigration inspectors who suspected she was a native of China. After proving she was not a Chinese native she was released.
One of the strangest cases before Boston immigration authorities involved Miss Frances Bogliano who arrived from Italy aboard the liner Cretic. Chinese inspectors of the immigration service detained her for examination to prove she was not entering the United States in violation of the exclusion act.
A young woman, father Italian and mother Tonquin native, resembles a Chinese native and was held after a quick preliminary examination by officials. Further details unavailable in the fragment.
Miss Bogliano and her father, a wealthy contractor working on a road contract for the Sultan of Morocco, traveled from Naples to tour the United States. She speaks five languages and will spend several days in Boston before continuing to Hongkong, after crossing the Atlantic.
Albert Boyle, 12, son of Met Police Officer Edward J Boyle of Watertown, nearly drowned after slipping from water wings off a raft at Watertown bathing beach on the Charles River. Boston College student and beach lifeguard Charles Ostridge swam out, recovered Boyle from the bottom, and revived him.
George Henry Cutter of Lexington a 74 year old Grand Army veteran and former Lexington town official died yesterday at 56 Hancock Avenue after summoning a physician by telephone. Dr Henry C Valentine responded but found him already dead.
Funeral services were held yesterday at 40 Hancock Street Lexington for Mrs Mary E Brigham a direct descendant of Governor Thomas Dudley who helped found Massachusetts. The Rev John Mills Wilson of the Lexington First Parish Unitarian Church conducted the service. Burial followed at Forest Hills.
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