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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1914
Page
3
Ipswich police believe a Polish woman Mrs Mary Lapinski and her two children 7 and 4 were drowned after she pushed them into the Upper Ipswich River and then jumped in herself. The bodies were found near the Old South Burying Ground after a boatman sighted the mother.
Three Lynn girls blueberry picking sparked a sequence of injuries and rescues. Gladys Wells aged 17 sucked venom from Elizabeth’s snake bite and helped carry her to safety. Martha wandered alone, fell into Sluice Pond, and Gladys fainted upon return as authorities treated the injured.
William Pierce fifty eight? aged 38 of East Main street drowned when his fishing boat leaked late at Webster Lake. Emil Kisroe his companion escaped by swimming to shore exhausted after the craft began to sink. Pierce worked as a boss dyer at the South Village Slater mills.
The Rev. George W. Davis becomes pastor of Sterling Hill Baptist Church after two years at Tariffville Connecticut. The Rev. I H Hughes preaches farewell at Trinity Episcopal Mission Rockland before his Raleigh North Carolina ordination and future role at St Mark's School Southboro. The Rev H O Hannum leaves Holyoke for California and may address Los Angeles church members. Dr Frederick A Bisbee recovers from illness and plans to return to Universalist Leader. The Rev Edward H Cotton will spend August on the Maine coast to arrange a camp.
In Holmes, New York, a Central New England locomotive wreck killed fireman Joseph Remington who was scalded against the boiler. Two other crewmen were seriously injured but survived despite their efforts to rescue him. The derailment occurred about 25 miles west of Danbury, Connecticut.
Police report Arthur D. Jones a Dorchester married man who eloped with 17 year old Gladys Lewis of Medford High was arrested in a New York hotel with Miss Lewis. Jones used the alias Dean Jones when applying for a job on a New York elevated railway. Gladys Lewis' parents Mr and Mrs John F Lewis of 74 Marshal Street Medford plan to travel to New York to retrieve their daughter.
A blacklist listing deserters who took re employment at Heywood Bros factory in Wakefield will be circulated nationwide to rattan workers. The list was approved at a mass meeting of strikers and clerks were assigned to compile the names. Eden Philpotts contributes a short story to the upcoming Sunday Post Magazine.
Chattanooga club president O B Andrews announced that Moose McCormick has signed as manager for 1915. McCormick has been successful from the start at the McGraw managerial school and now leads the Chattanooga team.
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