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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1914
Page
11
Charlotte Newton, age four, daughter of Mr and Mrs George E Newton, dies in a reported accident. Police and medical examiner await full details as condolences pour in from family and neighbors.
A stomach specialist argues most stomach trouble stems from excess acid and fermentation. He recommends taking bisulated magnesia after meals to neutralize acid and stop fermentation, using powdered or tablet forms, and to ask a pharmacist for this antacid.
Newton of 854 Albany street Roxbury died at City Hospital from burns sustained while playing with matches at her home yesterday.
A young girl playing near a summer house ignites her light dress after finding her father's pipe and matches. Her brother is present as the flames spread to her clothes and hair. her mother rushes to cover the child with a blanket to extinguish the blaze.
A mother trying to smother flames on a blanket burned her arms while a nearby resident beat the fire with a sofa pillow. Neighbors from the Neighborhood House helped, the fire was put out, and both mother and child were rushed to City Hospital. The child's clothes were burned off.
Nine men robbed the St. Lawrence Ice Cream Company in Chicago early today, binding six employees and blowing open the safe. They escaped with between $2000 and $3000.
Yesterday’s basin fishing day drew hundreds of hopeful anglers but yielded meager results a handful of eels minnows old hats an umbrella skeleton and two smelts. Dr George W Field had stocked the area with 50000 pounds of various fish, yet the day proved a humorous failure as lines ranged from silk to rope and most participants left with nothing but stories.
Chief Sam's ship Liberia formerly the Curitiba cleared at the custom house for Saltpond on the Gold Coast. Capt. L. B. McKenzie and Capt. Austin K. Perry will command and a number of Shiloh members sail to Africa aboard the British-flagged vessel. Over 100 Oklahoma blacks await transport to the Promised Land in the Back-to-Africa movement.
In Concord New Hampshire on June 1 the bodies of two men drowned were recovered. George Bessette a teamster was pulled from the Penacook canal while the other unidentifed body from the Merrimack River at Sewalls Falls had been in the water a long time.
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