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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1914
Page
13
The first blueberries and other fruits reach Boston markets while fish remains scarce. A big shipment of Argentine beef arrives, priced about three cents a pound below native beef. Quotations include shad, mackerel, red snapper, trout, lobster, clams, and citrus with eggs at 32 cents and print butter at 4 dollars per pound.
Tiger a Roxbury cat about a year old crawled to his home after being run over by a car. He was brought to the Massachusetts SPCA dispensary where a fractured left leg was splinted and his head, nose abrasion treated. He purred as veterinarians checked his pulse and progress.
Nine year old Willie Conley of 4 Plymouth Court Roxbury wandered for a year after trips to a circus Wild West Show and the movies. Policeman MacEachern found him with a cap pistol on Washington and Franklin streets and took him to Station 2 until his mother arrived. Willie says he wanders aimlessly and his dream is to be a cowboy seen in films.
Plans are complete for a lawn party at St. Aidan's Church Brookline to be held on church grounds tomorrow. Booths managed by parish ladies will be elaborately decorated with St Helena's booth under the Guild of St Helena led by Mrs John O'Connor featuring papal colors.
The Boston Elevated Railway will start a new car line from Brookline and Longwood avenues to Rowe's Wharf via Huntington avenue and major streets. Inward trips run 7:32 a.m. to 7:17 p.m. every 15 minutes. outbound returns 28 minutes after Rowe's Wharf. Roxbury Crossing East Boston ferry line operates to Rowe's Wharf. Transfer checks available at Rowe's Wharf for Atlantic avenue reaches. Early Sunday trips connect Brookline first train at 6:23 and 6:53 a.m.
Elaborate plans for a Boston section at the Dublin civic exhibition in August are under way in Boston. Governor Walsh and Mayor Curley back the effort. John Nolen leads the Boston aid project after returning from Dublin where he met Lord and Lady Aberdeen. Local officials Fitzpatrick Galvin Campbell Fitzgerald Rothwell Walsh assist in organizing displays of State and city departments.
Abdul Mohan aboard the Calcutta steamer Katana attempted a 300 mile swimming pilgrimage toward Mecca from the Gulf of Aden area. He dove from the freighter, swam far for shore before being picked up 50 yards later by a boat. Confined to the forecastle under guard, he is known as some swimmer, the Colombo champion.
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