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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1915
Page
2
Petrograd reports from Caucasus army headquarters say Russians push Turks toward Olt and occupy Turkish positions. Turkish counterattack at Zinatchor repulsed. In Olichai valley, 200 Cossacks charged the trenches on horseback then dismounted and killed the Turks.
Dr Frederick Mortimer Hemenway, 67, longtime Tufts dentistry professor, died at his Allston home after a long illness and several operations. He practiced dentistry in Boston 33 years and taught at Tufts for 16. He belonged to Tufts Alumni, Massachusetts Dental Society, Psi Omega, and Newton First Church. Survived by widow Helen S Butler and two sons Raymond and Russell.
Howard Elliott president of the New Haven Railroad outlined safety measures and future plans at a theatre rally. He cited the line’s financial hardships over the past two years and pledged further economies. The watchword he proclaimed was efficiency safety economy courtesy and publicity.
Raymond Duncan secretary of the Alton Electric Light Company was shot during a wedding serenade in Alton New Hampshire. The bullet lodged in his armpit after hitting his breastbone and he is expected to recover. No arrest made. The serenade honored Mr and Mrs Earl Varney who wed in Lawrence a few days earlier.
James Kilakos was arrested in Lowell on charges of attempting to kill his brother-in-law James Dekalakos who was found wounded outside the city. Dekalakos remains in the hospital with little hope for recovery. Kilakos will be arraigned in District Court tomorrow after offering no statement.
Harvard Graduates Magazine calls for closing college bars and clubs in Cambridge with condition statements. Richard E. Connell, ex Harvard Lampoon president and Harvard Crimson editor, writes John Barleycorn and John Harvard criticizing locker hypocrisy. He estimates three fourths of students drink, few abuse.
Nearly 600 passengers reached Boston aboard the White Star liner Canopic from Italian ports amid war fears. Reports of German submarines in the Mediterranean and reduced ship speed due to Arab stokers replacing Italian crew heightened anxiety during the first leg of the voyage.
South American delegates to the Pan American conference left Boston by special train for New York yesterday afternoon. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Peters accompanied them with his assistants. Boston Chamber of Commerce members saw them off and thanked them for hospitality during their two days in the city. Santiago Perez Triana spoke for the party praising Boston as a generous host and a great city.
The cornerstone for the Second Congregational Church at Highland and Margin streets West Newton was laid by Mrs. Henry J. Patrick of Newtonville. The new church, about a year from completion, will be the parish’s third since 1760 and follows a service at the Washington street church led by Pastor J. Edgar Park.
Rev William Harman van Allen praised President Woodrow Wilson as a worthy head of the nation in a Charlestown address before the Bunker Hill Chapter DAR. He urged Americans to stand behind Wilson during the present crisis and tied the Spirit of the American Revolution to wartime resolve.
A memorial service by the Grand Clan of Massachusetts Order of Scottish Clans at Faneuil Hall honored fallen Scottish brothers. Rev Clarence E Campbell praised Scots courage and commented on trench deaths while organ and bagpipe music accompanied brief addresses by Thomas R P Gibb Walter Ballantyne Walter Brackett and Thomas Grieve.
A second floor fire at 92 Arch Street, home to the Wilkindon Electrical Company, broke out early Sunday from an unknown origin, causing about 300 dollars in damage.
Children’s day was marked in Protestant churches throughout Greater Boston yesterday with Sunday school processions, hymns, class promotions, and a missionary and extension work offering.
About 5000 people visited the Charlestown navy yard yesterday afternoon. They boarded war ships, climbed the fighting tops of battleships, and explored freely until 4 30 when the yard was cleared.
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