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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1916
Page
9
While playing near 2 London Street East Boston 2 year old George Govoni was struck on the head by a brick falling three stories from a nearby building. His mother fainted and neighbor Mrs Rose Colantoni carried him to East Boston Relief Hospital where doctors fear he may lose sight in his right eye.
More than 860 workers at Pier 2, Northern Avenue, South Boston, employed by Merchants and Miners' Transportation Company left their shifts just before noon seeking raises. They demand 30 cents more per hour for day work, 40 cents for overtime, and 50 cents for Sundays and holidays. The current rates are 25 cents for day work and 235 cents for overtime, Sundays and holidays.
Advertisement promises weight loss by using Korean capsules from a druggist with daily doses after meals and nightly, claiming safe, harmless digestion aid and rapid results. Readers urged to weigh weekly and continue treatment until normal weight is reached, with emphasis on outdoor activity and buoyant energy.
Miss Anna M Currier of Dorchester supervisor of the Main telephone exchange will marry Michael J McDonnell of Dorchester next Monday at St Peter s Church Dorchester The ceremony will be performed by Rev Michael Dannahy with Miss Anna Nessier East Boston as bridesmaid and James McGovern as best man After a reception at the Currier home the couple will honeymoon in the South.
The 10th annual convention of the National Wholesale Grocers Association opened with committees meeting this afternoon. The formal session begins at 9:30 this morning at the Copley Plaza, with Bishop Hamilton delivering the invocation and Mayor Curley giving the welcome.
A rear end collision on the Essex division of the Bay State street railway near Crampsey Field in Centerville injured a passenger, John Lynch, 69, of Ipswich. The coal car struck the stopped passenger coach. Lynch was taken to the hospital for X rays. Conductor A W Larrabee and motorman E T Nelson led the passenger car crew while Michael Conway operated the coal car.
At Salisbury Beach on June 13 18 a 16 year old boy George Cunningham of Haverhill nearly drowned while his would be rescuer battled the surf. Captain Willard A Charles of the U S life saving station acted quickly and both men were saved with the aid of a cottager rowing out to pull them into a dory.
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