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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1913
Page
3
In Camden county on June 15 a lone vandal felled 600 young peach trees on Martin Kohound’s farm between Atco and Waterford. Kohound woke to a barking dog but went back to bed. Workers found the destruction at daylight.
Ipswich hosts a mass meeting as strikers push for an eight hour day and a 20 percent wage increase. Socialist party figures pledge support and funds, with police present amid riot-linked tensions. A public statement from jailed IWW leaders Pingree and Hermann urges solidarity. Eviction writs for mill houses loom as rioting case hearing nears conclusion.
A large suffragette delegation and thousands watched Emily Wilding Davison laid to rest in St Marys Parish Churchyard Northumberland after Derby Day death while four white clad women and four black horses drew the coffin wagon and wreaths followed by relatives carriages. Her funeral in London yesterday sparked a major suffrage demonstration and the pall bore an inscription from her mother Welcome the Northumberland Hunger Striker.
An advertisement promotes the Cluthe Truss as a self adjusting rupture device with a 60 day risk free trial. It claims to prevent protrusion without belts or springs, waterproof and easy to clean, and includes a free cloth bound book endorsed by doctors and 5000 others. Readers are urged to request the book and try the product with a money back guarantee.
An insertion from the Cluthe Company at 125 East 23rd Street in New York City invites readers to receive a free book and trial offer by sending name and address. The fragment provides no additional context or details.
Anthony Souci, 17, of Lynde street Everett, allegedly held up two men with a revolver in front of the old Charlestown almshouse late Saturday night. Patrolman Michael J. Lynch fired a shot, pursued Souci who fled, then captured him behind the almshouse. Souci later admitted discarding the gun, a loaded 22 caliber revolver found by the officer. He faces a charge of carrying a loaded revolver and a further count to be added in court.
Amesbury June 15 Daniel Mabb a 70 year old carriage maker and prominent local businessman died by self inflicted gas exposure at his Linwood Place home His despondency after several weeks illness was cited as the motive His wife and daughter were away at church when the tragedy occurred He was found by a neighbor and had been dead over thirty minutes
Samuel Small of Roxbury risked danger by entering Jamaica Pond to save a swan choking on a dry stale bread crust. He laid the bird on its back, manipulated the neck and wings, and after four minutes and a half freed the lodged lump. The swan revived and swam away.
Weston marks its 200th incorporation with a morning town crier bell toll. Bishop Lawrence delivers the main address at a union service. The three day program features track and field, a baseball game, and a large pageant on Tuesday with Governor Foss and state officials expected to attend final events.
Mrs. S Edgar of Pittsfield Mass on the Zeeland reports losing a pocketbook containing about 5000 in cash drafts and jewelry plus a French poodle named Scotty. The dog retrieved the purse from the gangplank but identification proved elusive until Mrs Lehman produced the owner card.
Sergeants Louis A Mohr and Karl Rittman begin a year long walk from Newport Rhode Island to San Francisco to advocate coast artillery and militia benefits. They will visit many towns delivering Governor Pothier's letters to state executives. First stop Fall River Massachusetts as crowds cheer them on.
The English actors finishing a season in America with The Blindness of Virtue will sail for England to rest before an expected fall return for another tour of the Cosmo Hamilton play. Dorothy Rundell Pollie Emery Madge Murray and Loie Emery depart Tuesday aboard the Cymric while A Holmes Gore and Ralph Kimpton stay for Harvard festivities and sail from New York on Friday.
The Highland Cadet Band of Roxbury Crossing volunteered its services at Charles Street Jail. Directed by Louis Wernig, the group played from 2 to 4 PM featuring modern popular tunes and operatic selections for the prisoners yesterday afternoon.
Chicago June 15 Henry F Kallenberg is named official play master for Riverforest children. His aim is to teach them how to play and how to be good losers, criticizing American fans for poor sportsmanship education.
Philadelphia June 1b Marion Gibbs 15 of Neshaming has been arrested on a charge of trying to poison Sarah Schaffer six daughter of Henry Schaffer. She allegedly admitted spreading poison on toast for the girl and said the devil made her do it. She added she did not go to Sunday school.
Frank Miskowsky and three companions from Lynn mass leapt into Narragansett Bay today after a 15 gallon gasoline tank exploded on their power boat Weona off Rocky Point All were quickly picked up by another craft and landed at Warwick The cause remains unknown The Weona a 40 foot vessel valued at about 1000 was beached after being a total loss Captain John B Doyle of Providence towed the boat Winnona to Rocky Point
Vienna June 15 Edmond Perregon holder of the world's altitude record for a plane and pilot and one passenger today surpassed the height with two passengers reaching 15,486 feet. The existing record with one passenger stands at 16,368 feet.
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