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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1912
Page
8
Adelbert Gross loses his court interpreter job after a dental accident leaves him without his upper front teeth. Despite fluency in seven languages he can no longer render Slavonian testimony clearly, forcing the case to be postponed until a replacement with teeth is found.
Alphonse Moeckel of 736 St. John's Place Brooklyn survives a self inflicted throat wound after rescuing a mongrel dog from a crowd of boys a month ago. The dog alerted Mrs Moeckel by whining on the bed and leading her to the injured man in the bathroom.
In Wichita Kansas H Grey claims the state’s oldest driver a man just past 100 who regularly steers his car in town and country He spent his life as a horse dealer and trainer and recently bought a motor car enjoying driving it more than his horses
Peter Luzecki trembled under weeks of a recurring dream showing a funeral cortege with an open hearse and a casket. he committed suicide by cutting his throat with a razor at the house where he boarded in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania.
Kansas City, Mo on June 16 report quotes W W Wright divorce prosecutor for the circuit court who says churchless marriage and vanity drive divorces. He notes only one of thousands cited involved both spouses as regular churchgoers and then the divorce reason was mental weakness.
Mary Melvin a blind graduate of Goucher College earned the Phi Beta Kappa key and was chosen to deliver the Ivy oration at commencement. She excelled academically and in athletics and plans graduate work in economics and sociology at Johns Hopkins. She is a suffragette and intended to continue studies after a year of reading.
The British three-masted schooner Kalmala ran aground after mistaking Chat ham light for Pollock Rip light vessel, ending high and dry in the inner harbor at Chatham. Owned in Sydney Nova Scotia, she sailed from Gaspe Quebec for Vineyard Haven with shingles, aged 24 years, crew walked ashore at low tide.
Two women aviators, Harriet Quimby and Blanche Stuart, will compete in the third annual Boston aviation meet starting June 29 at Harvard Field in Squantum. They join numerous events alongside male fliers, showcasing both skill and fame in a broad competition.
The Italian community of East Boston marked the Feast of St Anthony with church services parades receptions and band concerts. A torchlight parade on Cottage Street Playground opened the events last Saturday evening followed by a high mass at Madonna Del Monte Carmelo and a procession led by Societa Sant Antonio di Padova and Societa Santa Lucia. Guiseppe Bevilacqua served as toastmaster at a banquet and reception attended by prominent locals. The Italian Marine Band conducted concerts at the playground under Maestro Valerio Saja.
Dr George W Bowling of Lindsay Oklahoma calls kissing the most dangerous habit and urges laws to make it a national crime. He heads the first society in Oklahoma to oppose kissing and promotes education to curb the practice.
At St Patrick’s Watertown the bishop opposed Watertown High School seniors holding graduation in a Methodist church. He urged public school graduations be held in town public halls and suggested Catholic graduates refuse participation to pressure the school system.
A 22 month old child of George Langehorn had a quarter sized piece of copper removed from his stomach at Fabiola Hospital by Drs W W Kergan and F P Marquis. The metal was cut from the windshield of Langehorns car during repairs.
Robert Seymour of northeast of Greeley suffered complete hair loss and facial burns when a red hot horseshoe shielded by a celluloid collar caught fire. The incident occurred as Seymour stopped at Calvin Hart's blacksmith shop after his horse cast a shoe and stood near the hot anvil sparks.
Miss Quimby, first licensed female pilot in the United States, flies a 70 horsepower Bleriot monoplane that carries one passenger and may invite Mayor Fitzgerald and Governor Foss to fly with her. Her companion Miss Scott, known as the tomboy of the air, will bring three Martin bi planes to Boston for potential backup flights with Glenn L. Martin, who gained fame in May for an 82 mile fog flight from Balboa Island to Catalina. Other fliers at the meet include Lincoln Beachey Hugh A Robinson George W Beatty Frank J Tirrell and Lieutenant E DeWitt Milling.
A Boston advertising notice touts Brown's Panel Board as a pure wood fibre wall and ceiling material for homes and commercial spaces. It claims ease of installation and removal, damp resistance, reduced paint use, and superior decorative effects over plaster or wood plus cost figures and samples from Charles D. Brown & Co. at 49 Federal Street.
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