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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1914
Page
10
Charles Sears, 49, of Grotto Green road Roxbury has been missing since June 18. Roxbury police were asked to search last night. Sears worked as a shoe worker. Willie and Muggsy tease new items in the Post color section next Sunday.
Samuel S. Greeley of Chicago at ninety recalls Harvard College in 1844. He describes dining in the Commons, rampant pranks with laughing gas, and a brutal freshman sophomore clash on the Delta. He notes a life of study, societies, and campus customs, ending with a farewell to a reporter.
Samuel Greeley 90, Harvard class of 1844 and oldest living alumnus, led celebrations at commencement after Harvard beat Yale in a Soldiers Field baseball game. He recalled Harvard 70 years ago, noting an era without running water and with old pumps, while still active in Chicago surveying. He described campus life under President Josiah Quincy and glimpsed a city-bus era on a Cambridge-to-Boston omnibus.
A German ship's surgeon wife, Frau Baudinz, becomes the first mistress-marine making full captaincy on passenger vessels. She showed keen interest in steamers engines and navigation and studied these subjects diligently.
A female mariner, after earning a captain’s certificate, commanded cruising vessels and earned state permission to sail foreign-going ships. She has been appointed captain of a liner operating between Copenhagen and America.
In the Sunday Post Magazine Sewell Ford presents Shorty as an executor in A Few Squirms. A scene opens with a distressed old gentleman denouncing war in a Pugsbury Arms smoke room as others remark on a possible wartime loss through his wife’s first husband.
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