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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1910
Page
7
Harvard graduates and families arrive in Cambridge for Class Day events. Examinations ended. farewell party held. Friday features a concert at Sanders Theatre, baseball at the stadium, the senior spread at Memorial Hall, and a lamp-lit yard with bands and glee club.
A farewell party replaced the usual senior smoker in the Union dining room. Dean B. S. Hurlbut, class of 1887, spoke as the chief entertainer, followed by C. C. Little, captain of the varsity track team and class of 1910.
Employees of a Boston store will hold their annual field day at Spring Grove farm in Wellesley on Saturday June 25. Special cars will transport the group to the grove for events including a baseball game between married and single men, races for boys and girls, a fat men's race and a tug of war. The Gilchrist Company Employees' Benefit Association supervises the affair with committees led by Robert H. Heartz as president and chairs for dancing, general, press, and athletic activities.
William Co. Freeman of the New York Evening Mail was feted at a June banquet in the Waldorf Astoria attended by hundreds of advertising men from across the country. Freeman praised honest advertising as business religion while a Free man edition of the Evening Mail circulated. speakers included Philip A.onne Patrick F. Murphy and others, with organizers listed.
Jesse B. Webb admitted to police that he killed W. A. Johnson during a hotel room brawl in Portland. He said the death was in self defense and the body was found in a trunk at Union Station last night.
Webb recounts a confrontation with Johnson in Johnson’s room yesterday afternoon sparked by drinking. Webb says Johnson struck him with a blackjack. Webb wrested it, struck back, and Johnson died. Plans deemed to dispose of the body included placing it in a trunk for rail transport. Webb, a 45 year old printer, is married to Lena Samuelson of Axtell Nebraska.
Mrs. D. W. Kersch, arrested with Webb, is cleared of complicity by the confessed slayer who also accuses her of conspiring in placing the body in a trunk and sending it to the station. Webb says he lived with Kersch in Spokane and traveled with her and Johnson on the Portland train.
The Dorchester Day fireworks display at Franklin Field, postponed from Monday night due to a Sullivan Square clash, will be held tonight if weather permits.
A lightning bolt struck the two and a half story wooden dwelling at 12 Lowell Street in Revere, tearing through to the basement and igniting a fire. The Corbett family occupied the front of the house as the zigzag strike entered near a chimney. The fire department extinguished the blaze with $10 in damages.
The region endures a record heat wave as June 21 proves the hottest day since 1884 with daylight lasting 15 hours 17 minutes. Temperatures hit 92 and 164 on sunlit streets while forecasters warn of no relief. crowds seek shade and ocean at Revere Beach with bathers and packed bath houses all day.
Ten deaths and numerous prostrations were blamed on a heat wave in Philadelphia. The city reached a 92 degree high at 3 15 p m while the low fell to 71 at 4 30 a m The mean temperature stood at 82 a nine degree excess over normal.
A 4 year old son of Mr and Mrs Jonas Byers died after falling from a Boston Ice Company wagon on Westminster Street. He rolled under the rear wheel and was killed instantly while trying to grab ice. No blame was placed on driver William Dorey or his helper.
A list of individuals aged 22 to 53 in Charlestown East Boston Arlington and Dorchester who were overcome or stricken at various street corners and public places. Conditions described as serious or fracture injuries include Charles Colonage James Clayton and Bernard Lee among others. An unidentified sailor and others are noted at 92 State street 64 Winthrop street 6 Fulton street and other locations. East Boston Relief Hospital is referenced for care.
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