Five Die and Many Prostrated by Heat in Boston
Heat wave claims five lives and leaves hundreds unable to work as crowds seek relief. City fronts mud banks at beaches and hot spots spike to 102 degrees in Scollay Square. subway and common record high heat. Dozens of evacuees from South Boston to Cambridge and Newton seek hospital care for heat exhaustion with injured and overwhelmed workers.
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Heat deaths and prostrations sweep Boston area
A list of heat related fatalities and near misses across Boston and nearby towns reports Walter Griffin and others dying or being hospitalized after overheating. Many victims are identified by name, age, and street of residence with locations including Danvers Insane Hospital, City Hospital, Relief Hospital, and various streets in East Boston, South Boston, Dorchester, Quincy, Brookline, and Cambridge.
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Walter Griffin
Newburyport
Danvers Insane Hospital
Patrick Morrison
Chelsea Street
East Boston
Hopkinton
Catherine Head
E Street
South Boston
Eighth Streets
City Hospital
Michael J. Murray
Portland Street
Causeway Street
Canal
Relief Hospital
Fred W. Henning
Lawrence
Lawrence Hospital
Walter V. Mace
East Sixth Street
Court Street
John Kelley
Kent Street
Quincy
Second Street
Dorchester Avenue
Boston
Joseph Toska
North Street
Warren Street
C. P. Downer
Armory Street
Brookline
Boston & Maine Railroad
George Evans
Morton
Lost on Eve of Graduation in Boston Girl Disappearance
Two 15 year old Edward Everett Grammar School graduates, Leona Wilson and Nellie Axell, vanished after leaving for the Public Library in Boston. Police suspect captivity by a young man seen with them near the library around 8:30 PM. Families are distraught as searches continue.
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Leona P. Wilson
Lena H. Wilson
Massachusetts Avenue
Nellie Axell
Alice Peterson
Lenox Street
Edward Everett Grammar School
Copley Square
Leona Wilson
Wilson
Peterson
Boy Killed in Working Death Plot in Chicago
Rudolf Berndt aged 14 died after attempting to steal a package believed to contain fifteen thousand six hundred dollars in a Black Hand style extortion plot. The incident followed a threatening letter to S E Grossfeldt a grocer who had planned to deliver two parcels to Desplaines street and Grand avenue. A detective wounded the boy as he tried to shoot the officer. Berndt named his cousin Alfred Hasz sixteen as a participant before dying in hospital.
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Desplaines Street
Grand Avenue
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Hasz
Foss to donate land for Watertown school and buildings
Eugene N. Foss of Jamaica Plain, a major Watertown landholder, offered to donate outright land for a high school site, an engine house, and either a primary school or playgrounds. The gift, disclosed by the Watertown high school committee, will be discussed at tonight’s special town meeting focusing on the need for a new high school.
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Jamaica Plain
Watertown
Foss
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Lightship Not Located In Dense Fog Off Newport
June 23. The torpedo boat Talbot failed to find the Nantucket Shoals lightship in heavy fog while attempting to repair its wireless gear. After an all night search Talbot returned to the torpedo station and will try again tonight.
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Talbot
Nantucket Shoals
Mrs Gould Favored Farnum Says Hotel Witnesses
The trial record shows Mrs Gould's friends and staff testifying to her conduct and sobriety amid charges involving Dustin Farnum. May Robson and Mary Sells supported Mrs Gould, while other witnesses described the hotel scene and absence of explicit improper relations.
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Mary Conlin
Elijah Sells
Mrs. Gould
Philadelphia
May Robson
Miss Sells
Mr. Farnum
Miss Robson
Charles MacCord
Hotel
St. Regis
Real Leather Suit Cases Advertised in Sizes Chart
Classified line lists sizes from 14 to 16.2 and 17 to 18.38 with prices 0.98 and 2.08 along with leather suit cases. Indicates a catalog snippet likely for travel goods.
Hit Conductor Fined in Court
Harry Marshall of 4 Grove Park Roxbury was tried in Boston Municipal Court yesterday for assaulting a conductor of the Boston Elevated. He was found guilty and fined $5 by Judge Parmenter.
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Grove Park
Roxbury
Boston
Boston Elevated
Parmenter
Autoists Gift 500 Orphans Outing in Worcester
Worcester Auto Mobile Club members provided 48 automobiles for a group of 500 orphans from Worcester institutions. Each child carried an American flag during the organized outing in Worcester on June 23.
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Worcester
Worcester Automobile Club
Angry wife leaps to death after midnight assault
Mrs. Mary Goodman 32 of Roxbury leaped 40 feet from a second story window after striking her husband with a chair when she found him in bed. She died at City Hospital an hour later. Goodman told police she returned late, attacked him, and he prevented further harm before she fell.
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Fielding Place
Roxbury
City Hospital
Goodman
Last Desperate Struggle Ends in Non Detention
Police concluded the husband’s statements were consistent with the investigation and he was not detained.
Why Many Women Suffer From Constipation
An article advocates gentle natural laxatives for women's bowel regularity. It promotes Hunyadi János Water as a pure, harmless solution, claiming it moves bowels gently and copiously without harming the delicate female organs. It warns buyers to insist on the labelled product at druggists.
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