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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1909
Page
4
Style B and Style C describe women’s lingerie waists with lace insertion and embroidery. Style D notes long sleeves with tucking and a price of 69c. Style E highlights batiste fabric with insertion details and 95c. Styles F and G add sleeves with trim, embroidered collar, and back cuffs priced around 95c.
The article reports ten deaths linked to an oppressive heat wave, with many others hospitalized for heat related injuries. Temperatures rose to 89 94 degrees with high humidity causing widespread suffering especially in tenement districts as families sought refuge in parks and public baths.
Advice to move the victim to shade, loosen clothing, cool the head with water and moisten lips, and provide fresh air. Seek medical help immediately and call the nearest ambulance as sunstroke can be fatal.
Advice for tenants in crowded tenements to reduce heat. Recommends placing water receptacles around the room and a wash tub with water. Suggests hanging a large sheet at right angles to the window, soaked in cold water for cooling.
The city faced a heat spell as homeless men found rest on Boston Common for the first time this summer. Across the East temperatures soared with Portland 92 and Washington 99, while Eastport Maine cooled at 46 degrees. Thunder showers briefly visited Nantucket New York Albany Toledo and Pierre South Dakota.
Alfred Belcher 74 of Summer Street, a shoe heeler, shot himself at noon driven by heat and illness. His son Joseph found him in the hammock with a smoking revolver. Survived by two sons Fred and Joseph of Stoneham and a daughter Mrs Edith McCoubrey of Melrose.
On June 2 the fourth day of extreme heat results in 15 deaths and 86 prostrations with three personal crisis reports. A dog driven by the heat ran to an uptown elevated station platform and leaped to its death in the street below.
The Prince School graduating class was hosted yesterday afternoon by classmate David Morison at the Orpheum Theatre. Morison is the son of manager Lindsay Morison who arranged the theatre’s courtesy for the students.
A long list of individuals collapsed and died or were overcome at work or home across Massachusetts and nearby states. Names include Frank Doliber in Salem and John Dorgan in Newburyport, with many others from Holyoke Lynn Roxbury Cambridge and Boston area hospitals noted. Medical facilities cited include Salem Hospital Massachusetts General Hospital and City Hospital with ages ranging from 12 to 62.
A55 year old Thomas A Donohue of 29 Oak Street fell from an electric car at Park Street subway entrance with cuts to hands face and head. George Eisler 33 of 39 Newman Street South Boston was overcome at work moved furniture 101 Hancock Street Dorchester and fractured his left shoulder at City Hospital. Bernard Ward 50 of School Avenue Waltham was overcome and taken to Relief Hospital with an ankle injury and abrasion. John Sullivan 65 of 17 Oregon Street Roxbury was overcome and fell at his son's home 803 Parker Street with a cut to the head attended by Dr O Connor.
Prostrated Daniel Gillis aged 20 at 2 10 pm near 218 Dover Street. Mrs Annie Prescoe 383 of 461 Blue Hill Avenue fell ill on a Congress Street car at 11 45 am. Robert Miller 67 on way to Schenectady New York overcome by heat at South Station at 12 20 pm. Albert Waidel 34 of 5 Sarasftela street noted.
Obituary notes the Boston writer Sarah Orne Jewett who died aged about 70. Her first novel Deep Haven appeared in 1877, followed by many works including The Country Doctor and The Tory Lover from 1901. She drew on South Berwick life and earned Bowdoin College’s degree of doctor of letters in 1901.
Mrs. Lulu A. Ellis of 218 Lexington street was hit in the right hip by a stray bullet while standing in Maverick square near 1:40 yesterday afternoon. Police are baffled, with no witnesses to identify the shooter. she is hospitalized after the mysterious injury and says she heard no report of a shot.
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