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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1915
Page
1
President Wilson faced a critical Mexican crisis as Mexico City nears starvation and General Obregon refuses to allow an international relief committee to aid the needy. Obregon says Mexico needs no foreign help.
City officials order all closed shops to reopen under penalty, with 300 Mexican merchants imprisoned. Citizens fear another evacuation after Obregon’s pledge to allow looting for food or money. Ambassadors from Brazil Britain Spain and Italy reported to the State Department on the bleak outlook.
Dr. L. Vernon Briggs testified in the Superior Court before Judge Hardy and jurors that he once feared financial ruin and risked developing the same condition as Louis Cabot's illness, calling it congenital inferiority during the cross examination led by Charles F. Choate on the will contest.
A large crowd packed the courtroom seating and the area outside as Thursday's session progressed. Mrs. John S. Bartel, daughter of the Cabots, sat knitting throughout the trial while Mrs. Briggs, the other daughter, closely followed witnesses and conferred with her attorney.
Funeral services for the Rev. Samuel Watson and his wife were held yesterday in Winthrop. Watson formerly led the Bromfield Street M. E. Church and died of pneumonia on March 2. His wife died of the same disease the following Thursday.
Sixteen year old Twomage Connors leaped into the Mystic River wearing all his clothes to escape arrest for burglary of Medford cigar stores. Exhausted and chilled, he reached the far bank where Patrolman Frank Sheedy captured him after the river crossing via a railroad bridge.
Berlin dispatch says a French ammunition steamer bound for Nieuwport entered Ostend by mistake due to intoxicated crew. Ostend was German held. the vessel was shelled and sunk with wounded crew saved.
French forces report capturing two companies of Prussian Guards in Champagne while ongoing Channel warfare sees three German submarines sunk in 48 hours. British masters claim additional enemy subs sunk by ramming and destroyer actions.
New Haven March 5 Coroner Eli Mix began an inquiry into the death by suicide of Lilian May Cook whose body was found in a mountainous park. State Attorney’s office states Mayo is not criminally responsible and ends further coroner investigation.
A detective reports Virginius J. Mayo the employer of Miss Cook and owner of a dual personality was served a subpena to appear before the coroner on Monday to aid in determining why the young woman took her life. Coroner Mix later stated emphatically.
Tonight rises and sets noted with a full moon on March 1 and new moon on March 15. Saturn appears in evening sky while Venus and Jupiter rise in the morning. Easter Sunday falls on April 4. anniversaries include General Philip H. Sheridan born 1831 and the 1836 Alamo massacre.
Forecast for southern New England calls for snow or rain Saturday and Sunday with warmer conditions and increasing easterly to southerly winds. Northern New England remains cloudy with snow or rain on both days.
A partial transcription from Thompson's Spa covers scattered figures and times. The snippet lists temperatures and unrelated numbers, including averages for yesterday and one year ago, with unclear context and no cohesive event.
During the auto show or cafe Bova The Leading Italian Restaurant of Boston offers an Italian Table d Hote Luncheon for ladies and gentlemen from 11 to 3 at 65 cents and dinner until 8 30 for 1 00 with wine included. Neapolitan orchestra Francesco Savasta tenor and Madam Daniels soprano provide music. Fort Hill 1612.
A small brown mouse interrupted a Lynn theatre performance last night, briefly stopping the show for about five minutes as around 500 women in the balcony watched the gallery instead of the stage. Actors kept still while the mouse scampered about, creating a stir among the audience.
Calm theater night turns chaotic as a mouse appears on stage front balcony. A woman screams A mouse provoking a panicked chorus of exits while actors lose tempo. An usher retrieves the intruder and confines it without injury.
The Russian Black Sea fleet is reported moving toward the Bosphorus. A Rome telegraph cites Burgas as the fleet’s recent pass on the western Black Sea shore near the Balkans. The Turkish fleet, led by the cruiser Sultan Selim, is believed active in the region.
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