Boy dies after accident with cart and pole
A boy was killed this afternoon when crushed between a skidding wagon and a telegraph pole. He suffered a skull fracture and died within minutes after a doctor arrived to send him to a hospital.
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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1916
Page
6
A boy was killed this afternoon when crushed between a skidding wagon and a telegraph pole. He suffered a skull fracture and died within minutes after a doctor arrived to send him to a hospital.
The New York Central railroad seeks removal of obstructions in a passageway on the south and west sides of the Hotel Lenox owned by trustees Frederick Ay er and others who hold the property under lease to the Boston and Albany line.
George S. Howard former Boston Typographical Union member who died at Long Island Hospital will be buried Friday at 9 o'clock from the Graham undertaking parlors 1070 Washington Street. He worked for years as a compositor on Boston daily newspapers and is survived by his mother two brothers and three sisters.
Laura Littlefield, soprano, presented a song recital last night in Steinert Hall featuring a modern program of German French and English works by Reger Pfitzner Taubert Woolf Zarzycki Bach Gretry Darcieux Lenormand Busser Faure Hahn Thomas Horsman Delius Spalding Diesel Carpenter. She sang with fine intelligences clear enunciation and strong voice control earning warm applause and several encores. Violinist Harrison Keller delivered a legato Bach piece in a musical manner.
James A. Moran longtime South Boston resident and former real estate employee of the Boston Elevated Railway Company is buried today after a Brookline ceremony. He attended South Boston High and Boston Latin School winning a military drill gold medal and later served in the State militia. Moran belonged to the South Boston Council Knights of Columbus and played on St. Alphonsus Association’s championship football team. He is survived by three brothers and four sisters.
Funeral services for James A Moran of 10 Milton Road Brookline will be held at his home and St Marys Brookline this morning. A Sixth Regiment machine gun company detail and Mounted Orderly Division M V M will escort the body to Calvary Cemetery for burial. Moran 23, native of South Boston, attended local schools.
Twenty of Boston's largest freight receivers met at the Chamber of Commerce and voted to appoint a five member committee to discuss freight congestion relief with railroad officials teaming representatives and business leaders. The plan to mobilize Boston motor trucks was debated and postponed. The committee members named by President Liggett are Howard Coonley Paul F Fitzpatrick Stanley King Arthur L Robinson and A G Thompson.
Michael J. Daler, a Sharon painter, fights lead poisoning from work and receives a pint of blood from John Van Norden, a teamster who volunteered. Doctors say the transfusion could save Daler's life.
Virginius St. J. Mayo a New Haven manufacturer was allowed by a New York Supreme Court to testify before a referee ahead of a $250000 breach of promise suit brought by Wilhelmina Meyer who alleges she lived with him for 12 years as his wife. The court appointed a referee after Mrs. Meyer sought to jail Mayo for failing to testify. Meyer claims a marriage ceremony occurred though Mayo was married with two daughters in Scranton.
London March 23 The South Wales coal miners and operators agreed to nominate a conciliator proposed by Walter Runciman president of the Board of Trade to settle disputed issues including Sunday work and bonuses amid threat of a strike.
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