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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1913
Page
2
East Boston boat builder Camelo Trinagli refused to surrender the department’s launch until paid $35 in cash for hauling and storage charges this winter. The city carries an assessed valuation of $1.44 billion but cannot obtain credit from Trinagli.
Captain Walter S. Eaton, acting district chief of the marine fleet, demanded a launch for Fireboat 44. Trinagli insisted on cash in hand before releasing the vessel, delaying the launch until May 1 as his $38 bill passes city and departmental reviews. The dispute centers on payment timing and cash basis business practices.
Ground has been broken for the freshman dormitories at Harvard facing the Charles River boulevard. A fund of 2,000,000 dollars is allotted for two or possibly three dormitories, to house members of the class of 1918 when they enter Harvard.
A telegram from London reports the Grand Trunk railroad may shift its main offices from London to Montreal. The move is said to be urged due to recent troubles affecting the Grand Trunk and its subsidiaries in New England.
Christine Harty two years two months old, daughter of Mr and Mrs W C Harty, was playing in front of 129 H Street South Boston when a heavy truck ran over her and killed her almost instantly.
Joseph Keating of 2 Farragut Court South Boston was arrested on a manslaughter charge and taken to East Fourth Police Station two hours after the crash. His employer R S Brine bailed him out later. Keating says a child was playing near the gutter and ran under his truck.
In Gloucester William Murray's wife, awakened by his drunken abuse, grabbed a carving knife and slashed him multiple times. Neighbors called police. a physician treated Murray at home. The wife was jailed on a charge of assault with a dangerous weapon.
Lillian Nordica Maria Gay Jacques Urlus and Willy Buers star in Tristan and Isolde the final performance of the opera this season and the only appearances for Nordica Urlus and Buers. Caplet conducts Wagner for the first time in this production.
Lynn police received a report from Kennebunk Maine that Eugene Southey an 18 year old of 79 Fayette street Lynn was found dead beside railroad tracks early yesterday morning. It is believed he was stealing a ride on a freight train and was probably run over. Southey left home Monday and his parents have had no word since.
Dr. William H. Watters of Boston University warned that eliminating mosquitoes in the Panama zone ended yellow fever and malaria, a key to making the canal possible, in a statement last night.
Dr. Watters urged eradicating breeding sites in cities to prevent malaria spread. In a public talk at Evans Memorial Hall he described how mosquitoes carry germs from malaria patients and inject them into bitten individuals. He noted Anopheles transmits germs while Culex is less dangerous.
Massachusetts spends 41 percent of 15 million dollars on care for the insane and destitute. State Treasurer Elmer A. Stevens told Boston Reciproc ity Club members that a 600000 investment in the Boston Psychopathic Hospital will save the state millions by curing insanity early and reducing long term burden.
Thomas Hogan and his wife were walking on Medford Street when he leapt into the Malden River off an embankment. Three bystanders Robert Mallaitt Edward Sullivan and Robert Oppan waded in and pulled him to shore preventing likely drowning.
Communications from President Wilsons secretary Tumulty and from Secretary Daniels were received by Mayor Fitzgerald stating the President and the Navy Secretary will consider the Mayor and others requests to enlarge and develop the Boston navy yard. The Mayor also sent a telegram to Treasury Secretary McAdoo noting cigarmakers want internal revenue collectors informed that a law excludes cigars manufactured by and given to employees of cigar factories from taxation.
London reports the death at Mentone France of Field Marshal Viscount Garnet Wolseley a famed British soldier in his 80th year. The obituary outlines his early career in Burmah Crimea and India his reforms merit selection advocate and key campaigns in Egypt Sudan Ireland and Canada and notes his later fall from grace and financial ruin before his death.
Pope Pius X shows marked improvement and may celebrate mass tomorrow and administer communion to his sisters and papal household. A large audience is anticipated Sunday with the Pope appearing briefly on the throne before retiring to his private rooms.
An advertisement states PAZO OINTMENT cures itching bleeding prolapse piles in 6 to 14 days with a money back guarantee by the druggist. It promises refunds if the treatment fails within the stated period.
The committee on ways and means reported in the Senate a bill to appropriate 115000 dollars to exterminate diseases among horses and cattle.
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