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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1911
Page
17
Mayor Fitzgerald faced a heated Tremont Hall gathering in Roxbury Ward 19 as residents pressed for improvements. The meeting, held to decide a playground site, ended with the mayor stating the ward needs more than one playground.
At a well attended meeting Mayor and citizens pressed for new playgrounds with 60 000 already set aside. The Park Commission members reviewed ward maps as residents pressed for site choices. A second meeting was ordered to decide the exact location after better advertisement and public notice.
A ward meeting raged over selecting a playground site with charges of land interests in play. A five member committee will be named by the Mayor to gauge voter desires and handle site selection. Mayor Mitzger also noted a chemical wagon is under construction and a fire house will be established on Parker Hill.
Gabriel Sporas, 29, a chef at the Tourist Hotel on Tremont Street, was found unconscious at 803 Tremont last night. He said a fellow worker used a blackjack during an assault at the hotel. Sporas was taken to City Hospital. Harry Crowley, a hotel waiter, was jailed on a suspicion charge.
After a conference with leading milk contractors at the American House the Boston Co operative Milk Producers Company directors refused to approve the plan to cut the April price to producers seven cents per can plus freight under the Saunders act. The producers unanimously voted to maintain the contract price while contractors reserve action for later notification.
A wild dog roamed Albany to Dover streets frightening crowds and forcing bar patrons and saloon workers to jump onto bars and tables. Patrolman Norton fired shots after the animal dodged a call for help, and the dog died at Dedham street station. No bites reported. a similar incident occurred last Monday nearby.
In a high wind aviator Frank Coffyn and his wife flew more than 28 miles from Augusta to Aiken, South Carolina, in 41 minutes to keep a breakfast appointment. The wind prevented a straight course, and no American woman has flown so far under such conditions.
Kathleen Parlow, a young Canadian violinist, will perform with the Boston Symphony Orchestra this week. She will play Tschaikowsky concerto, Enesco suite, and Schumann Symphony No. 4 in D minor. The concert repeats tomorrow. Box office opens tomorrow morning for second season concert benefiting the Pension Fund. Josef Hofmann will be soloist with Beethoven concerto in G major and Wagner to close the program.
Dr D K Pearson of Hinsdale will celebrate his 91st birthday by distributing 300000 to schools and religious organizations. The total distributions in recent years reach nearly 5 million, with most funds going to small colleges in the Chicago area.
Dr. Pearson terms his gifts as debts to be paid on April 14 distributing 100000 to the American Board of Foreign Missions and to Bern College 100000 and to Doane College 25000 with other gifts totaling 45000. He plans to celebrate by getting out of debt and notes his aging and retirement from business twenty five years ago with wealth from Chicago real estate.
Bad check case leads to arrest in Willimantic Conn. Gilbert I Lowe of Haverhill Mass was taken into custody after attempting to cash a worthless check drawn on Chapin National Bank of Springfield. Police say he is wanted in Concord N H and Chicopee Mass for similar offenses and that he once operated under the name Towe Hoar Land Company with G I Lowe as manager.
Concord police state they know of no Gilbert I Lowe wanted by them. The item notes a local inquiry but confirms no such fugitive is on their list.
Police state Gilbert T. Lowe is not listed in local directories or voting records for 11 years and is not known to authorities. The missive notes his name appears unexpectedly in the area.
Detroit March 30. Effective treatments for locomotor ataxia are reported by Dr. Clarence H. Burton. He announces a serum that acts on the disease toxins and brings notable results after three years of work, surpassing prior expectations.
Yesterday afternoon Dakota Dan Russell and Mrs Russell left for Wabasha Minnesota to attend the funeral of Mrs Russell's father Valentine Swirtz who died Wednesday night He plans to return to Melrose immediately after the service.
Walter L. Graves a second year Harvard Law School student and Amherst College graduate was struck by a shifting engine at Porter station. He died at Cambridge Hospital from multiple internal injuries after the 6 p.m. incident. His brother Merle Graves also attends Harvard Law.
An entertaining musicale on Mt. Vernon street drew a crowd after the Musical Art Club’s closing meeting. Baritone P. Os Phinn received a flattering reception for a prologue to Pagliacci and a song by Marshall Kernochan.
The class of 1870 at Boston English High School gave a complimentary luncheon to B. J. Shoninger of Paris yesterday afternoon at the Elks Home on Somerset Street.
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