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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1911
Page
16
A 20 year old woman named Mrs William Somerville was found with a breast wound on the floor of a lodging house at 64 Myrtle Street shortly after 6 pm. She is unconscious and in critical condition at Relief Hospital. We know she quarreled with a man earlier and a man was seen leaving the rooms.
Police search the city for a baker identified as Somerville who was connected to a down town restaurant. A woman named Maud, linked to a West End dining room, lies injured near a gas stove after a reported gunshot in a house shared by Mrs. Lynch and her husband. Neighbors note the couple hid a murky past and a well supplied life.
At New York sale, twenty Shakespeare works led by the first folio sold for 1310000. George D. Smith bought the first folio for 13000 and other copies for 1350 3200 and 750. The auction total neared 885000 with notable buys including Longfellow items and an Edgar Allan Poe autograph.
A new cold spell continues with clear skies and a 25 to 35 mph gale expected today. Winds reached 34 mph yesterday afternoon and stayed strong along the coast, hampering shipping and keeping Boston from frost. Temperatures ranged from 37 to 47, with 36 at midnight, and a warmer Southwest trend offers the only hope for another warm spell. Snow flurries were reported in northern Maine.
The Pilgrim Publicity Association ladies committee hosted an informal dinner at the Hotel Thorndike for officers and chairmen of the general committee in preparation for the Associated Advertising Clubs convention in Boston in August. Mrs. George B. Gallup presided with officers George W. Coleman, George B. Gallup, Carrol J. Swan, D. N. Graves, and H. B. Humphrey in attendance.
In Amesbury on May 3 Melvin Dalton a 61 year old laborer carried out his threat to end his life by drowning in the Powwow River after telling friends at noon he would at 6 o clock.
A fragmented notice states a $2.50 scan gives f nbooks at Wolf's Hanover and Pos or $2.00 in cash Legal Stamp Clothier corner streets.
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