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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1915
Page
10
Children start farming at Roxbury farm pricing a penny per day for planting crops. The piece notes a small city plot where youngsters work to pass time otherwise spent in the streets, highlighting the makeshift nature of the enterprise.
Supervisor McGrath observes ten nationalities among children in Sterling Street School gardens as they sign a tenement contract for ground and seed. Miss Margaret Leahy from Framingham Normal assists at Dudley street terminal. Ground is owned by the Boston Elevated Railway and funded by Boston Social Union. this marks the fourth year of the program with orderly work and penalties for shirking.
The Pope autographs a Latin letter to Professor Charles P Grannan urging urgent support for the Collegio Pio Latino in Rome. He notes priest shortages in Latin America and asks American Catholics to provide bishops and dioceses with thoroughly instructed priests. The letter ends with apostolic benediction and Rome dating.
A letter from Pr Grannan details his eight month detention in Europe due to war and illness. He writes to his son urging continued zeal for the Latin American College and cites guidance from his predecessor Pius X.
Wireman Robert S. Morgan of Lowell sustained injuries when a freight engine derailed near Lexington Centre station. The heavy tender jumped a switch during a flying shift and drew along over 90 feet of ties, tying up westbound traffic on the Lexington branch for nearly six hours.
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