Narrow escape as car tilts over gorge edge
A motor car narrowly avoided a fatal fall when its rear wheel hung over a gorge and the earth gave way. The vehicle briefly teetered before righting itself and continuing.
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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1920
Page
11
A motor car narrowly avoided a fatal fall when its rear wheel hung over a gorge and the earth gave way. The vehicle briefly teetered before righting itself and continuing.
South Boston High School cadets won major honors over rival companies from Charlestown and East Boston at the Sixth Regiment drill meet in East Armory. Captain Willard Tibbetts of Company I led the victors as scores highlighted team strength and individual drill winners from South Boston and East Boston.
The Paul Revere House in North Square attracts many visitors in warm weather with sightseeing autos delivering crowds from out of town. The house shows original beams and floors, open fireplaces, period tools, and fragments of pre 1750 paper. It is the oldest Boston house, built around 1670, with artifacts and engravings linked to Revere and his era.
Washington officials cited Colonel Ryan Red Cross commissioner for northern Russia and other State Department findings. The latest picture of conditions in Soviet Russia will hinder current plans to resume trade relations with that country.
Frederick S. Wood aged 20 of Cambridge terrace faces larceny of a $1000 Liberty bond after inspectors removed him from an outbound New York train. Accomplice Harry J. Pangburn of Richdale street Cambridge is in custody for vouched for Wood when he tried to sell the bond under the alias Frothingham. Bond was reportedly taken from the office of former employer F. J. Dabney of Congress street.
Washington May 14 The Shipping Board work in shipyards will not be affected by the wage rate adjustment to be made by July 1 by a Special board. Admiral Benson announced that a machinery to consider wage scales in such yards was set up last August by agreement between the workers and shipyard managements and the board would act on recommendations through the proper channels.
Fines totaling 95 were imposed on two Dorchester milk firms by Judge Churchill after complaints by James O. Jordan of the Board of Health. The Elm Farm Milk Company of Wales Place paid 75 for removing part of the cream and 10 for selling milk not up to standard, with an appeal filed. The Turner Centre System of Charlestown received 10 for using unclean milk bottles.
Mary A Brennan representing Michael Brennan estate won 7000 in Suffolk county court against Mary A W Keene. Award included 50 for death and 2000 for conscious suffering after Brennan fell through a trap door at a Roxbury Warren street real estate office early July 4 1918. The report notes unrelated mention of summer frocks trimmed with button groups.
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