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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1911
Page
11
The railroads and metropolitan affairs committees vote to report a measure electrifying lines within ten miles of Boston city limits. Nathan Matthews presented the proposal, backed by a property owners group active for two years seeking railroad electrification, with some dissenters noted.
The article notes New Haven will not oppose the measure and leaders Mellen and Byrnes favor electrification if absorption of the Boston & Maine occurs. Under Matthews resolve the Railroad Commission will guide the work, with plans due by Sept 1, 1912. Objections cite heavy Boston trackage and unproven third-rail versus overhead systems.
News reaches Brockton that FE Williams, exBoston music publisher and cornetist, has filed for divorce from Maud Williams alleging extreme cruelty and desertion. Williams, once in the Martland band, is linked to Mrs Katherine Bradford formerly Kittie Rankin, a noted cornetist he taught, as her suit mirrors a Bradford case in Brockton.
A head on trolley crash at Oakland and River streets Dorchester left two men injured and twenty passengers shaken. Motorman Binford of the Forest Hills line attempted to halt his car on a steep grade after spotting an inward bound vehicle at the foot of the hill. Amelia Crutzbach of Jamaica Plain and Michael Buckley of Charlestown were the injured riders.
British oceanographer Sir John Murray returns to Puri tan Hotel after touring the United States and bidding farewell here. Track teams from Syracuse, Pennsylvania, Dartmouth and Colgate attend a Harvard Stadium meet. A New York guest at Brewster Hotel sent a playful laundry request after leaving clothing behind. Four Japanese visitors, Maeda, Hikida, Minanchi, and Murato, tour Europe and visit America, praising U.S. cities. The Dermatological Society convenes at Lenox Hotel with expert lectures.
Laura Nelson, a Black woman, and her 16 year old son were fatally harmed by a mob in Okema Oklahoma. They were taken from the county jail when a deputy sheriff went to search their shanty for stolen goods.
Lothario Ingham, 27, with no home, was treated at the Relief Hospital yesterday afternoon for a fracture of the right arm after he fell at the corner of Summer street and Atlantic avenue and his arm went under the rear tracks of a passing electric car.
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