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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1913
Page
8
At Franklin Park Zoo two large European brown bears became wedged in their cave entrance for about five minutes after a boy tossed a peanut into the opening. The crowd called for Keeper Paul Spiza as the bears freed themselves and settled back to normal.
In Greenville South Carolina on May 25 Mrs Millson Bryant 35 shouted during a holiness service near Paris Mountain for about five minutes before she swooned and died.
The ad touts cheap Colorado travel with weekly fares from 7 to 10 dollars and fast Rock Island Lines services from Chicago to Denver Colorado Springs and Pueblo. It highlights the Rocky Mountain Limited and Colorado Flyer trains plus recommended reading like Little Journey in Colorado and Under the blue Sky.
About 150 children attended an 8 o'clock mass at the Church of the Sacred Heart in East Boston for their first communion. Girls wore white dresses and veils with wreaths, boys in dark clothes with white gloves. A talk explaining the sacrament followed the service.
Police at Broadway station locate 15 year old Mary Flaherty of 204 West Fourth Street after she was found in Wilmington visiting an aunt. She will be returned to her parents in South Boston today.
After weeks of preparation the conference class connected with St Phillip's Church South Fund led by Rev Philip J O'Donnell presents this evening an entertainment programme of numbers to aid the church building fund with about 100 participants.
Dr Walter Calley pastor of the First Baptist Church of Jamaica Plain was away from his pulpit attending the annual Baptist convention in Detroit. He handed in his resignation last week and no action has been taken yet. the church directors will meet Friday to decide.
The New England Brotherhood of St. Andrew held a mass meeting in City Hall Portland on May 2. Rathbone Gardner of Providence and Frank Fos dick of Springfield spoke. The group decided to hold next year’s convention in Keene New Hampshire.
May 25 officers with a search warrant and MSPCA agents visited the Fisherville Hotel run by John B. Tebo and seized 42 birds believed to be game cocks.
Officers seized 34 live game cocks and gear after a Sunday raid in Hudson. They traced to Fisherville where trainer Tebo faces Westboro Court charges for training birds for fighting. Delaney of Marlboro owned 18 birds. The haul, valued at 1500, included shears spur saws stimulants and pit boards eight feet by twenty inches with eyes hooks.
Town officials in Revere move to speed tax collection after State tax commissioner orders a new uncollected tax list. Arthur Pendergast, the tax collector, is expected to file demands by tomorrow or Wednesday. Petitions seek a town meeting June 16 to protect town interests and fund necessary legal counsel.
About 200 members of the G. A. R. gathered for Memorial Sunday in Jamaica Plain. Under Commander Joseph Goldie and Adjutant George C. Haven they assembled at Roxbury High School before marching to the First Universalist Church escorted by the Joseph Stedman Camp Sons of Veterans and Betsy Ross Tent Daughters of Veterans.
Nine Wellesley College juniors were chosen to live in the village during their senior year to initiate incoming freshmen into the duties and joys of the Student Government Association. The group includes Elizabeth McConaughy Pauline Curran Frances Bogert Esther Hawley Beatrice Henley Helen Husted Louise Russell Katherine Shuman and Katherine Williamson.
Arguments on the Russell will case commence before Master Gilbert A. Pevey on Monday June 2 and likely continue seven days. Attorney Nason has 70 volumes of evidence totaling 60000 pages to review, with Attorney William Scharton to argue once Nason completes. A special room will be set aside for the proceedings by Sheriff Quinn.
In Fort Lupton Col May 25 William Damman aimed a revolver at his wife. The family dog interrupted, he attacked the dog and the wife escaped. Damman then returned to the kitchen and killed himself.
Twenty thousand socialists laborites and revolutionaries gathered at Pre St Gervais outside Paris to protest three years army service. Eighty speakers addressed the crowd from wagons including M Jaures, the socialist leader.
A district authority is urged to follow directives as if issued by a faculty member. The statement emphasizes professional deference to established leadership within the district.
W L Mc Cutcheon, who took three bichloride of mercury tablets by mistake, was reprieved from death after doctors at the hospital said most poison had left his stomach. He remained conscious and hopeful, while comparing his fate to banker B Sanders Walker’s death from the same poison. He plans to stay in bed under medical watch.
McCutcheon was taken to his home tonight and his condition will require close monitoring for several days.
A passerby allegedly set fire to the automobile of Miss Beatrice M. Davidson at Tremont and Berkeley streets yesterday forenoon. A lighted match or cigarette caused about $100 in damage to the car furnishings as the vehicle stood briefly at the curb.
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