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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1916
Page
7
The Boston Board of Health unveils a two column score card to rate eateries on Equipment and Method. A100 indicates class A, lower scores reflect poorer standards. The proprietor receives a card, may display it, while the inspecting official and health headquarters keep copies.
A Toronto seamstress known as Loony Ann endures years of loneliness and care for needy children. On her birthday a girl gifts a rag doll that becomes her cherished baby. Fire destroys her home. she dies clutching the doll, the only child she imagined.
Colonel John S. Mosby, famed Confederate raider of Mosby's Rangers, died in Washington at age 82 after a long illness. A Virginia native, he led daring cavalry raids, later served as consul at Hong Kong and land agent in Colorado, and in retirement gave lectures in the capital. He will be buried at Warrenton, Virginia. pallbearers include survivors from his command.
May 30 Peter Bradbury a motorcyclist lost control on the Lawrence boulevard and collided with a tree breaking his right leg and jaw and likely internal injuries. He is at the Lowell Hospital in critical condition. Residence listed as 4 Hampshire street place.
A special board at Charlestown navy yard found Seaman Louis J. Mullich of the destroyer tender Melville was accidentally killed by a bayonet wound during a guard scuffle Sunday night. The board reported no one responsible for the death, and the incident is believed to have occurred as he fell while running onto a guard’s bayonet.
The new chapel completed at Fairview Cemetery was opened to the public yesterday. Kyde Fark describes the event as thousands of visitors toured the edifice built by the city of Boston at a cost of 11000 dollars.
Correspondent letters discuss fashion color trends long gone and the impracticality of unreadable photo-plays. Josephine Y. notes wigs in purple and green were the only current display. Jennie W. observes that the scenario returned because it was typewritten and editors require proper form.
Rankings Mary Pickford will appear in the Daily Post five days a week and every Sunday in the Sunday Post.
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