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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 03, 1915
Page
5
The vaudevillists will get many. Don’t miss Everybody's Page a laugh as told about in the next next Sunday. It’s one of the best Sunday Post Magazine yet printed.
Michael J. Malamatinis, 37, once owner of a Smyrna olive estate worth over 50000 dollars, arrived in Brooklyn with his wife Bertha Bellham after fleeing the war zone. He says his fortune vanished amid upheaval and peril.
Malamatinis describes Turkish soldiers beating his wife and him, and a court martial that sentenced them to be shot. Consul Horton intervened. the couple fled to Bourla, sailed in a 30 foot boat with 130 refugees to English Island, then to Matelía and Athens before returning home.
Milan dispatch reports Romanian Conservative leader M Filipescu says Bulgarian activity in Serbia shifted Romanian public opinion after 16 months of interventionist propaganda. A Liberal leader notes Premier Bratianu seeks broad support before expanding Romania's borders, while Corriere Della Sera predicts an Allied Balkan breakthrough will push Romania into the war.
A reader, Margaret J. Maher of Boston, praises The Post for fair treatment of anti-suffrage views in recent news coverage before the election. She expresses gratitude for a full hearing before the public. The note closes with a teaser: a "great new color picture comic" in the next Sunday Post.
Mayor Curley learned from London that Walter Tracey of Roxbury, once a Lenox hotel bellboy, will return to the city. Tracey joined Canadian troops at 18, was wounded at the Marne, and is cousin to John Cullen of Roxbury, a public works employee.
Mrs Mary A Farrell wife of Michael A Farrell longtime Roxbury businessman was laid to rest after a high requiem mass at Mission Church attended by relatives and friends. Rev James Lynch C SS R officiated and prayed at the grave. Pallbearers included Frank Canlbach Frank Robinson Martin Prendergast John Doyle Joseph H Lyons and James Wilson. Burial followed at Calvary Cemetery.
Republicans swept Bridgeport with Mayor Clifford B. Wilson of Bridgeport elected to a third term. Official totals show Wilson 6687 votes, Henry Lee 4863 as the Citizens candidate, and Daniel P. Walker trailing.
Fragmentary OCR notes indicate a political tally mentioning a favored commission arm by an estimated majority around two thousand votes. Names and specific details are garbled, with references to Democrats and a Jasper Molevy fragment.
Charles Chanin of Boston a member of Amherst College class of 1918 received honorable mention for his work as a freshman at the college in Amherst Massachusetts.
The article states that to gain honor able mention at Amherst in Latin for the scholastic year 1914 1915 a student must maintain an average of 93 percent in the Latin course and at least 75 percent in all other subjects for the year. It also notes an upcoming feature titled Joy Three Flights Up in the next Sunday Post Magazine.
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