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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 08, 1915
Page
5
Well known Irishmen in Greater Boston condemned Cunard Line officials for refusing 900 Irishmen passage on the Saxonia bound for home. The incident occurred last Saturday at Liverpool.
Protests at Liverpool halted the sail of Irish emigrants as officials refused boarding after a street demonstration by women calling them traitors and cowards. Firemen threatened strike if the men sailed, while Irish leaders from Crowley to Creehan voiced varied opinions on legality and policy. Others urged silence pending on-scene judgment.
Mrs May Bacigolupo of Everett was shot twice on Saturday after refusing reconciliation. She is at Massachusetts General Hospital with wounds to back and wrist. doctors say recovery is likely. Husband Frank Bacigolupo is detained by Everett police and to be arraigned on assault with intent to kill.
Trinity Church Charlestown hosted a Masonic vesper service with multiple Masonic bodies present. Rev Frederick Hamilton D D grand secretary of the Grand Lodge gave the main address on Builders of the Temple. Arthur F Macey Charlestown navy yard postmaster gave the welcome.
Fire Prevention Commissioner John A. O Keefe prepares a timely exhibit on fire prevention for the Metropolitan City Planning Exhibition at the State House east wing. The show runs Nov 13 to 20 under the Council of Fifty and is free to the public.
The display covers spontaneous combustion safety matches liquid dangers and fireproof waste baskets plus roofing comparisons and other prevention features. Boston city department organization led by the Mayor and Boston Finance Commission shown.
Thomas A Fuller of Cataumet raised four large pumpkins on Cape Cod, with weights 150 130 125 100 pounds. Three pumpkins grew on one vine totaling 255 pounds, enough to yield about 1000 pies for Thanksgiving.
In Philadelphia Mrs Ann Elizabeth Magill attended the funeral of her son Benjamin Morris Magill age 73. The service was held at the Magill home 3069 North Sixteenth Street with the elderly mother propped in a wheelchair sharing the final viewing with family members.
Apples plucked from the oldest apple tree on the Pacific coast in Vancouver barracks have been sent to the Department of Agriculture by A. A. Quarnberg former horticulture inspector of this district. The famous tree is almost 9 years old and produced a fair crop this year.
London reports fifteen million dollars worth of collars and shirts washed in the British empire last year, a fall in laundry costs from fewer peace-time items replaced by khaki. The war increased working expenses and personnel needs, prompting launderers to raise weekly bills by about 10 percent though the rise does not fully cover wartime costs.
Miss Louise M. Pearson, 22, of Oakland, was left by a broken ankle after her horse threw her ten miles from Ludlow while searching for a mine in Old Dad Mountains. She crawled through the Mojave Desert all night until a railroad engineer found her unconscious on the tracks, providing rescue.
A Boston woman offered three more blue jays to Franklin Park Zoo. The three new birds were placed in quarantine after arrival, joining the existing trio in the zoo’s aviary.
Mrs. Ann Leach of Mansfield Ohio and Mrs. M Gilmore of Santa Barbara met by chance in Santa Barbara California for the first time in 58 years Both believed the other had died and their reunion occurred on November 7 sentences end with periods
New York reports the death of John Prentiss Poe Jr in France on Sept 25 amid a battlefield disaster with the Black Watch. A famed Princeton football star and adventurer, Poe pursued war and service from 1903 in the U.S. Marines to the Honduras army, even courting danger in Central America and the Philippines.
Marion Indiana report states Mrs Dora Duke testified in Grant Superior Court that in the last six weeks she lived with William Duke near Oxford Ohio he gave her only mush to eat and provided no clothing. The divorce was granted.
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