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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1916
Page
3
A crowd of youths vandalized the Fells station of the Boston and Maine Railroad breaking every electric light and window and tearing at a tool house at Oak Grove station. Patrolman Mul Goon pursued the gang, scattering most of them. many escaped toward Melrose.
Civil War veteran John H. Cleaves of Harvard Mass describes long suffering from rheumatic stiffness and swelling. He credits Varne-sis with rapid stomach relief and gradual reduction of stiffness after using the product. He urges others to try it and cites prior recommendations.
In Williamantic Connecticut Leon Gilman aged 19 shot and killed his cousin Edward Gilman 20 as they slept. He then fatally wounded his grandfather Nelson Gilman 70 before police restrained him at 786 Main Street.
Gilman admitted to police how he planned the killings and outlined movements from the first death to his arrest. A coroner's inquest will be held today. He is described as a model young man amid family ties, with an apparent temporary insanity theory offered. He worked at Hopkins & Allen Arms in Norwich and had recently been promoted to foreman.
Lord and Lady Aberdeen spoke at the New Church in West Newton with Rev William Park of Belfast serving as chaplain. The Massachusetts Congress of Mothers plans district conferences alongside the state convention. A Boston Presbytery meeting in Somerville will arrange for new ministers Rev Ralph Mavis Rev A R MacLellan and Rev J S Minthorne to their respective churches.
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