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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 14, 1916
Page
4
A dray loaded with radiators broke down near the South draw of the Chelsea Bridge shortly after noon yesterday, delaying traffic for two hours. Bay State railway traffic was halted on all lines with north Boston trains diverted via Everett and Charlestown to Boston during the tie-up.
Salem on Wednesday marks John F. Hurley former Mayor and longtime civic leader turning 72. The Fourth Massachusetts Battery will host a banquet in his honor reflecting his years of public service.
Funeral services for Peter J. Breen of 13 Dennis Street Roxbury were held at St Patrick's Church Roxbury. Rev Father Hugh J Carney celebrated a requiem high mass. Breen died from injuries after an automobile accident on November 9. He was a nurse at Boston City Hospital.
The speaker urges replacing double writing with one pass typewriting by a stenographer using The Dictaphone. It promises efficiency gains and lowers operating expense by streamlining letter production and letting the stenographer focus on essential work. The message invites readers to see Dictaphone proof in their own offices.
The parade route for the militiamen who served on the Mexican border was announced by Mayor Curley. The Second Brigade including Boston units will assemble at Commonwealth avenue and Arlington street at 2 o'clock and march via Arlington Tremont Temple Place Washington School Beacon to Charles. The cavalry will not participate due to lack of mounts.
City Hall will host a review by Mayor Curley while Governor McCall observes at the State House. Bronze medals will be presented to soldiers at the Common, with McCall delivering an address to militiamen. Police and fire crews line School Street as Elks prepare a Beacon Street bandstand and patriotic concert. General E. Leroy Sweetser and Second Brigade officers will attend from 6 to 7 p m at the Elks Home on Somerset Street. A 10 member Elks committee organized the celebration, with civic and military groups to outline reception plans tomorrow in City Hall’s aldermanic chamber.
Funeral services for James F. Curry of Franklin street Brookline were conducted at St Marys Church of the Assumption with a solemn high mass. The Brookline council K of C board of trade and Readville Associates counted him among their members and pallbearers included John Burns Thomas F Hill and others. Burial followed at Holyhood Cemetery.
Professor Percival Lowell, brother of Harvard President A Lawrence Lowell and a renowned astronomer, died Sunday at his Flagstaff Arizona home in his 62d year. He gained fame for Mars theories and other discoveries and had just returned from a lecture tour in apparently good health.
The obituary notes Professor Percival Lowell born March 13 1855 in Boston to Augustus and Katherine Lowell. He earned an A B from Harvard in 1876 and later LL D degrees from Harvard Amherst and Clark University, the latter in 1909. He gained fame for speculative claims that Mars hosts inhabitants and that canals were built by intelligent will.
The obituary describes Percival Lowell, founder of Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, detailing his scientific work on Mars and the planets, his public service and political activity, his international honors, and his marriage to Constance Savage Keith. It notes his residence in Massachusetts and affiliations with scientific clubs.
Boston society notes announce the birth of a daughter to Georgianna Hopkins Musgrave wife of Major Herbert Musgrave D 8 O Royal Engineers at Tunbridge Wells Sussex England on November 1 Mrs Musgrave daughter of Mark Hopkins of Pau France and granddaughter of former Williams College president Mark Hopkins was married to Major Musgrave in May last year in London The family has many friends in the Boston area
In Lynn District Court Charles Black a Russian was held for Superior Court after admitting to a theft of 532 dollars from Mrs Sophia Klinko at 68 Centre Street. He described a masked partner who demonstrated a counterfeiting machine and sold it to the Klinkos for 582 dollars. Black said he received 100 dollars and the other man vanished.
Miss Gladys Carr of Roxbury struck Maud Crowell six year old of 9 March street while driving on Bridge street Salem this afternoon. Maud Crowell is at Salem Hospital with concussion and listed on the dangerous list.
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