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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1915
Page
18
The First national conference of the National Security League will be held in Chicago on November 27 to decide its policy toward national defence plans. All 120 league branches are invited to send representatives, with governors and prominent public figures expected to attend.
Willard S. Cooke longtime Boston newspaper man and state Senate messenger died at his East Lexington home from arteriosclerosis. A Civil War veteran he began with the New England Homestead and later rose to roles at the Boston Herald and Evening Herald. Funeral services are Sunday with interment in Amherst.
Judge Perkins finds Thomas Carnes not criminally liable after the Dedham inquest into 8-year-old Grace L. O Brien struck by a Brookline streetcar on November 9. The report notes the car traveled at moderate speed and the motorman used emergency braking and efforts to stop.
The Everett Forum Club will launch a series of community meetings to promote civic progress. Professor Walter Rauschenbush of New York, former West Side church pastor, will discuss Christianizing the Social Order in the opening session tomorrow afternoon.
Michael Imperial, a 36 year old Italian, shot three times at 10 pm in the Dorchester South Station mail room wounding baggage agent Michael Keough 55. Keough was hospitalized with non fatal wounds to shoulder neck and body. Imperial fled the scene pursued by Patrolman McGoldrick.
Funeral services for Herbert E Merrill a prominent resident of Somerville and a noted Mason were held yesterday afternoon at his home 11 Lincoln Street East Somerville The Rev Carl Stackman of Franklin Street Congregational Church officiated selections were rendered by the Weber Male Quartet The burial will be today at Cornish Me
A 50 mile per hour gale crashes along the New England coast grounding a schooner off Lynn and leaving waterfronts flooded. The White Star liner Canopic cannot sail and the Leyland liner Etonian is blocked by the storm. Several steamers including Prince George and Ravenshoe cancel sailings as tugs and barges wait in the lower harbor.
Six physicians serving as a coroner's jury found Dr. H J Haiselden morally justified for not performing an operation that could have saved infant John Bollinger from a life of unhappiness. The verdict implies disapproval of medical cases where a physician decides if a patient should live, stating the physician's highest duty is to relieve suffering and to save or prolong life.
Peter Sdrigal, 38, of 59 Columbia Street, was struck by a car on Quincy Avenue and died hours later at Quincy City Hospital. The vehicle was driven by Joseph Killeen, 71 Dakota Street, Dorchester. Police released Killeen without detention after the incident.
The panel includes John F. Golden Mercy Hospital Arthur Rankin Loyola University D Howard Chislett Hahnemann College D A K Steele University of Illinois Henry F Lewis Cook County Hospital Ludwig Hektoen Rus Medical College of the University of Chicago Dr Hatselden says he consulted 15 doctors before deciding against operation with 14 approving letting the infant die The baby’s mother a factory worker and mother of three other children supports the dead outcome
A nine foot six inch clay model by Bela Pratt for a planned bronze statue of Phillips Brooks nears completion after three years of work. The sculpture aims to be a lifelike likeness of the preacher and is slated for placement in an older Boston area to maximize visibility.
John Brighty of Cambridge received word that his son Sergeant Ralph Brighty of the Thirty first Battalion Second Canadian Contingent was wounded in France. Brighty enlisted as a private in Calgary, sailed eight months ago, and was promoted on the field. He is 28, formerly of Edmonton, Alberta, and managed Swift & Co. office there.
A Masson Quebec group the Sisters of St Mary praises Father John's Medicine in a letter they say supports humanity. They report rapid vigor for teachers and claim it remedies severe colds and strengthens the weak with its safe non alcoholic formula.
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