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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1895
Page
1
A young girl named Nellie Sullivan performs a daring rescue that shields her parents and sisters from danger, earning praise from neighbors and local officials. Her quick actions highlight courage and presence of mind in a family crisis.
Patrolman Cornelius Sullivan and his wife and three daughters were nearly overcome by gas from a parlor stove at 8 Plymouth street Cambridge. Nellie Sullivan, 17, woke the family, freed the window, and alerted neighbors as Dr Crocker and others revived the group. The family remained ill, and Sullivan senior will miss days of duty.
George W. Anderson assails former city architect Harrison H. Atwood in a school committee session. He cites city documents and the Citizens' Association report to claim improper practices and urges the committee to reject Atwood’s plans and any further employment. The debate ends with a party line vote to table the motion.
A Harvard College plumber, Thomas O'Brien, was working in a cramped chimney at the Hemenway Gym addition when a lowering pipe rope broke. He was trapped beneath a heavy iron piece, rescued after volunteers dug through bricks, and taken to Cambridge Street Hospital with a fractured skull, alive and slowly regaining consciousness. O'Brien, 30, of Spruce Street, Cambridge, survived the peril, though shaken and injured.
At the municipal gathering held tonight in Lowell the slate includes William F. Courtney for mayor and aldermen C. W. Pinkham P. J. O'Brien Joseph A. Green Thomas M. O'Neil Dennis Murphy E M T the Hon Jere Crowley O A Libby and Frank B. Dow among the nominated officials.
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