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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1915
Page
1
Carrigan assigns tall right hander to oppose Philadelphia ace in the opening game of the title series. Phillies favored to win with Alexander expected to dominate, Shore in good form. Cady will catch as Carrigan sits manager duties.
German forces cross into Serbia with about 400000 men and heavy artillery. Allied troops move from Salonika to confront the invasion as the frontier rivers become flashpoints. The offensive marks a major escalation on the Balkan front.
Police report a woman found dead in a third floor room of the St James Hotel Bowdoin Square. Mrs Belle Doherty identifies the victim as Margaret Sullivan 34 of Lynn, last employed at Bishops Laundry. A second victim, an unidentified 25 year old woman, was killed by a man whose identity remains unknown.
Police report a unidentified female, about 25, 5 feet 3 inches, 120 pounds, gray eyes, dark chestnut hair, found dead at a hotel. Attaches will show the body at North Grove street morgue. investigators hope acquaintances can ID her. Clothing described includes a blue serge jacket, black silk stockings, and a black velvet toque. A handbag with two keys and a two cent stamp was recovered.
A Budapest dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph reports Sofia mass arrests of Agrarian party leaders and a government pledge to crush any domestic attempts to impair Bulgarian unity. The note states the development comes as tensions rise in Bulgaria.
Geneva reports from Munich that Roumania will issue a general mobilization decree within 12 hours. London confirms a Teuton invasion of Serbia has begun with about 400000 troops crossing along the Drina, Sava, and Danube rivers, heavy artillery cited as a key feature.
Moon phases listed with dates and times, positions of stars, and civil data. Notable anniversaries include Montenegro declaring war on Turkey in 1912 and John Hay's birth in 1858. A retrospective reference to Russians bombarding Przemys fortifications a year earlier and Canadian volunteers reaching England is noted.
The forecast calls for Friday rain in Boston and vicinity with Saturday generally fair and moderate to fresh easterly winds turning variable. In northern New England rain is likely Friday with cloudy conditions on Saturday and cooler temperatures. Southern New England sees rain Friday and Saturday partly cloudy, with interior colder.
Charles Sumner Bird, still a Progressive Party member, endorses Samuel W. McCall for governor this fall. In a letter to Leon Baldwin he praises the Republican platform as progressive and a shift in spirit, but says he will not join the Republican party.
In a Fast Walpole letter dated October 7 1915 Leon Baldwin Acting Chairman Progressive State Committee Boston Mass quotes a Republican view praising the party platform as progressive and nonpartisan with calls for a constitutional convention executive budget and biennial elections while noting the writer remains a Progressive member through 1916 and criticizes Wilson over Belgium neutrality and Mexican policy.
At midnight authorities learned a supposed Boson police officer visited Thomas W. Lawson's suites in Young's Hotel. Police HQ denies any department member searched the financier's rooms valued at about 200000 dollars as investigators seek the unidentified intruder.
Thomas W. Lawson publicly denied shooting himself and said he would uncover who planned the hotel visit. He contended the death-by-own-action rumor stemmed from reports and claimed he learned of it before the hotel visit. Police officials stated no case had been assigned and no rumor had been officially confirmed.
President Wilson and his intended bride Mrs Edith Bolling Galt will travel to New York tomorrow morning. They will be entertained at luncheon in honor of their engagement by Colonel E M House, a close personal friend of the President.
In today’s batting order for the Phillies and Red Sox, players such as Hooper, Bancroft, Paskett, Hoblitzell, Cravath, Lewis, Luderus, Niehoff, Cady, Burns, Shore, and others are listed. The text reads as a rough scorecard with scattered names and illegible fragments, suggesting a preview or lineup notation by Alexander.
Rain fell all afternoon and the drizzle continued into the evening. The weather forecast calls for cloudy unsettled conditions Friday, with every effort made to play the game if possible.
Old Philadelphia heats with battle fever as two famed teams prepare for the world championship clash of 1915. Confidence defines both camps while the baseball world awaits the verdict and the dawn of a new epoch in the records.
Cambridge leader Alderman Joseph Reed died at his home on Hunt Street. A longtime member of the city board and former East Cambridge representative in the Legislature, he had worked in the produce business and more recently ran a bowling alley. He left a widow.
Mrs Bowdoin B Crowninshield wife of a noted yacht designer in Boston and Marblehead was found dead in a bath at the Parker House. The body was discovered by a bell boy in Room 160 and pronounced dead by a physician. Police and the medical examiner labeled immersion as the cause but investigations into accidental or other death continue. Journal notes indicate she checked in under the name Mrs Bowdoin and had recently shopped downtown.
Express and accommodation trolley service advertised for Worcester and intermediate points. Includes express routes and passenger amenities.
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