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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1912
Page
15
Mrs. Frank Bradbury fatally injured and her 6-month-old daughter killed in Middleboro when she leapt with the baby to shield her 4-year-old son Fred from a trolley. The trolley struck the mother. the boy escaped unharmed.
The superstar ball player discusses nearly losing the game due to illness and crediting Father John’s Medicine with restoring his health. He says the tonic rebuilt his strength and keeps him active on trips with his club, carrying a bottle for protection.
Sumner I. Kimball received two $500 checks from two sisters of a prominent New York family to be used as Christmas gifts for former Life Saving Service members who are disabled or in want. The annual $1000 gift has continued for 16 years with secrecy about the donors.
Judge Frederick Lawton in East Cambridge court interrupted a trial to mention that the score was 2 to 0 in favor of New York. The jurors and spectators reacted with smiles as the case resumed after the remark about the world baseball championship score.
A fragment notes Brick Bodkins' father showing how he used to throw a lasso when a cowboy. Reference to a comic section in next Sunday's Post.
A mixed feature piece reflects on a romance with jealousy and a family-health twist. The fashion section outlines fall styles including silks, veils, lace gowns, crepe de chine dresses, velvet accents, and new hat shapes with dark velvet brims.
Jacob Saunders age 54 of Sayville fell into Great South Bay while following the water life his entire career and drowned. The incident appears in a roundup of oddities from the region.
A poem wistfully imagines a peaceful garden away from work and bills. The speaker, a weary native of Bagdad and Turk, longs to escape toil and taxes but laments the garden’s gate is locked. the young may enter, yet the old are barred.
Cyrus H Bates of Post 98 G A R in Boston denounces anti American elements and I W W violence. He urges open mills for workers, mass departures of foreigners, and a cordon to drive insurrection from Massachusetts. He defends the Catholic church and statesmanship over prejudice.
The engagement of Miss Audrey Stanwood to Dr. Howard T. Karsner assistant professor of pathology at Harvard Medical School was announced yesterday. Miss Stanwood is the daughter of Mrs Eben Caldwell Stanwood of 480 Commonwealth Avenue. Dr. Karsner who has been with Harvard Medical School for a year graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1903 and studied in Berlin and Vienna.
Tony Scuderlari, mechanician for Bruce Brown, dies from injuries suffered a week earlier while testing the Vanderbilt cup race course at Waukee Ini. The report notes the source also teases a humorous political article by Mike Flannery coming in next Sunday's Post.
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