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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1917
Page
3
Fire Commissioner Grady announced the retirement of Captain Dennis J. Dacey of Engine 45. Dacey was appointed April 17, 1896, promoted to lieutenant January 6, 1908, and to captain December 24, 1915. Hoseman Edward H. Kilday of Engine 26-35s was promoted to assistant engineer.
Captain Fred W. Battis moves from Engine 48 to Engine 45 and James J. Donovan shifts from Engine 88 39 to Engine 1. All orders take effect at 10 a.m. tomorrow.
The New Haven Hartford railroad will omit several local trains on Columbus Day. Notices announcing the holiday schedule have been posted at all stations of the system.
Funeral services for Edward B. Cole a former member of Shepard Norwell Co now Shepard Norwell Company will be held this afternoon at 3 oclock at the South Unitarian Church Newbury and Exeter Streets He died Monday night at his home on Commonwealth Avenue Burial will be in Mt Auburn Cemetery
Witness Walsh testifies he saw gates closed only 23 feet away in pitch dark with no lights on the gates or arc light. He says the car, traveling 6 to 8 mph on impact, could not be stopped or signaled due to crowding and a faulty brake system amid a fatal accident involving 45 passengers.
Gerald Walsh, the motorman of the car that plummeted through the open Summer Street bridge draw on election night, testified he was the last to leave the front platform and did nothing to prevent the deaths of passengers crowded inside the closed car.
Giovanni di Napoli aged 60 of 82 Endicott street was found suffering from gas poisoning by his landlady. He died after being brought to the Relief Hospital. Police say he sealed the room and turned on the gas.
Mrs. Alice Gitchell Kirk demonstrated a potato substitute to about 200 women in Jordan Marsh Company's lecture hall. The mix used peanuts rice bread crumbs soup stock salt egg paprika formed in a pan and baked. served with tomato sauce and parsley. meat can replace nuts with half the cooking time.
Miss Gertrude Dudley Danforth daughter of Mr and Mrs Charles O Danforth of 82 Alban Street Dorchester and Wilfred Jacobs Brown quartermaster on the U S S Spink son of Dr and Mrs Wilfred G Brown of Plymouth were married last evening at the bride’s parents home.
John Fahey of Chicago says two men frisked him in a Brookline saloon, stealing 40 dollars in railroad tickets and a brass pin. Boston police are on the case as the suspect is to be tried later. In East Boston a 7-year-old boy fell from a tunnel car and is gravely injured with little hope of recovery.
Miss Mary Arline Smith of Lexington and former Bos ton Herald staff tied the knot with Harrison Warner Hosmer of Westfield. Hosmer, a Worcester Polytechnic Institute graduate, class of 1915, and the ceremony at Edgewood's Lexington parents home used a double ring service officiated by Rev. Francis Hale.
Orders from Ambassador Jusserand assign Captain Henri Amann to duty at a government cantonment. The Harvard military staff now places Lieutenant Colonel Paul Azan in charge of the French mission with Lieutenant Andre Morize directly supervising.
Federated Jewish Charities of Boston says the annual meeting will be held at Faneuil Hall due to many new members and expected large attendance. The event will feature an election of a 150 member board of trustees, with voting rights for those who have paid last year’s dues or current year installments.
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