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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1916
Page
9
A Reuters dispatch from Athens reports a dangerous situation with Royalist demonstrations in the streets. Admiral du Fournet was hissed at and French sailors driven back by a hostile crowd near the American legation as a 4000-strong procession protested against the landing of troops.
John Perkins aged S died at his home 22 Nahant street Wakefield yesterday. He left a wife and one daughter Mrs Stella Perkins Evans. His mother in law Mrs Sarah Oliver of the same address is Wakefield’s oldest resident. She was 8 last January.
Surfside life saving station crew finds two ship capstans and deck fragment washed ashore after recent submarine operations near Nantucket. No ship identified. metal capstans odd first wreckage to reach the beach. Surfside lifers spotted the items in the surf near the life saving station.
In Manila on October 17 the Philippine congress considers a bill to repeal the flag law banning the Katipunan flag and other revolutionary emblems. A second measure seeks to create a Filipino army.
Miss Margaret Winslow Pope daughter of Mr and Mrs Benjamin Pope of Concord married Gardner Sparhawk Marion son of Mrs Marion and the late Dr Horace Ii Marion of Brighton yesterday at Trinity Episcopal Church Concord. Rev Smith Owen Dexter presided as rector.
New York October 17 John H. Tyson a millionaire broker known for speed and extravagance is facing a divorce action to be filed by Miss Rose Budd Exiner of Greenwich Connecticut. The pair wed last month in a third matrimonial venture and now live in Greenwich where friends say the suit will be brought shortly.
District Attorney William Travers Jerome refused to confirm or deny a report about Tyson leaving Greenwich with Mrs Alexander Bass and her mother bound for Reno via Texas. The article recalls Tyson’s marriage to Miss Exmner after Olive Hawley wed his rival Alexander Bass, highlighting a tangle of spouses and motives.
The widow of Stam Ford, Illinois, reports that her young husband was a student when they wed as a prank. She says she loved Tyson and planned to marry him after annulment. Tyson, upset, then wed Miss Exiner.
Paris report says Emile Lobbedey bishop of Arras received the Legion of Honor for heroism at his post from October 1914 to June 1915 amid bombardment. He visited soldiers, buried the dead, aided ambulances, and maintained calm and duty under enemy fire.
Practically every merchant and store saleswoman and town official were invited to attend the marriage of Richard Carlton Woods of 16 Centre Street Roxbury at the Windham Hotel in Bellows Falls Vermont this evening.
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