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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1910
Page
6
Mrs Paul R Bragg aged 21 of 12 Oakland Avenue Brighton tried to drink laudanum in the Exeter Street yards of the Boston and Albany railroad after failing to see her husband an assistant steward at the Lenox.
The jury found Charles A. Mendum not guilty after five hours of deliberation in the US District Court. He faced charges of using the mails in a scheme to defraud connected to selling Massachusetts investor lists, some of which included deceased names. Mendum, uncle of Ethel and Jack Barrymore and father of actress Georgie Drew Mendum, defended his past theatrical prominence.
Madrid October 18 Premier said the project to house Queen Mother Amelie of Portugal at Sant Elmo Palace in Seville has been abandoned. The Spanish government refuses to give Portuguese republicans a pretext for republican propaganda in Spain.
A two horse bakery wagon roared along Henry street in Malden's crowded tenement district yesterday afternoon. One horse was struck by an electric car and the rig crashed into a handcart loaded with ladders at Harvard street. People fled to sidewalks as the horses and wagon collided with other teams before stopping after a fall. Willie Wheeler, the driver, leaped at the start and was knocked aside during the wild swerve.
A quarrel between William Buckley and Henry P. Williams aboard the Alice M. Colburn at Nantasket Roads ended in a stabbing. Buckley was taken to hospital with a deep cut. Williams was jailed on assault charges as the vessel sailed for Norfolk after adding two new crewmen.
The Boston Elevated Railway Company responds to Mayor Fitzgerald about the legality of using the fatal S curve at the West Boston bridge. The curve site saw four deaths and fifty injuries Saturday evening. The company statement appraises the legality and station aid for the injured.
The 1906 approval to build double tracks over the Cambridge bridge faced postponement as potential interference with an elevated Charles street structure emerged. Extensions were granted to April 11, 1911 amid inquiries by Mayor Fitzgerald into track safety and engineering oversight, with Chief concerns over an unknown street commission extension.
The statement describes ongoing corporate support for employees health needs including free medical care, two mutual aid associations, a pension list with 48 current recipients, and substantial payments for injuries totaling $500,000 last year. It argues that private company services would duplicate public fire police and ambulance provisions and pledges continued humane efforts.
Republican committees of Wards 18 19 and 22 held a Crawford House banquet last night where W Dudley Cotton Jr Republican candidate for Congress in the 11th district was present Ex Senator Frank S Seiberlich presided and predicted Cotton's election Other speakers included Charles A Heintz Ward 18 chair and Candidate Cotton.
Miss Mary Pecord, 19, employed at a Manton avenue restaurant, was shot three times by Peter George, 27, who then killed himself after confessing unrequited love in a cash-drawer letter. Pecord gravely wounded, hospital prognosis poor.
New York Giants shortstop Al Bridwell will fight Welterweight Fighting Kennedy in a 10 round main event at the Olympic Athletic Club of Harlem next Monday night. The bout headlines the weekly boxing program in the arena.
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