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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1910
Page
9
In Canton on October 19 Joseph Langley of Boston died saving his companion Adelbert Daly of Arlington from live wires. Both were telephone workers on a 40 foot pole. Daly, 60, left a widow and children. Langley, 40, was unmarried.
The Luncheon Club at Copley Square Hotel honors Senator Henry Cabot Lodge for initiating efforts to equip the navy supply ship Celtic in Boston. Lodge notes Boston as a major shipbuilding center and urges local merchants to secure the contract at local prices, challenging New York.
The Boston Chamber of Commerce session at the American House debated securing a better commercial rating for Greater Boston. The chamber endorsed either partial annexation or full union with 40 surrounding towns and cities.
March G Bennett advocates a Metropolitan Boston with a council from 40 towns to cut costs on waterworks sewerage and parks and coordinate policy. Ex mayor Carter cites limited suburban discussion while Frederick P Fish urges annexation. Chamber figures compare real Boston metrics for population industrials and value of products.
John E. Ohman, 34, of 42 Calhoun Avenue Everett, sustained a spine fracture in an accident at a High Street factory yesterday afternoon. He was taken to Relief Hospital and it is believed he will die. He was married and has a family.
The Boston Post reports a four foot long squash gourd grown by Thomas Ayane of uo Alabama street Mattapan weighs 24 pounds with a 1 foot circumference at its thick end. It is described as the giant of the squash family earning top honors in the Freak Vegetables feature.
Thirty policemen guarded Frank Urbansky alias Frank Osborn as hundreds gathered in Pemberton square to hear him deny navy members. sailors from Boston joined, crowds swelled to about 200, police escorted Osborn to Scollay square station, clearing the area after he boarded a South End car.
Lieutenant Vogt and F. F. Asemann in balloon Darburg III began the inter national race from St Louis. They landed in Lake Nipissing’s upper bay Ontario at 11 a m after a 775 mile flight from St Louis. One crewmate was injured, their ballast exhausted, and they spent a night ashore aided by local Indigenous paddlers before reaching shore.
Nomination papers were filed to certify Congressman John A. Keliher for re election with about eighty signatures, far more than the minimum. Independent filings included Rev Samuel H Mildram of Ward 24 seeking the Ninth Suffolk Senate seat against Rev Lyman B Sweet and Martin P F Curley. Sweet was backed by Protestant church members in the district.
Senator Leslie A. Simpson of North Dakota, attorney for Daniel Blake Russell, denied claims the Russell case was postponed at anyone’s request. He noted he would not interfere with the hearing and said Russell’s trip to North Dakota was only a brief business visit. Russell has a Melrose residence and aims to await vindication as William C. Russell’s brother.
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