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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1916
Page
6
In Halifax on October 19, 10 year old George Hicks faced a large eagle menacing the town. He wrestled the bird for 15 minutes until the eagle was killed with a pitchfork. Michael R. Hicks, the boy’s father, escaped serious injury during the encounter.
A massive 11 foot 4 inch 28 pound bird appeared in a gale and grabbed a pig in Hicks yard. Hicks shot the creature but the eagle fought back tearing clothing and injuring him before his son George fatally stabbed the bird with a hay pitcher.
A Burlington Personally Conducted travel ad promotes a rotating house party on wheels through through-cars to Denver the Colorado Rockies Salt Lake City and the Sierra Nevada daylight sightseeing. Agent Alex Stocks invites requests for map folders and pictures of the West.
Francis G. Kane a 14 year Dorchester letter carrier and former first lieutenant of C Company Massachusetts Coast Artillery will be buried after a 10 o'clock Requiem High Mass at St Gregory's Dorchester. Born December 26 1876 in Boston he belonged to the Dorchester Letter Carriers Mutual Benefit Association the National Association of Letter Carriers and the Holy Name Society. Survived by his mother and three brothers a detail from the post office will attend the funeral.
Mrs Eva Waters of Chelsea, unable to speak or hear, wins a divorce from Jacob Waters on cruelty grounds after a hearing noted for communication difficulties. Custody awarded to Sylvia Waters, age three, described as normal and able to speak and hear. Jacob Waters, formerly of Boston, remains at large. Judge Fox struggled to understand Mrs Waters, with interpretation by written questions and lip motions.
Fifteen French marines were arrested in Athens after being hissed during a march through a main thoroughfare. A bayonet charge dispersed demonstrators while Greek troops looked on without intervening. The Greek cabinet protested the arrests.
Jean De Briac a wounded French veteran joins the Red Cross recruitment at Park Street in Boston with Oscar Shaw and other cast members from the musical comedy Very Good Eddie present. London Red Cross tours and a nurse tied to Bari are noted while local manufacturers take applications for thousands of members.
At a meeting in the National Shawmut Bank directors’ room Chairman Benjamin Joy led a drive as W M Reed of Gray and Davis Cambridge collected 12 000 application blanks. The Boston Stock Exchange joined the effort under B Nason Hamlin with 1200 blanks distributed by Charles R Nutter. The Catholic clergy of Greater Boston received Cardinal O Connell’s support letters and action was promoted by Joy.
Mrs. Lily H Harris formerly of Newton and Roy Pushee of Newton married on Sept 27 in Salem New Hampshire. Friends kept the ceremony secret until yesterday. They now reside at the groom's summer home in Salem and he returns to J C Pushee Sons brush works in Randolph Street.
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