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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1913
Page
24
In Wilkes Barre on October 23 a three year old girl, Mary Most, died from burns after her clothing caught fire while playing with matches. Her mother, Mrs John Most, then shot herself in front of a mirror, dying instantly.
Morris Weisfield, 19, of 865 Harrison avenue, escaped death when Inspector M. Kearney of the Elevated Company lifted the car front to free him from beneath the fender at the Massa chusetts and Huntington avenues intersection. Weisfield is in City Hospital with serious injuries but is expected to recover, doctors say.
A 63 year old man named George Hill of New York and Philadelphia was taken into custody on Irving street Cambridge yesterday noon. Jewelry and pawn tickets linked to Cambridge and Somerville thefts were found on his person. He spoke to Station 1 officials only last night.
Binghamton N Y Oct 23 Mrs William Hagar died after carrying a blazing gasoline iron outdoors to keep it from burning two small children in the room She received fatal burns in the act and died at Windsor
The Right Reverend William John Kenny, 69, bishop of the Roman Catholic diocese of St. Augustine, died in a Baltimore hospital today from diabetes. He came for treatment about a week ago and his body will be sent to St. Augustine for burial.
The Boston Newsboys Union educational committee has gathered literature and facts on city trade schools advancement classes and continuation schools as well as programs from the Franklin Union Wentworth Institute Charitable Mechanics Association Y M C A and Wells Memorial Institute for member education.
All facts on courses costs and scholarships are to be presented at the union meeting next Sunday. The committee will give individual aid and advice on matters to members seeking help. Officers and a sergeant-at-arms contest are on the ballot with several executive board candidates seeking reelection.
The Simhath Torah festival was celebrated in Boston synagogues with elders carrying Torah scrolls and children bearing flags and candles. The event marks the end of the Torah reading cycle and the harvest thanks, with hymns praising the Mosaic Law as the Scrolls are paraded.
Kent Farm offers new laid eggs at 8c a dozen and 3 dozen for $1. Butter at 6 cents per pound. Genuine Maryland Tomatoes 7 1/2c a can. Pea beans 7c a can. Co D Cobb & Bros Hanover Street corner Union advertise price list and New England distribution.
After 1000 miles bucking head seas from Kingston and Port Antonio Jamaica the United Fruit steamer Vera capt Rynning reached port yesterday with 18000 bunches of bananas 250 bags of cocoa nuts 300 boxes of oranges 1% boxes of grapefruit 71 hundredweight of bitter wood two casks and one puncheon of lime juice The Vera will finish discharging today and depart for Jamaica with saloon passengers including Captain Newton P West Miss Edith Muirhead Miss Ida Nash Mrs Mary Linton and Miss Frieda Linton
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