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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1910
Page
2
Newburyport reports a 14 year old, Harold G. Gove, attempting a space flight for the sensation ere he fell to the ground. He suffered broken wrists and body bruises and was taken to Anna Jaques Hospital.
A Storey Avenue School pupil tried a wind powered ascent by lifting a canvas sail on an 84 foot pole. He was swept aloft held by a rope then tangled, falling about 30 feet. He recovered and called for his mother after the crash. his father had warned him of the danger.
An Austrian woman asks Commissioner Williams to detain her 24 year old future husband from Galicia until they can wed, after paying his passage on the SS Vaderland. The man arrives with 28 dollars, and is set to be questioned upon landing as authorities weigh the match.
William Trent, convicted of murdering William F Meagher of Pawtucket on February 21 1919, was sentenced to life imprisonment by Judge Charles F Stearns in Providence Rhode Island. He entered Meaghers grocery demanded money at gunpoint shot Meagher and fled to Providence where he was captured. A Meagher son identified Trent as the shooter. Trent faces additional highway robbery charges in the state.
On Hurricane Island Maine Dora E Landers is hailed as one of the prettiest children in the state. Her nightly prayers are described and a photograph shows her kneeling by her bed.
George Creley aged 71 life inmate at the State Farm Plymouth hanged himself by tying a cord about his neck in the hospital department. Creley had previously killed his daughter in law at Springfield and was moved to the institution years ago.
Milford October 24 Governor Eben S Draper and Mrs Draper sent a letter to hospital president H D Bowker offering to pay the full cost of an addition to Milford Hospital. The plan provides space for 12 more patients and five employee sleeping rooms at a cost several thousand dollars.
United States Circuit Court orders sale of the Atlantic Shore Line railroad to satisfy bondholder claims. Bondholders petitioned for foreclosure on September 28, part of a reorganization plan. The line runs from Biddeford to York and proceeds go to the mortgage trustees led by The First National Bank Trust Company of New York.
The three masted schooner Holliswood, partly owned locally, was so badly damaged by a southern hurricane she was abandoned at sea. Seven crewmen reached New York aboard the Harald from Tampico. Captain Walls stayed aboard. his fate is unknown. Built in 1893 at East Boston, she measured 1141 tons.
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