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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1915
Page
5
Patrolman John J. Harney of the Lagrange street station halted a frightened horse at Tre mont street West street crossing. Three men were injured and the undertaker's wagon was demolished in a collision with a taxicab and a touring car. Harney was dragged 100 feet by the animal.
An Agel- Spiller Company horse driven by Jacob Apatoff sped from Park Street to Tremont Street in Boston. Police officer Harney attempted to stop it, throwing the horse toward the Common Mall but it veered into a taxi, injuring Apatoff, Myer Barlow, and causing glass cuts to taxi owner Martin Nee.
Frank Pierce marking a half century in business at his Main Street store in Concord. He started after leaving school to help his father, sold shoes to thousands including noted visitor Ralph Waldo Emerson, and has expanded and remodeled the mill dam building three times to handle growing trade.
The funeral of Mrs. Ellen Manning of 97 Alban Street Dorchester was held yesterday at St Mark's Church. Rev John A Daly celebrated the solemn high mass of requiem with Rev William A Toohig and Rev John M Farrell assisting. Mrs Manning is the mother of Joseph P Manning a Boston City Hospital trustee and head of the Joseph P Manning Company.
The Republican governor candidate Samuel W. McCall addressed over 1000 young voters at the Bancroft Hotel in Worcester arguing Democrats are a chronic opposition party clinging to past theories. He cited tariff inequities and rising expenditures under Democratic governors.
The narrator recalls buying a small sailboat named Dolphin with friends Phil Adams Fred Langdon and Binny Wallace at Rivermouth in late May. Captain Nutter warns him to keep the mast in the boat house, and a Sandpeep Island excursion is planned despite school rules and local river dangers.
The 20 acre Ward Hill land where Loral Bates built a shack for his spirit wife and raised four children was foreclosed today by mortgagor Charles Haseltine for missed payments. The Bates case previously led to his arrest, a commitment to an asylum and his wife’s divorce.
Copenhagen dispatch says the Reichstag debated a national service law in which the age limit would rise to 64. The law would authorize calling up men previously rejected for physical reasons and those deemed unfit for untrained service.
Readers seeking back numbers of The Story of a Bad Boy by Thomas Bailey Aldrich should first contact their regular newsdealer. If unavailable, they may apply to the Circulation Department, Boston Post, in person or by mail, with an extra cent per copy for postage and the regular paper price. Supplies are limited and requests should be made promptly.
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