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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1914
Page
9
Washington officials announced yesterday the establishment of a federal free employment bureau in Boston to address the unemployed immigrant issue. Immigration commissioner Harry J. Skeffington received word to proceed, making Boston home to the second such bureau after New York which has had one since 1907.
The bureau will solve Boston's servant girl problem place immigrants in suitable jobs and aid farmers by supplying farm hands. Foreign sailors in Boston will be placed in positions once the bureau is established. Commissioner Skeffington urged a new building and said assistants will be named soon by Anthony Caminetti and Secretary Wilson.
Miss Mary Louise Sullivan of Brockton will wed John W. Condon of St Louis formerly of Bridgewater at St Patrick’s rectory in Brockton tomorrow. A reception will follow at 27 Elm avenue the home of Mr and Mrs Cornelius A Sullivan. Sullivan graduated Brockton High School in 1907 and is active in local clubs. Condon graduated Bridgewater High School in 1906 and is office manager of the St Louis branch of George E Keith Shoe Company.
A light note on Ginger Pop promising more laughs in the upcoming Sunday Post comic page featuring a witty strip and playful humor.
Edward W. Foley 19 of Roxbury died after diving into seven feet of water at a prohibited bathing area along the Cambridge side of the Charles River Basin near Harvard Bridge. Fellow swimmer Greville Haslan of Derry NH attempted a rescue but was unable to save him.
Foley and 18 year old Galen Farnham entered dangerous water despite police orders. Foley mid drowning after a cry for help, Haslan from MIT boathouse dived to rescue, recovered Farnham. Foley did not reappear.
James P. Moore of 20 Ellis Avenue Lynn drowned in the surf off Oak Island Revere last night at nine. Heat drove him to the harbor for relief and heart trouble is believed to have caused the death. He was a puttonhole worker visiting his son in Revere and disappeared while wading near shoulder depth. Beachgoers pulled him from the water and he was taken to the Metropolitan Police Station emergency room for treatment.
Gordon Hartley 13 son of Harrison Hartley of Seminole Street disappeared while swimming in Pranker's pond. His clothing was found on the pond bank and his body was sighted in shallow water. Police believe a convulsion caused the tragedy.
Nine year old John Walsh drowned at Zylonite near the Berkshire Street Railway Company pond. The boy's body was found after being submerged since early afternoon as his parents were returning from a vacation visit to Elizabeth New Jersey.
In Webster on September 2 two boys identified as Louis Kosloski eight of West Main Street and Joseph Bashard Jr. eleven of Green Street nearly drowned while swimming in High Pond. James Templeman arrived in a boat and pulled them from the water. they were revived with difficulty.
Mr and Mrs George W Norris of Bow Street Woburn celebrated their golden wedding yesterday at the family homestead with their seven children present, marking sixty years of marriage.
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