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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1909
Page
12
Mrs. Emily Ward lies in serious condition at Jordan Hospital after an accidental discharge of a revolver last night. While her sister sorted a trunk she unknowingly found and pulled the trigger, the bullet entering under the chin and traveling along the throat to lodge in the right shoulder.
Three day festival for the Feast of the Blessed Virgin culminated with a dramatic adoration of a life size statue on South Margin street. A young girl impersonating an angel swung on a wire and released doves while garlands showered the crowd. Mass, processions, and a Marine Band escort featured nearly 200 children in white, with a statue of the Virgin carried through the streets. The event was guided by Joseph Freno and a committee including Michael Sansome, Matteo Russo, Giuseppe Bova, and Lorenzo Lunacini.
Mabel Gilman Corey wife of a steel magnate is lonely and unhappy despite wealth and luxury She longs to return to the stage and the applause of society she cannot win She told an American woman in Paris races about her despair and desire to perform again in New York
In Portsmouth New Hampshire on September 5 Forest Burbank of Alfred Maine had clothes ignited by an automobile explosion at Dover Point. A milkman arriving soon after poured three cans of milk over Burbank easing the flames. He was taken to Cottage Hospital Portsmouth with serious nonfatal injuries.
Former Ward 9 Alderman Ellery Clark criticizes Boston Democrats as graft driven and pledges to run as a Republican if returning to politics. He calls for party desolution, favors Plan 2 to remove party labels, and urges a clean sweep to replace the old regime with able, conscientious officials.
In Barrington Rhode Island Sept 5 a car on a street car track tried to pass another auto near Princeton Hill. Herman G Meyers 49 head injury urgent condition. Bertha Meyers a broken thigh serious. Howard Meyers 12 fractured skull serious. Cora Spraigle minor injuries shock. John R McLaughlan 56 minor injuries. Meyers was manager treasurer of Enterprise Brewing Company Fall River.
A Meyers machine traveling about 20 mph collided with Rufus B. Goff's automobile near a turnout on a narrow hill road. Meyers car skidded, struck the Goff vehicle, overturned, and threw occupants. Goff party unhurt. others received first aid and were moved to Dr Nelson I Hall's Warren hospital.
Mrs. Hugh O Neil was dragged from bed by Patrolman Macksey of Station 4 and carried down two flights of stairs through smoke and fire. The blaze forced a second alarm as flames swept the lower floors.
About 7 o'clock flames burst from the American laundry occupying the building's lower floors. Macksey carried Mrs O Neill from the third floor as smoke boomed through stairways. Firefighters battled the blaze, with Lieutenant Farr en severely burned by an air explosion. The laundry plant and boiler room were gutted, losses about $2000 with little insurance. Exact start location unknown but boiler room suspected.
The Rev. Thomas I Gasson president of Boston College substituted at St Michael's Catholic Church in Exeter New Hampshire for Rev John E Finnen and later inspected Phillips Exeter Academy buildings for suggestions for Boston College developments.
Over 400 members of the British Naval and Military Veterans Association marched with the Sixty-sixth Regiment of Halifax to Trinity Church for the annual memorial service. The Rev. Ernest Tutill preached. taps were sounded for eight members who died this year. Major Stokes read the roll, listing Gilbert Morton, Austin Crogan, John Kerrison, Robert Owen, William Clarke, Myles Healy, Harry Smith, and Charles Courtney, with notes on their service and honors. The procession drew attention as aged veterans and their drum corps moved along the route.
In Pleasant Valley on the Merrimac River two brothers and a Dr. Miller drowned after a canoe capsized during a downstream trip. The father, a trained swimmer, rescued one son before the other drowned. Otto Miller’s body was recovered near the scene and Dr. Miller’s body was found downstream by police grapples. Dr Felix Miller, a Baltimore Dental College graduate, had a home and practice in Peabody and Otto Miller was a prominent local figure with a wife and children.
Three Amesbury lads aged 12 to 18 were stranded when a northwest squall drove their two foot power boat onto the rocks at Newburyport harbor. A life saving guard spotted them from shore and Captain Maddock sent the surfboat. The sinking craft was saved and the boys were hauled from the rocks as the tide rose.
Abraham de Valli a Boston born chemist practicing in America was sentenced by the Milan Tribunal to 15 months in prison and one year supervision for stealing an earring from a young woman in the street. He described himself as a chemist and former Boston native.
Scores of Bostonians are stranded in Europe as shipping firms lack sufficient accommodations for large American to return home. Many travelers in England and on the continent seek passages, delaying plans to come back after the summer travels.
Newcastle, Ind Sept 5 County Auditor Risk reports that a 250 loan from the State school fund has yielded 300 in interest after more than twenty years. The loan was secured by real estate valued at over 5000, and notices to borrowers urge payment or renewal.
New York Sept 5 Two young women and a man drowned when the gasoline launch Olga, hugging the New Jersey shore to escape a northwest wind, sank after colliding with a freight car float backing out from a ferry slip. Six passengers were rescued. The dead are Catherine Moore 25 New York Agnes Green 19 Brooklyn Stephen Weeks 21 Brooklyn.
A boating accident near City Point ends in the drowning of Mrs. Mott a 30 year old waitress from a Washington Street restaurant. Mullaney tries to save her after leaping into a tender and bathes in the chop but cannot reach her before she sinks. Hammond and Schaffer alert police and plan further recovery efforts.
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