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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1916
Page
16
A detail of armed soldiers will visit a distant Mexican rendezvous near the Second Regiment camp in the mountains this week to locate a mule and uncover reasons for Massachusetts soldiers being warned away. Ranchers report calf thefts and strange beacon fires with signaling lights at night led by a local leader.
A Second Regiment detail pursues a missing mule but meets resistance from locals and Mexican reinforcements. Hugh Clark faces a general court martial for false camp hardship stories. General Pershing commends the Guards and orders field firing training. A stray bull snake is executed at Hayes tent. Provoists and Pancho Villa sentiment stir local readers. The Sentinel debuts as pay day nears and camp duties continue amid inspections.
Mrs Rosa Plunkett of 313 East Foster Street Melrose filed a Superior Court suit at East Cambridge seeking 5000 damages claiming mental and physical injury from alleged humiliating experiences at the New England Sanitarium Stoneham last March while she was awaiting the birth of her baby boy Charlie.
A colored mother of six recounts being refused admission at Stoneham Hospital after a white doctor and staff allegedly told her she could not be received because of her color. She was sent to Boston Lying-in Hospital where nurses offered minimal care. NAACP protests highlight tax exempt status and the sanitarium’s apology and denial of authorized staff actions.
New York police report rival wife Mary McNiff recounts Dilworth’s dual life and business ties while investigators pursue two more suspects. After a manhunt, one suspect jailed for a park hold up is held as detectives question Broadway friends for an intimate New Jersey connection.
Miss McNiff maintains the same account of the shooting after four hours of questioning by Bronx ADA William Quigley. She says Dilworth invited her for a drive to consult him, denies any romance with him, and points to robbers as the killers, while a possible second woman remains under police scrutiny.
Lexington High School opened yesterday for the 1916-17 year with more than 250 pupils. Bedford High students attended for the first time after transfer from Concord High due to crowded conditions at the latter school.
Democratic Governor hopeful Frederick W. Mansfield spoke to General Electric workers on strike and supporters in Pittsfield. He argued the Democratic party serves the working man, cited the eight hour bill and child labor law, and denounced old party bosses for attempting to control nominations. He claimed the people are the jury and will not be bossed.
Patrolman Edward Maloney of the Brookline police district fought a burglar, Frank Smith alias Fox, at 694 Boylston street. Smith was arraigned before Judge Perkins with $1000 bail and held for the grand jury. Maloney expected to return to work in a week after stitches and bruising.
The first Quaker summer school in New England opens at the Lincoln House Swampscott directed by Haverford College. The event aims to acquaint New Englanders with Quaker educational and religious views with discussions on Christianity character and Quakerism.
About half of the 3900 city teachers visited City Treasurer Slattery to collect delayed salaries after school openings were postponed to the third week of September. Teachers explained that summer finances were disrupted and some sought pay envelopes directly from the treasurer as payment was reportedly waiting.
Frederick Trubee Davison son of H P Davison of J P Morgan & Co and Robert A Lovett son of R S Lovett chairman of Union Pacific faced a dead engine and forced water landing at East River anchorage near the New York Yacht Club. They were picked up uninjured and are students at the Port Washington aviation school.
A week after a missing Revere boy, Old Orchard reports a major blaze at Surfside Brownie cottage causing 2500 dollars in losses. A defective chimney blamed. occupants, the Kirsch family from Mt. Vernon, NY, escaped with near misses as firefighting equipment collided and embers threatened nearby waterlogged properties.
A curly haired seven year old from Revere, Howard Kocen, disappeared four weeks ago wearing only a bathing suit. Police along Revere Beach boulevard and nearby towns search for him amid fears he may have been lured away or drowned. Parents Mr and Mrs William J Kocen reside at 31 Lowell street Revere.
Washington rumor notes administration senators hoped to ratify the Denmark West Indies sale for 25 million dollars this session. After hours in executive session more than two thirds favored the treaty.
Miss Catherine Malloy a 36 year old Roxbury resident died following an automobile collision on Columbus avenue Sunday evening. The Medical Examiner will perform an autopsy. Malloy was in a touring car with four companions and collided with a taxi driven by Joseph Solomon of Arbutus street.
Somerville fire and police personnel seek a maximum of 1400 dollars as they reach five years of permanent service. Every member has signed a petition to be read at the Board of Aldermen meeting on September 14.
DANVERS Sept 6 Not one case of infantile paralysis has shown itself there but St. John's Preparatory School postpones reopening to Sept 18 from Sept 11 as a precaution.
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