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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1913
Page
2
A basement fire at 98 Shawmut Street Chelsea forced three families from a three story wooden dwelling early yesterday. The flames climbed from basement to top floor and thick smoke forced residents to cover faces with wet clothing to avoid suffocation.
Reported in St Louis that Ban Johnson encouraged Robert Lee Hedges to hire Jake Stahl to replace George Stovall. The claim hinges on a recent visit and the timing of the recommendation.
An old timer praises Gale and Kent for fall suits at 96 Court Street, claiming superior value in materials design style and service compared with other city tailors. The unusual shop earns high marks for quality and attentiveness.
Arbitration resumes as carmen workers including high power cars rapid transit subway and shop branches present evidence. Attorney Feeney says 8000 employees in these departments will testify with women ticket sellers among witnesses. Mary Ferguson of South Boston has testified and is cited as a key example of wage and working conditions. The case moves into the shop labor wage comparison next, likely extending into late next week.
Cardinal Joseph Calasanctius Vives y Tuto prefect of the Congregation for Religious Affairs died today after an appendectomy. Born February 15, 1854 in Barcelona, he was made cardinal June 19, 1899 and had retired to a monastery at Frascati amid illness. The Pope mourned, calling him one of the church's greatest supporters.
The Boston servant Tonika Giper, a Russian girl with blue eyes and flaxen hair, learns an uncle in Russia has sent her $500,000. After years as a domestic in Roxbury and at Colin Livingstone's summer home in St John New Brunswick, her family recounts her ascent from poverty to wealth through a Penza hotel fortune begun by her uncle Ivan's penurious rise.
Los Angeles Sept 7 New Englanders led by Charles E Davies have returned from Guadeloupe off Lower California where they excavated an 18 ton granite slab that once overlooked the harbor. They assert the island was discovered by New Englanders and belongs to the United States by discovery like Oregon and Washington.
The inscription carved into granite lists numerous forebears including Theophilus Yale Heen Lamb David Baieu William Maples and Thaddeus Beecher of Triumph and Beecher of the Zephyr. A central shield bears Sam Chapman and a flag with 13 stars marks landings from vessels Samuel Chapman David Cristy and E Wright, with Thaddeus Beecher noted for two maritime roams in 1807 and 1816.
Two fishermen recovered a second portion of a young woman's torso near Cliffside New Jersey wrapped in brown paper and copper wire. The bundle included pillow cover remnants a granite weight and a dated newspaper. Doctors confirmed the parts belong to a single young woman under twenty who died within three days.
Pittsburg Pennsylvanias Randolph township resident Mrs. Phebe Coburn was congratulated by hundreds of friends on her one hundredth birthday. Known as Aunt Phebe she recalls reading Commodore Perry's victory over Britain on Lake Erie at age five.
George Sarajian, a young Armenian priest newly arrived in America, seeks general housework to support himself. Staying at 66 Tyler Street with Rt. Rev. Gabriel Korkemas of the Church of Our Lady of the Cedar, he offers to serve as maid or butler to avoid burdening friends. He speaks seven languages, including French, Italian, Latin, Armenian, Turkish, and English, and has studied in church schools abroad.
Father Korkemas said Sarafian, 32, who is learning English, advertised willingness to perform household tasks such as cooking sweeping dusting and bed making. He expects the intellectual young man to call today and stay in Boston while seeking work.
An unidentified man about 60 collapsed at the corner of Washington and Waterford in South End last night about 6 30. He was taken to City Hospital with his name on the dangerous list. Surgeons report a cerebral hemorrhage. The man is six feet ten inches tall, about 175 pounds, dark complexion, hair and mustache, wearing a black coat gray mixed trousers and a black derby hat. He remained unconscious late night with little chance of recovery.
From a log cabin shaded by pines in Williams Fork Grand County to Denver then on to Columbus Ohio, Prenchy Ledou the hermit of 36 years is described as he journeys from his remote life toward his birthplace, his quiet manner and famed solitude noted as he travels through Denver.
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