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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1914
Page
15
The Boston Post Sewing Circle users discuss meat avoidance for savings, meal costs, and health. Readers share marital finances, engagements, nagging, and happiness, with anecdotes from Boston, Maine, and Maine home care.
Practical recipes shared by Mrs R B Carroll Mrs R C Marsters Mrs Cyrus Thompson and Mrs L M Kelley describe methods for chicken veal desserts and breads. Procedures cover simmering chicken with onion and tomato sauce slow cooking veal changes basic cake batter and a graham flour loaf with molasses.
Brockton report says Dr. and Mrs. Evan C Wentworth of Cohasset and their son Roger Wentworth, plus Mrs. Alfred Searles of Cambridge, were injured in a collision at a nearly blind crossing and rushed to Brockton Hospital.
A 45 mile per hour squall swept Boston Harbor as life saving crews and steamboat men rescued nearly a hundred people from pleasure craft. No drownings reported. several boats were later found empty. Captain Starrow led the emergency effort using a 38 foot self-bailing life saving boat.
A violent squall at Boston harbor battered boats from City Point to Long Island. Lifesaving crews aboard Relief and other launches saved 25 or more people and rescued crews from multiple vessels including the George A. Hibbard and 45-foot sloop off Long Island. Rescue efforts continued through the night under moonlight.
Captain William C. Starrow of the United States Life Saving Station at Pemberton rescued four boats and 20 people, including four women, from wrecks on Toddy Island Harden's Ledge and Rainsford Island during a gale. He towed the Proserpina clear before attending a second boat in distress.
New York reports Mrs Richard Croker wife of the former Tammany Hall leader died in Austria last Saturday. The death notice arrived via Dublin. In 1874 Miss Elizabeth Fraser wed Mr Croker at age 19. he was 28 and described as a promising young man.
The article recounts the life of Mrs. Croker and her husband, former Tammany Hall boss, detailing seven children, political divides, charity work, and a family crisis. It notes their move from New York life to an estate near Dublin and a June 1905 voyage to Europe after their son Frank’s death and health troubles.
A busy day at Marine Park saw 15 000 people visit the L Street baths with 7 000 in the men’s pavilion 6 000 in the women’s and girls’ area and 300 in the boys’ section. No band concert accompanied the crowds. Superintendent Griffin and staff managed the crowds throughout the day.
Preparatory to tomorrow’s opening, city teachers from elementary to high schools report today to arrange books and supplies. New principals include Raymond Laird and Peter Gartland. New schools pending occupancy and expanded Dorchester and Roxbury facilities.
The Holy Trinity German parish South End resumes weekly whist games at St Vincent's Orphan Asylum Camden Street to benefit the sodality. The annual reunion is set for Casino Hall across four days of October with a whist party on Sept 29. The Catholic Total Abstinence Union advisory council met at Cheverus Hall to discuss autumn plans. The United Branches meeting, postponed from Aug 28, will convene Sept 18 at Cathedral Hall.
Thomas H. Clark a 65 year old musician of 68 Walker Street Cambridge collapsed and died yesterday afternoon while marching in the Labor Day parade. He had long battled heart disease and was advised to quit band work a year ago. He had long served with Boardman's Band and left a widow.
In Lafayette Indiana on September 7, Jacob May a wealthy brick manufacturer and William Ogden are dead after eating toadstools mistaken for mushrooms. Michael May and George Bandy are reported dying today. The toadstools were consumed yesterday at the May home.
The Rev. Ernest Graham Guthrie, pastor elect of Union Church Trinitarian at 48 Columbus Avenue, will enter the pulpit on Sunday September 2. Interim services are led by Rev. Benjamin D. Scott and the People’s Hour. Rev. Andrew W. Archibald of Newton Centre finishes a four summer tenure in Southern California. Rev. Frederick Williams of Water has accepted St. Luke's Chester call, to begin around October 1. Rev. Frank G. Potter of the Istion Methodist Episcopal Church announces September services including children's meetings and Epworth Leaguer events with a Sunday September 20 rally day.
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