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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1915
Page
3
Smiling Jim Donovan served as acting Mayor of Boston while Mayor Curley was in New York. Donovan's sole duty was signing $50,000 in drafts for contractor payrolls on city projects. City officials offered little detail on the mission that sent Curley away.
Woonsocket Rhode Island police investigate the death of Nellie McNamara 37 found unconscious at her home and died at Woonsocket Hospital. An autopsy will be held with no skull fracture suspected.
Dr. Walter H. Brown of the State Health Department reports pellagra cases have surged from one death in 1910 to 18 deaths in 1911 and 1015 cases in 1913. Once called alpine scurvy, the illness has appeared nationwide and worries medical circles.
The Middlesex Grand Jury reported 80 true bills and six no bills to Judge Raymond in East Cambridge. There were 50 secret indictments. Assistant district attorney Frank P. O'Donnell presented the cases. The criminal session opens Monday in Lowell then returns to Cambridge for a session extending past New Year. A special sitting at Cambridge is planned for Monday.
Roxbury parents protest the relocation of two overflow classes totaling 100 pupils from Practical Arts High School to the Dorchester High School Sarah J. Baker building on Winthrop and Greenville streets. Principal Herbert H. Weaver calls the uproar unwarranted.
The new Practical Arts High building opened in 1918 with 750 seats but more than a hundred applicants were turned away. Overflow was sent to the Baker building of Dorchester High School where the same courses are offered. Girls from across Boston attend for dressmaking millinery and domestic sciences and many Dorchester students migrated from distance to lessen travel.
Provincetown reports a herd of 82 black fish driven ashore on Pilgrim Beach over two days. The whale-like fish range from 7 to 28 feet and weigh from a few hundred pounds to two tons each.
Joseph Sears of Providence and four summer residents chased a large pod of blackfish toward shore in a motor boat. The herd reached the beach, the tide receded, and many whales died as heads were removed for oil. The carcasses were towed to the bay and washed back to sea.
John G. Simon of this city, detained by Russian military authorities in Moscow on suspicion of spying, has been released. He traveled to Russia as a travelling representative for Rice & Hutchins, shoe manufacturers. The European manager of the firm, also arrested, faces an ongoing investigation per State Department dispatches.
The John L. Donovan Club of Ward 8 met at 25 Leverett Street and adopted a motion to endorse Senator Philip McGonale for re election. President Harry Aar onson praised his work for the district and a speaker's bureau was formed.
The Union Anthracite Mine Workers in Wilkes Barre adopted 10 demands for the upcoming wage talks. They seek a zero percent wage increase, eight hour day with overtime and holiday pay, union recognition, a two year contract, and a grievance adjustment system. The scale committee drafted the demands for all three anthracite districts.
The Austrian government ordered the closure of the Swiss frontier yesterday. Authorities cited troop movements in the Tyrol toward the Italian front as the reason for sealing the border.
Police say two men named George Barth alias George Bonner and Fred Emery alias William Waitt were arrested on South Erd street by officers Irwin and Morrisey. They are suspected of the Huntley’s garage robbery last Wednesday night and charged with breaking and entering and larceny of $115 in goods from Dover street. Indictment warrants for auto larceny are issued at City Hall Avenue and Hyde Park Stations.
Frederick Whitney a Somerset Club member and longtime Calcutta businessman died yesterday in his 73d year at the Fountain Inn Marblehead where he was spending the summer. He lived recently at 66 Beacon street and spent forty years in business in Calcutta India.
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