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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1915
Page
4
The narrator confesses he is the bad boy in the tale. Born in Rivermouth Portsmouth New Hampshire he is taken to New Orleans as an infant and returns years later to his first home. Tom Bailey shifts his affections to Nellie Glentworth at Captain Nutter's house and falls deeply in love.
The narrator recalls sorrow from a beloved visit with Nelly as autumn nears. He warns against forcing happiness on children and laments the painful awareness of growing up. In a quiet firelit moment by the chimney, he reaches for a connection with Nelly as she sits nearby, troubling both.
In Rivermouth the narrator learns Nelly will travel to Boston with Mr Waldron, a cousin to Nelly and future husband to Miss Waldron. The moment triggers a flash of memory and a dawning realization of love lost, followed by the narrator's lingering melancholy and estrangement from Pepper Whitcomb as he retreats into self pity and reflection about Miss Glentworth's visit.
A youthful memory turns to melodrama as I declare a fictional blighted phase after missing a first love. I describe shedding vanity, skipping social enjoyments, and adopting a somber, fruitless demeanor following the Waldron episode.
Funeral services for Charles H. Lake, prominent Cambridge citizen and former city official, will be held Sunday at 8 p m from Mt. Auburn Chapel. Lake, born April 12 1850 in Shreevesville New Jersey, helped found Fresh Pond Ice and later led Cambridge Coach Company. He was active in Masonry United Order of the Golden Cross Citizens Trade Association and the Newton Club. He died yesterday in Keene New Hampshire.
Lieutenant Governor Cushing says he is not ready to declare for a constitutional convention and endorses biennial elections and longer terms for state officers. He told ex Senator Charles H. Burbank he is gathering information before deciding the convention question.
A long reply to Mr. Burbank discusses biennial elections and terms, a non-partisan tariff commission, budget authority, and questions on a constitutional convention in New York versus Massachusetts. It weighs short ballot changes, veto power, and state administration reorganizations amid ongoing reform debate.
Governor Speaker Channing Cox endorsed ex-Congressman McCall for the Republican nomination in a letter to Lieutenant-Governor Cushing. Cox says McCall would be a stronger opponent to Governor Walsh and recalls urging McCall’s candidacy two years earlier for being free from boss control and beyond the reach of invisible government.
Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, will be the keynote speaker at Asbury Temple in Waltham tonight. She will open the fall campaign led by suffragists in Massachusetts New Jersey Pennsylvania and New York, with Boston supporters expected in large numbers.
Miss Mary Stafford was shot at the family table by Patrick Byrnes, a boarder, in Bridgeport Connecticut. He was committed without bail in City Court for a hearing on assault with intent to kill, with the shooting attributed to his mental condition.
Providence reports authorities questioned a local private detective after Mrs Elizabeth T Mohr allegedly sought thugs in New York to attack her husband’s killer. He claimed she offered payment and that he refused when details emerged.
The Weymouth Agricultural and Industrial Society held its annual fair in Weymouth with horse racing, baseball, and an automobile parade drawing several hundred visitors from Weymouth and neighboring towns. The event ran on its second day in perfect weather with displays of work quilts, dahlias, fruit, vegetables, and poultry amid competitive exhibits by suffragists and anti suffragists.
The B F Andrews & Son lumber mills at North Lisbon were totally destroyed by a boiler explosion. The fire caused about 100000 dollars in losses with no fire equipment available and a bucket brigade that could not control the flames. The owners run several other mills in New England and insurance partly covers the loss.
Corunna Spain Sept 10 The British steamer Orania returned to port after wireless notice that a German submarine was off Cape Finisterro The ship sighted a small sail boat with 20 or more people on board believed to be survivors from a torpedoed vessel but avoided approaching the craft suspecting a trap.
Abraham Attaya a 10 year old Syrian boy who ran away from 1 Congress street Portland was found yesterday in a Summer street drug store trying to drink ice cream soda. Richard Wilson a neighbor took him to Joseph Attaya at 125 Brown avenue Roslindale.
Swiss authorities suspend civilian passage from Austria to Switzerland and from Roumania. All crossings to Germany closed except via Salzburg Tetschen and Mittenwald.
Providence Sept 10 private safe in Judge Willis Knowles law office to be opened tomorrow in presence of his brother Horace and Chief Inspector police. Desk and files to be searched for links to sensational information now in police possession involving a Cambridge attorney with a powerful automobile, the husband and brother of a woman Knowles was involved with, and the city woman he had promised to marry.
A prominent city judge was involved with a woman who sought his divorce and a future marriage. After denials and a confrontation, the judge died by unknown hand as police investigate a Labor Day incident and a woman from New York remains a potential figure in the case.
Charles Jameson, a gardener for Mrs. Arthur Hale of Philadelphia, drowned at Scarborough Beach as undertow pulled him under. Four others were rescued by lifeguards during the afternoon. The incident occurred at Narragansett Pier, RI, with Jameson staying at a cottage owned by Hale.
Members of the Boston Telephone Operator's Union say they are overworked because of a shortage of operators at various exchanges. The union instructed its members to prepare a complaint for officials and noted a lack of circuits at a majority of exchanges.
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