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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1911
Page
5
Hundreds of men work night and day fitting out the Toledo the world’s largest dredge. She will sail from Boston harbor on Saturday next to be towed by Kate Jones and Minot Wilcox to New Bedford. There she will dredge 2,000,000 cubic yards of mud over a two year period.
A list of senior Boston financiers and executives is cited as a model for the head of the planned Boston Dock Commission. Mayor John F. Fitzgerald said James J. Storrow embodies the type of leader needed to attract shipping and railroad business. He argued a powerful money trust dominates national transport and the dock chief must secure its favor for Boston.
Neshan Roobemian of 65 Hobart Avenue South Braintree entered a prize squash weighing about 20 pounds and measuring 5 feet 11 inches at harvest. The shoemaker grows it at home and plans to enter Brockton fair next month. Mattapan resident Gacomo Mattalino aported a 21 inch radish at the festival.
Lester H. Monks, key witness in the Bram sea murder case 15 years ago, is divorced from his wife by Judge Quinn’s decree in Dedham Superior Court on grounds of cruel and abusive treatment. The wife gains custody of the two children, David 15 and Fredericka 11. a physician testified to the alleged cruelty. Monks, then a Harvard sophomore, sailed for health on the schooner Herbert M. Fuller, and his testimony helped convict Thomas Bram, who received a life term. The couple married in Washington on May 1, 1st, and later resided in Boston and Brookline.
Frank Paine of Wilkes Barre Penn died from injuries after his aircraft flipped at the Orleans County fair grounds in Albion New York. Five thousand spectators watched as Paine rose only about 30 feet before the plane tumbled to the ground and he was pulled from the wreck unconscious. Officials attributed the crash to insufficient speed.
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