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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1914
Page
2
City workmen begin cleaning a lot at Castle Street and Shawmut Avenue to create a farmers market. Mayor Curley plans a $500 appropriation and will call a special City Council session this week to approve the transfer from the reserve fund. Work on the site will proceed without waiting for council action.
Barneys Dreyfuss acquires 18 players and recalls four prospects to rebuild the Pirates. Pat Bohen, a new pitcher from Reading in the Tri State league, previously trialed with the Athletics last season.
William Mildrum a well known Hartford resident killed himself by drinking carbolic acid at Centre Church cemetery after failing to pay alimony ordered to his ex wife Ella Zabriskie a New York nurse. The note in his pocket cited court mandamuses and ongoing alimony disputes for their son.
In Shaftsbury Connecticut on Main street two shots fired at the Gordon home left Mrs Deborah Clark of North Bennington and Charles C Gordon dead. A revolver in Gordon's hand suggests he shot Mrs Clark then killed himself. Gordon, 61, widower, had quarrelled with Mrs Clark over marriage and his four children.
Nearly a hundred temperance orators will visit every section of Massachusetts next week to urge support for national prohibition. The tour is organized by the Anti-Saloon League of America in partnership with the Anti Saloon League of Massachusetts.
An active campaign outlines a national prohibition amendment and a mass temperance program featuring speeches by Hobson Glenn Russell Baker Cairns and others with film dramatizations. The plan calls for a global tribunal to enforce peace and to form an international guard backed by allied fleets and armies.
The Century Opera Company opened the season in New York with Gounod's Romeo and Juliet sung in English. The cast featured Miss Louis Pwell Juliet, Orville Harrold Romeo, and a largely American company. Proceeds from tonight and tomorrow's performances go to the Red Cross war fund.
Washington reports only five of 120 enlisted men passed the Naval Academy mental examination under June act. The selectees are William Bush from Lincoln Nebraska aboard U S S Maryland H H Hungate from Fountaintown Indiana aboard U S S Maryland W W Warlick from San Diego California aboard U S S Maryland S S Corbett from Franklin Massachusetts aboard U S 8S Vermont J W Rowe musician second class Stephenson Michigan aboard S 8 Kansas Navy officials foresee next year.
The text suggests ample preparation will yield enough applicants to meet the 15 authorization limit set by the new law. It notes readiness increases chances of filling all slots.
Abner J. Cocorane of 395 Meridian Street Hast Boston, third engineer on the beam trawler Billow, lost his right foot when crushed by a cake of ice yesterday at Commonwealth pier. The limb was amputated at the Relief Hospital after arrival for operation.
The tug Little Round Top, used for towing on Union River, burned at her wharf in Ellsworth on September 14. The fire was caused by an overheated exhaust and the vessel, owned by Whitcomb Haynes & Co., had no insurance.
T. L. Anderson and J. B. Vaughn two Black men were arrested in Shreveport Louisiana on federal charges of rifling mail pouches from a Kansas City Southern train robbery. The crime was reported by Black clerks who alleged a white man carried it out with the value of the stolen mail yet to be determined.
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