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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1915
Page
6
American troopers clashed with Mexican forces at Brownsville and near Donna along the Rio Grande. In Donna a two and a half hour fight saw about 200 Mexicans firing first. ten U.S. cavalrymen reported about 17 enemy casualties and no American injuries.
Twenty American cavalrymen fought Mexicans across the river near Brownsville for about half an hour. A Carranza soldier was wounded and taken to Matamoros. Carranza officers denied any Mexican involvement. General Nafarrate and Col. Chapa investigated with U S Consul Johnson. Johnson later doubted Chapa had full facts.
Inspector Hart, Conway and Crawford took into custody James C. Miller, 23, of a South End residence, the sixth suspect in a back bay round-up. He is charged with breaking and entering a dwelling at 60 Fenway on Sept. 14 and stealing silver, laces and other items valued at 250 from Miss Ray Cox of the Park Square Theatre. Other breaks have occurred in Back Bay Hyde Park Roxbury Meéford and Everett.
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A critique notes Philip Gibbs wartime diary prose as brutal yet compelling. It highlights the journalist’s imagined front line realism and quotes lines from The Soul of the War to illustrate its stark depictions of injury death and nursing, published by M. McBride & Co. of New York.
The piece surveys September Atlantic Monthly and Century Magazine items. It highlights Agnes Repplier on the Modest Immigrant, Colonel Harvey on Carranza and Huerta, Roosevelt’s woods reading, Tucker on social science, Kipling’s Mary Postgate, and varied Century pieces.
A review praises the collection by Richard Harding Davis, noting the wartime stories blend fact and fiction. It highlights Somewhere in France as the sole war tale about a German spy outwitted by a staff member and lauds the book's readable, engaging style.
A concise wartime narrative by Dame M Columban recounting Irish nuns in Ypres during the German assault and British defense. The work describes their flight from home into the brutal bombardment and their first impressions of war as noncombatants.
I Lauriston Bullard offers a brief biography titled Tad and His Father about Abraham Lincoln and his son Tad. The book features anecdotes and intimate moments, presenting Lincoln’s affection and family life in a compact, reality grounded voice. Published by Little Brown & Co in Boston at 50 cents net.
The new edition of Little Women from Little, Brown will include eight color plates by Philadelphia artist Jessie Willcox Smith. The edition reproduces her depictions of Meg Jo Beth and Amy and follows over one million copies already sold. The text notes Belloc and others, plus a humorous tale of Napoleon dedication. The piece adds a warm zoo vignette of Mollie Waddy and Tony cooling in a sunlit elephant yard at Franklin Park.
A hostess prompts guests to reveal their lifelong ambitions at a New Year gathering. The cast includes The Girl who Wishes for Money The Girl who Wishes for Adventure The Man who Waits for Love The Girl who Wishes for Power The Man who Wishes for Comfort The Girls who Asks for Happiness The Man who Wishes for Danger The Man who Wishes for Success and The Girl who Wishes for Work. After fifteen years they reunite at the same fireplace to recount outcomes. The book by the author of The Unknown Lover is praised for dramatic ability and pathos.
A Post reporter spoke with Mollie, Waddy, and Tony about hot weather and then discussed it with Rosalie and Falsomie, the polar bears at Franklin Park, exploring whether animals can talk. The piece notes skeptics need not read it.
In a sun soaked Franklin Park den Rosalie and Falsomie the polar bears suffer as the heat worsens. A postman sympathizes while the bears pant and crave coolness with tongues lolling. Tony remains content in a tub despite the heat and late supper.
Peterboro New Hampshire, Sept. 17. Arlin Coombs and Frank Bean were released after an autopsy on a companion, Mike Phillips, who had been found shot to death. The autopsy suggested the possibility of death by own action.
In Canton on September 17 eleven veterans gathered to honor the 100 men of Company A 4th Massachusetts Regiment who marched to the Civil War five years earlier. They held a business meeting elected officers and ended with a banquet at the Universalist parish house.
Boston milk distributors announced a formal opposition to the Boston and Maine railroad rate hike on milk and cream. They plan to petition the Interstate Commerce Commission to suspend the proposed increase and order a general investigation of New England milk rates. They warn prices could rise to 10 cents a quart and worsen transportation problems.
Ida S Graustein led a delaying admission at a federal hearing on proposed through rates for shipments within one to sixty miles. Opponents urged a later session while dairy dealers met to discuss impacts and seek a uniform rate basis to stabilize New England dairy business and rail costs.
The Superior Civil Court refused to compel the Board of Port Directors of Boston to reinstate Robert Butler as mechanical foreman at Pier 1 South Boston. Butler sought transfer back after being reassigned to heating, then made assistant engineer at a lower salary, and the court ruled he cannot force the Board to restore his former job without amending his petition within 80 days.
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