Child Dies of Fly Bite in South Boston
Margaret Simpson nine daughter of Mr and Mrs John Simpson of 772 East Seventh Street South Boston died from blood poisoning contracted from a common house fly bite a week earlier. She brushed off the fly felt a pimple form treated at Carney Hospital and later fell ill despite eight doctors including specialists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Margaret Simpson
John Simpson
East Seventh Street
Boston
Carney Hospital
J. P. Tynan
Broadway
Receiver Battle Over Boston and Maine Receivership Move
Minority stockholders clash with directors over a temporary receiver for the Boston and Maine. Debate tests trust in management as the session precedes the directors meeting and questions arise about authority of large stockholders’ votes amid calls for investigation into alleged poor financial handling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tts
North Postal Station Dedication at 24 Nashua Street
The new North Postal Station at 24 Nashua Street in North End will be dedicated Saturday from 5 to 7 PM and open for business Monday morning. Post Master Murray invites prominent citizens to attend. the two story building costs about $200,000 and mirrors Wall Street and Brooklyn stations with modern mail facilities.
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North
Nashua Street
North End
Murray
Wall Street
Brooklyn
N. Y
NEW North
Mrs Turner Leaves 25600 To Charity In Will
Public bequests totaling 23000 in the will of Mrs Sarah F Turner late of Brookline filed with Norfolk Probate Court at Dedham. The document awards a free bed at the Chil and names other charitable gifts as read in court.
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Sarah F. Turner
Brookline
Norfolk
Dedham
Turner Estate Bequeaths Funds To Hospitals And Charities
The will directs $5000 to Portsmouth Hospital to establish a bed for women in memory of the testatrix parents, $5000 to Children’s Hospital and to several charities in Dorchester, with each receive $5000. Rest and residue go to relatives and close friends. Executors named are Edward L. Chapin and Austin K. Chadwick.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dren’s Hospital
Dorchester Mother Loses Son in War
Mrs. Catherine Currie of 76 Bellevue Street Dorchester learned from the adjutant-general in Ottawa that her son Archibald Currie was killed in the European trenches on August 25. He died of multiple shrapnel wounds at No. 10 Casualty Clearing Station and was buried on the battlefield.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Archibald Currie
Catherine Currie
Bellevue Street
Dorchester
Paralysis cases rise with Boston death reported
Three new infantile paralysis cases were reported in Boston yesterday alongside a death. The State Board of Health tallied 39 cases in the 24 hours to 9 am, including six Boston cases from the previous day, giving 36 new cases overall. September total reaches 360.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
State Board of Health
Cambridge School Opening Delayed Over Polio Outbreak
The Cambridge school opening is postponed to Oct 2 and night schools to Oct 16 due to infantile paralysis. Six new cases in Holyoke keep the western Massachusetts epidemic center active, with 16 total in Cambridge and two Newton Centre boys, aged 4 and 9, newly reported.
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Boston
Louise Kibler
Metropolitan Avenue
Hyde Park
Jess Street
Jamaica Plain
Page Street
Dorchester
Massachusetts
Holyoke
Cambridge
Greater
Newton Centre
Newton
Help for Home Relief Appeals to Aid Families of Soldiers
The Special Aid Society for American Preparedness requests clerical help for its home relief clearing house at the State House Boston to coordinate information between border troops and families. Chaplains report joy when told of aid. contributions welcomed at room 249 State House, Boston.
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Home Relief Department
Special Aid Society For American Preparedness
State House
el Paso
Governor’s Volunteer Aid Association
Department
Boston
William Lowell Putnam
Department O S Home Relief
Bishop Foley Gets New Island Diocese
The Right Rev Maurice P Foley bishop of Tuguegarao in the Philippine Islands and a South Boston native has been transferred by Pope Benedict XV to the diocese of Jaro Philippines. Denis J Dougherty now bishop of Buffalo succeeds him and M J O Doherty bishop of Zamboanga becomes archbishop of Manila.
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Maurice P. Foley
South Boston
Tuguegarao
P. I
Jaro, P. I
D. D
Philippine Islands
Boston
Benedict XV
Jaro
Denis J. Dougherty
Buffalo
N. Y
Rome
M. J. O'Doherty
Zamboanga
Manila
Mansfield Defends Primary Law Against Leader-Selected Candidate
Frederick W. Mansfield, Democratic candidate for Governor, denounces a “hand picked” selection by party leaders in Boston. He argues the primary law empowers voters, not a few leaders, to choose candidates and notes his campaign rests on his record serving the people. He plans stops in Boston, Haverhill, and South Boston Dorchester and Roxbury this evening.
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Boston
Frederick W. Mansfield
Milford
Commonwealth
Mansfield
Haverhill
Well Known Shoe Salesman Dead in Syracuse
Alvin L. Greenwood of 9 Maple Park Newton Centre died Monday night at Crouse Irving Hospital Syracuse after a brief illness. Greenwood was one of the best known travelling shoe men in the region.
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Alvin L. Greenwood
Maple Park
Newton Centre
Crouse-Irving Hospital
Syracuse
N. Y
Mr. Greenwood
Shoe salesman leader headed national trade group in 1915
A former president of the Boston Shoe Travellers' Association and later leader of the national organization of shoe salesmen in 1915 is noted in the profile of a prominent industry figure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Boston Shoe Travellers’ Association
National Organization of
Shoe Salesmen
Church seeks restraining order on Boston garage permit
Advent Christian Church of Warren Street Roxbury filed a writ of certiorari against Boston street commissioners to cancel a garage permit for church adjoining property and to stop Jane L Webb from proceeding. Judge DeCourcy continued the matter until next Tuesday awaiting Friday’s hearing before the commissioners.
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Advent Christian Church
Warren Street
Roxbury
Street Commissioners
Boston
Jane L. Webb
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Richard H. Long
Framingham
French
Intercontinental Rubber Company
Hampden Railroad Corporation
Boston & Maine
Crocker
Mr. French
Mr. Long
Boston Railroad Holding Company
Knowlton
Paine
Royal Axminster
Wilton
Hartford Saxony
Paine Furniture Company
Arlington Street
Boylston Street
Foley
New Island
Cole
White
Serge
Charmeuse
Georgette
Georgette Combina
Poplins
Dew
Hudson
Pete Comap
Angora
Shetland
Spearer
Lyons
H. White Coo
Fed
Hamburg
Thomson
P. N
Royal Worcester
la Resista
Ccan
Sint Back
P. K
Chantilly
Morocco
Vachette
Rey Pune
Genuin
Moocco
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