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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1916
Page
16
El Paso Texas September 22 Massachusetts Bay State troops stationed at the border grow restive awaiting orders to return home or advance into Mexico. Many infantrymen expected orders last night or today but none arrived, and signs of disappointment spread among the citizen soldiers.
Massachusetts men continue tests under regular army officers as an infantry battalion nears completion of assessments. Troops hope to entrain for home, while rumors of border action linger. Soldiers endure camp life on rations, seeking purpose amid uncertain Mexican events and a long wait for orders.
The Upper Court in New Hampshire heard the opposition by the Minority Stockholders' Protective Association to the temporary receivership of Boston & Maine. Conrad W. Crocker filed for Edward F. Brown and Dr. Charles M. Green alleging collusion and fraud between the note holder Intercontinental Rubber Company and the railroad. A hearing was set for September 28 in Manchester, with Judge George H. Bingham overseeing the case filed in Littleton.
Architect Joe Spiece boasts a tabernacle expansion in Huntington avenue Boston, claiming the interior will seat 18,000 with brick and steel construction costing over 40 000 dollars. The plan includes a central rostrum near the old home plate and three Sunday sermons by Rev James E Walker.
General Charles H. Cole campaigns across Boston at nearly a dozen rallies urging Democratic victory to push humane social welfare legislation. He highlights firemen gains, including a pay raise, a 25 year pension system, and improved vacation and leave rules, plus better firemen living conditions. He insists primaries choose him for party success.
Police sergeant and patrolman were struck as were many spectators by stones and missiles in Chelsea during the Wal ton Shoe Company strike disturbance. Seven people were arrested in the most serious local unrest yet tied to the workers strike.
A mob of about 1500 men and boys surged through Bellingham streets as strikebreakers fled in vans to street cars and trains. Police, led by Sergeant Henry Harrington with 28 patrolmen, contained the crowd while arrests were made for loitering and assault. Several officers and bystanders were injured as missiles flew and fights occurred amid the chaotic scene. The article lists arrestees including Anthony Ruggo, Henry G Parsons, Morris Shapiro, Simon Greenfield, Salvi Danoso, Sam Taylor, Max Baker, and Jacob Kurnutzski, with charges ranging from loitering to assault and inciting a riot.
Frederick W. Mansfield, Democratic gubernatorial hopeful, invites his opponent General Charles H. Cole to attend a noon rally in Faneuil Hall to hear both candidates make their suffrage appeals. Mansfield canvassed Boston yesterday and explained pension and wage changes tied to fire department history.
The opening of a new Technology museum on the Cambridge Esplanade housed 200 returning students who found no rooms ready. The Tech forces failed to prepare dormitory accommodations, leaving hundreds homeless on arrival at the new Tech buildings.
Austin B. Cobb, 36, an employee at Bird & Sons paroid mills, was electrocuted at work in Walpole on September 22 while repairing a broken shaft on a ladder. He grasped a charged pipe and was hurled to the floor.
Three deaths and twenty infantile paralysis cases were reported by Boston health authorities yesterday. Among the new cases are four in two Dorchester families on Cedar street, including a 3 year old boy and a 2 year old girl at 52 Cedar street and two boys, 18 months and 3 years, at 25 Cedar street.
Boston records a fatal infantile paralysis case and multiple young patients across suburbs including Roxbury Charlestown and Dorchester. Additional cases appear in Chelsea Amesbury Fall River Brookline Cambridge Quincy and Monson as health officials warn on school openings and summer travel. A special train plan to Philadelphia Washington seeks to avoid New York contagion while Dedham Revere Winthrop Newton and Newton schools adjust openings amid recent cases.
The opening of all archdiocesan parochial schools is postponed to October 2 in line with Boston Public Schools. Boston College will open Monday September 25 at University Heights Newton, while Boston College High School on James Street and the Sisters' Academy of Notre Dame in Roxbury will also begin October 2.
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