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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1915
Page
4
Shrewsbury residents condemn Sunday rifle practice by a Worcester military company at the Worcester range in a residential area. The Board of Selectmen are urged to act to prevent a recurrence, arguing the disturbance disrupts the quiet of the community on a Sunday.
Vernon Castle of the Castle walk is en route to war. An Englishman by birth he heads to the army leaving Boston yesterday for London to bid farewell to his sister Coralie Blythe who is currently starring in Nobody Home. Mrs Castle accompanies him but plans to remain here for a few days with Miss Blythe.
In 1866 Professor Aronnax joins an expedition on the U S S Abraham Lincoln to pursue a marine monster. The chase leads to a strange illuminated spindle shaped object and a daring overboard escape onto a submarine commanded by Captain Nemo. Conseil Ned Land and Aronnax are brought aboard and join a diving hunt of underwater creatures.
The Nautilus negotiates the treacherous Torres Strait with Captain Nemo guiding the route using Dumoulin and King charts. Sudden contact with a rock shakes the narrator as Nemo and his lieutenant study the vessel’s position on the platform.
Captain Nemo's vessel runs aground amid midtide seas near Torres Straits. The crew debates escape to land while the Nautilus remains immovable, awaiting a possible tide lift as illusions of flight fade and provisioning continues on board.
Mrs James B Brown on behalf of the executive committee asks all Boston Common Society members to send subscriptions toward the Governor Guild memorial fund. Subscriptions go to James A Lowell treasurer at Room 38 Equitable Building Milk Street. Funds received will be lumped and given to Allan Forbes treasurer of the Guild Memorial fund committee.
Salvatore Lazzara, 31, a farm hand from Lowell Street Lexington, was arrested Saturday night in a Lexington street car and turned over to Waltham police yesterday. Witnesses say he was taunted by a crowd in Waltham and produced a .38 caliber revolver firing into the crowd. no injuries are reported.
International President Thomas V. OConnor of the Longshoremen Union says those named have legal redress if wronged. He dismisses reports Germany sought to trigger a 23000 longshoremen strike along the Atlantic coast to halt munitions shipments to Allies. He and press questions on Dennis D. Driscoll are categorized as incidental, calling Donnie clean as a nut.
O Connor spends afternoon and evening addressing Longshoremen unions and district council in Charlestown. He backs the World and Boston papers expose and denies any plot, saying legal redress is available to Matthew Cummings and others if Wronged.
The State Branch of the A S L won endorsement from the Boston Typographical Union at Vaneuil Hall for woman suffrage. The vote followed a letter from the State Branch and approved a tentative agreement between Newspaper Publishers and union committees.
The Grocery and Provision Clerks Union 1313 launched a naturalization campaign urging every member to become a U S citizen. The move mirrors a prior Boston Street Carmen’s Union effort to ensure all union men can vote for labor-friendly representatives.
Leather Handlers Union 808 reports unanimous adoption of a new wage scale and instructs local executives to present it to employers. Five new members enroll in Teamsters Local 394 at 995 Washington Street overseen by Vice-President Thomas J. Bannon. Sanitary and Street Cleaning Dept Teamsters Local 149 holds its regular meeting with President William J. Greeney in San Francisco for an international convention. Freight Handlers Local 5572 receives Delegate Ryah’s report on the State Branch AF of L convention in New Bedford.
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