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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1914
Page
9
In Chicago on September 27 Judge Fry presided over a case of intoxication and non support. The man admitted his alias Pikle John W. and signed a yearlong pledge after the questioning. His wife and two well dressed children left the court smiling as Dill was recalled, reminding the judge of a prior visitor.
The talk centers on Varne-sis credited by W A Varney of Lynn Massachusetts with permanent relief from severe rheumatic arthritis after ten years. He cites patient E C Holden of James Street Lynn and urges readers to consult the Boston office or obtain Varne-sis from local druggists.
The estate of Bar oness de Bazus, Mrs. Frank Leslie, valued near two million dollars, largely goes to a woman suffrage organization for promoting votes for women. Carrie Chapman Catt says she was named in the will as a beneficiary and learns the suffrage group is the residuary legatee.
Reported readings of Mrs. Leslie's will suggest more than three quarters of her estate, possibly over 1.8 million dollars, will go to the suffrage movement. Several relatives and friends are slated to receive smaller bequests, while notable omissions raise questions about the will's final provisions and possible contests.
Frank Tent a Manchester lawyer was seriously injured when his auto and another car driven by Harvard oarsman Gordon H Balch of 140 Beacon Street Boston collided on a sharp curve near Lakescroft just inside the Manchester line.
It is feared Mr. Tent has several broken ribs and will have an X-ray tomorrow to gauge injuries. Balch’s car skidded and struck Tent’s vehicle, hitting him in the chest with force. George E. Willmonton, Manchester lawyer, drove the other car. Mrs. Tent and Mrs. Willmonton were uninjured aside from shock, while Tent’s condition remained serious.
Thomas E. Coakley, 22, of 6 Evelyn Avenue Malden was found with a hand wound and contusions on Sprague Street. He was taken to Malden Hospital where four fingers were amputated. He recalls attending a Whittier Hall Everett dance before being assaulted by a gang. Everett police investigate.
Sixteen people from Pawtucket including men women and children were rescued when the power boat Bertha May hit a ledge a quarter mile offshore. The starboard bow was crushed and the hull filled, several skiffs aided the passengers to another boat then to Pawtucket. The Bertha May is a total loss.
In Hamilton Hall Dorchester 700 attendees from the Meeting House Hill Improvement Association and friends urged funds for Mt Ida city playground. They called for a $100,000 appropriation to build a recreation building. President Francis D. Sullivan presided with Senator Redmond S. Fitzgerald Representatives Cummings Sullivan and Commissioner John H. Dillon present. A committee was named to seek Mayor Curley’s help.
A patron at Walton's lunch room 7 School street yesterday afternoon stole 72 dollars from the cage while the cashier Lucy Gillette 193 West Brookline street made change for a 15 cent lunch. The thief waited for his change and left before the loss was discovered.
A lunch room theft on School street ends with the suspect escaping after failing to grab pills and cash. Miss Gillette, counting cash at 2:30 pm, notes a short man in a gray cap and dark suit who had been seen in the lunch room before and left with the change after the cashier misplacing the pills.
A witness recalls a robbery aftermath noting a recurring pattern of Sundays when another patron paid the speaker’s bill. The witness identified a likely suspect and mentioned two men in gray caps and gray suits seen near the door during the incident, unsure if they collaborated.
Miss Lucy Pendleton 40 of 2 Francis Avenue Greenwood Wakefield was severely burned when her dress ignited from a draft in her kitchen while warming by a stove. Her father Frank Pendleton beat out the flames with a rug but she sustained extensive burns.
John Canfield asks if his landlady can retain his wooden leg as rent. Police Chief White received his letter. Canfield, recovering from a hospital stay in Mendocino, needs the leg to earn a living and regain mobility.
Theatrical manager A H Woods and dramatist Owen Davis arrive in Boston for the Hollis Street Theatre premiere of John Mason tonight. Davis wrote the melodrama Drugged produced as Mason’s starring vehicle with a top cast.
Daily B Driver, 26, a farmer from Aurora, shot at a white cow near a graveyard after fearing ghosts from the Rising Sun centennial event. A bullet pierced his right thigh, the horse’s ear was damaged, and the cow was hit in the neck. He suffers nervous prostration.
In Yellville Arkansas Uncle John Brady cut a six foot section from a dead bee tree near Pyatt. Inside a petrified red headed lizard eight inches long remained where bees and honey hid. The lizard was trapped when the tree blocked its escape and died before petrification. Time since entrapment is unknown.
Lionel de Jersey Harvard, first Harvard to enter Harvard University from England, arrived at Cambridge to begin his final year. He reports London peaceful before departure and expresses calm about the Pan European War and its outcome. Harvard resides in Matthews Hall during his last year.
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