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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1916
Page
8
Weather fair in El Paso as Bay State Field Artillery regiments cheer planned return home. Massachusetts infantry and cavalry camps face gloom after reports that artillerymen are ordered to return, leaving other units behind.
Artillerymen, including the Bay State unit and Rhode Island battery, celebrate as Rhode Island troops are ordered home. Infantrymen lament earlier duties while North Carolina cavalry arrive to relieve Rhode Island forces at Camp Pershing. Rhode Island units expected to entrain home soon.
Documentary evidence to solve the murder may be found in three baskets of the merchant’s effects to be examined in the Old Colony Trust Company vaults today and tomorrow. Removed from DiCola’s office last night by Judge Severoni, he will also inspect the DiCola home in Brookline to add papers to the bank vault collection.
Authorities from Brookline and Boston meet with Norfolk County District Attorney as a $5000 reward is offered for the assassin. Stephen A. Malato returns to Chicago where his White Hand Society campaigns against blackhanders. Judge Severoni oversees Di Cola case, as agents pursue leads. Maurice Bova Conti is not suspected and may be in Italy.
Investigators with the Department of Justice examine reports of a badger game style swindle on railroads crossing state lines. An anonymous tip to John C. Knox cites a female con artist using accomplices to threaten Mann Act prosecutions to extort money from male travelers aboard trains from Portland to St. Louis.
The British steamer Devonian of the Leyland line will depart Saturday for Liverpool with a four inch gun mounted on her stern and a British navy crew to operate it. It will be the first armed liner to leave this port since the war began. The shell weighs 65 pounds and the weapon is described as for defensive purposes only.
Michael Harrington, 69, was sentenced to one year in the House of Correction in Municipal Court yesterday on the charge of larceny of 20 pounds.
Probation Officer Linehan presents Harrington as a known criminal with a long record from 10 days to two years. The text mentions Russian hemp linked to an unnamed individual and Harrington's repeated sentences.
The Roxbury Society of Medical Inspectors held its first dinner of the season in the Brunswick last night. Thirty members attended with no formal programme and joined in a general discussion on medical subjects.
Laredo Texas September 28. Thirty carloads of corn and flour shipped into Mexico at the request of the de facto government were robbed of their contents before reaching the interior. No freight shipments into Mexico have occurred since mid September, according to reliable sources.
The advertisement touts Fruit-a-tives fruit juice medicine claiming relief of stomach liver blood kidney and skin issues plus rheumatism sciatica back pain neuralgia and indigestion. It promotes cleansing and toning effects with prices 50c per box six for 2.50 trial size 25c and ordering via Fruitatives Limited Ogdensburg NY.
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