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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1910
Page
9
In Liberty Missouri on April 4, Liberty Ladies College students staged a midnight barnyard serenade. Seventy five feminine voices mocked President Taft's inaugural address and glittering fly paper was spread to trip faculty rushing to the scene. Faculty suspended privileges pending memorization of the speech.
A crowded Norfolk and Bristol Street Railway car jumped the rails about a mile from Norwood this morning. It carried away a telegraph pole and ploughed 80 feet into a field, demolishing the front and shattering windows. Passengers, mostly women, escaped serious injury but were shaken. a few were cut by glass.
Rome April 4 Mr. Roosevelt will meet Gifford Pinchot at Genoa on April 11. After our interview I shall have nothing to say and I shall be surprised if Pinchot has.
Mrs. Charles Bruno escaped a fourth floor embroidery shop blaze on Sixth Avenue by grabbing a life line wire rope and sliding along it to a neighboring building. She suffered burns to her hands from the rope friction but survived the dramatic rescue.
A Boston report details a plan by 12 Harvard students to offer a ring of 12 bells for the projected Custom House tower in Washington. Mrs. Sarah Wheelwright vows the gift if Congress acts, with a London peal inspiration and a pendulum mechanism to sound harmoniously across the city.
Mrs. Hannah J. Kidder longtime Roxbury resident died yesterday at 9 Greenville Street aged 93 from pneumonia. She leaves a son in California and a daughter Mrs. Elizabeth Busby of Everett.
Venice April 4. The trial of Countess Tarnovsky continues over the 1907 murder of Count Khamarovsky at his Venetian villa. The defense portrays Tarnovsky as an alluring figure who enthralled men including Naumoff Prilukoff and Elise Perrier while the prosecution argues she plotted the killing. The court hears dramatic testimony as the countess uses wit to counter questions and the president moderates the proceedings.
James Hayes, a 71 year old recluse, was saved from a blaze by 66 year old Charles Davis at 48 Carver street. Davis awakened the household and led a rescue party to the locked door where Hayes lay burned as flames advanced. The two had formed a close bond with the boy who visited Grandpa each day.
A boy alerts his mother after smelling smoke and helps rescue his grandfather from a fire in a locked room. The man, burned on his hands and head, is saved by neighborhood women and passersby. he is hospitalized and expected to recover. The boy mourns yet expresses relief at his grandfather’s improving condition.
In ten minutes a tornado like wind struck during a rain storm in Youngstown Ohio. It toppled 10 houses and damaged many more while 206 people were injured and thousands fled. Property losses exceed 100000 dollars.
The Aero Club of New England voted to buy an aeroplane this summer and to hold an aviation meet here marking a shift from ballooning which had dominated the club. Members and supporters anticipate the new venture as a major step in developing local aviation.
Henry Howard chairs the aeroplane committee with A. R. Shrigley and Dr. F. I. W. Rust. The club will buy an aeroplane able to carry two passengers and may host an amateur aviation meet this summer with trophies. Howard visited the Wright brothers in Dayton and discussed an exhibition in Boston. The Wrights would require a $50,000 guarantee and not finance a professional event. The club aims for an amateur contest with limited prizes, welcomes other talent, and notes aeronautics talks at Tech and Harvard.
Walter L. Granger a 10 year old Worcester parochial school pupil said two men seized him and threw him aboard a moving freight train near Worcester. He rode to Newton and got off at Auburndale before being found by the station master. Police regard the tale with skepticism.
Captain R P Quillen and five crew from schooner Edgar Ross reach New York aboard the Verdi after a December Charleston start and a Christmas hurricane far offshore. The ship suffered leaks, torn sails, and a crewman died, with rescue by the British ship Wine and final repatriation via Buenos Ayres and Barbados.
Charles J. Glidden will launch a balloon ascent from Springfield in early May assisted by William Heinrich a totally blind tenor of South Congregational Church. The flight aims for about three hours and a height near two miles with Mr Heinrich composing a song and describing his sensations after landing.
The Gilchrist Company’s South Boston store fills with shoppers eager for bargain stock from Falvey Brothers. The store shows organized stock across departments with added items from a New York supplier and Gilchrist’s own goods. Exchanges of Boston Peat coupons for legal stamps are offered quickly. The sale continues through the week.
Albany April 4 Governor Hughes has given no intimation as to whether he would accept a place on the United States Supreme Court bench.
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