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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1908
Page
3
Barre Vermont April 6 A compromise proposition from quarry owners to quarrymen offers 26 cents an hour. The strike begun March 1 affects about 4000 to 5000 workers in Barre Montpelier and nearby areas. The proposal is seen as potential early settlement.
An advertisement explains red corpuscles carry oxygen and link to digestion kidneys nerves. It asserts Dr Williams Pink Pills increase red cells and oxygen, curing anaemia and related issues. Six boxes priced at 2.50 available from Dr Williams Medicine Co. Schenectady NY.
The Boston School Committee approves Dr. Thomas Harrington's plan for organized playground activity citywide. It is described as highly comprehensive, will hire about 100 additional teachers and assistants, and costs an estimated $58,000 in the first year. The vacation school will be abandoned or merged into the new scheme.
Dr Harrington outlines a plan to develop school yards and buildings as play centers for younger children and to provide playgrounds for older students and athletic fields for high schoolers. Twenty eight yards will be equipped with apparatus and staffed by teachers, open after school and on Saturdays and holidays May 4 to Nov 2. Eighteen playgrounds will be taken from the park department and run by the school committee with new instructors to be added year round.
A horse hitched to a fruit wagon owned by Angeles Lakes of 23 Prince Street Boston bolted along Ashmont Street Dorchester last evening. Mounted Officer William Noble halted the animal after two attempts to seize it. Several children narrowly escaped injury.
Nervous weakness brings irritability restlessness poor appetite and sleeplessness. Dr Miles Nervine is advertised as the best restorative for nerve exhaustion renewing strength and vigor. Includes a testimonial praising Nervine and Nerves and Liver Pills as accompaniments with a money back guarantee.
Martin M Lomasney is back in action and Ward 8 cheers as Hendricks Club fears changes under Mayor Hibbard. The club once kept power through Hart Collings and Fitzgerald, but now faces potential reformist shifts and removal from City Hall.
The West End salutes a staffing shift as Martin secures two more years, Hibbard reshapes city offices and Adolphus M. Burroughs is named second assistant assessor after May 1. Wienberg loses post while Horgan moves to principal assessor amid Dixon Riley era tensions in Ward 8.
London April 6 Herbert H. H. Asquith the chancellor of the exchequer has been summoned by King Edward to Biarritz and crossed from Dover to Calais to see the King. The king’s absence during a cabinet crisis provokes criticism in English papers with claims he may return to London Saturday, though this is doubtful.
Financial circles were stirred as the National Shawmut Bank announced the acquisition of the National Bank of the Republic. The merger positions the National Shawmut Bank among the world's largest banking institutions.
Colonel William A. Gaston announced the National Shawmut Bank bought the Republic’s business but not its assets. The Shawmut will liquidate Republic assets for shareholders, pay a bonus for the business, and retain the officers. Republic’s headquarters on Milk Street, deposits $12 to $15 million, capitalization $2 million.
Miss Ethel Branitz a Cleveland society girl and Radcliffe graduate vanished from East Braintree. Local and city police scoured miles of woods for two days. she was found sleeping on the deck of the steamer Cape Cod at Quincy Point in rain. She claimed to seek air to cure her affliction and was allowed to go ashore.
At 28 Margaret Street in Guissippi Cotaldo, 75, a reclusive eccentric, was found dead in a basement room. Pockets cut from his clothes raise mystery. a bank book showed a $200 deposit. The body was taken to North Grove street morgue for autopsy.
Max Sehohen of 69 Lowell Street alerted residents after detecting dense smoke in the basement at 60 Lowell Street. He notified Box 702 and woke the ten residents who fled the tenement just before a larger fire could take hold. The blaze caused little damage, likely started by matches left by children.
Mrs. Charles F. Sullivan found her husband Charles F. Sullivan dead by hanging in a barn behind their home at 31 Granville Street Roslindale. He had been away for cows. Sunday night was his last departure and he did not return, lifeless for hours.
Henry D. Reynolds former president of the Reynolds Alaska Development Company was arrested in New York on charges of mail fraud tied to misrepresented earnings of Alaskan copper mines. Indicted last month in Boston, Reynolds allegedly diverted funds to pay 6 percent dividends while mines earned little, risking a $300,000 bond issue to save the company.
Patrolman John J. Fitzgerald of Division 13 died at home in Roxbury from injuries sustained while arresting three men on a larceny charge. David A. Shugrue, 26, of Jamaica Plain, is jailed at Charles Street.
Saturday night Patrolman McAdams of Division 13 attempted to arrest three men for stealing five dollars worth of brass pipe. The suspects were David Shugrue, his brother Stephen, and Louis Selby. Shugrue resisted and was subdued after a violent struggle with Patrolman Witzgerald.
In To Lock a reputed Tong war killer described as the most vicious highbinder in the United States was captured in Los Angeles with his wife Kim Young. Police say arrest, aided by Boston authorities and a Chinatown informer, could avert further Tong violence and he will be sent to Boston once papers are ready.
Mrs. Ferris Haddad of 59 Portland Street Cambridgeport was knocked down yesterday at Broadway and Hampshire by a touring car owned by Brookline millionaire John M. Longyear. The car sped off and was later identified by police. Haddad carried her grandson's child when struck. the child was thrown 10 feet into a telegraph pole.
Albert E Lockhart a longtime Cambridge casket manufacturer died after a brief illness at his home 20 Highland Avenue Cambridge aged 67 He belonged to the Ladies and Knights of Honor the N E O P Apollo Temple Consistory Mystic Shrine Elks and the Ancient and Honorable Artillery He is survived by a widow and three children.
South Boston residents Mary Smith and Alice Mahoney were sentenced by Judge Murray in Municipal Criminal Court to 12 days in jail for shoplifting after appeals were discussed with their mothers. The courtroom scene saw the girls weep as bail efforts began.
Nellie Pearson a 19 year old resident of Wyoma and Alice Furness a 16 year old of East Lynn were identified as two young women found at the Naval Hospital pest house in Chelsea with two diphtheria patients. They were held for the September term of the United States District Court but released until the court sits.
Commissioner Hayes heard testimony from eight hospital witnesses and girls, finding probable cause for the charge. The group returned to Lynn with Police Inspector Stacey Burckes, agreeing to avoid the naval hospital and report every two weeks to Probation Officer Charles H. Colby. They admitted identification by Deputy Marshal Waters and Inspector Burckes but denied impropriety at the hospital.
A principal tax collector in the Province of Almera escapes abroad amid charges he embezzled 400000 dollars of public funds. The case centers on alleged misappropriation of government revenue and the panic surrounding the escape.
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