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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1908
Page
9
The Supreme Court rules it has no further jurisdiction in the Uriel H. Crocker will case and directs the petitioner to seek remedy in the Probate Court. The estate is valued over 1.9 million dollars. The decision outlines how to proceed and notes protections for administrators acting under Probate Court orders.
Mrs Francena C Ramsay of Warland Street Cambridge asks for a divorce from Frederick M Ramsay whom she wed June 22 1870 and also petitions to annul her sister Mary A Dubois marriage to Frederick Dubois alleging desertion in 1892.
Gustav Mahler conducted Mozart the Don Giovanni last night at the Boston Theatre. Mme Eames as Donna Anna, Miss Farrar as Zerlina acclaimed. Mr Scotti Don Giovanni praised. ensemble praised and some roles noted as less blended. Caruso appears tonight in Ma Non Lescaut. audience lauded Farrar with recalls after Vedrai Carino.
Report of audience chatter over Miss Alice Lonnen’s hair described as a striking blonde in The Right of Way. Two women criticized the shade until a Back Bay friend asserted the color is natural and Miss Lonnen’s own.
The comedy The Intruder by Thompson Buchanan received its first Tremont Theatre performance yesterday afternoon with William A. Brady and Joseph R. Grismer presenting. The cast included John Chase James E Wilson Villa Chase Cecil Kern Dorothy Chase Lillian Kemble and others as the ensemble worked under Brady and the author. The plot centers on inventor John Chase and his competing custody conflict over his daughter as stepmother Dorothy Chase seeks control with a second husband’s aid. The work shows clever lighter dialogue, though the ending and second act fail to fully develop the original premise.
A midnight disturbance aboard an outward bound Cambridge car involved about twenty Harvard freshmen. Police intercepted the vehicle near Cambridge, arrest hints noted for the conductor, motorman, and several students. Officers faced taunts as they exited the car.
Thomas D. Taylor, organizer of the New England Trust Company of Providence and head of a Boston banking firm, denounces his arrest in a civil suit filed by John T. Reagan, receiver of the Trust company. He says he is jailed not for crime but for inability to furnish bonds of 350000, until the writ is returnable in court.
New York April 9 reports indicate a referee recommends granting Mrs Elen French Vanderbilt an absolute divorce. Mr Vanderbilt is said to have offered only a formal defense.
The remains of Emanuel Swedenborg, mystic and author, exhumed in London after lying there since 1772, were embarked here aboard the Swedish cruiser Fylgia to be conveyed to Sweden for final burial.
Fire in Malden guted the two story frame house of Louis Luenberg at 12 Suffolk Street. Police say an incendiary blaze broke out shortly before 1 am causing about 1400 dollars in damage. A kerosene odor was noted by firemen on arrival and police conduct an investigation.
In Rome on April 9 Prince Alderbrandini firmly denies a report that financier J Pierpont Morgan bought his villa Alderbrandini, one of Europe’s most beautiful homes. The prince says he is not in need of money.
The sealing steamer Virginia Lake arrived at St. John's Newfoundland after a perilous voyage through ice fields. She carried 200 men on board and 20,000 seals, with an overall catch reported at about 175,000.
The Majestic reports rescuing the Norwegian Helios crew on April 5 in mid Atlantic. Helios, sailing from Philadelphia for Blaye, had oil fumes invade the stoke hole forcing the crew to abandon ship.
Sincere wishes for future success and sorrow filled Shawmut Congregational Church as the Endeavorers of the State county and Boston unions and Shawmut Society bid farewell to Dr W T McElveen He departs Boston for Evanston Illinois where he will continue his work.
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