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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1910
Page
3
Irish Trades Unionists meet in Dublin to organize a political party modeled on the English Labour Party. Ireland will have three factions at the political end.
Ex president Theodore Roosevelt receives throngs in Vienna after a rain-soaked welcome. He urges Hungarian pride in liberty and human rights, denounces armament limits rumors, and plans a packed schedule with officials, luncheon, a royal reception, and a state train excursion.
Colonel Roosevelt arrives May 4 and is greeted by King Haakon and Nobel committee figures. He will tour decorated streets to the castle, attend a luncheon, state dinner with 100 guests, and a reception. He gives Nobel lecture at the National Theatre and attends a Nobel banquet. Oslo University will confer a doctor's degree on May 6.
Lina Cavalieri states she does not love Robert W Chanler whom she is to wed. She prioritizes her career while hoping the marriage may still bring happiness. A Chanler friend says he will travel abroad to meet his fiancee soon as she tours Buenos Aires after Paris.
Paris reports Lina Cavalieri and Robert Winthrop Chanler accepting plans for a marriage next season. Cavalieri says love is not essential in marriage and will continue her career, with opera commitments in St. Petersburg and Buenos Aires before a New York wedding in November.
New York April 17 Robert W Chanler revels in Lina Cavalieri engagement news and visits his Windsor Arcade studio before vanishing. A reporter learns of the romance from Chanler who declines details calling it private while hinting at future paintings inspired by the star. He cites press cablegrams confirming acceptance and notes Cavalieri has singing commitments in South America.
In Melrose a family gathering unfolds as William Russell announces he will split half of the vast estate with his brother Daniel. Relatives from the Almy family attend while detectives guard the house. Daniel, calm, offers no reaction to the pledge.
William urged Daniel to abandon his hotel apartments and move to Melrose. Daniel agreed, and it is believed he will relocate soon to be together full time. Minutes later, she departed and Daniel’s guard returned to Boston.
Officials report that trials onBlockley and St Vincent's Home children treated as material show most subjects under eight and many inmates of St. Vincent's. Conjunctival eye tests caused eight cases of conjunctivitis, with severe or permanent outcomes, prompting public outcry from city leaders.
At the National Woman Suffrage Association convention in Washington on April 17, opponents were classified as ghosts owls or hooters and complacent sinners. Speakers highlighted fears that women would vote ruinously, while Harriett Taylor Upton collected funds despite Puritan sabbath objections. Officers to be elected tomorrow.
B C Glazier of 912 Marcella Street was pickpocketed near Massachusetts and Huntington avenues after a symphony concert. Thieves took his pocketbook with $30 in cash, two five dollar gold pieces, a three dollar gold piece dated 1875, along with checks and receipts. he was found wedged but without his clothes.
Philadelphia April 17 The executive committee of the striking car men ordered a return to work after a referendum of 1265 to stay out and 1258 to return. The local committee publicized the resolution after national committee ratification in Detroit.
Reverend Cortland Myers quoted a 1915 committee report saying Boston has worse housing than any other US city. He declared it the worst place to live on earth and urged better homes for all, citing collar-box houses and dire conditions.
In Lyons Georgia on April 17 two people died and several were wounded in a long running feud between the Collins and Lewis families over a public road crossing. A. S. Collins and his son Wilson Collins were killed while Marion Lewis was badly wounded and near death. The Collins used revolvers while the Lewises armed with two shotguns in a lane near the Lewis home.
A large gathering of East Boston Catholic societies met at Sacred Heart Church parochial school hall to discuss federation. Father James H. O Neill presided as Herman Wessling cited 3 000 000 members in the Boston archdiocese and urged unified cooperation under one head. Speakers included Joseph H. O Neill Jeremiah G. Fennessey and Joseph A. Sheehan.
Augustus Carlson, 35, a seaman living at the Bay State House on Hanover Street, was found dead yesterday with a bullet wound in his chest from a 38 calibre revolver. Despondent in recent days, Carlson appeared troubled when the church call came.
The Exonian, Phillips Exeter Academy's semi weekly paper, celebrated its 32d year of existence on April 17 at Exeter New Hampshire.
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