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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1909
Page
2
Amdi Lorenzo Barber head of the Barber Asphalt Paving Company died at midnight from pneumonia in Ardsley Park. Born in Saxton's River Vermont in 1843, he led the firm for many years.
In the State school for boys at Cape Elizabeth Maine 41 of 150 inmates and 10 of 26 officers are ill with scarlet fever in a cottage hospital. Several new cases developed today as many boys fell ill simultaneously and three nurses are caring for them.
Funeral notices record dates April 18 to 20 for Peder Askerlund Mary Agnes Hughes John Gorman Annie Lilly and others across Roxbury Charlestown Quincy Newtonville and Brighton with times and church sites and invited relatives and friends
Three Harvard men plan a foot voyage from New York to Cambridge after college, visiting the Pireus Athens Constantinople the Holy Land Port Said Cairo Sicily and Italy. They sail June 23 on the Martha Washington and will mostly travel on foot with a few short boat passages.
Kurt Huegin receives a telegram announcing his mother Mrs. Huegin wed Bruno Kniffler, a 60 year old Chicago businessman and Vera Chemical Company president. Kniffler, widow of Charles Huegin, is 60 and married into Milwaukee German circles. Mrs Huegin, 45, had moved East after her first husband’s death.
Norwich Conn April 18 The Hon Frank T Brown a leading state lawyer died at his home after a week with pneumonia He was Yale 1872 graduate and practiced law here He was counsel for Governor Lilley in the submarine investigation and for the Billard interests in the Boston and Maine he was recently elected director
Public health advice urges a home mixed laxative cough syrup free from opium and whiskey to treat coughs bronchitis and hoarseness. The formula uses wild cherry bark cardiol essence and white pine syrup with dosing every half hour for four hours then periodically.
A guide describes the new method for carrying a skirt when wearing sheath styles. It instructs a tidy grasp at the back seam, then a graceful lift to just above the knees, exposing a hint of ankle on the left, followed by a gentle hitch on the right side to show the ankle from that side.
At Ringsend Dublin a church fundraising meeting featured Father P H O Donnell Massachusetts state chaplain and AOH delegate who said the poor Irish built U S churches. Matthew Cummings national president urged Irish Catholics to unite by Sunday or accept responsibility.
Lieutenant Commander J. S. McKean of the Philadelphia Navy Yard ordnance department and Lieutenant E. F. Delaney commanding the U S S Panther left for Washington to face explanations about a Panther meeting. Resolutions criticized Secretary Newberry for reshaping naval powers by moving ordnance and engineering control from old line officers to young staff officers.
In New Britain Connecticut relatives of Mr. Rogers found several references in his letters to Henry Imer a Frenchman linked with him in Adana. They believe the Mr Maurer who was killed may have been Imer.
A Chicago despatch in the New York Sun reports Thomas W. Lawson of Boston is heavily short of May wheat. Wall Street figures and fellow traders mock his stance on government interference while Lawson remains in New York awaiting further word. His private secretary declines to confirm details.
Ex-mayor Fitzgerald addressed the Holy Name Society at Star of the Sea parish in East Boston praising industrial and commercial potential. He forecast East Boston population doubling in four years and urged optimism while dismissing negative chatter about Boston. Father McDonough led a vote of thanks as the audience cheered.
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