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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1909
Page
6
Frederick Upham Adams explains how investment costs erode 180 million dollars yearly before any profits reach outside speculators. The issue features a Kilkenny cat fight among publishers and Lawson, with weather debate by Emerson Hough as balance, plus fiction and art pieces.
Rolla officials pass an ordinance prohibiting flirting and eye expressions toward female train passengers to curb harassment of girls from the State School of Mines. Penalties range from 5 to 25 dollars and enforcement is led by the city marshal at the station.
Chicago April 19. Dr Francis M Stewart owner of a fashionable apartment house offers a 50 prize and free medical attendance to the mother of the first baby born in the building after May 1. A notice found over mail boxes reads Oh you kid Fifty-dollar bank account to start with Come on kid.
Wilbur Wright completed a successful flight in Rome today with a passenger aboard. The historic test marks another milestone in early aviation as the aviator demonstrates controlled air travel.
A man calling himself Joseph Macy, 42, of Lawrence, attempted suicide by slashing his throat at 252 South Commerce Street in Lynn. The blade proved dull, saving his windpipe and major vessels. taken to Lynn Hospital, he is expected to recover if infection is avoided.
George A. Dickinson, manager at Wy Dixon's stock farm, rode 155 miles in 13 hours 59 minutes on April 19, beating known records. The relay used eight mixed horses over a 6.7 mile circle with meals for breaks. Referee Joseph Cornwell noted the rider finished in good condition.
Mrs. Annie Boucher of Jamaica Plain lost a bag of jewels valued at 1200 dollars in West Roxbury woods on Sunday. Police suspect two girls seen nearby may have taken them. Searches failed to find the jewels or the girls who headed toward East Dedham. The pin carried a connection to the dowager Queen Margherita of Italy. Mrs. Boucher mourns the loss for personal reasons beyond value.
April 19 the revolutionary federation's manifesto urges Paris workmen and government employees to embrace violence to topple existing society and form a new order exempt from authority.
Ex-Representative Michael J Meagher died at his home in Woburn today from a stroke of paralysis. He served two years in the House from the 28th Middlesex District and was a longtime figure in local politics. He is survived by his wife and seven children Michael J Jr Patrick Eugene Frank Winnifred Mrs Philip H Doherty and Mrs Timothy Sullivan.
Edward Payson Weston extends his stay in Chicago to five minutes after midnight to secure a new driver for the journey to St Louis and to ferry his machine over the mountains.
Information given to Chief Watts by two colored men led Inspectors Rooney and McCauley to arrest Philip Allston in Louisa burg North Carolina on the charge of killing Catherine Jones his former sweetheart four years ago.
Police report an arrest at Sullivan square where Allston, a Boston porter, gave no statement. He uses the alias James F. Parker and has lived in Boston since last December at 14 Westminster street. Miss Jones was shot in the throat four years ago by a man said to be Allston amid jealousy motives.
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