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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1909
Page
4
New York April 21 22 000 women members of the Equality League of Self Supporting Women were ordered to appear before Commissioner Eustis of the Public Service Commission Friday afternoon to oppose the movement for separate cars for women on subway expresses.
Thornton Jenkins Hains, brother of Captain Peter Hains, went to police headquarters and handed over his mug shot, fingerprints, and Bertillon measurements recorded when he was arrested with his brother.
The President sent to the Senate the nomination of H. Percival Dodge of Massachusetts as envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Morocco. Dodge, Harvard graduate 1892 and Harvard Law 1894, is currently minister to Salvador and has served as first secretary at Berlin then Tokyo. He is a Boston Bar Association member and Union Club member. He married Margaret Adams of Washington.
A Lexington town group paid 422.77 and an additional 500 to the State to secure an option against a state insane hospital site. The receipts show funds to reimburse the Commonwealth for surveying and option costs, with the option to be abandoned and the committee to report against a mental hospital location. The article notes the unusual practice of paying for legislative influence and questions why one option was forfeited while Lexington retrieved its funds.
New York April 21 Old Fort Ticonderoga on Lake Champlain will be restored to resemble exactly its May 10 1775 appearance when Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys captured it. The project funded by Mrs Stephen Pell will take ten years and cost about $500 000. The west barracks will be rebuilt in time for Taft Cabinet visitors during the Lake Champlain tercentenary events opening July 4.
Charles W. Morse, former banker, rode from the Tombs to the United States court as a witness in Mercantile National Bank's suit against Charles W. Barron to recover 400 dollars on a note indorsed by Morse. The outing was by automobile both ways.
In Bardstown Kentucky and Christiana Tennessee women report cure by Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for female troubles including ulceration and nervous prostration. The ad cites years of use and states thousands cured with disorders such as displacements fibroid tumors irregularities backache and inflammation.
Harry P. Parker climbed a tall flag pole 110 feet above the street in front of the Samuel Ward Company building on Franklin Street. He painted the pole as a large crowd watched from below.
Ward Eaton of Westford was arraigned in District Court on a larceny charge tied to a blackmailing letter received by Westford manufacturer Julian Cameron. Eaton, without counsel, refused to plead or testify. Judge Warren H. Atwood continued the case to May 1 with bonds set at $2000 and Eaton remanded to Lowell jail.
P F Gardner of the Boston and Albany, age 71, recounts a life that began at sea for ten years before switching to railroading. Born in Nantucket, he joined a Brookline based rail line, rising from brakeman to baggage master and then conductor. His fastest ride came not on rails but on a whaling voyage near New Zealand where a bull whale was harpooned after a dramatic chase.
Francisco Pardo of Galena killed his bride Ramona Rodriguez after a month of marriage in Monterey Mexico He dipped his fingers in her blood and wrote epithets on her body He eluded police briefly then hanged himself in jail Survivors predicted misfortune during the thunderstorm that interrupted the ceremony
Parker, a 21 year old steeple jack, climbed a 50 foot pole atop a 60 foot building and recently painted Colgate clock faces in Jersey City. He survived a 85 foot fall when a frayed rope failed, with three fractured ribs, and says he does not fear death and plans to own a farm next year.
Unidentified man discovered early yesterday beneath the Mystic avenue bridge by the Boston and Albany railroad tracks. The body showed severe injuries including a severed left arm and multiple cuts and bruises.
In Rockland Maine on April 21, seventy Italian kilntenders walked out demanding higher wages from $1.50 to $1.87 daily. The lime company hires native workers at $1.75 per day, and no kilns have been shut down.
Canon H W Henson of St Margaret’s Birmingham landed in New York aboard the Carmania and will stay with Bishop Lawrence on Commonwealth Avenue during the first week in May. Known across England as Pugnacious Henson for resisting orders to stop preaching in other denominations.
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