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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1909
Page
4
District Attorney Hill declined comment on the McCullough Cassidy trial in which Leo F McCullough and James T Cassidy faced larceny and conspiracy charges over $200 taken from Boston. The jury, after an all night deliberation, could not agree and was discharged by Judge DeCourccy.
Two ton blast of dynamite set for tomorrow at Youngstown will attempt to break the ice jam at the Niagara River mouth. If the 4000 pounds prove powerless, the glacier will remain in the sun until it melts, as engineers push for a supreme effort to free the jam.
A Niagara Falls dynamite project split a vast ice sheet into 75 bundles and blasted a semicircular hole across the river. Explosions sent ice and timber high into the air while gulls watched as a new 1000 foot channel opened and current carried away the debris.
General Patrick Hayes of Chelsea Massachusetts, commander in chief of the national command Union Veterans Union, announces adjutant generals on his staff: A W Moore of Rochester New York Arthur Smith of New Haven Connecticut A J Weaver of Wichita Kansas Wainwright Cushing of Foxcroft Missouri P Evans of Fort Dodge Kansas The following were appointed aides de…
Boston Latin School held the class day exercises with the class song by Oscar R O Gorman and Thomas J Fitzgerald. Harold J Rosatta read the class poem and Isadore A Wyner delivered the class oration. Rev Owen A McGrath praised athletics and studies before a color salute and company drill led by Captains Bleock and Bail. The graduating class lists 64 names including Rosatto and Wyner and other scholars.
bitter row as Somerville Heptorean Club debates ending the Heptorean bed at Somerville Hospital at its annual meeting. Mrs. A S Hill proposed the move. the club funds about $200 yearly for support and scholarships.
A roster lists individuals holding the rank of colonel from multiple locations including Chelsea Massachusetts Georgetown Massachusetts Brewer Maine Rochester New York New Haven Connecticut Wichita Kansas Rochester New York Auburn Maine Skowhegan Maine East Machias Maine National Home Maine Gardiner Maine Augusta Maine and St. Louis Missouri.
Antoinette Perry shines as Helen Stanton in a Majestic Theatre comedy with David Warfield. she is among America's youngest leading women, nearing her 20th year amid Belasco's influence and loyal orchestra support. The report also notes Bruckner's eighth symphony in Boston with critic remarks on orchestral fatigue and Fiedler's over-elaboration. Wagner's Siegfried Idyl closes the concert.
Miss Perry from Denver is described as charming on and off stage and an expert horsewoman who avoids automobiles. She spent her early days on a ranch loving the round-ups and broncho busters, who greet her warmly when she visits the ranges.
The last but one rehearsal of the season was held yesterday afternoon in Symphony Hall in memory of Fred R. Comee late assistant manager of the Symphony Orchestra. The program opened with Beethoven’s funeral march from the Eroica symphony and a eulogy praised Comee’s honesty, industry, humor, and cordial nature.
Freshman class of Massachusetts Agricultural College held a banquet at the American House after riding from Amherst in a chartered freight train to dodge sophomores. The sophomores kidnapped Caldwell and Covall, leaders among the freshmen, but their classmates recovered them at an empty Westhampton summer hotel early yesterday morning.
Roswell B. Burchard, speaker of the Rhode Island House of Representatives, was seriously injured in a collision between a taxicab and an electric car on Boylston Street near Arlington Street. He suffered a deep gash, was unconscious, and treated at Dr. Ingoldsby’s office before being taken to the Hotel Lenox. The taxi driver John Boucher escaped with minor bruises.
President Taft orders that unclassified laborers in the civil service may be assigned to classified work. The directive reverses Roosevelt policy set on March 30, 1905.
In Pittsfield on Wednesday night Deacon John P. Sayles denounced a local gossip as the worst foe of society. He called for banishment to Siberia or infernal regions and accused her of breaking up marriages, sowing quarrels, and turning flock against minister and church. He warned gossip fuels libels and strife in the community.
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