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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1911
Page
9
Nina Chinn Walker won the divorce from Civil Engineer James W. C. Walker U S N and was given custody of four children with alimony set at 300 dollars a month. Judge Baker reserved decision on future changes at decree entry.
Mrs. Walker once a Washington belle accuses her husband of long term intimacy with Mabel Cochrane a Boston waitress later kept as housekeeper in Charlestown Massachusetts Judge Baker Brant finds evidence of improper conduct by Mr Walker including bringing Miss Cochrane into the home while Mrs Walker was away and analyzes the correspondence to show intent to wrong.
A platform at Amasa Alden sign painting shop in Dedham Centre collapsed yesterday afternoon. Amasa Alden, 62, and Otis S. Guild, 71, were thrown ten feet and badly shaken.
An appeal proposes housing and comforts for needy widows within Warren Avenue Baptist Church parish. The ad warns the Attorney General may block Gur ney funds if nonmembers or nonresidents are aided, delaying the plan.
Jeremiah J McCarthy Boston Port surveyor was honored with a public dinner on retirement after 12 years in office. A committee of 126 prominent Boston figures arranged the event and provided a formal invitation and list of signers. The gathering recognized his efficient tenure and courteous dealings with the public.
The lettered invitation notes 12 years in office as collector Edwin A. Curtis replies to the committee. Roosevelt sent praise while praising staff efficiency at the port of Boston showing duties collected in recent years and low fraud. Other speakers laud Curtis for decades of service and character.
Retired General IF N Robinson plans a summer home search on the north shore after arriving from Panama aboard a banana boat. Notables at Boston hotels include O G Barron who recalls a Vancouver barber met in a lumber camp and Sanford B Dole visiting from Hawaii.
Officers seek the person who placed a lit cigarette stub in a mail box at the Hanover and Prince streets corner causing a fire that damaged part of the mail. Smoke appeared shortly after 1 pm and a bucket of water extinguished the blaze.
A beautiful color reproduction of Henry Holiday's Dante and Beatrice is included with every copy of next Sunday's Post, praised as frame-worthy and visually appealing.
Pat Teeling, an inmate at the State Hospital for the Insane in Agnew California, climbed a 65 foot smoke stack yesterday and jumped into the stack, killing himself.
Brockton April 25 Charles H Jackson Brockton's 550 pound world fat man plans a 30 week tour of cities to exhibit his weight but says he cannot go without wife Laura A Jackson who tends him and laces his shoes daily She notes she loves him and cites the Fat Men's Club reception in Boston as proof of support.
Harrisburg April 26 Representative F H Knight of Clarion county proposes a bill requiring every adult who wishes to drink wine, spirits, malt or brewed liquors in Pennsylvania to obtain an annual license at five dollars. Knight estimates up to a million people would buy licenses, yielding about five million dollars yearly in revenue.
A proposal would prohibit issuing licenses to habitual drunkards and make serving intoxicating drinks to an unlicensed patron a misdemeanor. The measure targets licensing as a control on alcohol sales and emphasizes compliance penalties.
In Buffalo on April 25 an eight pound tom cat was executed after health officials linked it to a diphtheria outbreak among Front avenue children. The cat was seized with police help and a throat culture confirmed the diagnosis.
Miss Elizabeth M. Peterson of New Britain packed hinges for shipment and enclosed her name and address. The slip reached Frederick M. North of Los Angeles, California, and the couple will marry tomorrow in New Britain.
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