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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1906
Page
10
Women’s tan Russia calf, enamel and patent leather low shoes and tennis outing shoes priced down from $2.50 to $6.00. Focus on the sale of patent leather and rus sia calf footwear in broken lots marked on the bargain table.
A deadly heat wave leaves Bostonians sweating through a second brutal day. Victims include Thomas Coan found on a Washington Street roof and David Dillon, four, fatally struck by an ice wagon as families struggle for relief. Other men perish at the Cunard wharf and in a Beach Street elevator accident as hospitals overflow and responders labor nonstop.
Bank troubles deepen as First National Bank officers face accusations of self dealing and forgery. Looted safety deposit boxes target depositors with Lydia Herman reporting $150 taken as investigators pursue Stensland suspected of fleeing toward Canada.
Theodore Stensland a second year student at Harvard who graduated in 1899 wrote many lyrics for the Pi Eta operas and led in them for several years. He was famed for his strength and stature and his actors performances helped popularize the Pi Eta plays.
In Egypt on Dreamwold estate, the body of Mrs. Thomas W. Lawson was carried to a cottage near the home for temporary repose until a marble tomb is built nearby. The service was Episcopalian and attended only by family, with Mr. Lawson grief stricken and staying by her side throughout.
The case centers on Samuel L. Bailen a Boston area newsboy turned lawyer who inherits Miss Georgiana Harris 25000 property after her death in Auburndale The will survived probate court disputes as contestants sought to challenge undue influence and the Supreme Judicial Court drew no compromise.
Boston travelers Henry Sears Hoagland aged 33 a traveling salesman and Grace Rowe Crawford aged 21 of Boston obtained a marriage license in Providence Rhode Island. Hoagland’s father Pratt R. Hoagland a Boston physician resides at the Clifton Hotel in Salem. Crawford’s father is Frank J. Crawford of Boston. Grace was born in Gloucester.
Colorado River breaks banks flood Brownwood and nearby towns as the Canadian and Washita rivers reach their highest levels in years. Rail service lags with trains running behind schedule and Francis Bridge near Francis reported out. Local industry includes pecan shipments and several mills.
A severe rainstorm drenched Ardmore and surrounding areas overnight and today. Flooding washed out tracks of the Gulf Colorado and Santa Fe railroad north of Paoli, while rivers and low areas overflowed, threatening transportation and local roads.
International Vice-President John R. Alpine of the Boston Gas Fitters and related unions seeks the USB presidency. Ward 18 Wage Earners Club formed. Ward 14 meets at J Frank O Hares Fourth Street home. Boston Barbers Union 182 admits 28 applicants. Parade planned for 800 workers on Labor Day. Harry Noble elected business agent of Boston Painters Union 11. Louis Ash named business agent of Clothing Pressmen's Union. Steam Fitters Helners Union votes for Labor Day with Building Trades Council.
A Brownwood special reports severe flooding near Fort Worth with 200 people homeless. Water stood within three feet of the 1900 high mark, flooding a 30 mile by 2 to 4 mile strip with three to 10 feet of water. Rail tracks washed out, a pile driver with 200 laborers halted.
Millicent Thayer sues Mrs Florence Kitchen and Stephen R. Jones for ten years of services as companion to Major Auguste Roland, a French aristocrat and former army major, claiming a promised will and marriage plans were thwarted by family estrangement and a disputed will after Roland’s death.
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