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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1907
Page
3
Augustus St Gaudens is honored in a private funeral at his Cornish studio Aspet attended by notable artists from across the East. tributes come from Kenyon Cox Percy Mackaye and Arthur B Whiting. services led by Rev O B Emerson. remains interred at Ascutney Cemetery Windsor near Senator Evans.
Wilfred W Currant ,33, of Charlestown, arrested yesterday by Inspectors Wolff, Rooney and McCauley on a warrant for larceny of 30 barrels of potatoes from the New York New Haven and Hartford railroad. He was driving an express team and reportedly said he was glad to be arrested to end his worry.
Waltham Aug 7 Patrick J Carney 50 of 51 Bedford Street Boston was struck by the Ayer express while working on tracks near Riverview station. He died en route to Waltham Hospital leaving a widow and five children. He had 25 years service as a section hand and foreman for Fitchburg and Boston & Maine railroads.
Edward Arris of Chambersburg Pa recounts years of scalp eczema with hair loss and crusting. After two doctors failed, he used Cuticura Remedies and within two weeks the sores vanished and in four weeks he felt fully cured. He still uses Cuticura Resolvent as a spring tonic.
Relief and cure for eczema rashes itchings irritations and inflammations of the skin scalp and blood are claimed with warm baths using Cuticura Soap gentle Cuticura Ointment and mild Cuticura Resolvent or Pills. Prices listed for soap ointment and pills plus chocolate coated pills option. Potter Drug and Chem Corp advertises free Cuticura Book on Skin Diseases.
A modern Lady Godiva representation rode through Coventry as a vaudeville actress posed as living statuary. The pageant drew 80,000 to 100,000 spectators with clergy leaving town over concerns of nudity.
In a dramatic five setter Colston defeats W J Clothier, current national champion, 7-5 0-6 6-8 5-7 6-4 as the Eastern doubles cup singles narrow toward conclusion. Grant, Neel, Little and Westfall advance in fourth and fifth rounds amid tense afternoon play and hard fought doubles matches.
Governor Curtis Guild Jr., named admiral of the Massachusetts Navy, will wear his ceremonial uniform at Jamestown next week. Details of the uniform and duties accompanying the visit were outlined by officials.
The Post reports Governor Guild, at the Jamestown exposition, may be honored as a US navy admiral by the Naval Brigade. After three days of research, he and Secretary Groves decide the Massachusetts Naval Brigade admiral uniform mirrors the commander in chief’s: a high hat, frock coat, light gray striped trousers and patent leather shoes, with pearl-gray necktie and Sons of the Revolution button. No side-arms.
Aug. 7 Swampscott team Cahoon Claim challenges Saugus Lighthouse to a championship clash on the diamond. The Cahoon Claim and the Saugus Lighthouse, famed in local lore, will contest the Mishtown Hayfield league title after the challenge was accepted last night.
The Massachusetts State Board of Registration in Medicine announced 92 of 142 applicants passed the recent exams for medical certificates. The list includes Louis R. McDonald, Stanislaus P. O'Brien, Charles B. Tetrault, Eveline Dickinson, Paul Nettle, Gelen Howland, Harrison Healy, and many others.
Atlantic City N J Aug Today Ventnor Beach races feature several events Monte Roberts in a 120 horsepower car failed to beat the mile record of 34 seconds, clocking 39 1 5. George Elliott beat R G Kelsey 1 09 1 5 in a match race. H J Edwards won a roadster race with A H Whiting second and G H Smith third, Edwards 1 14.
The hunt at Wolf's Clothier corner Hanover and Portland streets draws many, with the search proving highly profitable for participants and introducing a new standard of value to those who join in.
In Cleveland on August 7 the 387th annual session of the Catholic Total Abstinence Union of America opened with a solemn pontifical mass at the Cathedral led by Rt. Rev. Bishop Horstmann and assisted by Archbishops Ryan Ireland and Keane. Nearly 1000 delegates then gathered at the Chamber of Commerce for business as Bishop Canevin called the meeting to order. Speakers included J Washington Logue secretary, Mrs. Leonora Lake, and Rev. Patrick O'Brien of Toledo. A requiem for deceased members is planned for tomorrow morning, with the day continuing and a reception at Euclid Park Log Cabin in the evening.
Mystery surrounds the midnight wedding of socialite Miss Anna L. Sea bury and Henry Taylor aboard the yacht Whim off Block Island. The Rev. Robert Harris officiated after a late request for a license and clergyman. witnesses included the bride’s mother. The vessel sailed to Newport soon after.
Julia Powell, a 10 to 1 outsider, won the Spinaway Stakes for two year old fillies at Saratoga, defeating a strong field by a length. Starina and Adriana, Whitney entries and favorites, finished third and Adriana half a length behind Half Sovereign. Three favorites won elsewhere, with Far West, Sheriff Williams, Tom Dolan, Dick Finnell and All Alone posting victories.
New York August 7 The metropolitan track and field championships set for Travers Island on August 24 promise to be the summer’s biggest affair. Most event results are in doubt with only three likely foregone conclusions the half mile the three mile and the discus throw led by Melvin Sheppard George Bonhag and Martin Sheridan of the Irish-American A C who appear unbeatable.
George E. Dresser of 883 Broadway South Boston becomes a convert to the Cooper theory that the stomach causes most disease. He credits Cooper medicines with curing gastritis pleurisy and heart trouble after a single bottle and says he now works at night and eats well after fifteen years of illness.
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