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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1902
Page
10
In Newport Rhode Island Aug Herman and Mrs Hunnewell avoid comment at their summer home. A Hunnewell family friend says Mr Hunnewell will not oppose his wife’s divorce suit, suggesting a likely amicable outcome.
East Boston readies for a major water carnival at Wood Island Park with 200 plus top New England swimmers. Mayor Collins and Lt Governor Bates are invited as authorities plan for 15,000 attendees, with police and harbor units coordinating crowd control and course safety.
Secretary Moody of the navy meets with the congressional naval affairs committee at Charlestown Navy Yard and sails on the Dolphin to Newport News. Attending members include Senators Hale of Maine and Foss of Illinois and Representatives Cannon Day ton Meyer Roberts and Payne, plus others on naval and appropriations panels.
James A. Cochran issues a public letter to Republican voters in the first Suffolk district announcing the withdrawal of his candidacy for state senator. He states his decision and urges supporters to consider alternative candidates.
The proceedings in the brewery injunction case resume with Colonel Pfaff of the Massachusetts Breweries Company detailing unfinished plant value and post strike downturn. He cites a boycott threat and notes saloon circulars while witness Patrick J. O Callahan reveals financial backing from Suffolk Brewery Company. The master, Samuel K. Hamilton, hears defense witnesses and saloon-keepers favor union signs, with expectations that arguments begin Monday after the hearings conclude.
Governor Kimball testified against Andrew F Power of the Exporters Association of America in Center street court over alleged misused funds and stock subscriptions. Magistrate Flammer refused a warrant for Power’s arrest, prompting Power to hurry from the courtroom as Hunt, the governor’s attorney, prepared other papers.
The Catholic Total Abstinence Union adjourned at noon in Dubuque Iowa to meet next year at Pittsburgh Pennsylvania August 5 6 and 7 All the old officers were re elected except Rev J W Shanley of Hartford Connecticut was chosen president A cablegram from Rome conveyed apostolic blessings.
Miss Ethel Davies will wed Archibald C. Thacher in All Saints Chapel amid grand Newport preparations. The event draws high society guests, a 300 guest wedding breakfast at Pinecroft, and lavish gifts from prominent families including the Vanderbilts Goulds and Sloanes.
Detectives search Brant Rock for diamonds valued at 500 to 600 dollars stolen from Mrs. Ka ward Hixon of Cambridge. She says she hid the jewels while bathing and returned to find the earrings pried open and the stones gone.
Doctors at Harlem Hospital report Joseph Tiernan, son of former New York baseball figure Silent Mike Tiernan, recovered from lockjaw after a July 4 self inflicted hand wound. Antitoxin was injected into the spinal cord, jaw relaxed by the fifteenth day.
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