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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1909
Page
4
In Constantinople on August 8 the Yildiz Kiosk Commission probes the deposed Sultan Abdul Hamid s palace revelations grow starker. Histories of the harem shift from fiction to fact as 1300 inmates are cited, with 11 young women accompanying Hamid to Salonica.
Ottoman law bars the sultan from formal marriage to any house of equal status, leaving official mothers who bear children to the king without legal wives. Since Abdul Hamid’s deposition, reforms pursue unknown parents among hare m’s women, with some sent to officials or villas and pensions. Many fled to Europe. 18 were sent back from Paris, 31 reached London and enjoy Western life despite Turkish requests to return.
Paris reports a bizarre loss case as a gentleman leaves a tiny $5000 package on an omnibus seat. The tube contains radium salts and will insure for life the finder who opens it. Its emanations cause incurable wounds, with the fate of the finder as deadly as a cigarette.
The three daughters of Milton Young, a noted Kentucky turfman, have left Lexington to join the Sacred Heart Convent in Albany New York. They left home to take their veils voluntarily.
Dr J H Jowett of Birmingham England assailed President Eliot Harvard University during a Northfield conference of Christian workers. He argued Eliot's views deny human guilt essential to religious doctrine, a charge tied to the morning address before overflow crowds.
Paris reports a rising human hair market with a bull run and cornered stock. The Limoges fair has ended as dealers form long term contracts. Rising prices stem from shortage of fine blonde hair and peasant girls reluctant to part with it.
Ex Judge Joseph R. Clarkson returns to Kenosha after three week absence and will abandon legal practice to take up hard manual labor as a wood chopper. Wealthy friends plan to send him to a farm near Kenosha under guard to pursue the laboring life.
St. Boniface's Catholic Church pastor Rev. J D Metzler refuses admission to women unless they wear hats citing first Corinthians. The policy affects St Pauls Church in Edwardsville area and was reported from St Louis on August 8.
The New York New Haven Hartford railroad plans a massive arch bridge over the East River as the first step in a Penn New Haven rail merger. The project features a 1000 foot arch, 220 foot towers, granite abutments, and a 1700 foot viaduct across Ward's Island. The alignment would link Randall's Island to Astoria and connect to future tunnels under the East River and Hudson, enabling direct freight and passenger paths from the South and West to Manhattan and Long Island.
Word from France describes a gunless projectile for aerial warfare. It rises higher than Krupp field guns and airships, ascending like a skyrocket until its propelling power ends when the bomb detonates. Defenses would be ineffective due to lack of armor on airships.
Anxiety grips Glace Bay as 4000 minersidle awaiting UMWA recognition news. Reported plans say Springhill miners may be ordered out tomorrow and Sydney Mines workers soon after, potentially affecting 3000 to 4000 men across key centres.
John Kite, called the Paul Revere of West Alton in St. Charles county, rode at dawn on flood day to alert villagers. He warned residents to flee as the Mississippi and Missouri rivers advanced from two directions toward the community.
John Kite sounded the alarm as Missouri River breached the Burlington embankment at 4 a.m. He rode to homes and farms warning residents to evacuate. Superintendent Frank Lowden dispatched a special train from the Alton bridge to move refugees. By noon West Alton capitulated to the flood.
Walter Jordan of Weymouth and Frances Allen of Boston wed after obtaining a Providence license and a ceremony by Rev. James Mitchell. Both active in church work at the People's Temple in Boston, their engagement had been announced June 17 in Brockton. The couple plan a September double celebration with a silver wedding toast from their families.
Thaw asserts that eighteen alienists declared him sane and that even the world’s greatest expert says Tam sane. He claims insanity at the Stanford White killing followed by a return to sanity and vows to stay sober and avoid firearms after release.
Harry K. Thaw declares in a public statement that his behavior has been normal for three years and that eighteen alienists deemed him sane. He says he will stay calm after release, avoid liquor or firearms, and plans to travel to Europe before returning to Pittsburgh for business.
Pittsburg reports H C Frick decided to build his East End project 13 stories high after a poker game where he won $13 000 with 13 minutes to the hour. An architect’s note and club chatter tie the number 13 to the plan as he declares it lucky.
Reports from Labrador via the fisheries cruiser Fiona say the coast guard blockade of ice has closed the Labrador fisheries. If not quickly removed, a serious crisis looms for about 25,000 men and their dependents.
E 8 O Reilly begins a 2500 mile horseback journey from San Antonio to Washington to invite President Taft to visit Texas this fall. He wears cowboy dress riding Aransas, presented by C P Taft. A cowboy delegation escorts him as he departs with a waving farewell.
Salt Lake City hosts the 43rd annual encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic as hundreds of veterans arrive from Maine New Hampshire and Vermont. Department headquarters open and delegations pitch tents amid lit Civil War hero displays. About 12 000 veterans expected to parade Wednesday with campfires nightly and four concerts at the Mormon Tabernacle. Names mentioned include former Governor Van Sant of Minnesota and ex Attorney General William Ketcham of Indiana as possible commander in chief.
Adam Sackon aged 22 of 8 Cross Street had a narrow escape when a dynamite cap on a nearby table ignited from a lit match. He suffered lacerated wounds to both hands and was treated at Relief Hospital after stumbling toward his door.
Daniel W. Hamilton of 403 Walnut Newton and Miss Rene Hazel Green of 19 Netherlands Brookline eloped to Providence on Saturday and wed. Hamilton, 21, runs his late father C. W. Hamilton’s shoe business at 183 Essex. Bride Rene Green, daughter of Samuel Green, is a tall brunette. The telegram announced the ceremony by Rev. A. Mitchell. Hamilton is nephew of Bishop John W. Hamilton.
The Fog-Fogg-Fogge family will hold its sixth reunion on September 9 and 10 at the Quincy House. About 2000 members have received invitations from secretary Mrs. A J Fogg to attend. The family lineage traces back to 1083.
Four year old Morris Goldberg fell from a roof at 29 Mayo Street yesterday afternoon. He was found unconscious and died at City Hospital two hours later. He was the son of Joseph Goldberg, a tailor.
Cunard Steamship Company plans to dispose of the steamers Umbria and Etruria laid up at Birkenhead. Built by John Elder & Co, the ships entered service in 1884 and 1885, each 600 feet long and 8120 tons with 14000 engine HP for 19 knots. They were among the first to cross the Atlantic in under seven days, except for the Oregon.
Charles P. Taft, brother of President Taft, is set to add a Rembrandt to his Cincinnati collection. Negotiations led by Scott & Fowles of New York concluded this week, finalizing the purchase of the artwork known as the Pourtales Rembrandt.
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