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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1909
Page
4
A list of discounted garments appears with prices reduced from 3.50 to 0.50. Items include Linene suits in green blue and pink, striped gingham dresses, black mohair bathing suits, white linene skirts, lisle and cotton vests, children's ribbed hose, and women's ribbed pants with marked sale prices.
The two masted schooner Cora May from St John New Brunswick with a lumber cargo drifted onto rocks off Bird Island yesterday afternoon. Tugs worked all day to pull her off but failed. A fresh attempt to float the craft will be made today.
Washington Aug 11 A cable from the chief of engineers reports a slight decrease in Panama Canal excavation for July compared with June and with July 1908. The notice highlights reduced earth removal as work continues on the canal project.
W H Scott prominent in Haverhill and a member of the Haverhill Lodge of Masons arrived in Lawrence Tuesday afternoon and rented a room on Essex street. He ended his life last night by taking cyanide of potassium.
Toulon reports the minister of marine Admiral de la Payrere is pleased with gunnery trials. The armored cruiser Conde and the battleship Iena, scarred by a 1907 explosion, are used in the tests.
Mrs. M. Goodwin of 45 Newbury Street Portland Maine seeks her brother Fred Maxwell who disappeared more than ten years ago. Maxwell was a clothing salesman and last worked in Trenton New Jersey or Ashley Bank New Jersey.
Gifford Pinchot United States forester and National Conservation Commission chair faces possible removal as conflict with Cabinet grows. He attacked Taft Ballinger forest policy at Spokane irrigation congress while Ballinger and Taft back the Interior Secretary. Pinchot had planned to stay in government, but his recent speech signals ongoing friction and potential resignation pressure.
The Church of the Most Holy Redeemer East Boston hosts an annual reunion and field day at Point of Pines on Wednesday Aug. 18 with track and swimming events. Matthew J. Leary directs activities under A A U sanction. Prizes include gold and silver watches and bronze medals with cups for swimming. Notables Pooch Donovan of Harvard and John Mack of Yale assist. events include 100 and 440 yard dashes 80 yard dash 1 mile run running broad jump and team races. Swimming features 100 and 440 yard dashes closed to East Boston 220 yard dash 1 mile and obstacle races open to all. Entry blanks available at the office or with Matt Leary Wood Island Park East Boston.
Miss Abbie V. Judkins married Frederick A. Weaver at the Judkins home in Lynn. Weaver, a noted local pianist and vocalist, is prominent in Lynn social circles and also an accomplished horsewoman.
The Home Furnishers Association of Massachusetts held its annual outing at Nantasket Beach with 125 members attending. A monster banquet at Paragon Park featured speakers from the Chamber of Commerce and furniture trade journals. The event focused on business methods and closer organization. Officers were President L. Kincaide, first vice president H. R. Be, Treasurer F. T. A. McLeod, and Secretary Alonzo E. Yont.
A. B. Hoffman & Sons factory at 500 Boston Street in Lynn burned, destroying two main buildings and a boiler house. The blaze displaced about 200 workers, with losses estimated at 225000 dollars, possibly 140000 covered by insurance. Fire authorities and neighbors aided residents left in night attire.
Beverly August 11 President Taft hires a Boston masseur Dr Walker to reduce his weight. He weighs 326 pounds and undergoes a 30 minute treatment before a plan to shed at least 30 pounds by summer’s end.
John Sweeney, 30, attempted to scale a Connecticut Power & Transmission Tower in Royalston Aug 11. He received a severe electric shock and suffered a compound skull fracture as he reached for the 60,000 volt wire, likely fatal.
Belgrade August reports say Crown Prince Alexander was targeted by his brother Prince George after a bomb near the prince’s residence. Local residents condemn the attempted assassination as the investigation unfolds.
Valparaiso August 11 the naval council has urged the government to authorize the construction of two Dreadnought type battleships and proceed with the program to strengthen the fleet.
Firefighters Fleming and Acres of Engine 87 were overcome by smoke while battling a basement blaze at 890 Huntington Avenue Roxbury. A kerosene lamp toppled fuel and spread flames to inflammables. Levy escaped as burning oil shot away. The Morse estate store sustained about 600 dollars in damage. Traffic on Huntington Avenue was delayed about thirty minutes.
A stage coach on the Meredith to Sandwich route overturned after horses bolted down a steep Centre Harbor hill. Edwin A. Richards of Lincoln Nebraska, about 70, broke a collarbone and several ribs. Mrs. I S Blanchard of Dayville Connecticut suffered a compound wrist fracture and possible internal injuries. Both were treated at a Meredith hotel by physicians Newell Nutting Mary Nutting and F L Hawkins.
A midnight blaze at 499 Southampton Street South Boston sent smoke from the second floor. A man awakened Mrs Alice Stanton and guided her family and other third floor occupants to safety before firefighters arrived. The first floor was unoccupied and the blaze caused 3600 in damage with no injuries. No cause was determined.
Mrs. J. W. Hunnewell of North Cambridge was swindled of $20 by an envelope game at her husband J. W. Hunnewell’s periodical store. A young man altered change from $27 in small bills to larger bills and returned an envelope with only $19 plus a stack of newspapers, claiming a mistake by a neighboring "doctor."
The ad touts Van Camp's condensed milk from Holstein cows, arguing milk solids and fats are preserved by evaporation, while mongrel cows produce inferior milk. It claims 28 percent solids and 8 percent butter fat, with 100 million cans sold annually, and warns against sugar heavy condensed milks and unsweetened evaporated milks.
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