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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1910
Page
6
A sealed verdict was returned by the jury in the Louise Jones larceny case. The trial, in Superior Criminal Court before Judge Sanderson, centered on jewelry valued at 3777 stolen from Herbert Fosdick at 124 Pembroke Street last April. The verdict will be opened this morning.
Anxiety grips observers as Captain Scott's Terra Nova is 11 days overdue at Cape Town after leaving Madeira on June 2. The expedition ship has not been heard from since then.
Myer Goldberg of Chicago aged 23 was sentenced at Bow Street to six months imprisonment and deportation from Britain for robbing the flat of James Edward Britt known as Jimmy Britt the former lightweight. The June robbery involved a gold watch and jeweled fob taken from Britt at the Olympic Club San Francisco while Britt watched the McFarland Goldswain fight.
A South End Post photo shows a wagons team with washed out lettering. The driver can claim five dollars in gold by identifying the team at the City Editor’s office within five days. Yesterday’s wagon was identified by driver Harry W Kil bride of 7 Parsons street Brighton and horses named Sam and Chub.
Telephone managers of the district and commercial departments with contract agents of the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company held their second annual convention at the Somer set Hotel. Over 100 attended the three day session covering Maine to Massachusetts with talks on development and toll revenue followed by a boat trip to Nantasket Beach.
Readers are invited to identify 108 American league players pictured in next Sunday’s Post. Correct identifications win prizes totaling 100 dollars. The panel includes H. E. Hughes IL P Lanthier F. R. Robinson and E. W. Pierce among the reception and administration staff.
United Shoe Machinery Company files three additional patent infringement suits in the U S Circuit Court against its rival Thomas G Plant and the Plant company. The cases cite Lombard and Taylor patents for automatic lasting machines and boot heel machines. ISM seeks injunctions and accounting with a hearing set for next month.
For the first time in three years, a brig entered Boston harbor yesterday. The 92 foot 166 ton Harry sailed from Yarmouth North Carolina carrying 820000 cedar shingles and 34000 feet of pine lumber. The 19 year old brig operates in the Provincial trade and is a rare surviving mercantile vessel now largely obsolete.
In Pittsfield on Aug 11 Miss Anna Norman daughter of Edward J Norman Lenox was stricken by appendicitis and required urgent aid. The Norman family is linked to Erskine Park estate once owned by George Westinghouse, with Mrs Westinghouse noted as a champion of the girl.
Upon learning of the girl's illness Mrs Westinghouse telephoned Hillcrest Hospital and sent her car to prepare an operating room. She rode with the patient to the hospital, stayed through the operation, and remained until Miss Norman recovered. She then visited with flowers from Lenox for the convalescent girl.
Government accounting error led the Treasury to pay out about 4000 dollars to a life interest holder in District of Columbia government stock and now to the residuary legatees. Comptroller Samuel J. Little’s heirs caused a ruling restoring the claim, with the government seeking recovery from the estate of Julia A. Burnell.
Population of New Haven Connecticut stands at 133 605 an increase of 95 578 or 23 7 percent from 1900 figures. The report notes the city’s growth since 1900 and provides a demographic snapshot.
Pittsfield, Aug 11. The Pittsfield Street Railway Company sent a bill for 1.38 to contractor Gott hart Taubert after his automobile was struck by a trolley on July 1. Taubert says he was blinded by the headlight and has instructed his attorney to consider suit, noting the rear spring damage and labor for repainting the trolley car.
Secretary J T Doyle of the U S Civil Service Commission has returned from Kansas City where he helped install the citys civil service system for municipal appointments under the new charter. He regards the system as admirable.
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