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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1906
Page
5
The Boston Common crowd heard varied creeds from socialist tenets to a Chinese preacher and a boy quoting scripture. Anxiety grows over Peary’s polar expedition as Wellman’s airship launch faces delays awaiting precise preparations.
Charles Shute a Malden milkman residing on Ferry street fell from his wagon on Main street near Pine Banks before daylight. His horse wandered to the roadside struck a post causing Shute to be thrown head first and he lay unconscious. He is confined to bed with concussion feared.
A Telegraph avenue trolley car packed with Berkeley Idora Park spectators collided with a Key Route electric train at Fortieth street crossing. Twenty were injured, two may die, including James St. Johns and L Bloom of Oakland. The car carried most SF and LA baseball team members who had just played at Idora Park.
The body of W. W. H. Hyres, secretary of the National Board of Trade of Kansas City, was found in a field. Hyres had confessed to a director that he was short $10,000 in his accounts and died by his own hand amid financial difficulties after speculating in grain.
Malden mayor notices a scarcity of clergymen on the east side as five ministers resign for greener posts. Notables include Rev Charles S MacFarland moving to Norwalk Rev Albert Danker retiring Rev H L Torbett to East Boston and Rev Henry A Barber to Rye New Hampshire. Committees hold weekly meetings to fill vacancies.
Steam er Alice Howard with excursionists ran aground in the Cocheco River below Dover New Hampshire. The ship lost her propeller and appears injured. Passengers were removed safely and tugs will attempt to refloat at high water. The 77 ton vessel is owned by the Atlantic Shore line of Portsmouth.
Daivville Aug 12 Vanderbilts Maintenon won the Longchamps stakes worth 12500 dollars and his Madge captured the Yacowlef stakes for two year olds at Deauville.
Horace Dickson Mayhew, son of Horace Mayhew of Broughton Hall, Wigan, Lancashire, England and president of the Cape Breton Iron and Railway Company, committed death by his own action by cutting his throat before a mirror in his Mira, Nova Scotia apartments. A coroner's jury found temporary insanity. Await disposal instructions from England.
Portland Maine August 12 157 stray dogs were rounded up under Marshal Waterhouse and killed at the gas box, setting a new season record for the dog catching unit.
A Boston man guides the American Federation of Labor in a campaign against House members deemed anti labor. Gompers and Morrison head the effort with adviser Robert Tracy, aiming at Littlefield and other judiciary committee members who opposed the anti injunction and eight hour measures.
Paris dispatches say the Sultan suffers from hemorrhages and officials report a chill last week. Ambassadors monitor the palace as health updates show slight improvement but officials warn against sensational reports and say the Selamlik was abandoned.
London gossip confirms Princess Henry of Battenberg is soon to join the Roman Catholic church. The move could spark church circle discussion, given her history of attending mass abroad and influence from ex Empress Eugenie. Bishop Brindle and Father Bernhard Vaughan are noted close friends.
The labor day parade aims for its largest run in years with over 100 unions participating. Joyce of the C L U is named chief marshal and Peter H McNeally of the C L U is marshal of the first division, while Michael O Meara will command the K of L division. The Building Trades Council sought inclusion but the C L U declined citing a July 30 agreement creating a separate building trades section.
Market Street Teamsters report dampens Chicago convention disorder rumors as Cornelius Shea is re elected international president and Boston will host the 1907 convention. Labor Day parades are arranged by Boston freight handlers and Charlestown longshoremen with 800 to 1000 marchers in white shirts and flags. Bay State Lodge 102 mulls amalgamation with Star of the East Lodge to form a 1000 member union for NY NH&L shops.
Clinton records report Andrew E. Ford aged 33 the principal of Clinton High School died today of empyema. He was a North Abington native a graduate of Amherst College and leaves a widow two sons and a daughter.
A two story wooden building occupied by Peacock & Sons packing case manufacturers burned after 10 am at the corner of D and Bullock streets. Firemen contained the blaze after an hour with $2000 loss. a bystander, William H. Mellody, 37, was injured by a moving ladder and treated at home.
Report from Boston notes a sweltering morning with 84 degree heat and high humidity. By noon the air dried, humidity fell, and residents joked about not leaving for milder climes while lamenting the cost of living.
A free purse demonstration begins today at Houghton and Cruttons offering X Zalia a liquid claimed to heal sores and grow healthy flesh. Nurses will be available to advise anyone with skin eruptions or pimples.
A Somerville alarm mixup caused a shed fire at 8 Mystic Avenue to be reported from Box 18 while the system registered Box 15 a mile away. Fire crews responded to the wrong box, then a second alarm brought most apparatus to the scene where Charlestown crews fought a stiff fire in a rear shed causing about 400 dollars in damage.
Classified style notice markets a supposed cure called X Zalia with instructions to buy a bottle, keep a sore wet, and request a free booklet from X Zalia Corp. at 55 Batterymarch Boston. It presents dubious self treatment guidance and direct readers to a promotional address.
Dorchester police searched 16 Penhallow street after George F. Eddy reported burglars in his house. Officers scoured upstairs and downstairs and found no intruders, later learned the danger was a forgotten gas light.
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