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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1907
Page
7
Marian refuses a bore fiancé and pursues her art in Camden New Jersey. A feared father’s drinking and a late night chase lead to a dramatic railroad tragedy. Dick intervenes saving Marian and her ailing father. Marian’s fear turns to love as temptation yields to responsibility and romance.
Oldtown Me Aug 14 A dress suitcase stuffed with thousands in new ten dollar gold certificates and five dollar treasury notes totaling 4700 led to the arrest of 16 year old Winfield Marson once a Chicopee National Bank clerk. Deputy Sheriff Radcliffe detained him on a July 29 bank theft charge.
Diphtheria has struck the Tatnuck Country Clubhouse in Worcester and the Board of Health has quarantined the facility for at least a week. Members are barred from entering while officials assess danger and trace contacts after a domestic contracted diphtheria.
Marson arrives on the Camden at Bangor July 31 and meets Charles W. Livermore at the pier. He stays as a boarder at Livermore's Bradley home after persuasion. Suspicion grows when Livermore demands his departure and a room examination uncovers a dress suitcase bulging with new money.
Judge E S Hall of the District Court of Eastern Franklin survives a morning blaze that destroyed his barn and damaged the house at 81 Mechanic Street. The barn burned fully including the judge's horse while the house contents were lost. Mrs Hall woke him after smoke filled a upstairs room. The judge had stored money and papers in his vest which burned except for the pocket. Suspicion of incendiary origins surrounds the fire. The judge also serves as treasurer of the People's Co operative Bank.
The Cambridge bridge naming debate draws many suggestions from readers of the Post Bridge Editor. A baseball fan advocates "The Bridge of Cy's" honoring Cy Youngs, while others back "Roosevelt" or "McKinley" as fitting titles. Young readers push for "Longfellow Bridge" after poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and residents from Boston and Cambridge submit letters praising various names, though officials note the bridge is officially named Cambridge Bridge.
The Finance Commission and John Martin inspected Deer, Long, Gallups and Rainsford Islands harbor facilities yesterday. Superintendent English entertained on Long Island. A follow-up inspection is planned with sub-committees meeting at City Hall this afternoon.
Charles H. Conant, 82 Sewall Avenue Brookline, escaped attendants and plunged into Marine Park water in South Boston. He tore off his clothes but was saved from self harm after a severe struggle by Jerome Reilly of the City Point Corps, U S Volunteer Life Saving Corps. Conant, a Brookline resident, has long been mentally unsound. He was taken to Station 6 and then City Hospital after rescue.
Fire swept Island House in Bellows Falls on August 14 destroying the former hotel and causing about 20000 dollars in damage to adjacent firms in the block. The blaze started from a kerosene burner on a linotype machine in the printing plant of P. H. Gobie.
Washington August 14 charges of gross discrimination were made against the Lehigh Valley Railway Company in a complaint filed with the Interstate Commerce Commission by the Reliance Coal Company of Pittston Pennsylvania.
Mrs Abbie Hoxie wife of painter Joseph E Hoxie sues Mrs Mary Walker widow of Arthur W Walker for 50000 alleging alienation of her husband's affections Henry F Hollis and S W Emery Jr counsel for Hoxie Walker denies any settlement negotiations and claims innocence.
The Hague Zionist Congress opened with 400 people at Adath Jeshurun synagogue. Rabbi B H Rosengard urged American Jews to unite and regain Palestine under European protection. Rabbi M M Hischler stressed teaching Jewish customs and language to bolster Zionism as a leading power. Other speakers included Rabbi P I Israelite, Leo J Lyons, and Julius Meyer.
Funeral services were held yesterday from St Hugh's Chapel for Mary Roach a longtime Grove Hall resident She is survived by two daughters and one son who mourn her loss and were left to mourn deeply
Preparations are complete for Prince Wilhelm of Sweden to visit America aboard the armored cruiser Fylgia. He will attend dinners and balls in Norfolk Newport and New York, meet officials, and tour Harvard and Oyster Bay before sailing to Sweden on Sept 3. The visit includes engagements with Swedes in America, university entertainments, and Governor Guild and President Roosevelt receptions.
James H. Kidder, a Harvard man with F. L. Dabney & Co., will entertain Prince Wilhelm at a luncheon at the Somerset Club on August 26. He is connected with the brokerage house at 50 Congress Street.
Brighton August 14 Miss Dora W Johnson eighteenth daughter of Mrs Lucretia Johnson of 147 School street ran away Monday evening and was heard of yesterday. She is in New York on a ten days honeymoon and her mother learned today that Dora married yesterday morning in New Bedford to Russell R Baker of that city. The mother received a letter from Dora asking forgiveness.
In Providence on August 14 investigators linked a string of fires that have destroyed property worth over a million dollars to a method using a small bottle of a lime and gunpowder compound sold as cigar lighters. A uncorked bottle near a blaze contained the volatile mixture, reacting fiercely with water. Police trace sales to a local drug store.
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