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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1902
Page
4
Summary of the 11th District race with candidate Foss and Harvard Summer School results. Notes on Boston coal smoke nuisance and Labour Day plans. North End Improvement Association activity and Charlesbank Gymnasium girl athletes in action. Medford contortionist sold his body twice for one hundred dollars.
Attorney George A Lamb testified that Power acted as plaintiff with Captain Henry Stern as go between in a bid to keep the case hidden and named W Rourke Cochran Camille Weidenfeld Hi Content and Co and Edwin R Thomas as connected sponsors The witness Power said he believed he received 100 shares of stock as payment for the use of his name and that the real parties would remain under cover The hearing resumes next Tuesday under orders to remit Power's 30 day contempt sentence if possible.
The battleship Maine arrived in Boston Harbor and docked at President's Roads after a royal salute from passing craft. A trial over the Cape Ann course is set for tomorrow with Captain Buckman and J Harry Mull in charge, under naval and engineering boards.
The vaudeville actress Bessie Bonehill died in Portsmouth England today after an operation for cancer. Accompanied by her husband W R Seeley and her son she had toured Europe since last September for an eight month engagement. She began on stage at age six and rose to fame in New York with Tony Pastor in 1889 after a London start.
G R Parkin of Upper Canada College proposes American scholarships as a pendant to Cecil Rhodes's gift. He discusses funding 200 Oxford students at $1500 yearly from a fund yielding $800,000 annually and advocates American donor involvement to support 100 U S scholarships for English youths.
Maurice Higgins, an Eastport sailor, pleaded guilty in Municipal Court to a stabbing spree in the North End that injured four Italians including a woman. Judge Wentworth sentenced him to one year at the South Boston House of Correction.
Federal authorities announce what they call the citys largest green goods roundup. Five men and a woman detained, and a Newark plant captured. Trailers steered victims with small trunks and fake money, while green paper and letters were found at the scene. Bail set at 2500 for each suspect.
J Pierpont Morgan and partner Charles Steele left the Corsair near Thirty-fourth Street and boarded a naptha launch for the landing. Morgan wore a gray suit from Europe and kept a lively pace, visiting his physician at West Thirty-fifth Street before heading to his Madison Avenue home and a busy Wall Street morning.
A lone thief raided six lodging houses between 2 30 and 5 yesterday morning in the South End. He stole jewelry, money, a gold rope neck chain, and watches from multiple homes on Dwight Ware Taylor and Clarendon Berkeley streets. Police describe the suspect as about 20 years old, 5 feet 7 inches, 150 pounds, in a dark suit with a black soft felt hat.
King Alfonso stirred clergy in Leon by joking about saints' remains then played the organ a chant. He abruptly switched to a march and commanded all to march. On leaving, he vaulted a low fence and urged the aged dean to follow, noting it was physically impossible.
The Hon. George von N Meyer, ambassador to Italy and visiting here, is rapidly recovering from a recent operation. He must remain absolutely quiet for a week or ten days in a private city hospital.
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