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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1911
Page
6
The Carrington Publishing Companyowner of the New Haven Journal and Couriergained judge approval to acquire the Palladium's property and goodwill. The Palladium, founded in 1828, will pass out of existence immediately, while the Journal-Courier assumes the goodwill from four-score years of continuous publication.
Ward E. Wright, 47, once a Bemis & Wright senior partner and prominent Lynn shoe maker, was brought to police headquarters with a confession to forging and uttering about 20 checks over the past year to survive, according to Inspectors Sheehan and O Louglin.
Wright confessed to passing small forged checks among longtime shoe trade associates. He claimed a 1907 panic cost him $49,000 and personal losses, including his wife and children leaving for California. He described drinking as his downfall, then forged four checks totaling $68.40 in late 1910. He was arrested after attempting a $29.75 cashing at Rosenberg Shoe Co. in Essex Street. He faces arraignment as warrants cover multiple cases.
The ad promotes Gets-It as a new corn cure that shrivels corns warts and bunions without harming healthy flesh. It claims painless, safe action and simple use with no plasters or bandages, priced 25 cents a bottle and sold in Chicago Boston and via mail order.
An old Oshkosh advertisement urges buyers to avoid imitations and seek genuine Waltham watches from Wilson Beetie Scollayewellers. It promotes the store as a safe repair and eye service hub with 10 watchmakers and 5 optical staff, open in evenings.
The old Court House on Court Square is being razed starting yesterday. Room 17, where fugitive slave Anthony Burns was hidden during a Boston abolitionist mob, will stay intact for at least a week while contractors proceed. The National Independent Political League plans a three day convention in the city next week. Some delegates may tour the Burns room with permission from the contractor.
Japanese naval hero Admiral Count Togo bade farewell at Niagara Falls as his private car began a transcontinental trip to Vancouver. He will spend a weekend in Seattle before returning to Japan, with U S and Canadian officials accompanying him on an unofficial Canadian leg.
The Cunarder Franconia leaves East Boston at 8 AM bound for Queenstown and Liverpool. The late-season voyage lists 532 passengers: 67 saloon, 175 second cabin, and 300 steerage. Among travelers are C Foster Bailey, Miss O W Crosby, Prof H Grandgent, Miss May Greenwood, Ernest Hiller, David Hutcheson, Miss Gwen Jones, Mrs Hedley Keefe, and Mr and Mrs James Leaween.
Mrs Theodore Williams and Mrs Williams of Boston note the Franconia will leave with only half her usual freight. The ship carries 41 000 bushels of wheat 300 tons of provisions 200 tons of flour 300 tons of lumber and other general freight.
Kenney operated car that fatally injured a pedestrian at the Washington and Compton street corner Saturday night. Kenney pleaded not guilty and Judge Bennett held him in $1000 bail for an Aug. 25 hearing.
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