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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1911
Page
5
Beattie murder trial continues with twelve witnesses recounting testimony from the coroner’s hearing. Sydney testified he saw a man resembling Beattie near the crime scene around sunset, while Tally and others described hearing screams and an automobile, with various details about the gun, blood, and the bearded assailant.
Tally and Briggs boy gave alibi and sighting details about a man at the roadside during the night of the murder near Richmond. Sydney described a brown clad young man in a large automobile who stopped near the blood spot and worked on a tire as Beattie’s car was linked to the crime.
Five months after the theft from Mrs. Minnie Button’s Roxbury apartment a cache of jewelry bank books money and cash was recovered. Harry Palmer 23 admitted taking items on April 29 and buried a tin box in the cellar. valuables were found there. He said he wanted the cash not the loot.
Stock taking nears adding fresh interest to the red tag sale at Wolf's My Clothier located at the corner of Hanover and Portland streets.
A race of people never seeing a white man or an Indian has been discovered in Arctic British Columbia by Vilhelm Stefansson head of the American Museum expedition that departed in April 1908. The finding comes via a letter received in Brooklyn.
Stefansson reports from Mouth of the Dense River on October 18, 1910 that his party has found people in a region thought uninhabited. They encountered Eskimo in speech and habits who are Scandinavians in appearance, touching off hopes about the Franklin expedition fate and the mystery of 1845 ships Erebus and Terror.
In Clinton on August 25 John Harrity 55 drowned after his rescuers dragged the capsized rowboat with his daughter Marla 2 unconscious from the water. The party’s third member Michael McLaughlin escaped harm. The capsizing was blamed on a seat change by a young woman.
The Weetamoe and Ancona cotton mills in Fall River closed with reopenings set for Sept. 18 and Sept. 11 respectively. The shutdowns, coupled with idleness at Fall River Iron Works and seven cotton mills plus Lake Mills, push total unemployed workers to about 7000 as other plants run on short hours.
The article recounts Kemp sending a radical Christmas poem to magazines via Sinclair who notes Kemp walked barefoot to imitate Christ. Kemp’s poverty made him relish acceptance, while Mrs. Sinclair’s distinctive coiffure and a West Philadelphia visit are mentioned. Sinclair defends his marriage amid false California reports of unhappiness.
The noted author accuses his wife Meta of too intimate a tie with Harry Kemp, praising Kemp as a promising poet. Adelaide Delaney recounts Sinclair’s Philadelphia talks praising Kemp and urging friends to help publicize his work. Sinclair also described past poverty and his drive to write The Jungle.
Newport news confirms Colonel John Jacob Astor and his fiancée Miss Madeleine Force arrive aboard the yacht Noma. Force's father, William H. Force, accompanies them. The Noma departed New York today and is due in Newport tomorrow.
A roundup of religious services and lectures at multiple churches and halls. Rev. George W. King and Rev. G. S. Painter preachings listed with times, plus Epworth League and Bible school details. Various lectures address themes from divine worship to racial and philosophical topics with free seats.
F Blackwood Fay of 192 Common wealth avenue became the first layman to act in a judicial capacity in Massachusetts courts. He served as juror in Suffolk County Superior Court and, after a New York engagement risked, returned to issue a decisive finding in the cross suit between Campbell Humphrey and Frank Gair Macomber, ruling in Humphrey's favor with a businesslike report.
The notice lists multiple spiritualist societies and events in Malden and Boston area on Aug 27 1911. It names Louise Hall and Mrs Louise D Francis as organizers, daily meetings at 2 and 3 30 and 7 30 with mediums and demonstrations, plus other venues in Lynn Saugus Somerville Cambridge and Roxbury with various speakers and circle sessions.
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