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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1913
Page
3
Next Wednesday September 3 we count stock and clear odds. Our fixed price cutting has driven a Labor Day ready stock purge with deep savings on wear and other items. Visit the store to see marked reductions aiming for absolute clearance.
Aug 29 report states Supreme Court Justice Donnelly will attend a performance to judge a new play’s merits in a contempt risk only if the invitation proves to be publicity bait. The suit was filed by a movie actress who said a character shared her name and damaged her reputation.
An unidentified man about six years old collapsed on Huntington avenue near Van Dyke street around 3 pm. He fell across car tracks and sustained a fatal gash above the eye. police and ambulance responders arrived, but he died en route to the hospital.
After a record season the Boston YMCA summer camp on Lake Winnipesaukee will close on September 26. Enrollment topped 430 with strong support from Greater Boston organizations and a notable rise in students from distant points.
James H. Burpee of Medford Massachusetts was chosen president at the close of the 37th annual encampment of the New Hampshire Veterans Association in The Weirs New Hampshire. Also elected were M. L. Morrison Peterboro and D. R. Roys Claremont as vice presidents Natt Shackford The Weirs as secretary E A Badger Lakeport as assistant secretary Dana W. King Nashua as treasurer and the Rev J W Adams Methuen Massachusetts as chaplain.
Comrades town officials and business leaders gathered at 69 Gorham Avenue Brookline for funeral services honoring Fergus B Turner Civil War veteran and Grand Army man. Rev. O P Gifford and Rev Philip Nordell led the services at the Brookline Baptist Church and Grand Army rites by Co L Chandler Post Brookline.
Otto Stahl a 52 year old baker was burned to death in a blaze that destroyed his Amsterdam New York home early today. Mrs Stahl and five children were rescued from the burning building after the fire started in the basement and spread rapidly before discovery.
The week showcases abundant produce with plums peaches and tomatoes at low prices. Canteloupes are available for five cents each, offering a bountiful table for shoppers.
A清 grocery page lists peanuts as a meat substitute at six cents a quart when made into loaf with onion and crackers. Butter sells at one cent above best creamery butter. Ipswich clams, frogs legs, and brook trout feature in-season, with peaches, tomatoes, grapes, and many fruits priced for preserving. Eggs rise to 40 cents. fish like sea bass and swordfish appear as breakfast options.
The cornerstone of Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Trinity Church at 168 Saratoga Street East Boston will be laid tomorrow at 3 PM. Rev. A. F. Seastrand leads the service with Rev. S. G. Ohman delivering the address and laying the cornerstone with Boston area ministers assisting. The Gothic style church near Brooks Street measures 8 by 40 feet with a total cost about $18,000, symbolizing years of Scandinavian community effort and Seastrand's persistent leadership for immigrants.
A new Swedish church edifice in Boston near the port reaches a milestone as the cornerstone ceremony approaches. The March-dig basement and vestry are ready. services will be held there until the main structure is complete. The program includes invocations by Rev Dr Cy F Johnson, remarks by the pastor, and cornerstone laying by Dr Ohman. Speakers include Rev Edwin L Miller, Rev J E A Evert, Rev Herbert E Manchester, Professor Joseph L Larson, Henning Jacobson, and Messrs Knute and William Bagge with Swedish Vice-Consul Birger Rosentwist.
G. L. Descharnault and Joseph and William Hudson of Port Simpson deny Wiljhalmur Stefanusson's claim to discovering a tribe of blond Eskimos. They say they encountered a 300 folk camp with Eskimos whiter than most, learned of larger tribes on Arctic shores, and reached the camp before Stefanusson arrived.
Representative Britten of Illinois introduced a bill to spend 7 million dollars on a government armor plate plant run by the Navy Department. He argues a federally operated facility should produce 10,000 tons annually at no more than 314 dollars per ton to break the current control over armor plate supplies.
Rochester author Charles Mulford Robinson will fill the new chair of civic design at the University of Illinois. Illinois becomes the first American school to establish the course.
Captain Matthias Johnson, skipper of the whale boat George Washington, was spotted yesterday by a marine officer at Highland Light rowing out to sea. He plans to reach San Francisco via the coast and Panama Canal, carrying a letter from Mayor Fitzgerald to the San Francisco mayor.
The Third District Court of Brattle Square Cambridge will relocate to the East Cambridge House of Correction. Judge Charles Almy who sent prisoners there will now be housed there himself as the new district courthouse opens Monday. Old Brattle Square courtrooms will be deserted and Clerk William Forbes’s remaining furnishings and documents were transferred yesterday.
Mrs Litta Robertson awakened to a burglar entering her apartment and a millinery store ablaze below in Providence Illinois Aug 29. She fired a revolver but missed the assailant who fled. Firemen quelled the blaze confined to stock and fixtures. Police believe the fire was set to cover a robbery while Mrs Robertson was frightened from her home.
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