01 Dec 1910
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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1910
Page
1
A fierce gale off Cherbourg drives ships offshore as a U S Atlantic fleet picket boat sinks with seven sailors missing. The incident comes amid mounting storm damage to vessels along the coast.
A launch from the battleship Louisiana rescued the crew of a launch from the French armored cruiser Dupleix after it was swamped by heavy seas. Many American crew members remain ashore unable to reach their ships.
Dr. Frederick A. Cook says he does not know if he reached the North Pole and plans to return to the United States, landing in New York on December 22 with his wife and children to spend Christmas in Brooklyn. He seeks to restore his standing with the country and has written a confession to set himself right after fleeing last November.
In four Hampton's Magazine pieces, the explorer reflects on his polar journey, admitting doubt after privation and public attention. He insists he truly believed at the time, but now concedes no man can positively claim to have reached the pole.
A state commission reports 35 000 tuberculosis cases in Massachusetts and urges 5000 to 6000 additional beds. The plan includes a five dollar weekly subsidy for non paying tubercular patients and home delivered meals under restrictions. The full findings appear in a continued article.
The commission urges 5000 to 6000 additional beds and a state payment of five dollars weekly for non paying patients. It proposes home feeding for tubercular patients, a state hospital school for tubercular children, and sex segregation with women sent to Rutland. It cites 35000 well developed TB cases in the state.
In Montreal on November 30 W. T. Rodgers of Philadelphia fired several shots to protect his brother Fred Drexel Rodgers from a wounded moose. One shot killed the young man, ending a desperate attempt to shield him.
The report details Mr. Rodgers traveling through en route to Philadelphia after a fatal shooting on Coulonge Lake shore. Rodgers and his guides brought the body to Ottawa, shipped west by train, and transferred to the New York express. Fred Drexel Rodgers, 28, is identified as the deceased.
In a fierce sea storm the lion broke from its cage aboard the German freighter Berkenfels. It killed a seaman and then, after a fusillade of gunfire, crawled back amid the crew as the ship lay in quarantine with decks cleaned and bright, the peril ending only when the beast was driven into the sea.
Judge Bond excludes Clarence F. Glover's dying declaration from the government's case against Hattie Le Blanc. Johnson calls Mrs. Glover a vampire and accuses her of slaying her husband. The DA overrules objections to allow defense evidence against Mrs. Glover. The DA impeaches Dr. Nicholas W. Cousens and will recall him to contradict that testimony. Mrs. Glover fails to identify the alleged Glover overcoat but identifies the revolver.
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