Millionaire Race to Dinner Sparks Thanksgiving Dash
Rhode Island industrialist Rowland G. Hazard arrived from Liverpool aboard the Arabic and hurried to catch a South Station train in a taxicab to reach his Peace Dale home for Thanksgiving dinner.
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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1911
Page
18
Rhode Island industrialist Rowland G. Hazard arrived from Liverpool aboard the Arabic and hurried to catch a South Station train in a taxicab to reach his Peace Dale home for Thanksgiving dinner.
The Arabic reached Charleston docks at 8 20 PM after gales and quarantine delays due to many Russian immigrants. Mr. Hazard, a saloon passenger, hurried off the liner with baggage after customs, then raced by taxi to the South Station to board the nine o clock train home for Thanksgiving with his family.
George Chabot of 106 Moreland Street Somerville to be arraigned in Cambridge District Court before Judge Almy on a manslaughter charge after his vehicle struck and killed Harry Rouff aged 138 and John Rouff aged 9 of 21 Kenwood Street Cambridge on the Esplanade Cambridge early Wednesday evening. Chabot was arrested minutes after the incident by Inspectors Neilan and McNulty and later released on $5000 bail.
Fitchburg dispatch reports the Wachusett National Bank is being absorbed by Safety Fund National Bank with the change effective at tomorrow's opening. Notices were posted today on bank buildings signaling the transition. Both banks are long established. Safety Fund traces to 1874 and Wachusett to 1875. Officials cite business reasons, not instability, for the merger.
Reports from the Medina carrying King George and Queen Mary to the Indian Durbar say the Bay of Biscay passage was extremely rough. Part of the Queen's apartments flooded. she moved to the storm cabin with a swinging cot while the King remained in his usual cabin.
Wolf's My Clothier at the corner of Hanover and Portland streets offers double stamps with every purchase each morning until 12 o'clock noon.
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