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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1908
Page
3
A homemaker laments a daylong wash and dread of nightmares from laundry. Anty Drudge suggests using Fels-Naptha in lukewarm water to finish quickly without boiling or steaming, claiming cleaner whites and easier work with less odor and skin irritation.
Mary Dardin of Porter street pleaded guilty in court to carrying a loaded revolver without license after a Monday evening incident near Pleasant Street. She was fined $25 as bystanders panicked when she threatened to kill the fleeing man, claiming he had betrayed her.
John A. Fitzgerald urged using the Blossom street lot donated by George S. Parkman for a new school while warning against taking playground land. Chairman Storrow extolled crisp air and river views to ease congestion. The meeting grew unruly before adjourning.
Mrs Strozzi testified that her husband faced death threats from Peter Wilson on March 24 and that a knife in Wilson's hand sparked the fatal shooting. The Strozzis claimed self defense and produced a knife later identified by a patrolman. Salvatori Strozzi supported her account while denying intent to kill and saying he shot to defend himself.
The Italian arts exhibition opened at the Franklin Union on Berkeley Street with Governor Guild declaring a permanent welcome from the Commonwealth. Speakers included Dr. Franchesini and Guia Lombroso Ferrero. Exhibits feature painting sculpture embroidery lace and a Massachusetts seal by Pietro Galensini valued at over 800.
The text of the diplomatic notes signed in Washington by Secretary Root and Ambassador Takahira, detailing articles in the new American Japanese accord on Far East policy, was published here and warmly welcomed on all sides.
San Francisco dispatch reports King Edward VII weighs 210 pounds as his embiowpoint is blamed on excessive lingering at the table. Dr. Gustav Toepfer, general superintendent of the Imperial Red Cross Hospital at Carlsbad, provides the weight estimate.
George Caldwell of Garrison Hall reported a $700 diamond stick pin loss on a Cambridge streetcar. He said two well dressed strangers jostled him while the car traveled along Massachusetts avenue.
In Medway Miss Anna Suhlke did not appear at Sub Grammar School as Bertha Newhall filled in. The School Board is charged with forcing Suhlke to resign without cause, she plans further appeals for reinstatement or an explanation. Suhlke returned home to Leominster this afternoon amid earlier similar resignations and failed restoration efforts.
George M. Lord of 27 Copeland Street Roxbury was robbed by three highwaymen on Ashland Street near Cambridge Street last night. They threatened to blow his head off if he resisted and took a diamond ring worth 140 dollars and a gold watch valued at 116 dollars, totaling nearly 256 dollars.
In Boston District Court the receiver for FE H Gay and Co. sought and obtained permission to return stocks and bonds to Prince Henri de Croy and Princess de Croy of Hainaut Belgium. The securities, claimed to be safe kept, were said not to belong to Gay & Co. and were merely in the vault for safekeeping.
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