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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1907
Page
7
Guthrie Oklahoma December 3 The Oklahoma Legislature did not waste time in introducing Jim Crow style bills in both houses today.
A replica of the bronze equestrian Marcus Aurelius statue from Rome will soon be erected on Brown University campus near Sayles Hall. The gift comes from the late Moses Brown Ives Goddard.
In Greater Boston, Rev George A. Hood retires as field secretary of the Congregational Church Building Society. Roy B. Guild of Chicago elected to fill the vacancy, starting January 1 at the Congregational house. Rev J Francis Russell to depart for the Philippines December 21 to begin Baptist missionary work. A Christmas gift sale at Morgan Memorial Hall supports the day nursery and country home, with Mary F. Fagan marking a decade of service. Bequests from the late Mrs. Olivia Drake include gifts to Boston Y M C A Y W C A Floating Hospital and other institutions. Advent sermons are planned at Trinity Church and St Martin's Chapel with noted speakers on December 8 and 15.
Mary Norton, arrested in May, placed on probation and sent to a women’s detention home. She refused to leave her bed since arrival, was remanded by probation officers, and sentenced to two months in the house of correction.
Charles P. Plimpton was freed from Dedham Jail after the Supreme Court declared his confinement illegal. Nellie Brown had won a $1000 judgment for five years of services, and a new execution led to his arrest and release by the full bench. Frances Brewer and others are listed as team candidates. local girls’ baseball games are set at Odell Hall Cliftondale with Miss Hulen coordinating.
Two men lured Mrs Antonio Artmaska from her home on the pretext of visiting a sick person in Stamford Connecticut and, after meeting two more men in a lonely area, robbed her of 600 dollars she carried in her bosom.
Telegrams report the French military balloon La Patrie drifted over Clydebank Scotland this afternoon and was proceeding northward. It was last seen over northeastern Ireland Sunday afternoon after escaping Verdun last Saturday.
New York reports Frank H. Warner once a merchant received a sentence of not less than 20 years in State's Prison for the double crimes of shooting and killing Esther C. Norling, a former stenographer, and then killing John C. Wilson.
Professor Jules Goebel of Harvard told the Chicago Germanistic Society that John Heckemelder inspired Longfellow's Hiawatha. He described Heckemelder as an early 17th century Moravian from Pennsylvania whose works influenced the poem.
Saugus high school will be represented by a girls basketball team for the first time. Miss Helen Hitchings, class of 1908, is captain and Miss Emma Helen of Cliftondale is manager, with arrangements under way this week.
Plymouth, Dec 3. Hon William Thomas Davis aged 86 died suddenly this morning of heart trouble. A Harvard graduate 1812, he lived in Plymouth all his life and served twice in the State Senate. He chaired the Board of Selectmen for 30 years and headed the First National Bank of Plymouth. He leaves two daughters and a son noted as a New York financier.
The International Dolls Carnival at the Louis XIV ballroom in the Hotel Somerset on December 12 to 14 supports the Free Home for Consumptives. Tables from city and suburbs will showcase fancy articles gifts and confections. Dr John Bowen and John Regan organize the event with Miss Elizabeth Power in charge of arrangements.
Mary Talkerin aged 20 and Mark Isaac aged 12 arrived on the schooner Mary Shepard from the West Indies at Providence. They were brought to the city yesterday for action by immigration officials. Mary must return home, though she planned to marry the cook of the schooner. Isaac's fate remains undecided.
Kashmir Rugs described as genuine and popular flooring, woven without a seam and reversible with choice Oriental patterns.
Carpenter helps a starving prospector, Wilson, and confronts a troubled choice. He writes a rough bill of sale promising his fifty thousand in nuggets to Wilson’s wife, then leaves into a bitter night as wolves howl.
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