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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1906
Page
7
Readable fragments show butter, crackers, eggs, sardines and coffee with marked discounts. Items listed include Leu butter 5-1b box, Kennedy crackers 3 for 25¢, York State regular coffee 98¢, and Beacon Hill coffee 32¢. Also mentions sardines 4-lb tins and eggs at 40¢ per dozen.
Teheran December 7 report the Shah’s life flickers on with slight improvement followed by renewed sinking as doctors note his remarkable recovery until within moments of death. The Crown Prince with cavalry escort is rushing to Teheran and expected to arrive tomorrow.
Harvard defeated Yale in a closely contested 17th Harvard Yale debate at Sanders Theatre with Gilbert Hirsch and G. Hirsch leading Harvard’s arguments on restricting immigration. Yale’s J. W. Murphy and E. W. Hart argued for openness, while Harvard’s A. H. Elder and J. C. Slade countered with assimilation and labor concerns. Judges included Edgar Aldrich, William Hornblower, and William LeBaron Putnam. presiding was Professor George P. Baker.
The Atlantic cotton mills come under the control of Amory Browne & Co selling agents. Control was gained mainly through the purchase of about 4000 shares from William Whitman of the Arlington mills. Whitman had been buying stock up to $75 a share and planned to acquire 1000 more before accepting Amory Browne’s favorable offer.
Boston reports that the 17500 ton steamers Servian and Scotian built by Harland a Wolff for Leyland line serving Boston to Liverpool have been sold to Hamburg American Line. They will be renamed Chicago and Berlin and refitted for Hamburg New York service with four passenger classes, increasing capacity beyond original plans. Officials would not confirm details.
Boston merchants urge Central Wharf as the best site for the new appraisers’ stores amid opposition to the North End gas house plant. A presidential hearing was waived indefinitely and the government is expected to buy the North End plant and resell to the Central Wharf buyers. Daniel T. Morse travels to Washington to push Treasury purchase at $500,000 with North End property to be accepted in part payment.
The condemned mare of Superintendent Doyle, known as Witty, is reportedly alive and under death watch. Observers claim the mare exerts a hypnotic influence and appears remorseful as she remains calm and meek in her narrow death chamber.
The Cornell fire at the 1881 Fraternity Lodge killed several men, including E. J. Landon and James McCutcheon Jr., with Schmuck dying after reentering flames to help Nichols. Ithaca mourns as football players assisted rescue efforts and the fire damaged a campus landmark built for Jennie McGraw Fiske.
The five man schooner crew battled a 48 hour nightmare at the pumps with no food or sleep. They saved the craft after mast failures, then boarded the lumber carrier Oregon and were later rescued by Nanetta, with Captain Holmes praising his men and noting the Oregon and Nanetta crews for aid. The Emerson, although listed as a New York vessel, is principally owned by Boston interests led by Herbert C. Hall.
Nearly 200 members of the Church Periodical Club met in Trinity Chapel and heard speeches from bishops William Lawrence, F Courtney, and E M Parker along with Rev Walter Hughson. They urged using old magazines to aid missionary fields by keeping missionaries informed and educating local inhabitants.
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