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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1911
Page
4
Lillian Graham testified that she shot millionaire W E D Stokes after believing he would kill her. She said Stella Singleton warned she was dangerous and had heard Stokes killed Al Adams near Adams’ hotel room.
Miss Graham testified about a June 7 confrontation at an apartment where Stokes visited. She described Stokes assaulting her, threatening to scream, and nearly choking her before she grabbed a revolver in a moment she recalled Adams’s murder.
Cuero Texas residents report giant jackrabbits with antlers and deerlike horns found across the region. Detectives note shadowing Mrs Neuberth and William H Zehr amid a Coney Island steamboat trip with a long continuous hug during the voyage.
Chicago reports fancy creamery butter wholesale at 37 cents a pound, the season’s peak since 1888. Housewives pay 45 to 50 cents for table butter as dealers blame cows for light milk yields.
In a Supreme Court trial yesterday Adam Neuberth, a fire department lieutenant, sued for divorce from Mrs. Sarah Neuberth over a two hour embrace described as a new form of affection. The hearing marks a legal test for evolving social gestures amid a hedonistic era.
A newspaper notice urges relatives to send their name and address on a coupon to receive help or recognition for loved ones harmed by liquor. It emphasizes gratitude for taking action and promises ongoing thanks.
Denver dispatch reports Ivy Cole a cafe waitress saved one thousand 10 cent tips over two years to buy a fur coat. She recounted counting the dimes and finally exchanging them for the purchase while noting the task was not easy.
Montclair New Jersey December 8 1920 a group of women formed the Bachelor Girls Club of Montclair to pursue self development. Membership already thirty with a year long wait to marriage and fines for engagements marriages elopement flirting grouchiness slang and gossip. Fines fund books and club expenses with officers passwords and limited fifty members planned.
Diomede Ventresco a longtime coal peddler in Pittsburg is said to have a voice nearly as fine as Caruso’s after outdoor training. He was jailed for disorderly conduct and invited to join a prison choir. Experts predict opera or vaudeville auditions after training.
Raymond R. Senior of Byfield pleaded guilty to illegal hunting in Byfield woods. He received a suspended six month sentence in the local Police Court after game wardens found a dead deer shot in the area.
The state game warden notes a deer killed by a young Senior may lead to a suspended sentence due to family dependence. Reports claim widespread illegal hunting around Byfield this fall with two deer found dead. an investigation continues.
Democratic candidate Robert M. Clarkson from Wards 20 and 21 has initiated proceedings to unseat Senator Thomas M. Vinson. Clarkson claims Vinson did not reside in the district or Boston at the time of election and asks the Election Board to preserve ballots and file a complaint with the new Senate once seated.
Charles Pento of Leverett Street was held in $2000 bonds for the grand jury by Judge Creed in the Police Court yesterday charged with robbing William Palmer of Bangor Maine. It is alleged Pento held up Palmer on Cooper Street early yesterday morning and took his gold watch valued at $75.
The Norfolk Probate Court reports Mrs. Catherine Lamson of Dedham left $15,000 to the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. A $10,000 bequest to the society is contingent on care of the animals she owned at death.
Miss Hattie A Harriman drowned July 23 in Little Sandy Pond near Mayflower Grove when a canoe with her brother Forrest Harriman and sister-in-law collided with a motor launch operated by Brockton Plymouth Street Railway. Her father Charles B Harriman sues the railway for $25 000. case set for court tomorrow.
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