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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1911
Page
5
Police search for a stylish middle aged woman who hijacked Miss Ella Brighams handbag from the Hotel Brunswick parlor yesterday afternoon. The loss includes a $1000 diamond earrings set and other valuables totaling $1600.
Deputy Superintendent William B Watts reports the arrest of Charles Rogers known as Shorty O Connor alias New Britain Blackie in Binghamton New York. He is charged with attempting to blow the Julian State Bank in Green New York. Rogers previously served time in Charles Town and Atlanta state prisons and was linked with the Oliver place gang of safe blowers.
The advertisement claims the worst cold and grippe can be broken within hours by taking Pape's Cold Compound every two hours for a total of three doses. It asserts the remedy, costing 25 cents, ends all symptoms from the first dose and contains no quinine, citing three years of research and over fifty thousand dollars invested.
The Winnisimmet ferry may discontinue operations unless Boston or another firm takes over. Directors led by A. D. Bossom expect the stockholders to authorize selling the lease or liquidating debt and possibly amending the charter to pursue other business. A petition to continue service between Boston and Chelsea may follow.
Gladstone Dowie, only son of John Alexander Dowie founder of Zion City, deserts his father’s church and begins study for the Episcopal ministry. He is a Michigan law graduate and has practiced law there for several years.
Over 200 longshoremen worked through the night loading the Cunarder Franconia in East Boston. The ship, set to sail at noon, carries 65,000 bushels of wheat 400 tons of provisions 2000 bales of cotton 100 tons of hay 100 tons of flour 5000 barrels of apples and about 225 passengers. Additional crews load the Caledonian and Armenian for England with wheat cotton and livestock in similar fashion.
Evidence links the Asch building blaze to stacked rags and locked exits at the Triangle Waist Company. Witnesses describe rags under cutting tables on the eighth floor and doors that could not be opened, trapping workers as flames spread.
Wellesley College reports a record freshman class with 52 honor freshmen. The list includes Ruth Adams, Lucy Addams, Florence Ayer, Edith Ayres, Lillian Baker, Mary Ballantine, Mary Bean, Esther Berlowitz, Muriel Brown, Jessie Chedel, Gertrude Clemence, Margaret Comegys, Ruth Congdon, Charlotte Conover, Emma Corwin, Alice Coseo, Lois Cottrell, Grace Coyle, Lora Cram, Dorothy Cul-
The building contract for Nahant's new Town Hall was awarded to William Crane of Cambridge for 57,305 dollars. Crane will complete the gray Roman brick structure within ten months.
The advertisement touts Adamson’s Balsam as a sure cure for a rasping graveyard cough urging readers to buy the remedy. It emphasizes quick relief and effectiveness without detailing ingredients or medical backing.
The Supreme Judicial Court ruled that John Rayner's 1857 will created a perpetual trust invalid for violating perpetuity rules. The trust is terminated and real estate assets on Union and Hanover streets are to be distributed among the grandchildren and great grandchildren.
City Hall reports Acting Mayor Collins has been quietly investigating since Mayor Fitzgerald left for Washington. The probe targets the elusive man higher up in the Vanehan lumber frauds case amid ongoing rumors surrounding the scandal.
Chicago December 8 six jurors were seated for the trial of indicted meat packers on Sherman antitrust charges. The rapid proceedings left both sides confident with the government predicting a first witness by Wednesday of next week. Four more jurors had been satisfactory to the defense.
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