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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1910
Page
4
Colonel Abe Slupsky ends a 30 day 20 pints per day beer binge at the Hotel Jefferson cafe in St. Louis. He accepts 2 more bottles, wins $250 and a tailor made suit pending. he has not tasted water and is 11 pounds heavier not counting the celebratory drink.
Miss Mabel Scott Hale of Columbus Ohio visits the Connecticut State Capitol to inspect the bronze statue of Nathan Hale and finds it and its pedestal heavily swathed in burlap. After learning the wrapping was for protection during painting she is appeased by officials.
Wreck at Winsted Connecticut trapped J E Trowbridge of Buffalo a section man for about thirty minutes. He freed by cutting a large beam then was taken to hospital where his leg will be amputated.
Chicago December 9 1911 Big Tom Currier a deputy U S marshal who bore a striking resemblance to President Taft died at his home aged 50 He served at the federal building for twenty years and stood six feet three and a half inches tall weighing about 350 pounds.
New York December 9. Policemen Claude Isabel and Charles Saich recently moved from Manhattan to New Brighton S 1 learned the difference between a duck and a chicken in a comic mix up. Saich ordered four ducks while Isabel asked for four chickens. Upon delivery both opened crates and swapped animals concluding they had the wrong birds.
In Biddeford Maine Captain Daniel Tarbox reports his famed black hen died at age 21. The bird had laid about 4000 eggs, with the last egg produced the day after Maine went Democratic. The hen declined after that period despite care.
Edward Apple, 78, of Baltimore obtains a marriage license naming Mrs. Caroline Brandan, a widow of 5S, as his third wife. The announcement notes this will be his third marriage.
The renowned sportsman nicknamed Pommery Bob Vernon endorses Hilton clothes noting their design and finish surpass custom-made options. Prices range from 12.50 to 50 dollars.
Boston transit shifts begin tonight with Neponset City Point and Jamaica Plain lines running partly on surface and partly in subway. Arlington Heights unaffected. Grove Hall maintains current schedule in both modes. All subway stations stay open all night except Haymarket square. Scollay square Adams square and North Station handle overflow. entrances and exits limited.
New timetable announces southbound and northbound subway cars stopping at Scollay Square Adams Square and North Station with routes to Arlington Heights Brookline Malden Medford and Dorchester. It notes delays and transfers at Northampton Street Grove Hall Park Street and Scollay Square stations and lists station entrances open to passenger traffic.
Captain Silas S. Tarr and his wife Mrs. Tarr marked their golden wedding anniversary at their Summit Street home in Gloucester. The captain is noted as one of the last old-time fishing schooner skippers.
Hamlin Richardson reported a strange chicken at Faneuil Hall market with a fully developed wing where the wishbone should be. Observers say the sight is a remarkable oddity as the bird attempted to flap its wing, resembling an aeroplane in motion, though the flesh appeared normal.
Inspector W Herbert Pelton to travel to Mexico City to arrest Robert E Davie who has dissipated about 850000 dollars through financial dealings. Davie, last seen at an expensive hotel in Mexico City, left Boston penniless with his belongings traced to pawn shops. Authorities probe whether Davie used his uncle to reach funds while creditors are shown Davies luxury furnishings moved to a Roxbury storage warehouse.
Leon Collver, famed organizer of worldwide tours, has made an assignment for the benefit of creditors. Tourists, mainly travelers on Collver itineraries, will fund extra side trips themselves. through tickets and hotel orders remain in place. Office is at 420 Boylston Street. Collver, based in Brookline, has run the business for over twenty years.
Caroline Leveen, 22, of Flint street Somerville, the state’s youngest woman lawyer, won her first criminal case in Municipal Court. She defended Abraham Ruben of West End against a charge of assault on Mrs Bessie Quinn, and he was discharged by Judge Parmenter after a long cross examination and a thirty minute argument. Leveen passed the bar examinations last July.
The American Sugar Refinery Company announces former Attorney General Richard Olney of Boston and John G. Johnson of Philadelphia will assist James M. Beck, the company’s general counsel, in defending the government’s Sherman Act dissolution suit.
Mrs Jagie Dwyer aged 84 walked in her sleep yesterday morning and fell from a second story window of her home at 52 Cemetery avenue Newton Centre. Her left leg was so badly fractured that it was amputated.
Frederick J. Herthel once a Boston real estate agent is on his way from San Francisco in custody to answer a charge of embezzling nearly $30,000 from Clara E. Vance six years earlier. Vance filed suit claiming funds from 1902 to 1904 were meant for real estate investments but were diverted to Herthel’s property and he allegedly concealed losses. Herthel vanished in 1906, resurfaced last week in San Francisco where he partnered with J. Steinhart and claimed to be paying debts. authorities say a civil action against Herthel and Emil Gerber over stock remains.
Miss Florence Ben-Oliel a descendant of King David sues Dr Cyrenus Darling of the University of Michigan for 1800 dollars claiming he set her fractured limb wrong leaving her toeing in and refusing repair.
The West End Improvement Society passed resolutions condemning delays on the Riverbank subway while considering alternative routes at its meeting last night. The action reflects concern over postponements affecting local transit progress and urban planning decisions.
After three years of research costing over fifty thousand dollars the makers claim Pape's Cold Compound ends grippe and severe colds within hours when taken every two hours. It alleges relief from neuralgia pain fever sneezing stuffed nose and sore throat with a 25 cent package and no quinine.
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