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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1908
Page
7
Mrs Amanda D Patten wife of Chicago millionaire James A Patten testified in Judge McSorely s court detailing deluxe book transactions she says she was coerced into signing notes totaling 30000 dollars MacFarland formerly of Cambridge Mass who turned State s evidence against Samuel T Warfield and W N Cooper corroborated her account
A controversial beauty recipe boasts rapid body transformation using glycerine rosewater cadomene tincture and borax. It claims six inch growth after a month of home treatment and reports a wife proving her identity after she used the regimen.
Miss Julia Marlowe and Miss Mary Johnston arrived in Boston to complete rehearsals for The Goddess of Reason, Johnston's new poetic drama of the French Revolution, to be staged at the Majestic next Monday night. Marlowe has devoted the summer and most of fall to the production after three months in Brittany researching locales.
Mrs Henry Waitt of Newton offered all land required on Salem Street for a school site with the condition it be named Henry Waitt School The town meeting voted to buy Crescent Field at the beach as a public playground with 8500 appropriated and two committees named to handle the land offer and the playground purchase
Mrs. Patten testified that in 1907 MacFarland and a Mr. Drew proposed a books deal tied to a Portland contract with Ladd for about 15000 dollars. He offered to buy the books for 5200 and split profits, while later claiming Ladd would not accept them due to a financial panic. She described advancing funds and later ironclad obligations, plus further requests for money to cover expenses and a final scheme to settle an 8800 dollar contract. An accompanying chorus girl Ella McClelland told a dramatic tale linking love, bookselling, and tensions over Patten’s corn market position.
Exhausted after eight days at pumps and 138 hours in an open boat, seven sailors reached Port Lorien reporting the French schooner Marcelline foundered off Cape Breton coast at midnight Tuesday. They endured frigid seas and 41 days of gales, hoping to reach St Pierre or Sydney Harbor before the ship sank.
A mass meeting at Faneuil Hall debated Boston transit policy and the Tremont street subway to South station plan. Speakers assailed the Transit Commission and Boston Elevated Railway while urging reforms, investigations, and a possible transfer point at Boylston Street.
Sex Senator Thomas H Dowd presided as permanent chairman at a public meeting with 500 to 600 attendees. He criticized Boston’s rapid transit as a $10,000,000 mistake and urged the Transit Commission's five leaders to seek immediate relief for travel between Copsey Square Brookline line and the South station.
At Jordan Hall last night the Harvard Dramatic Club with Radcliffe College graduates staged Allan Davis The Promised Land. Miss Marion Gragg and Mrs R M Johnson led a strong Radcliffe cast delivering notable emotional passages and a brilliant Rabbi Elchanan scene with R M Middlemass. Doane Gardner as Raymond Hartwell complemented the production withSeveral engaging moments.
The Lynn Classical High School interclass meet ended with the seniors scoring 48 points to lead. Juniors finished with 30, sophomores 21 1 2, and freshmen 19 1 2.
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