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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1902
Page
12
New York December 19 Controller Grout submitted to the Board of Estimate and Apportionment a recommendation for buying two sites and erecting two municipal buildings, one uptown and one downtown. He argues the city now pays more than 817000 annually in rent under 403 leases, making the action necessary.
Boston plans two steamship lines under the Morgan syndicate to Manchester and Antwerp. The Leyland Manchester line will run freight ships from South Boston dock starting Jan 10 and every other Saturday. Antwerp service to begin around Feb 1. A. B. Walmsley is appointed commercial agent covering New York to Chicago and Canadian markets. Grain traders in New York fear Boston’s new export routes will shift freight from Liverpool routes, boosting Boston rail and canal competition.
General Bourbon y de Castellvi, cousin of King Alfonso, was arrested last evening in a Madrid gambling club. He was arraigned before the captain-general and released. He challenged the prefect over energetic efforts to suppress club gambling.
In New York on December 19 a commission of the Supreme Court heard testimony on Harry Rose the Gar rick Theatre stage manager who killed his wife on November 27. Dr. Robert S. Newton testified Rose suffers acromegaly a disease dating from 1886 and says he is mentally unfit. Dr. Walter H. Conley gave similar testimony with Rose present.
John Roche member of Parliament for East Galway was sentenced by the Crimes Court at Roscommon to one month imprisonment in default of bail on the charge of unlawful assembly.
Gladys McLean, a Gloucester child, shows signs of consciousness after hypnotist Lawson Hermann traveled from Philadelphia to Boston at the father's request. He will attempt full awakening today, having promised the girl would awaken in two weeks. He paid his own travel costs, calling the case among his most poignant career moments.
Boston Elevated announces new transfer stations at Inman Square Cambridge and Union Square Somerville. The Medford Scollay Street Winter Hill line will be discontinued with service shifted to the Medford Sullivan Square terminal line. New transfers open to the public Monday.
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