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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1909
Page
4
Alan Pratt of 210 Putnam Street seeks his wife who left two years ago after being hypnotized by a nephew. He placed ads in a New York paper hoping she will return for Christmas with their children. He believes she is now in New York, with the nephew possibly in Italy.
A workman fired three shots at J J C Bratianu the Romanian premier and interior minister in Bucharest. One bullet wounded him slightly and the assailant was arrested.
Twenty seven modistes are indicted by a federal grand jury in New York for involvement in a large sleeper trunk smuggling scheme tied to customs frauds. Nine women and four men were arrested. Caroline Windmuller was held on $5000 bail, others posted smaller sureties. Funds were defrauded via trunks with imported finery left on steamship piers and moved secretly.
Theodore H. Emmons was re-elected keeper of the records for the 50th consecutive year as secretary of St. Paul’s Royal Arch Chapter of Masons. Several hundred lodge members attended and praised his long service. Theon M. Abbott lauded him and a reception followed.
R Clipston Sturgis chair of the Schoolhouse Commission cites lack of funds for repairing Wayl Street Prescott and Savin Hill Avenue schoolhouses. He says ample funds exist for new buildings, but renovation allocations are too small to meet demands raised by citizens and mothers at a School Board hearing.
In the annual report a Boston official warns that the Way Street in the South End and Prescott in Charlestown lack adequate fire escapes. Condemned 12 years ago, Prescott’s escape is wired shut to hold, with rotten flooring and a single iron stairway intended for one child at a time.
On Fifth Avenue 15 automobiles loaned by Anne Morgan O H P Belmont and others carried 40 striking workers past the shops. Banners reading Votes for Women and placards highlighted the demonstration in support of the shirtwaist operators and woman suffrage.
In Waltham a blind horse frightened by a fire department march toppled onto Moody street scattering shoppers and trapping Miss Agnes Morris in a store doorway. Several women fainted, the carriage was wrecked, and the horse belonged to Mrs. Georgiana Treffery of 305 Cherry street.
North Adams reports a decisive vote to continue alcohol licenses with Mayor John H Waterhouse reelected as Republican. Riley the Democrat trailed, while license supporters far outpaced opponents by a wide margin amid a quiet election day with snowfall.
In Hartford on December 21 the Loewe case against 240 Hatters Union members was cross examined. D F E Loewe of Danbury claims damages totaling 240000 for losses in 1902 and 1908 and testified his damages amount to about 89000. The witness is expected to remain on the stand for four days.
Eight month old cocker spaniel leaps into freezing water to grab eight year old Fiverett Webster as he falls through ice near Lynn Ice Works. Brother Arthur Co. Webster, 18, dives in and pulls both boy and dog to safety before exhaustion. The family values the dog beyond money.
Washington reports the winter solstice sun return will be flashed from the naval observatory at 6:20 a m to Seattle for government cables, then to Sitka and multiple Alaskan settlements. Wireless relays will reach Eagle Fort Gibbons and Nome.
Mrs. Edward P. Gormley of Lynn traveled 2700 miles to Massachusetts to help force her husband to face a court. She failed as Gormley fled bail once more in Seattle, thwarting the bid to save their home.
Inspectors Rooney and Patterson return from Seattle with Gormley after Boston police heard his wife had tracked him to Lynn and secured his arrest. Gormley paid 3000 bail, fled west, left wife to face losses, then money and business dealings, while she vows to keep pursuing him to justice regardless of cost or time.
Rev. John M. Colgan S J former Boston College philosophy professor is dying at St. Andrew-on-the-Hudson novitiate after a paralytic shock two years ago and another shock last week. He is well known in Boston.
James Nichols a 40 year old father of six was instantly killed by a freight train backing down at the Medford street crossing Somerville. He worked for the New England Dressed Meat and Wool Company and was bound for Boston with a beef team. The crossing had no tender from 7 PM to 6 AM leaving gate lowering and warnings to brakemen. Nichols lived at 99 Linwood Street Somerville.
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