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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1909
Page
5
New York December 21. Mineola counsel for W. Gould Brokaw says defending a separation suit with alimony totaling 60 000 a year costs 50 000. Items listed include stenographers minutes 3000 attendance of witnesses carfare and board 4000 plaintiff’s counsel 8000 for preparation and investigation 5000 and defendant’s counsel 30000.
Lawyer claims Brokaw’s income not 30000 a year and paints him as generous host. Mrs Brokaw weeps as butler Woods tests to Miss Lee ordering cocktails for Mrs Brokaw. Dr Peau describes care in France and Great Neck visits during the case.
A Boston Post notice describes a noon South Boston photograph and offers a five dollar gold piece to the child pictured if identified by a parent or guardian at the City Editor’s room within five days. It names winners from Dorchester and Winthrop and notes an upcoming full page of schoolchildren photos.
The Emmanuel Church of West Roxbury has discharged its debts and will be consecrated next Sunday. Rev. William E. Gardner of St James Cambridge has been elected secretary of the first missionary department and will begin February 1. Professor George A Towne of Atlanta lectured on the negro problem at the People's Temple M E Church.
Wolf's My Clothier at the corner of Hanover and Portland streets offers a large stock of women's and men's furnishings, umbrellas, handbags, and more for the Christmas week trade. Legal trading stamps are given with every purchase, double stamps before noon, and refunds are offered if customers are not pleased.
Daniel Blake Russell testified in East Cambridge Probate Court that he has not been twice married and does not acknowledge a grown daughter from a first wife. He aims to claim half a $500,000 estate as the missing son of late state senator Daniel Russell of Melrose, recounting life on a Western ranch and puzzling childhood memories.
Attorney Robert Nason pressed Russell with personal and family questions claiming contradictions in his testimony. Russell denied tales about his daughter and niece, disputed claims of a French-descended first wife, and recalled the 1885 barber shop incident that spurred his departure from home amid family tensions.
Rome December 21 Cardinal Satolli's condition is practically unchanged. He was greatly pleased today upon receiving a cablegram in Italian from Archbishop O'Connell of Boston expressing sympathy and affection.
Miss Marguerite Mooers Marshall, thought dying in Norfolk Virginia from self inflicted wounds and poison, had earlier threats of death while a Tufts student in Medford. A Tufts class of 1908 brilliant student, she recovered from a chemical fumes incident and pursued journalism in Portland Boston New York before her ill fated journey to Norfolk.
Wareham Massachusetts reports that about 50 freight cars will move the Cape Cod cranberry crop to markets nationwide as the holiday rush boosts demand and prices reach six fifty to seven dollars per barrel in New York.
The article describes school wear sweaters as practical and stylish, featuring a jaunty coat in red or brown made from Fleisher's Germantown Zephyr yarn. It highlights durability, shape retention, and low cost, inviting readers to craft with Fleisher's Knitting and Crochet Manual for complete instruction.
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