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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1908
Page
10
The Finance Commission plans to present a radical new city charter to the Legislature. Several features are expected to meet strong opposition on Beacon Hill, though final details are not yet agreed.
A report outlines proposed city charter reforms including abolition of the Common Council and party designations on ballots, plus department consolidations and clerkship eliminations. It notes Finance Commission opposition to government by commission and hints at Legislative battle after January. It also details the death of Miss Gertrude Bent from typhoid linked to oysters served at a college dinner, with investigation pointing to contaminated seafood.
Washington dispatch reports indications that President Roosevelt will focus his message on crime linked to limited secret service powers. He is expected to advocate unifying the secret service and related inspection services into a single general bureau of criminology for economy and efficiency.
Police probe into the Kelleher deaths shows repeated vomiting and numbness before fatalities. Medical examiner reports possible autopsy findings from Catherine Kelleher’s organs at Harvard Medical School. District Attorney notes no public disclosure of poisonous evidence.
Beverly police found a partially burned newborn body on a Park street dump. Mrs Mary Earle of Salem is charged with attempting to cremate the infant. Her brother John Felch is held as a witness. She had worked in a Salem restaurant.
Milford honored as Governor-elect Eben S. Draper distributed $100 checks to pastors of all Protestant churches for Christmas gifts for the poor. He also sent $100 to St. Mary’s Catholic Church and a nominal amount to the Sacred Heart of Jesus parish.
Letters flood the Post Santa Claus editor asking for toys clothing and food for poor youngsters near Boston. Donors from New England contribute money checks and candy while volunteers shop and distribute items to families most in need.
Salvation Army and Volunteers of America prepare to feed and clothe over 12 000 people and supply 7000 to 8000 gifts across Christmas baskets. Colonel A Gifford notes donations pace but funds may fall short from last year. Meals include four pound chickens and plum puddings with fixed tickets for deserving families.
The Post Santa receives letters from relatives requesting help for four year old Francis Drake, son of a saloon keeper killed by the Jamaica Plain bandits in July. His mother Mrs. Drake seeks aid to make his first Christmas happy. Some confusion arises over the boy’s identity and the family’s request for recognition.
Center Hitchcock 55 prominent in New York society and club life died of gastritis at his home 8 East 29th Street. He joined ten clubs and helped promote open-air social sports and the development of the "Long Island colonies."
Dr. Samuel H. Durgin of Boston faced a challenge from Dr. John Dixwell, who denounced a personal appeal sent by the Board of Health to physicians. Dixwell, allied with Oliver Wendell Holmes, condemned the tone as insulting and threatened legal action to secure compliant reporting of tuberculosis cases.
In Philadelphia Circuit Court John Carroll of Atlantic City accuses William Gergan and John Snyder in a suit over 110000 dollars insurance on Fries Breslin Co Camden plant burned Oct 3 1904. Carroll and nephew James A Carroll testify to conspiracy with McHale and Graef and blackmail attempts emerge in court.
Three Boston team drivers toppled from wagons in the after noon rush at City square Charlestown. Phineas E. Towle 53 of 11 Mead street was killed instantly at 5 25 oclock last evening when his horse bolted while crossing the square. The driver of the team owned by the Boston Transfer Company of 1 North Market street sustained severe injuries with two others also hurt.
Towle attempted to pull him up as a wagon lurched and crashed into an iron road upright. The man was thrown to the pavement and killed instantly. A large holiday crowd witnessed the accident and aided the injured before a physician declared death instantaneous.
At a Governor's Council meeting yesterday the unanimous favor was shown for releasing on parole some inmates of the Lyman School at Westboro. Governor-elect Draper spoke in support of the proposal.
Boston Printing Pressmen's Union 67 executive board reported plans to begin the eight hour workday on January 1, in line with the agreement made with the Boston Typothete. All union label shops will adopt the shorter day for pressmen starting that date.
Charles P Stevens president of the Wilder Stevens Company of Boston died at his home in Malden from heart disease. Stricken Friday, he was the oldest printers rollers manufacturer in New England and was widely known across the country.
Dr. J. F. Burbank, an optician visiting Greensboro to open a business, was found dead in his room at the Benbow Hotel. Officials believe he took his own life, timing his death with that of his wife in Durham. He was said to have come from Boston, Massachusetts.
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