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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1907
Page
11
Four teen members of the Black Hand group were sent to the workhouse after a Pittsburgh hearing. Instructors Vincenzo Toya and Antonio Nicola received 60 days each, with 12 others jailed or fined up to 100 dollars. City residents alleged police guarded local houses as threats of fatal consequences loomed.
Four vessels and their crews reached the wharf yesterday in time for Christmas dinners with families. The Yakami carried 189000 pounds of mixed fish for the mart opening at 7 am, including haddock, cod, hake and cask fish. Vessels including the Weyland liner Winifredian arrived from Liverpool after stormy seas. several foreign liners were expected today. The big schooner Oakley C Curtis brought coal, while the Northland undergoes repairs on the railway.
Mr and Mrs Lara Anderson use a 15000 touring car to deliver gifts to over 50 blind children from the Perkins Institution for the Blind at their Brookline estate. A concert and luncheon followed before employees received holiday remembrances.
Shipping notes report arrivals and departures around New England ports. Steamers Winifredian and Grecian arrive with cargoes from Philadelphia New York and Portland while several vessels sail west and south, towing barges and handling tug operations near Gloucester Providence and Bath.
The first annual ball by the Hebrew High School Association and auxiliary for the organization’s benefit was held at Court Hall on Huntington Avenue last evening with 250 couples in attendance.
Goldfield Consolidated Mine Company plans a federal-style move by filing in the Circuit Court of the District of Nevada to bar picketing and dissolve the Goldfield Miners Union. The suit targets the union, the Western Federation of Miners, its president Charles A. MacKinnon, and 19 other officers.
A stock exchange tale describes flipping new $20 Saint Gaudens pieces like loaded dice. Heads tends to appear, letting the flipper claim profit while others try the gag, with many in the financial district adopting the coin toss prank.
Two people died and many were thought seriously affected by gas in Chelsea and Stamford Street properties. Investigations point to a partially opened gas cock and a late night residence where residents were found in beds amid lingering fumes.
A December record of gas-related incidents lists multiple victims across New York and East Boston. Among them are Celia Shaer and Rose Postolo who survived gas leaks, while George Marks died from a gas radiative fault. Giovanni Invario and Gregorio Benedicto died from unconsciousness due to gas. authorities note defective gas cocks and wind blows out causing incidents.
Two alarms were sounded from Box 52 for a fire at 276 and 278 Devonshire Street occupied by the American Coffee Company lunch room. Firemen found a lively blaze in the basement upon arrival.
The blaze originated near a large range at the rear of the building and grew before Officer Casey of Station 2 raised the alarm. Damage totaled about 5000, mainly from smoke and water. The street floor housed A. S. Greenough Co, second floor George W. Heald Co shirt waist makers, third floor A P W Paper Co, and top floor Acme Rubber Co, all affected by smoke and water damage.
New York December 25. Civil war veteran James Rhind aged about 70 was killed by a Third Avenue trolley at Sixty Fourth Street while en route to his son's home to mend a quarrel with a Christmas present. He was partially blind from an old bullet wound and did not see the car in time.
On the steamer Admiral Dewey Captain Asa Davison sailed from Long Wharf for Jamaican ports with a large Christmas voyage of saloon passengers mainly from Boston. Included were A C Turriff A Finnerty Peter Larson D J Callahan David Gellespie L J Shuler and others from Boston plus Chapman South Paris McMahon Portland Preston Belmont Lunt Newburyport and Buck Wakefield.
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