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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1908
Page
5
The First National Bank of Monrovia was robbed last Monday night of about $29 000. Detectives have found no clues. President John Bartle said insurance covers 25009 and the loss to stockholders would be under 5000.
Mrs. John De Costa reported a diamond necklace worth 1000 dollars lost at the Hotel Lenox. Laundry worker Frank Pthikrantz found the necklace in a washing machine and notified the office. the necklace was sent by express to Mrs. De Costa.
Two crowded streetcars collided on Massachusetts Avenue near Boylston and Gloucester streets. Mount Auburn car struck an Allston car due to a defective brake, causing damage but no serious injuries beyond fright and a shaken passenger, Mary Butler of Belmont.
At 4 a m two masked robbers tortured H A Shhadow of Curtice near Toledo by burning his feet with lighted matches to force the safe to be opened and $180 turned over.
Bandits bound the victim to his bed with sheets and gagged him then stole a horse and buggy from a barn and escaped. A posse pursues. They used a heated stove to stupefy the seven in the home. Schabow county agent for Lucas County Insurance Co. at Toledo is seriously injured but expected to recover.
Foreign Minister Isnolsky received a favorable Duma reception as he outlined Russia's annual foreign policy. He praised the Japan America accord and its open door policy in the Far East, and acknowledged the Austro Russian Budapest 1877 convention. Pokrovsky alleged a Russian Bulgaria plot in earlier reigns.
Cyrus R. Teed known as Koresh I leader of Sunset Flat Heaven colony in Normal Park has died among his followers in extreme southern Florida. His widow Victoria Gratia ordered the body not to be buried until a divine sign appears. The Khoreshian movement began in California and spread nationwide, with Teed’s Heaven drawing many followers to Chicago in 1892 where men and women lived communally.
More than 300 of New York City's 550 moving picture show men protested Mayor McClellan's last night license revocation and show closures. A 26 member committee was named to plan legal action to contest the enforcement. Indignation centered on the late closing order that ruined Christmas day receipts as enforcement spread across Manhattan and the Bronx.
United States Commissioner Peter McGrath learned that a miner on the Tuliksak River in Alaska earned 60 in a single day. He heard from multiple informants that pay was much richer than previously believed and that interior reports confirmed larger yields.
The funeral for James Russell, renowned in theater circles, will be held tomorrow at 12 o clock in Commercial Hall at Kneeland and Washington streets replacing the earlier plan for 75 Albany Street.
In Boston City Hospital on Christmas Day seven year old Thomas Kermin endures a leg fracture with a plaster cast and weights. A steel arched rod keeps the leg raised while nurses wrap the bed with ever greens. The brave boy smiles through pain as he awaits recovery and release to play again.
The body of Daniel McRae, engineer of the steam ER Governor Bodwell, was found today in the dock at Vinal Haven. He apparently fell into the water while returning to the steamer from his home last night. He was 49 years old and leaves a widow.
Thieves broke into the Weymouth station of the New York New Haven Hartford line and stole commutation ticket books a small sum and a suitcase with expensive clothing. They apparently planned to blow the safe but fled before it happened.
Despite illness Dr William T Bull held a Christmas party in his Plaza hotel apartments. A tree was decorated and gifts were distributed by the party in the evening with Mrs Bull Dr Potter Dr Blake and hotel children present.
Harrisburg Penn Dec 25 State Health Commissioner Dixon urges reviving an 1895 statute to cut potential blindness cases in half or more. The law would require nurses or caregivers to report infant eye inflammation within six hours to the local health officer or qualified practitioner.
The roller skate walk becomes the latest fashion among St. Louis society girls blending military chorus girl flair with toe dancer glide as the new deal walk.
The Burdett College calendar is being mailed at no charge to all former students who send a request, offering current dates and events to alumni.
A Democratic caucus of the Board of Aldermen meets at Young's Hotel at 3 this afternoon to nominate a new chairman. Alderman James M. Curley issued the call as senior member. If Attridge and O'Hare attend, Tammany leader is expected to be nominated.
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