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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1910
Page
7
A deadly border fight near Comendador on the Santo Domingo Hayti frontier, prompted rapid Dominican reinforcements. American customs officer Marion E. Beall is reported killed. Hayti suggests troop withdrawal. arbitration sought to resolve long standing border disputes.
Beall Marion E., a well known customs officer from Washington, after two and a half years in Santo Domingo, previously ten years with the Bureau of Insular Affairs, age about 56, described as efficient. He has a wife and two children.
Dec 26 report from Vineyard Haven describes a coast flooded with shipwrecks and debris. Belated skippers catalog vessels like the Jennie French Potter and the Mollie Rhodes, with masts and wreck fragments scattered near Cross Rip Handkerchief and Stone Horse.
A personal medical claim promises a simple method that cured the writer’s asthma and claims to have helped hundreds. The note invites readers to write for a free trial by mail, asking them to fill out a coupon and mail it today.
The Post asked prominent figures in Greater Boston and the state for their best Christmas present. Governor Eben Draper cited a reunion of his immediate family at Hopedale as the finest gift. Governor Eugene N. Foss called his best gift the chance to address inmates at the State prison this morning.
Mayor John F Fitzgerald cites aid recipients and a linen handkerchief as his proudest gifts this Christmas. Ex Governors and city officials share personal presents, from family health and home to peace on earth and a record coal output.
An armed man, believed demented, attempted to shoot John D. Rockefeller at Forest Hill estate in Cleveland. Keeper Bert Knapp and Marshal Stamhberger exchanged shots. the intruder fled, later disappearing after a lengthy search.
About 20 500 children in Greater Boston were made happy by the Christmas effort of the Post readers. Some 3500 letters prompted five child requests each. 642 letters were handled outside the Santa Claus department as gifts. Tomorrow the Post prints the financial statement. The effort was a success and readers are congratulated.
A one story garage and automobile owned by Anson M. Lyman of Brookline on Holland road were burned yesterday morning after a can of gasoline used to empty into the car ignited. Flames rose high before firefighters arrived, and both structures were ruined. Lyman Jr sustained serious burns to his arms and hands.
Grand Dukes Nicholas Nicholaievich Michael Nicholaievich and Serge Mikhailovich left St Petersburg today for Skierniewice in Russian Poland to hunt with nine other noblemen and pursue a season of sport.
The Spero, a Norwegian bark traveling from Barbados to New York with ballast, stranded on the Hatteras coast last Saturday and has broken in two becoming a total loss. Her crew are being cared for along the coast.
The Temple Mishkan Tefila on Moreland Street in Duxbury celebrated its golden jubilee with an afternoon program and banquet. Distinguished attendees included three charter members, six living past presidents, and long time Sabbath school leaders. Speeches featured A Alexander, Edward J Bromberg, and rabbis Hoffman Israeli and Rabenowitz, with Mayor Fitzgerald delivering a postbanquet address.
Hamilton Cook, a boarder, sawing for 10 minutes nearly severed the head of Frank Bennett in his Lex home near Bluefield West Virginia. Bennett’s 12 year old son witnessed the attack and neighbors captured Cook after he fled wounded in the arm. Cook was brought to Meadwell jail as motive linked to domestic troubles.
The Hunacah feast marking Judas Maccabeus victory was held yesterday in Faneuil Hall with about 2000 attendees. Elders spoke and children enjoyed toys as Zionist Council members urged establishing a Jewish commonwealth in Palestine, led by Henry Hurwitz who proclaimed the hope near realization.
Akron Ohio December 26 A Christmas roof collapse at the Barberton tabernacle construction killed real estate dealer J H Myers and injured about a dozen others including Rev A G Roby pastor and Rev William J son. The roof failed as about 50 men worked on finishing the structure.
Mayor Fitzgerald calls for a wealthy donor to finance and sustain a proposed civic theatre. He believes in the concept but states the city cannot fund construction at this time, leaving the project to private support.
George Walker, 34, of Flatbush, shot five times by Olympic athlete Matthew J. McGrath after allegedly forcing entry at 208 East Fifth Street. Walker survives at Kings County Hospital, while McGrath, in uniform, is held without bail as the case moves to Flatbush Court.
A landing force from the British cruiser Hyacinth engaged Arabian gun runners on the southern coast of Persia. Fourteen British were killed or wounded while Arabs suffered about forty losses.
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