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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1910
Page
3
On February 2 in Punxsutawney the town festivities mark the official bulletin from the ground hog weather works. Burgess Freese reads the long awaited verdict as residents gather in the public square amid flags and winter imagery, predicting six more weeks of winter.
The shadow across the ground hog hole at this morning marks blustery weather until St. Patrick’s Day. It predicts good fox hunting on February 22 and urges pruning on February 14 and preparing hens on March 29. Robins sing on Valentine’s Day and the swallows appear April 27.
Albert Edmund Brown presented a varied programme of songs at Chickering Hall to a good sized audience. He featured works by Haydn Phillips Radecke Korbay Loewe Bendix Foote Gilbert Schubert King Homer and Damrosch. Brown's voice showed pleasing quality and temperament with fluent style though he overused extremes of piano and forte and several mannerisms.
Advice urging plump women to use Marmola Prescription Tablets to shed twelve to sixteen ounces daily. Claims are not injurious and promises rapid reduction of hips chin and abdomen to attract men. Product detail cites Marmola Cream and Detroit distributor with price of seventy-five cents.
Charles L. Warriner testified in the Mrs. Ford blackmail trial that about one fourth of the $643,000 he embezzled from the Big Four railroad was paid to Edgar S. Cooke and Mrs. Jeanette Stewart Ford of Chicago. He said he sent roughly $1,000 each month to both parties during seven years of embezzlement.
Warriner confirms paying blackmail to Mrs. Ford after Cooke’s embezzlement, claiming he helped Ford family to shield them. Prosecutors face surprise as indictments split between blackmail and stolen funds. Warriner says Cooke never extorted but helped keep Ford quiet to spare them all.
Mayor Hibbard defers action on raising city laborer pay from 2.25 to 2.50 a day to Mayor elect Fitzgerald. City Auditor Mitchell estimates the raise would increase the city expenses and likely jump the tax rate.
After more than six weeks in the North Grove street morgue Evelyn Coughlin's body was removed to Mt. Benedict cemetery Brockton. The daughter Mrs Henry Cotter and son Patrick Coughlin claimed the body on Tuesday.
Mrs Josephine A Slayton of Roslindale appeared before Judge Grant in Probate Court claiming a divorce obtained 17 years ago in New Mexico was invalid and that she is entitled to a share of the Slayton estate worth 60000 dollars.
Mrs Adeline Slayton Bradley of Putnam Conn contends her New Mexico divorce husband’s action is invalid in Massachusetts. She denies receiving letters urging co habitation and notes she would have rushed to him if originals existed. The couple married 1887 separation spanned years with a Philadelphia stay and a Santa Fe divorce. Judge Grant heard arguments and reserved decision.
In New York on February 2, Mike the fire company mascot and beloved neighborhood dog was granted a surface street railway pass. A silver plate on his collar bears the inscription from the New York City Railway Company authorizing the fire dog to ride the cars, a privilege earned through local influence as he travels to lunch spots and stations.
Stockton, Feb 2 After three weeks use of rattlesnake venom to treat tuberculosis of the lungs in a late stage Lodi patient a son of Supervisor Newton shows improvement. The venom treatment follows a formula tested by Eastern physicians. The young man is freed from night sweats and stimulated by the venom, though a permanent cure is not expected.
Treadway renews a split referendum plan on direct vote for nominating Senators or Representatives. Plan 1 asks nomination by delegates elected in party conventions. Plan 2 proposes nomination by direct plurality vote in caucus. Walker referendum asks if State Senators or representatives should be nominated hereafter in caucus by direct plurality vote.
President Allen T. Treadway reopened the battle for direct nominations by backing Senate Bill 69 which would submit to every district a split referendum akin to the Boston charter vote. Republican leaders who favored a straight statewide referendum may push to derail the Cushing Walker plan in the Senate.
Speaker Walker charges Senate Bill 69 misleads voters while Senator Arthur Nason calls it an attempt by Lodgemen to derail direct nominations across districts. Walker supports simple ballot language for direct nominations and identifies House 213 as enabling the choice via referendum.
H F Corcoran of Chicago writes that after four months on the stimulant his nervous system revived from near collapse and he now feels like a new man. He praises the tonic and recommends it to others while ministers doctors nurses and others join in commendation of Duffy's Pure Malt Whiskey as a medicinal tonic.
Advertisement touts Duffy's Pure Malt Whiskey as a family medicine that keeps the young strong and the old vigorous. It claims to tonify the heart, purify the system, and aid overworked adults, delicate women, and sickly children. It offers free medical advice from the Medical Department and cites cured customers, selling at $1.00 per large bottle.
Senator Nason attacked direct nominations while Senate Bill 69 proposes a split refer endum. Plan 1 asks delegates to nominate in party caucus, Plan 2 asks direct plurality vote in caucus. The author notes a deceptive push to mislead voters.
Arthur D. Hill, defeated for district attorney last fall, supported District Attorney Joseph C. Pelletier with a bill to remove all office designations except assistant district attorney. If enacted, there will be no indictment clerks and all will be district attorneys.
In San Francisco on February 2, customs inspectors searched 5300 baggage pieces from arriving rich women tourists. Notable cases include Mrs Frances Whipple of New York and Mrs Edward V Price of Chicago, who faced undeclared furs and other dutiable goods with outcomes pending admission or seizure.
George Hein, a Hoboken butcher, sued his former wife Margaret Wentland for $800 claiming she obtained funds under false pretences after their divorce. Judge Stuhr said the district court could award only up to $500, leaving Hein with a partial recovery.
The Cambridge White Sox invite any 135-pound team to play tonight. Contact Martin in Cambridge at 22535 between 9 30 and 10 30 o clock.
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