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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 04, 1910
Page
3
An advertising appeal explains that the stomach tires from dyspepsia and indigestion and needs natural rest. Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets are promoted as restoring function, with a claim that a grain of ingredient can digest 3000 grains of food. Free trial by mail offered from F. A. Stuart Co. Marshall Michigan.
ATHOL, Feb. 3. The oldest married couple in the State and probably in New England are Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Davis of Royalston. Mr. Davis will celebrate his 101st birthday tomorrow and Mrs. Davis passed her 90th milestone last Sunday. They are both in the best of health. The past summer Mr. Davis planted and tended his garden and harvested crops for a winter store. Mrs. Davis does her own housework and walks to a neighbor’s house a quarter of a mile distant and back. He was born in Royalston and worked on the farm until 17, then taught school in Richmond, N. H., and Orange. At 22 he went to Boston, worked on the police force and in the old custom house at Faneuil Hall. He is a Republican and voted for Taft in the last presidential election. On July 25, 1842, he married Miss Lurinda Stratton of Athol and later moved back to Royalston. They had six children, five living: Mrs. Thenais Nelson, Hosea of Boston, Emery of San Francisco, Charles of Minneapolis, Will W. of Royalston, with one grandchild and one great-grandchild.
The crews of the fishing smacks Theodore Fletcher and the Irene found a large field of floating gasolene cans off Beach Haven New Jersey on February 6. About 180 cans were gathered. none bore identifiable marks.
Fire ripped through the Francis Shaw stock farm house at Five Paths near Cochituate tonight. The blaze started about 7 o clock with unknown cause and estimated damage of 2000 dollars.
In Cincinnati on February 3 Charles H. Warriner, former Big Four treasurer, testified in the trial of Mrs Jeannette Stewart Ford that a long chain of embezzlements by three men led to near wholesale plundering of the railroad treasury. Warriner said he spent large sums to silence the woman, aided by her fixation on embezzler E S Cooke who learned the scheme.
Charles S. Cummings note broker of State street convicted of larceny and uttering forged notes in the Framingham scandal. Judge Daniel W. Bond sentenced him to five to eight years in Charlestown prison but he remained in East Cambridge jail last night as his lawyers could not obtain sureties for an appeal.
Judge Bond postponed ruling on a stay of sentence after a sealed verdict found Henry Cummings guilty of larceny totaling 14,440 from the Washington Institution of Savings and uttering a forged 15,000 note tied to the Framingham scandal. Cummings remains free on 15,000 bail in Suffolk. bondsmen were not present at adjournment. The three day trial concluded with the jury verdict yesterday afternoon.
Mayor John T Woods spoke at a pre meeting supper at First Methodist Church Somerville with Rev Ora Gray Charles Allen and other civic and religious leaders. He pledged to help morals and gain citizen support for the campaign and church righteousness. A souvenir with evangelists Gray and Allen photos was given to about 300 attendees.
Yesterday morning Cornelius Sullivan of 17 Atherton Street Roxbury faced the Municipal Court in the first criminal session charged with drunken ness on a car of the Boston Elevated. He was found guilty and fined five dollars by Chief Justice Bolster.
Postal inspectors seek a Gypsy woman who wrote two letters to Miss Molly Kelly a 17 year old Roxbury girl threatening death or abduction unless she joins a band. The notes claim the band camps in East Walpole and warn of killing if she refuses. Kelly fears going out at night.
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