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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1909
Page
3
Milton D. Dawson a coal miner faced a rabid dog attacking schoolchildren as they walked home. He kept the animal at bay for an hour until a bystander fired it, saving the kids but sustaining multiple bites himself and five others also receiving Pasteur treatment.
Arrangements for opening the Salvation Army rescue home in Dorchester were completed last night. The three story building at 103 Train Street Pope's Hill will house about 32 women and 12 to 14 babies. Major Elasiie will lead the new home with Colonel and Mrs A Gifford directing the dedication and Miss Booth delivering an address. Dr J Wilbur Chapman and Charles M Alexander are also scheduled to speak and sing respectively. The facility features steam heat and multiple rooms across three floors including kitchens dining rooms laundry office and workroom.
Professor Vida D Scudder of Wellesley argues in Franklin Union Hall that Christianity and Socialism must merge as Socialism advances. Emily Greene Balch presided. James I Carey spoke on Socialism from a Workingman’s View. Clergyman Eliot White joined as question time followed by responses from Scudder Wentworth and Hillquit.
Annie Mitchell aged 65 died yesterday in her room at 48 Howard Street from heart failure. Police say there were no signs of foul play and the death is being treated as natural causes.
An expert doctor report from Maine pine woods promotes a pine based remedy for coughs colds and mucous membranes. The formula blends whiskey glycerine and Concentrated pine compound in a half pint liquor bottle with doses every four hours. Concentrated pine comes in half ounce tins with air tight screw caps and must be labeled Concentrated.
Senator Lodge of Massachusetts, delivering a Senate eulogy for the late Senator William Boyd Allison, criticized the primary system. He noted Iowa elected Allison six times, praising his career and warning that primaries risk distorting the popular will and harming national continuity.
Danube rises two feet above normal causing severe flooding in Presburg and surrounding villages. Lower town submerged and 200 houses flooded after canal dam burst at Stuwhlweissenburg.
President-elect William H. Taft and his party departed from Colon aboard the U S cruiser North Carolina at 6 o clock bound for New Orleans. The cruiser Montana accompanied them as Taft issued a brief statement before boarding.
President elect Taft reports satisfactory progress on the canal project at Colon. He notes strong organization and esprit de corps among workers and anticipates receiving the engineer’s report after landing in New Orleans. Governor Melendez and Isthmian staff bid farewell as Lt Col Goethals accompanies Taft to Washington.
Washington February 7 The ratification of Taft and Sherman as President and Vice President will be a ceremonial event in the House chamber next Wednesday. The Senate and House will meet at noon then join to count electoral votes at 1 pm. Taft and Sherman shown 321 votes to Bryan and Kern 162. If no protest is filed Vice President Fairbanks will declare them elected.
In Boston area churches memorial services honored Abraham Lincoln. The South Congregational and Second Church hosted a large Lincoln centennial service with readings by James Morgan and talks by William A. Abbott and Burton R. Wilson. Other ceremonies occurred at Harvard Church in Brookline, Central Church Jamaica Plain, Eliot Church, Immanuel Walnut Avenue, and Grace Church Medford with diverse speakers and visual aids.
Rabbi Charles Fleischer at Commonwealth Avenue synagogue morning service delivered a commemorative address on Lincoln as a great personality. He urged reverence for Lincoln’s triumphal, distinctly American character and urged insight over hysterical hero worship.
Washington February seven flood damage has risen from forty five million dollars in 1900 to one hundred eighteen million in 1907. The House agriculture committee favors a bill to protect watersheds of navigable streams and allow land acquisitions. The majority supports the measure. the minority disputes the forest connection to navigability.
Professor 8 L Joshi, Hindu economist, warned Taft will face more problems than Roosevelt and cited race conflicts in India, South Africa, and Illinois. He argued liberal education fails for work, praised technical training, blamed railroads for India's famine, and commented on Indian marriage norms.
In Shelbourne Ontario on February 7 two persons died and three were seriously injured after George Stewart a mentally unbalanced farmer attacked with a rifle while staying with his brother at Reddickville about 12 miles away. Stewart was taken into custody.
The attacker fought with his brother who was injured but not seriously. He shot Mrs. Spanhouse in the eye and arm after entering her home at Shrigley. Mr. Spanhouse was killed defending his wife. The culprit killed the son James’ attempt to intervene and beat a man, a housekeeper, and a hired man unconscious before fleeing to Maple Valley where he was captured this afternoon.
Dr Charles H Williams at a Harvard Medical School lecture notes that about 3 to 4 percent of men show defective color perception while 1 to 2 percent of women are color blind. He cites disease and heavy tobacco use as causes and says congenital defects are hard to cure, but tobacco-related impairment can improve after quitting and improving health.
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