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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1909
Page
5
New York on February 24 Mrs Margaret Teal was committed to the Tombs by Judge Foster on charges of attempted subornation of perjury in the Helen Kelly Gould Frank J Gould divorce action. She had previously been out on $5000 bail.
Mrs. Julia Fleming McCabe testified that Mrs. Teal and Detective Mousley sought to have false affidavits drafted by Mabel McCauslan Blanche Hale and others to be used against Frank J Gould. Hale a manicurist said she was asked to sign. Hale was to be paid 500 dollars in 50 weekly installments and sent to Canada. McCabe said she knew Teal for years including travels abroad and first met her when she was Mrs. Toomey in St Paul.
In Baddeck Nova Scotia the McCurdy Silver Dart completed a 4.5 mile flight over Baddeck Bay at 49 mph. The experiment occurred at aerodrome No. 4 with the aerial association continuing tests.
Surgeons at Harlem Hospital conduct an experiment on 27 year old Harry Needleman, a mental and physical dwarf. They hope phyroid gland extract from a sheep, injected daily, will restore normal mind and size. Needleman’s growth had stalled after a throat wound removed his phyroid gland at age six months.
Dr Wallner appears at a pension fund concert next Sunday evening in Symphony Hall. He will recite with orchestral accompaniment Wildenbruch Hexenlied and sing three Schubert songs De Wanderer Der Doppelganger Erlkonig with piano, noted as his Boston favorites.
Pittsburg Feb 24 The National Lead Company declares an open market for lead and its products following the lead of United States Steel Corp. The move is admitted to stem independent producers cutting rates to win contracts.
Feb 24 Mr and Mrs Thomas D Peck of Pittsfield announce the marriage of their daughter Miss Harriet Roberts Peck to Robert Newkirk Smithers formerly of Buffalo now of Boston. Smithers Harvard 1906 graduate led tennis in 1905-06 with Hasty Pudding Club captain. now with Charles Morningstar Company starch importers of Boston.
Mrs. Smithers, now ill with appendicitis at House of Mercy Hospital, was secretly married to Mr. Smithers on Feb 15 in Woonsocket after a Bermuda visit. The bride, once to be a bridesmaid for Katherine Peck, inherits $100,000 from her mother. The groom, an electrical engineer with General Electric, rushed from Norfolk after the hospital telegram.
St John’s N F February 24 Following a proclamation by Governor MacGregor postponing the Legislature opening to March 4 Sir Robert Bond the Premier informed his followers that his resignation would be handed in in a day or two This signals the downfall of the Bond government and that opposition leader Sir Edward Morris will be asked to form an administration.
Senator Gillett of Fairfield county presented Lieutenant Governor Treadway with a Bremen county man’s letter threatening to blow up the Senate chamber next Tuesday. The signer claimed there is no longer any chance for a poor man in this country.
Andrew J. Kearins was arrested early yesterday at 321 Lowell Street after allegedly attempting arson at the house. He reportedly told officers, I guess it took you a long time to catch me, then refused to discuss other incendiary fires.
Kearins appeared before Judge Wentworth in Somerville police court yesterday morning on a charge of arson and entered a not guilty plea.
A man named Kearins was held in $2000 bail for trial next Monday morning. In default of bail he was committed to East Cambridge jail. He recently lived at 324 Lowell Street in Somerville, previously from Charlestown. He is unmarried and living with his sisters.
A 50 year old Worcester man believed to be Frank E. Laroe collapsed at a Tremont row amusement place shortly after noon and died in an ambulance en route to a relief hospital. An envelope addressed to Frank E. Laroe, piano salesman, Macaller Roper Company, 284 Main street, Worcester, was found in his pocket.
Fire on Chardon Street Bowdoin square area damages the second floor stables in the Quincy Club building. About 50 horses tied inside were quickly evacuated with damage estimated at 200 dollars. The blaze was reported around 11 30 last night.
Stephen F. College aged 21 of 227 Chestnut Street Cambridge attempted death by his own hand by slashing his throat with a razor in a barber shop on Putnam Avenue. He was taken to Relief Hospital and said to be discouraged and out of work.
In London today John Tempest Dawson aged 70 shot his wife at the National Portrait Gallery and then killed himself. Mrs. Dawson died later in hospital. The couple are believed to be Americans.
A three story wooden shoe factory owned by Reynolds Drake and Gabell at Marshall's Corner in Brockton was totally destroyed by fire tonight. The fire's origin is unknown and the plant employed about 200 workers.
Principal Walter E. Andrews and the school board investigate a recent high school social function where students drank intoxicants and girls smoked cigarettes. A board meeting tomorrow may lead to suspensions pending final action.
Frank Coleman a 66 year old Dorchester shop owner at 15 Belden street was struck by an electric car at the Columbia road and Geneva avenue corner at 4 25 yesterday afternoon and probably fatally injured according to police.
Halifax reports merchants of Spain and Portugal trading with Newfoundland will press a duty on fish imports if Newfoundland bans wines. About one third of Newfoundland’s total catch is exported to these countries.
Pittsburg report says Councilman John F. Klein quipped he would rather be a councilman than mayor as witness Harry B. Wassell testifies in a graft trial. The remark highlights alleged financial incentives tied to city office.
President Roosevelt issued a proclamation applying the reduced duties of Section 3 of the Dingley tariff act to sparkling wines imported from Spain. The move lowers the tax on Spanish sparkling wines, aligning with existing tariff provisions.
The House ways and means committee reported favorably on a proposal to appropriate $25,000 for band concerts in metropolitan park districts, ensuring continued events for the upcoming year.
Rear Admiral Samuel R. Franklin, retired, died at his Washington home today at age 54. He had retired from the Navy in August 1887.
An advertisement touts ascatco as a positive asthma cure claiming elimination of the disease in four to five weeks. It notes high demand in Boston and lists Riker Jaynes and Houghton & Y Dutton drugstores as distributors with two sizes, and the Austrian Laboratory offering free experimental treatment from New York.
Miss Catherine Mulligan daughter of Boston fire chief wed Fred Conley pitcher for the New Bedford team at the Church of Our Lady of Lourdes Jamaica Plain. The service did not use finger alphabet as both are deaf mutes but they followed lips and responses. A special dispensation was needed for the Ash Wednesday ceremony. The couple met at Horace Mann School for Mutes.
London report from February 24 states a cabinet meeting decided to build four Dreadnoughts in the coming year with further plans depending on construction by other great powers.
A three story brick structure on Forsyth Street in Jacksonville's business district burned this afternoon causing about 300000 dollars in damages. Fire crews fought the blaze but the building was completely destroyed. The loss is reported at 300000 dollars.
Miss Pauline Weinsman daughter of Mr and Mrs Max Weinsman of 42 Grove Street died early yesterday morning at City Hospital from spinal meningitis She was 17 years old and very popular.
Rev. Herbert S. Johnson told the State House committee on legal affairs that a new Boston bill allowing Sunday fruit sales and sales of ice cream tobacco newspapers soda and fruit by others beyond common victuallers would not harm observance. He is a director of the New England Sabbath Protective League and urged passage to prevent hardship on the poor and preserve respect for Sunday duties.
Darwin S. Moore and Carl G. Aldrich sue Calvin B. Humphrey for $2000 each alleging he used an ox whip on them as they rode through Colebrook on May 20, 1906. The case opened in Superior Court in Winsted Connecticut.
Following heavy rains the Ohio River at Cincinnati surpassed the flood stage of 50 feet this afternoon and many upstream points reported floods. Forecasts predict a height of 55 feet tomorrow as eastern Kentucky endured severe storms and water encroached on several smaller settlements with property losses.
New York February 24. Carl Fischer-Hansen the lawyer and society figure charged with bribery of a witness pleaded guilty to an amended charge of attempted bribery. Justice Dowling sentenced him to 12 months in the penitentiary and disbarment. He is to have a week to settle business affairs before serving. His law partner Alexander Michaelson was exonerated.
Miss Barbara Kral of 629 Mt Pleasant Ave Highlandtown Md reports suffering from eczema for ten months. After ineffective doctors and remedies she used Cuticura Soap Ointment and Pills and saw relief after four to five applications. She cites complete cure and urges others to try Cuticura.
A Boston advertisement touts Cuticura Soap and Ointment for immediate relief of itching rashes and crusted humors in infants and children. It promises rest, sleep, and a speedy cure when other remedies fail, with products priced and mailed free Cuticura Book offered.
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