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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1907
Page
2
Poem depicts the visitation of departed loved ones at night. The speaker recalls saints and noble souls who died and a beloved being who comforts him from heaven. The spectral visitations bring solace, guiding the speaker from loneliness to faith.
Richard H. Stevens, business agent of Carpenters Local 595 in Lynn, was fined 50 by Judge Richardson of the Superior Court for contempt. The case cited an injunction stopping interference with the business and customers of master stair builder Frank H. Haskell, noting conspiracies in restraint of labor.
Cambridge marks Longfellow Day with Craigie House open to visitors including Miss Alice Longfellow as host. The Cambridge Historical Society organizes events in schools and Sanders Theatre with speakers William Dean Howells President Eliot Higginson Norton and Bela Pratt medal. Houghton Mifflin will publish two new Longfellow volumes.
Vincent Memorial Hospital plans a three story terra cotta building with granite underpinning and a roof sun garden on South Huntington Avenue overlooking Jamaica Way. The site costs 14000 and total project 65000 with 8000 yet to be raised, excavations to begin when weather allows, Whiton & Haynes as contractors, eight months to completion. Subscriptions to cover the shortfall may be sent to Miss Caroline A. Derby at Hotel Ludlow.
Matthew F. Killion, found guilty of taking a $500 bribe as a Crocker will juror, must serve a two year term in the house of correction after the Supreme Court overruled his trial exceptions. Babson will send a reply to Alderman Curley on the finance appropriation point. Mayor Fitzgerald favors delaying a finance commission pending action on the Webster bill and a state financial inquiry.
The U S Senate voted 43 to 19 to ratify the Santo Domingo treaty granting U S assistance in collecting Dominican Republic customs revenues. Debate centered on constitutional authority and foreign policy with several Senators opposing or warning of dangerous precedents. The only amendments adopted were from the Foreign Relations Committee.
Simeon M. Jacobs, once of Worcester, arrested in New York Jan 17 on a Massachusetts circuit court indictment for concealing a valuable diamond brooch from his bankruptcy trustee pleaded not guilty before Judge Lowell and was held for trial in $2500 bond. The key legal issue is whether Jacobs' divorced wife may testify against him.
Allen Woodside of Somerville was arrested for manslaughter in the death of 8 year old Harry Bird of Roxbury after a car ran him down near his home. The vehicle, claimed to be owned by Professor Lowell of the Institute of Technology, was said to have been operated by Woodside who says the car was in a garage before the 6 o'clock time window. Woodside, 29, has not been admitted to bail and witnesses identified him as the driver. Professor Lowell doubts his car was involved.
Charles F. Pidgin chief of the bureau of statistics of labor will seek legislative appropriation to fund a study on the cost of living. The size of the appropriation will determine how much new statistics are compiled.
Dr Arthur Sudson, 83, of 210 Huntington Avenue, is charged with performing a criminal operation on Mrs May E Felderman of 75 Wyroming Street Malden. He was held in 5000 bond and the case was continued to March 12 in Municipal Police Court. The court noted jurisdiction issues and a probable cause hearing was requested but not yet ready.
A six inch wooden plank sparked a near clash between an Italian barber and a Chinese laundry operator at 488 Tremont Street. The dispute over the plank led to police involvement after tempers flared between the two store fronts.
Patrolmen Levi W Burr Walker A Smith and Thomas H Lynch became full inspectors at roll call. They had served as acting inspectors since January 1 1904 and receive a $400 raise from their former patrolman pay. They report to Captain Dugan and exchange badges for their new insignia. Burr Smith and Lynch earned prior praise for detective work and anti fraud cases.
The text explains anaemia as weak watery blood from overwork worry or illness and lists symptoms. It cites Louis L. Clark of Plainfield New Jersey who after appendicitis recovered after using Dr Williams Pink Pills, claiming cures for rheumatism chlorosis neuralgia and nervous debility and noting availability from Dr Williams Medicine Co Schenectady NY at 50 cents a box or 2 50 for six boxes.
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