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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1910
Page
3
Harris Bros conducts a bold end-of-season sale offering suits and overcoats at a third off regular prices. The ad touts exceptional value pushed through holiday shopping pressure and emphasizes the store's willingness to name unprecedentedly low prices to attract buyers.
In New York on Dec 81 the delay arose when Martin W Littleton did not ask for a writ of error to send Charles W Morse’s bank felon case to the U S Supreme Court. The attorney would decide by Monday action while U S District Attorney Wise said Morse would soon move to Atlanta federal prison. In Worcester a man named Herbert Mero age 34 was committed to the State hospital after a wedding joke sparked by co workers at the Sherman Envelope shop.
In Brockton on December 31 a fire ripped through the basement of the Maynard A. Davis owned public market causing heavy smoke damage to stock. Staffers including Ava Hollis and D. A. Davis were overcome. Davis escaped with a cut hand as firemen aided others. Bulldog Fannie was rescued from a cellar cage by B. E. Drohan.
Rhode Island ends Gretna Green practice as last general assembly actuates a five day delay between application and license grant effective at midnight.
Atlanta reports reveal alleged prison cruelty. Former guard Herschel Ivy testifies Superintendent Vining ordered Moses Johnson whipped after illness. Johnson died a week later. Ruby Gaither, chained and fainting, and white prisoners fed scraps from the floor are described. Jury questions management.
Nathaniel H. Taylor, candidate for Mayor, spoke to large crowds at three meetings last night. The largest gathering met at the Montclair Club on Berkeley and Tremont streets, where he argued he cannot match harsher press attacks because he has nothing to defend and has not been defeated by the people.
Nellie Wilder a 33 year old widow from Keene Florida took carbolic acid with nerve tonic in her French avenue room in South Braintree yesterday morning. Despondent since September after losing a pocketbook with all her worldly belongings and then her job at the shove factory she died at once.
London December 31 headlines note no list of political honors will mark the new year contrary to custom Premier Asquith avoids elevating supporters. With radicals opposing the upper house it was deemed inconsistent to add to its numbers despite past expectations.
The body found by hunters in a deserted blacksmith shop was identified as Richard Russell of Woonsocket Rhode Island. He had recently escaped from a Massachusetts asylum.
The Clyde line steamer Comanche ran aground on the easterly edge of the Swash Channel about a mile below Romer Light while entering New York harbor this afternoon. The vessel left Charleston December 28 and is believed to suffer no material damage and may be floated.
Henry C. Hamilton, a freight agent of the Boston and Albany railroad at Springfield, will be added to the pension list of the New York Central lines. He began service with the Boston and Albany railroad, then the Western railroad, on November 6, 1854.
Mrs Dorothy Prindall Norman widow of Hugh Norman the millionaire married Walter Metcalf of New York. Her ascent from Gloucester fisherman's daughter to New York Newport society followed by a divorce, reconciliation and widowhood. She recently returned from Europe, living in comfort and travel.
Paul Tissandier attempted to set a new height record over a French city in a bi-plane but did not achieve the mark. He flew today as the weather and course allowed but stopped short of the record.
A 1910 resolution pledges diligent hair care using Lorrimer's Excelsior Hair Tonic. The speaker vows to combat dandruff and hair loss by visiting Riker-Jaynes stores or a druggist, or requesting a free trial from Wm. Chas. Keene of the Lorrimer Institute.
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