02 Jan 1906
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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1906
Page
1
Chief Justice Knowlton notified Tucker's attorneys that the petition for a rehearing of the overruled exceptions would not be granted. For nearly a year the prisoner's counsel have fought the action, which closes the case before the State Supreme Court.
Electric lighting keeps silver bright as air soot and gases tarnish less. A shown electrical buffing machine restores lustre quickly and safely. The Edison Exhibition at 1 Head Place invites visits daily until 5 30 p m with contract agents available by phone Oxford 1150 to provide information.
New mayor cancels contracts totaling 179485 dollars issued by acting mayor Whelton and restores salaries to pre death of Mayor Collins. He also reconstitutes the Schoolhouse Commission and accepts Water Commissioner Sullivan's resignation, signaling a broad administrative overhaul.
John Lavoritto a 55 year old Italian quarryman was found outside a fellow worker’s shanty in West Quincy with his face crushed by a boulder and his upper body burned. Police say the fire was started to conceal a crime. Samuel Samuelson, an elderly Swede, was detained at the police station as a suspect.
A long simmering quarrel over liquor led to the killing of Lavoritto in a Sharp Rock woods quarry near the Braintree line. Samuelson, 75, initially denied involvement but later said a lamp exploded, igniting Lavoritto’s clothing and a struggle ended with a paving stone used as the murder weapon. Samuelson cites a prior friendship and a recent altercation as motive. he has a Swedish family and resides in the city.
An article reports a Giorgione painting titled Head of Christ formerly in Vicenza’s Casa Loschi, now at Fenway Court, amid claims it vanished from Italy. Henry W Swift says Mrs Gardner acquired it in good faith, with unclear provenance. European centers fear loss of the original.
Mrs Emma Isabel Peabody a society figure shot herself in her 74 West Sixty ninth street apartment tonight. formerly Emma Isabel Levitt of Brookline Massachusetts she was said to be related to Mrs George Willcomb of Boston and to have wealthy New England friends. Her companion Mrs Helen Parker found her body with a bullet wound to the temple after hearing breathing and calling for a doctor noted by Dr Edward P Fowler who saw her recently and saw signs of a nervous attack before a hysterical act ended her life.
Continued on page S First Column forecasts fair conditions for Boston and vicinity with Tuesday and Wednesday seeing light westerly winds.
Winds along the New England coast shift to fresh northwest while the middle Atlantic sees westerly gusts. For thirty five years Sanford's Ginger has stood as the standard of purity flavor and strength. Look for the owl.
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