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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1909
Page
3
A bold appeal highlights exceptionally low prices and broad stock as the sure measure of value. Shoppers are urged to inspect goods and price tickets, test by comparison, and buy in large quantities while bargains persist.
The National Forest Conservation League releases correspondence on tariff repeal and lumber trade between Canadian Senator William C. Edwards and Canadian manufacturers. Messages reveal Canadian fears of U S. wood influx and lobbying for duties to protect domestic markets, while U S. producers oppose cutting the tariff.
A Montreal Witness letter quotes Senator Edwards arguing there is no good reason for Canada to impose an export duty on pulp wood sent to American pulp and paper mills. He challenges fears of retaliatory duties if the US removes its import taxes.
William Delaney, a former patrolman, is arrested in New York as the police claim to have captured the "scar faced man" suspected of looting the police station in the Criminal Courts building. He faces charges of impersonating an officer and making unauthorized arrests.
Harris A. Allen of Everett, the third man in the $50,000 mail order swindle, was sentenced to eighteen months in East Cambridge jail by Judge Dodge in U S District Court. Meanwhile, Washington announced the two cent postage rate between the United States and Germany became operative.
In Providence Rhode Island on January 1 the Blackstone Gas and Electric Company became the holding company for Pawtucket and Providence gas and electric utilities. Stone and Webster filed at Pawtucket City Hall a collateral trust bond of 5 million dollars to Slater Company trustees to cover bond holders. The new holding company oversees Pawtucket Gas Company Pawtucket Electric Company Woonsocket Gas Company and Woonsocket Electric Machine and Power Company.
In Anderson Texas on New Year’s Day Tom Estes killed four men after a holiday quarrel with brothers Jim and Bruce Giles and Sam Lowe and Bill Howard. Longstanding feuds preceded the incident.
Alfred C. Adler of Somerville, agent for Nicaragua's La Victoria Rubber, was acquitted in District Court. He faced charges of obtaining money under false pretences after allegedly taking about 400 from Miss Annie Crawford and promising a lucrative investment. Evidence on the plantation's productivity was disputed, with defense witnesses claiming rubber plants existed while prosecution argued no productive trees.
Reports from New Rochelle Chicago Tiflis New York and New Orleans recount a prison detention a baby born at 12 01 am in Chicago a police clash with brigands in Tiflis thirteen non fatal shootings in New York events and the death of author Mary Evelyn Moore Davis in New Orleans.
Judge Luce cannot find positive information in the evidence to prove large pretences and Adler is promptly released from detention.
The cocoa crop in Guayaquil Ecuador reaches a record 205000000 pounds for the season with prices averaging about half of last year's level.
Pekin reports an edict issued today lengthens the time originally set for ending the opium industry in China. The measure delays full abolition and adjusts the timetable for enforcement.
Newport reports Mrs Wel son Henry alive after a gunshot by her husband Corporal Henry Nelson later dying by his own hand at Fort Adams. Manchester notes added divorce action amid alienation suit with Maude Stevens filing for absolute divorce from Clarence Stevens. Brockton records 18 month old Jan Szkostatkowski causing a $500 fire by knocking over a lamp during breakfast. Attleboro notes Damon White exonerated of forgery charges from Jewelers National Bank case.
Brandon Vermont January 1 C F Burditt aged 40 of Sudbury died by shooting himself in the head. Authorities say he was despondent from ill health and was married later notes say he was single.
The coroner reports for the past year show 8 murders and 422 sudden deaths from natural causes in Cincinnati along with 357 accidents and 9 whiskey related deaths. There were 100 personal crisis reports in the city during the year.
Senator William Salter of Lynn will handle the 40 million harbor front measure through the coming State Senate session and chair the harbors and public lands committee. Thorndike Spalding to head judiciary, with Treadway and Walker preparing to finalize House and Senate committees by session start.
Jackson Kentucky factions Callahan and Denton reached a truce to avoid troop intervention. Both bands departed Jackson after deciding to disband as Breathitt county unrest loomed.
Alexander Cohn who fatally shot Rose Weimer after she refused marriage and then attempted suicide by shooting and leaping in front of a train died today in a New Jersey hospital.
A fire destroyed Pier No. 1 at Atlantic Coast Line Canton yard in Baltimore Md. The loss is estimated at at least 200000 dollars.
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