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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1909
Page
12
Advertised sale offers suits and overcoats at varied prices from 40 to 19 dollars with multiple price points including 35 30 25 32 28 and 23 dollars. Items described as suits and overcoats appear in several price tiers.
The commission highlights Boston bearing 78 percent of metropolitan water costs and cites $25,000 wasted from $100,000 annual water use. It urges no more loans for mains, departments to pay for water, basing assessments on consumption, and caps on 1999 10 maintenance at 800000 with 100000 for metering.
Edward C. McKinnon and Lindell Cleveland patrolmen at Jamaica Plain Station 18 were retired from the police department last evening for disability due to brutal assaults suffered in the line of duty.
Philadelphia residents reported two clear earthquake tremors at 2:22 and 4:22 pm followed by a loud dynamite explosion in Montgomery County. Swarthmore College seismographs recorded the shocks, described as brief by Professor John A. Miller.
In Boston’s Depot block, Edward G. Graves president of the Republican city committee, received an unexpected endorsement for re election from Ward 25 despite being repudiated in East Boston. Graves, a Ward 1 resident, has opposed Mayor Hibbard and faced exclusion from his home ward at primaries. The Ward 25 action signals a strategic move by an anti mayor faction.
Washington January 4 The Supreme Court will not review the $29 million Standard Oil fine. Chief Justice Fuller announced the denial of the government's petition for certiorari, leaving intact the Seventh Circuit reversal that favored Standard Oil over rebates from railroads.
William R. Hill of Cambridge Massachusetts Harvard graduate and newspaper man was killed by an electric streetcar in Manchester Connecticut. The motorman did not see him and heard his death shriek as Hill's body was wedged between forward tracks. Hill's skull was fractured and both legs broken. He was en route to the home of Mrs James Bryan. The coroner viewed the body and the remains were taken to the Bryan home. His family in Cambridge were notified and a brother arrived to take charge.
John Mitchell vice-president of the American Federation of Labor spoke at a Women’s Trades Union League meeting in New York. He defended labor rights while noting leaders Gompers Morrison had been sentenced to prison. The federation pledged support to end liberty-destroying injunctions by law.
Seven city councilmen accused of accepting bribes and conspiring to secure bribes, and two former bankers accused of giving bribes, were indicted today by a grand jury after arrest two weeks ago on the Voters' League complaint.
The first division of Admiral Sperry's fleet is ordered to Naples to aid Italian earthquake relief. Other ships disperse to Toulon and Turkish ports, with crews kept from Italian shore leave to respect the nation’s mourning. The plan preserves Gibraltar assembly before departure to Hampton Roads.
Mrs Julia S Martin feared nephew Mr Gleason might be resting. He failed to return home yesterday and a search party was organized. The Andover woods were scoured and the body was found this morning after a general alarm.
Mr Gleason is survived by Mrs Martin his aunt two sisters Miss Hattie Gleason and Mrs Fred W Wilson and one nephew John Loris Wilson. He had lived with Mrs Martin for the past 20 years since his parents died.
Milton officials pursue a kidnapping theory as Curtis Gould, five, vanishes from home a week ago. Irving F. Gould, the father, posts a 100 reward for the boy's return dead or alive amid family disbelief of any motive.
engineers propose a Beacon Hill to Park Street connection with a South Terminal loop linking the Cambridge subway to Harvard Square. The plan would dip under the Washington street tunnel with transfer stairways to both north and south bound trains. supporters claim lower cost than a Washington street tunnel and lasting transit improvements. critics allege political motives to prolong the Transit Commission.
Dr Daniel D Gilbert a leading advocate of appendix removal surgery died at his Dorchester home Born in Brattleboro Vermont in 1838 he served as a surgeon in the Civil War He helped found the Dorchester Dispensary and promoted free vaccination statewide His funeral is set for 2 pm at the First Parish Church Dorchester
Lowell news reports Henry M Thompson former owner of the Lowell felting mills died tonight by self inflicted gunshot while his family dined. A 61 year old melancholia sufferer he leaves his wife and two sons Albert W Thompson of Manchester and Herman Thompson of this city. His widow is a daughter of the late Governor Straw of New Hampshire.
London reports a ruling under the new patent act revoking the British patent on an American sewing machine. The decision holds the American patentees failed to meet the law by manufacturing only a few substitute parts in England rather than the entire machine as specified in the patent.
A long term prisoner at the Charles Town Navy Yard attempted a break for liberty during yard cleaning. He used a roller and a fence to scale the wall and cross toward Chelsea street before being called back and returned to an extended sentence.
A sale lists men's and boys light weight paddock and rain coats, winter overcoats, English Burberry coats, spring and two piece suits, trousers, and various youths outfits with reduced prices from original ranges. Notable items include overcoats now 18.00 and 25.00, suits from 14.00 to 30.00, and youths ensembles dropping to 6.00–18.00 with miscellaneous odds and vests marked down.
Listings show bulk quantities of silk four in hand and bat ties at 0.50 to 0.75, negligee shirts 1.00 to 1.50, mens and boys flannel pajamas 9.50 and 1.50, golf caps 0.30 to 1.00, lisle hose 0.75 at three for 1.00, underwear 2.00 to 3.50, and bath robes 2.00 to 10.00, all at reduced prices.
Norfolk suits for boys aged 8 to 16 cut from 10.00–20.00 to 3.00–15.00. Knickerbockers for 7–16 trimmed from 1.50–4.00 to 0.45–7.00. Sailor and Russian washable suits drop to 2.00, blouses to 1.00, hats and caps to 0.25–1.00. 202 to 216 Boylston Street.
James W. Synan announced at Pittsfield that the Democratic State committee will meet at the Quincy House Boston at 1 p m Thursday Jan 14 to organize and elect officers. Rumor favors a Greater Boston or eastern state chairman with Humphrey O Sullivan of Lowell as a leading candidate.
Supreme Court reverses the New York decision on the 1905 and 1906 gas rate laws. Consoli dated Gas Company challenged the price fixed at 80 cents per 1000 cubic feet as confiscatory. The lower court had granted an injunction against enforcement of the law.
New York January 4. Counsel for the Consolidated Gas Company doubt the case status after the court's decision. James M Beck says it is idle to speculate on repayment of 9 038 629 dollars until the full text of the decision is received.
Harriet Estes, claimed as the last surviving daughter of the Revolution, died in Ithaca at age 17 today.
The fluid used by Undertaker Flaherty to embalm Catherine Kelleher a 13 year old Somerville girl shows no arsenic. The girl one of four suspected deaths, was exhumed from St Pauls Cemetery Arlington on December 21. Her viscera is at Harvard Medical School for poison analysis.
At Morse's store a large selection of Yorke Brand shirts and negligee pieces are offered at 95c. The collection includes bosoms, attached or detached cuffs, coat style models, sizes 14 to 18, with most items originally priced at 2.50 or 2.00 and some 1.50.
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