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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1909
Page
11
The New England Magazine rushes a second edition for Lawson's The Future of Our Country as readers await January's larger issue. The piece critiques banking power and wealth control, warning of a drift toward a brutal economic hierarchy and state overreach.
Eight fishing vessels lay at T wharf with thick ice from Wednesday night and early yesterday. The fleet carried 271,800 pounds of mixed fresh fish including haddock cod hake pollock and cask. Vessels John Hays Hammond and Robert & Arthur arrived. the former had nearly 50,000 pounds of fish after a 10 day trip to Brown's Bank. Prices ranged haddock 31 2 cents per pound and cod about 21 3 to 21 4 cents. A consignment of over 500 crates of live lobsters arrived aboard the D A R line steamer Boston from Yarmouth. The Clyde liner Chippewa reported wreckage tied to the Jeanie Lippitt and a derelict vessel sighting near Calcutta signal a recent disaster aboard the Rheinfels.
The Winthrop Yacht Club basketball team is becoming a top amateur outfit in the state. Despite a late start this season they have won all games, showing strong team play. Home games listed for January include Chelsea Y M C A on the 13th and Cambridge Five on the 19th and Baldwin A A on the 27th.
Cora Livingston, the world champion, meets Olga Nelson of Boston at the Howard tonight. Nelson predicts a finishing match victory while Livingston acknowledges a worthy opponent during her stay in Boston.
The Pennsylvania Railroad offers Personally-Conducted Tours to Washington from Boston and New England. Tours run January 29 February 12 March 12 26 April 9 23 and May 7 with an extra March 27 eight day trip focusing on Congress Mount Vernon and Philadelphia. Round trip from Boston and Fall River is 25 dollars covering transport steamer berth hotel and transfers. Details and tickets via Rodney Macdonough at 5 Bromfield Street Boston.
Shipping notes list arrivals clearances and sailings with dates and ports. Vessels include Rheinfels Elba Calcutta Nor 18 via Colombo and Newport News Egda Campeache Progreso Louisburg Lady Sybil Gloucester and many others. Tugs Sadie Ross and Rockport Granite No 1 tow barges and schooners Basile Mary Fe Palmer Magnus MansonRa chel W Stevens are noted with routes to Salem Portland and Key West.
The Harvard Grammar School reunion at Roughan Hall Charlestown drew more than 1000 attendees led by Hon. John R. Murphy. Notable guests included Edwin Day Sibley and Arthur W. Dolan with long time teacher Miss Sarah E. Leonard receiving special attention. Murphy presided at the reception as floor marshal with Dolan as assistant. Daniel G. Dacey oversaw arts, and Timothy J. Buckley chaired the reception committee.
A syndicate led by Kidder, Peabody Co and others will publicly subscribe next Monday to 6,000,000 dollars of 4 1/2 percent sinking fund bonds of the Massachusetts Gas Companies due January 1, 1929. Bonds redeemable at 105, with a 120,000 first five years and 180,000 thereafter sinking fund. offered at 96 3/4 to yield 4 3/4 percent. Payments 5 percent on application, balance by January 25, 1909. Bonds to cover floating debt and enable purchase of indebted operating companies. Indenture secures bonds with ratable lien. equity valued over 85 million. earnings to June 30, 1908 exceed six times interest.
Stanley Ketchel states he will meet Jack Johnson to prove white superiority as public outrage over a colored champion persists. He bans all other negroes from title claims and stresses fighting Johnson only.
Arlington High routed Brookline High at Spy Pond with an 8 to 1 victory. Hill scored four goals while Scannell added two and Murray two, with Mason also contributing as Arlington dominated the match in 115 minute halves before an estimated 300 spectators.
Frank Chance star first baseman and manager of the Chicago Cubs has been offered $25,000 for two seasons by a Stockton California syndicate. Chance is weighing the proposal seriously.
District Attorney Dwyer investigates two former West Roxbury aldermen over an order allowing a land parcel to become a cemetery. The disclosure comes as authorities pursue alleged bribery tied to the land use decision.
Rumors say District Attorney holds evidence that an Alderman solicited a $1000 bribe to influence board action. Michael Sughrue, Finance Commission lawyer, and a police inspector planned to catch the Alderman in the act, but the bribery pass was withdrawn at the last moment. A second witness says he was approached by an Alderman seeking the same amount for his vote.
Professor William Street Hutchins, longtime lecturer at Austin & Stone's Museum, celebrated his seventy seventh birthday. In his fifty four years as actor and lecturer he reports delivering four hundred thousand lectures to eighty million people, a record he calls pretty good.
Mrs. Mary V. Kirke, 60, a former South American missionary and 14 years a resident of Aiken, is isolated in a house in Augusta as a leprosy patient. She has been blind for three years.
In Auburn Rhode Island Emil Edmunds a peddler was instantly killed when his wagon was struck by an electric car in the village. The crash occurred tonight and the driver reported no further injuries. Authorities investigated the accident and noted the victim’s identity and the vehicle involved.
Boston woman Mrs. Ellen Lawlor testifies that Doan's Kidney Pills cured her long running kidney troubles permanently. She reports dull pains head back and loins dizziness low energy and health decline prior to use. The ad claims all dealers sell the pills at 50 cents with Foster Milburn Co as sole US agents.
A Roxbury and South End gathering at Frank Ferdinand's store urged removal of the Washington Street elevated structure between Castle and Dudley streets and proposed a tunnel in its place. Henry Crine chaired the meeting. speakers included Pierce J. Grace and his father J J Grace, Louis Berenson, and Bernard Berenson. A mass meeting is planned.
Arthur Doyle of Avon, a member of the Boston Pilot editorial staff, left for a three months trip to Europe yesterday. At South Station he was greeted by many friends who gave him a floral horseshoe and tokens of regard. He departed New York for London and plans to tour Southern Europe for business. His brothers Hugh Robert and Joseph B. accompanied him to New York.
Memphis report says Bill Chapelle known as the railroad spike twirler for the Boston Nationals heads the group traveling to Hot Springs to begin conditioning for the upcoming season.
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