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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1910
Page
4
Newport residents wonder about missing letters. Edward Grimshaw a car repairer is arrested on mail robbery charges. Inspectors find several hundred Newport letters at his home. It is believed thousands of letters may be involved. File to Boston for trial tomorrow.
A note states that receiving an information letter does not entitle the holder to any further rights or benefits and warns against relying on such documents for guarantees or action.
Roberta de Janon the $10 000 000 heiress who eloped from Philadelphia on December 29 with Ferdinand Cohen a waiter nearly three times her age was arrested in a rooming house at 68 Superior street Chicago and today told her story blaming herself for the affair.
Roberta De Janon tells police of her 16 year old elopement with Cohen now held in Chicago. She says she sought sympathy after her mother’s death and wanted to run away, planning to be together despite family opposition. The couple crossed multiple cities before capture.
An article touts Della Ellison of Scranton as discoverer of a harmless, simple treatment to banish wrinkles, claiming five to twenty year younger looks. She invites readers to write for free particulars at 1029 Burr Bidg Scranton PA, promising sealed details.
Extracts from love letters Roberta de Janon wrote to Ferdinand Cohen reveal her views on age and fatherhood, desire for kindness, and intimate expressions. The correspondence includes pleas for honesty about future plans and romantic imagery describing affection and closeness.
Henry Westerburg a jobless carpenter emaciated by hunger hurled two Indian clubs through a plate glass window of the Waldorf Astoria dining room in New York. Diners were startled but unharmed. In police court he said four months without work left him hungry and he tossed the clubs after seeing others eat. A meal was sent to his cell with compliments of the court.
Last week of fresh herring as Ameri can fleet extends operations past usual due to mild weather. Vessels to depart as wintry conditions set in. Totals expected to surpass the seasonal average.
Washington, Jan. 11. A bid to strip Speaker Cannon of power to assign which portions of the president’s message go to the commerce committee and which to the judiciary committee failed in the House today. The defeat preserves Cannon’s control over committee assignments despite the effort.
The Ways and Means Committee considered a rule on reference with Chairman Payne leading. Minority Leader Underwood of Alabama warned the Speaker could dominate House actions, while Gaines of West Virginia argued the House already controls its references. The measure split the message sections between judiciary and interstate commerce for referral, with an amendment on federal charters lost, and the resolution approved by voice vote.
In Winchester on January 11 a farmer Thomas Stickley and Florence Merkley wed after being stopped by five foot snow drifts. Stickley walked to a minister Rev Henry Ditzier returned and married them on the road where they paused in the drifting snow.
Mrs Francisca Hinkel testified before the Newark Essex County Hospital for the Insane inquiry about a patient’s death on February 21 1904. She disputed brutality claims and denied knowledge of an attic skeleton or any disappearance from the ward.
The Osmo Chemic Physicians announce a limited time offer giving one month's treatment and medicines at no cost to any new or renewing patient who starts on or before January 15 1910. The deal targets cataract eye issues goitre heart disease and facial blemishes among others and ends in four days.
Hiram Holbrook Rose founder of the Colonial Trust and Savings Bank died in Chicago. Born in La Porte Indiana in 1856 he was a Harvard graduate of 1879.
The United States government informed the German foreign office that it would regard the Reichstag’s adoption of the proposed potash law as a discrimination against American interests.
Six year old Robert Cameron son of Mr and Mrs Stephen Cameron of 10 Grove street drowned skating on the Androscoggin River He fell through a hole cut in the ice and the current carried his body under the ice The body has not been recovered.
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