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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1910
Page
5
Three South End youths carrying a canvas bag with jimmies, screwdrivers and wrenches were arrested by Policeman Leary from the Fast Dedham street station on Rutland street. He closed in from the shadows and threatened to fire to prevent a retreat.
Three youths were handcuffed and jailed after police found loaded 38 caliber revolvers on each boy and a canvas bag spilling jimmies and break-in tools. Joseph Glover 16 of Kendall Street George Ward 16 of West Lenox Street and Howard Coppin 16 of Smith Avenue admitted plans to break into a laundry office in the South Ind.
Madame Palladino, amid a private Boston seance lasting two and a half hours, astonished guests including notable figures like Lombroso and Curie. Attendance cost about $250 per seat, with skeptical scientists later wavering. She travels America giving private sessions, with stopovers in New York and Buffalo before returning to Boston.
Jackson Mississippi January 12 The 18th and 14th ballots in the senatorial caucus show little change Vardaman remains at 72 on the 14th ballot as the caucus adjourns until tomorrow.
Ten tons of white hot iron broke from a furnace at Hunt Spiller and Co. foundry on Dorchester Avenue driving six men to the open and setting the building ablaze. Firefighters confined the flames to the wooden structure with damage pegged above 1000 dollars. Chief Mullen, a former apprentice, coordinated the delicate extinguishing as the plug failed to hold back the flow.
A wooden annex attached to a brick building housed a furnace with a trough extending to the floor below. A crucible rests against the trough on a cart and a clay plug blocks the metal flow.
The Civil Service Commission announces competitive examinations on Jan 12 in every state to fill vacancies for stenographers and typists with starting salaries around $1000. Passers will have good chances for appointment and opportunities for advancement.
Walter S. Glidden of Somerville and J Stearns Cushing of Norwood, council members under Governor Draper, were hosted at a dinner by about 70 friends at the Algonquin Club. General Charles H. Taylor presided with ex Governor John Bates and Speaker Joseph Walker at the toastmaster's table. The decor resembled a Japanese garden with smilax and poinsettias, a fountain near the head table, and souvenirs printed with the motto Public Office Is a Public Trust.
Mayor-elect John F. Fitzgerald will be entertained in royal style at the Globe Theatre tomorrow evening by Lew Dockstader and his minstrels. The program will feature new songs and dances along with the Fitzgerald campaign song Sweet Adeline sung by George McKenna and a chorus of about 109 supporters. Fitzgerald and his family will attend, joined by many prominent men indicating their presence at the mayoralty party.
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