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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1910
Page
3
Daniel Short of Cambridge aged 101 was injured when his wagon collided with another near Massachusetts Avenue and State Street. He calmly remounted, drove to Cambridge Relief Hospital, and waited as a surgeon treated a cut over his eye while his horses were secured.
After a collision the 60 year old Irish born National Biscuit Company teamster acted calmly. Despite shock and wounds he returned home by 4 Watson Street and enjoyed dinner, saying he was hardly hurt. Doctors noted his age contrasted with his resilience.
Bids for supplying street department teams were opened, with awards to be announced. Low bids by district include South Boston John F. Loonie for doubles five dollars, singles three, extras two. East Boston Charlestown B. E. Grant four seventy five, three, and one eighty. others list James E. Noble and John H. Winslow with similar pricing.
East Cambridge Probate Court heard Postoffice Inspector Charles M Perkins declare that the disputed postmarks and cancellation stamps on the Rousseau letters are genuine. He refuted handwriting experts claims that the letters were forged with dies stolen from North Dakota and New York offices to misrepresent older correspondence.
Senator Simpson, chief counsel for the claimant, accuses Inspector Perkins of bias in the Russell case hearing. Mrs Russell signals support by passing notes to her husband’s lawyers as Perkins demonstrates postmark techniques and faces cross examination over handwriting and ink questions.
At the Episcopalian Club meeting in the Parker House hotel, Bishop Lawrence urged parishes to pursue unification amid concerns over inadequate bishop salaries. Speakers included Beale Saunders Hayes Sears Selfridge Evans and Evans. Curtis Guild Jr. spoke on Servetus and Calvin at the Channing Club.
The schooner Fiske departed Boston for Jacksonville with eight crewmen, vanished at sea amid heavy swells. Gresham crew towed the wreck to port after locating no trace of survivors, with positions reported near Sankaty Headlight.
Mrs. Foussard wife of the cook on the schooner Fiske, presumed lost with all aboard, is lingering at 111 Lexington Street East Boston with her three daughters and a son. A Post reporter found her in deep grief awaiting confirmation of her husband's fate.
Creamery butter dropped to 30 cents a pound on the Elgin board of trade today. Butter board members admitted the decline was due largely to anti high price agitation and a local move to avoid expensive foods.
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