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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1910
Page
2
Senators Dixon and Cummins warned that if the Sunday observance bill passes, preachers could be barred from pursuing their calling and churches would be forced to close. The measure provides for the observance.
The Senate debated a bill to enforce Sunday rest in the District of Columbia. Opponents argued the measure discriminates by exempting Jews and Seventh Day Adventists who keep the Sabbath on a different day. Supporters said it is a police regulation, not religious policy.
In Granite City Illinois on January 26 Judge Edward Rigg released a man held as a suspect after a mother Mrs Hendricks pleaded for him not to be lynched. A mob gathered at the jail as she said she did not want blood on her daughter's head.
Harry D. Sawyer, general manager of Woodstock Lumber Company, faced two near deaths within five minutes. He was pulled from the river when an explosion of dynamite hurled rocks and ice onto him, yet he escaped serious harm. The incident occurred in Woodstock, New Hampshire, on January 26.
A laborer named Sawyer slipped on ice while crossing rocks jammed by logs in a river and fell into the water. He cried for help as dynamite exploded, but logs sheltered him while men on shore hauled him to safety and he survived with only minor bruises.
At the Erie railroad board meeting Judge B. E. Gary, chairman of the United States Steel executive committee, was elected a member of the Erie executive committee. The vote occurred at the regular monthly session in New York.
Catherine Driscoll 40 of Roxbury leaped from the Fall River steamer Providence into Long Island Sound late Tuesday night ending her life. Her sister Mary Devine, Boston, reported the melancholy act as the cause and described a despondent period amid nervous trouble.
Karl Waters 65 of 85 Lamartine Street Roxbury was found unconscious in his bed yesterday morning by his wife and died an hour later. Gas was pouring from the gas cock which was wide open.
At City Hall yesterday the street commissioners refused the Park Square Trust and neighboring property owners a plan to extend Arlington street to Columbus avenue and widen Ferdinand street to Castle square, creating a direct cross town link from Beacon street to Castle square.
Schoolhouse commissioners asked street authorities to report decisions on Ferdinand street widening which could push the Abraham Lincoln School further back. The street commission’s refusal squelches hopes for a Crosstown thoroughfare. Park Square Trust proposes extending St James avenue through its property from Berkeley street to Park Square with Laurence Minot leading the push.
Perry Hale formerly a Yale fullback and once water superintendent in Middletown faces restitution after Mayor Willard G. Fisher reports a shortage of several thousand dollars in his accounts.
Mayor Fisher reveals a noted shortage from auditors totaling 5435.56. Perry Hale, a civil engineer in Poughkeepsie, admits a 2000 short and faces surveillance if seen in Middletown. Hale proposes settlement terms under review as his family can restore funds.
In Bowdoinham Maine 59 employees of the Saga dahoc Fertilizer Company struck for longer hours today. They protested short and long days and insufficient weekly earnings under hourly pay.
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