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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1906
Page
7
Miss Bessie Chapman warns stage girls to rely on grit and health, resist temptations, and study Shakespeare. She urges caution with lingering vanity, avoids late suppers, and stresses hard work and abstinence for a successful stage life.
Professor Christopher Columbus Langdell emeritus Dane professor of law at Harvard died suddenly in bed at his Quincy Street home Cambridge Heart disease listed as cause He was born May 22 1826 in Hillsborough NH and joined Harvard in 1851 He created the case system transforming legal study and authored several noted works on contracts sales and equity pleading
A minister recalls a two year old boy waking hungry and insisting on Grape-Nuts over corn meal mush. He praises the cereal for bone and nerve nourishment and claims adults report improved health after switching to Grape-Nuts sold by Postum Cereal Co. in Battle Creek Michigan.
London July 6 Mr Bryan will remain in London until Thursday to hear Hal Dane Speech on army retrenchment in the House of Commons. He then begins a Rhine Switzerland and Italy tour and will meet Winston Churchill and other public figures next week. He goes to Wrest Park tomorrow with Ambassador and Mrs Reid.
The will of William Grosvenor, Providence manufacturer, filed for probate in Newport Rhode Island. The estate is expected to total about seven million dollars. All household goods and belongings in Newport and Providence go to the widow, who also holds the use of the Providence residence and the Newport summer villa. The remainder is merged into a large trust fund.
A legislative committee appointed to decide if Massachusetts should have an open Sunday began work at the State House. It invites public views, plans tours to Nantasket Paragon Park Revere Beach and Wonderland, and will hear hearings in Provincetown at month end.
Officials at Perkins Institution deny reports of the death of Michael Anagnos president of the Perkins Institution for the Blind in South Boston and of the Greek Union of America. Messages were sent to London Athens and the State Department seeking verification and aid in confirming the fate.
In a street duel at Northampton Street and Shawmut Avenue two burly men fought as a passerby woman Lizzie Redd 23 of Allston was slashed in the right arm and fainted at the scene. The attacker Joseph Turner 23 of Readville is detained on charges. the second dueler fled, while bystanders pursued him and police arrested Turner. The wound was not serious.
In Chicago on July 6 the jury found guilt on the first eight counts of the Alton rebating indictment. Judge Landis will hear new trial arguments tomorrow and delay sentencing until decided. Counts nine and ten were deemed defective, preventing conviction on those charges.
In Berlin the Rheinisch Westfaelische Zeitung, linked to the Krupp group, faces prosecution after publishing a biting article on Kaiser Wilhelm's Vienna visit and the telegrams with the Emperor and the King of Italy. Authorities seized copies and searched offices while the editor could be charged with lese majeste.
Miss Margaret C Hartigan of 64 Chestnut Hill Avenue Brookline suffered a badly bruised head and injuries to her back limbs and eye after a collision at Deerfield Street and Commonwealth Avenue. Hospitalization unlikely two weeks. The accident involved her driver Patrick H Gallen of Northampton and two other autos with unnamed others injured. Miss Hartigan secretary for Hinckley Co book dealers in Summer Street known locally as Brookline Beauty since Garro praised her in years past.
A monkey caused uproar on State Street as it escaped from a cafe, taunted pursuers, and remade havoc in a restaurant. The creature eluded 50 pursuers, but was finally nabbed by its master. Brokers and bankers paused as crowds chased the fugitive through shops and streets.
United States Attorney Scothorn issued a federal warrant for Carrie Nation charging her with sending obscene matter through the mails in her temperance publication The Hatchet. Nation was lecturing in Texas when officers were ordered to arrest her for a recent Hatchet issue that included a strong lecture to young men and boys.
The Oklahoma star will be placed in the lower right corner of the blue field of the national flag. The flag will show 46 stars starting July 1, 1907 after Oklahoma is admitted. Washington officials Humphreys and Cowles decided the placement.
Eighteen southern belles are selected to visit Boston at the Chattanooga News expense after a fierce contest. The party will spend about a week in the city arriving Saturday as Boston bachelors prepare to meet the famed Southern charm and potential intersectional matches.
Ex President Grover Cleveland, ill at his Princeton home, reports improvement and expects to be out in a day or two. Dr. J. B. Bryant, his New York physician, and Dr. Carnochan note there is nothing serious, attributing the illness to indigestion. The family remains at Buzzard's Bay.
Miss Gertrude Dennig sues William Wanamaker for twenty five thousand dollars claiming he broke his promises and staged a Lisbon street incident with a pistol man and an insulted passerby to appear heroic. She asserts he deceived her by posing as a knightly lover.
Newport Rhode Island July 6 A Newport grocer advertises in bold type that R C Vanderbilt's saltless fine butter or Vanderbilt's dairy fine butter with salt will be used on flapjacks in the morning as residents consider trying the product in Bellevue avenue homes.
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