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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1910
Page
8
Madrid July 7 King Alfonso signed a bill drawn by Premier Canalejas to forbid new religious orders entering Spain until Vatican Concordat negotiations are resolved. The premier will present the measure to the Cortes tomorrow.
Elizabeth New Jersey July 7 forty six years ago Carrie L Searles bought a bill of goods from Black Brothers Mansfield Ohio where she then lived two days ago she sent them the money and today she received a receipt acknowledging full payment.
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Jere miah J. McCarthy, Boston port surveyor, accused the Civil Service Commission of violating laws in his nomination as fire commissioner. Governor Draper and Senator Lodge were named as targets after the council refused a hearing. McCarthy threatened to oppose Draper if he seeks office again.
On Wednesday Mr. McCarthy sent a petition asking a hearing to the lieutenant governor and executive council regarding alleged civil service failures in his fire commissioner nomination. The council, after attorney general review, voted no action. McCarthy denounces the process, seeks public judgment, and urges defeat of Governor Draper if re election occurs.
In Killingly Connecticut Phillip Loomis ten year old son of Herbert Loomis instructor at the State Normal School New Britain was killed when shot in the head by a .30 calibre rifle. Two boys Peter Bridges seventeen and Arthur Waterhouse fifteen were held responsible. They were shooting from bushes near Alexander Lake as Loomis rowed by and claim they do not know which gun fired the bullet. Both were arrested and to be heard in the morning.
Boston's gross funded debt stands at 110,765,072.67 with a year to date increase of 605,166.67. Net funded debt is 71,270,882.46, up from 71,166,239.12 at year's start, as per City Auditor Mitchell's monthly statement issued yesterday.
The Milk and Baby Hygiene Association reports receiving 578 dollars since July 1 to support 11 city stations reducing infant mortality. The group says 15422 dollars more are required to establish the stations as a permanent institution.
A retrospective celebrates 535 years of service by Boston educators recently retired. The feature profiles several longtime teachers, detailing decades of classroom work, community impact, and reminders of evolving public schooling.
Emma G Shaw who led the history department at Girls High since 1872 retires from Boston public schools this year. She helped abolish Wednesday and Saturday half holidays, pushed graded salaries for women teachers, started the Boston Teachers Club and High School Assistants Association, and educated generations at Radcliffe Smith Wellesley MIT and Tufts. Shaw recalls teaching in St Louis before moving to Cambridge and finally Boston in 1872 where she prepared girls for college in history and English.
Three Boston militia commands depart this afternoon and tomorrow for an eight day tour of duty across Massachusetts. First Corps Cadets leave from Columbus avenue armory at 5 pm by special train to Hingham. Battery A assembles at 4 45 am tomorrow and will depart South Boston by train for West Barnstable. Troop C First Squadron Cavalry meets at South Framingham Saturday afternoon. Commands are led by Lt Col Franklin L Joy and Maj Charles H Cole, with Maj William A Perrins and Maj Charles F Sargent in command of the cavalry and artillery. The tour tests discipline and tactics with a moveable schedule, artillery rendezvous at Cotuit pond Saturday, then continuous movement and end with target practice.
Transit and railroad commissioners heard a plan for a loop tunnel under Cambridge and Tremont streets connecting to Park Street station. Hearings postponed with Sept 27 set for resumption. advocates urge faster action while others worry about delaying Beacon Hill tunnel work.
Reserve Officer John P. Walsh of Charlestown seized a runaway horse near City Square last night as crowds gathered. The frightened animal dashed toward the Charlestown bridge after being spooked by a passing car driven by Harry Friedman of South Boston. the carriage collided with an elevated post, Friedman was thrown with minor head cuts, Walsh remained uninjured after hanging to the bridle for about 100 feet.
The government aircraft from the Wright brothers, piloted by Lieutenant Foulois, completed a series of tests at Fort Sam Houston Texas, flying against winds up to 15 miles per hour.
Porter Charlton to be arraigned tomorrow at 10 o clock before Judge John A Blair in the Court of Common Pleas in Jersey City. Charlton was arrested in Hoboken two weeks ago and has confessed to killing his wife and disposing of the body in Como Lake Italy.
William LaVenture machinist at 19 Prescott street died in City Hospital after pulling brakeman John Pelican from a moving train in the Boston and Maine yards. Pelican lost a leg but survived. LaVenture died in agony after saving another life. The accident occurred shortly after 11 tonight in freight yards.
Patrolman Michael Sullivan shot Joseph Benson 28 of Cambridge after Benson and two companions were found stealing iron spikes in the Cottage Farm yard of the Boston and Albany railroad. Benson threatened to shoot the officer and died in City Hospital yesterday.
The United States scout cruiser Birmingham under Commander Fletcher left the navy yard for Provincetown to resume wireless tests at Brant Rock in mid ocean. Compass trials aboard the Birmingham with the foroscopic compass yielded a satisfactory result amid ongoing work on Missouri and New Jersey. Heavy lifting for new Jersey guns is delayed due to lack of a crane, sent to New York to replace a sunk crane.
Court square was turned into an auto auction mart yesterday as City Engineer William Jackson’s runabout and Mayor Fitzgerald’s former municipal auto were sold. The little electric car, bought for 1260 three years ago and scarcely used, went under the hammer for 430 to Representative David B. Shaw of Charlestown.
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