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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1909
Page
6
The battleship Vermont will keep its mascot goat Skellig Mohr on board with a taxidermied skin to stand on the main deck. Colonel Roger Scannell arranged the mount to preserve the ship’s luck and morale despite the animal’s death.
Frederick W. O'Neill, 18, is missing from his Swampscott home after leaving two weeks ago to seek work in Brockton in a shoe factory and has not been seen since.
Minneapolis reader Mrs. Joan G McLean credits Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound with reversing her female troubles and restoring health within three months. The paper notes many unsolicited testimonials and stresses consent and genuineness of letters published to inspire confidence in the remedy.
Denver July 8 The National Educational Association heard Ellen H. Richards MIT Boston stress domestic science and household arts in elementary schools. She urged girls learn home machinery and management as part of school work to match boys training as engineers and adapt to modern economic changes.
Newburyport July 8 Salisbury Beach faced a brush fire that broke out behind the dunes. The beach company and nearby towns Amesbury and Salisbury aided a long battle under a stiff wind to save homes and cottages near the North End.
Paris July 8. Finance Minister Caillaux was struck in the face by former deputy Charles Bos as Caillaux left the Senate. Bos alleged Caillaux had slandered him by accusing him of lobbying against renewing the subsidy with Messageries Maritime. Caillaux reportedly did not strike back, saying a blow by you does not count.
Secretary Meyer announced estimates are being prepared on the cost of establishing the base at Manila with a recommendation in view. From a naval view Olongapo is superior but Manila offers better combined military advantages when both army and navy are considered.
In Newport Rhode Island on July 8 a joint meeting of John Arbuckle of New York and engineers concluded that additional compressed air equipment will be installed on the stranded collier Nero and effort to float her will continue.
Thousands attended the World’s Shoe and Leather Fair as Rice Hutchins of Boston celebrated a day to foster ties among manufacturers superintendents and salesmen. Special trolleys ferried guests to the show while Atlas Shoe Company salesmen guided tours and a luncheon followed by afternoon group activities on the Charles River.
London July 8 Miss Wallace Dunlop, a suffragette, was sentenced to one month in Holloway for posting notices at Parliament. She led a hunger strike, refusing food for 91 hours, and was discharged this afternoon after five days in prison.
The writer urges building a long well placed island in the Charles River basin between West Boston and Harvard bridges to reduce wave height and glare. It would also serve as a premier site for fireworks for Boston and Cambridge alike.
In Goudoux near Bourges a church funeral was held without a priest due to arrears under the separation of church and state. The mayor opened the church using a locksmith. a bishop sued for 400 francs and the Bourges court ruled in favor of the bishop.
Mene Wallace the Eskimo boy once taken to the United States by Commander Peary will depart New York on the Red Cross liner Rosalind next Saturday to return to Greenland and live with his people. The voyage will be financed by the steamship company. At the American Museum of Natural History five others bones including his father are exhibited from failed adaption to the climate.
Close fast play at the American Whist Congress in Niagara Falls N Y today brought three pairs within a narrow fraction for the Minneapolis trophy national championship. One leading team is Kelly and Gilman American Whist Club Boston 63 16. Winners in today’s open events include Mrs E L Wood Boston.
MacDonnell's Tremont Temple store will close for the entire day each Saturday during the heated term to allow employees a two day rest. Management says the move benefits both sides and asks the public to shop on other days in July and August.
Mrs. Annie Kane of 36 Swanson Street Charlestown appeals for help locating her husband believed to be in New York City. She is very ill and must care for three children and asks for a summer lodging option for the youngsters until he is found.
Forty boys from Boston’s crowded tenements were guests of Mrs. Larz Anderson at Weld Brookline. They explored Italian gardens and played, with baseball as the day’s feature, followed by a luncheon on the terraces. Mrs. Anderson and Miss Seabury hosted, with Mitchell Freeman and others in charge. notable youngsters shared in the day’s games and cheers as they headed home.
Schroeder's squadron towed anchors as nine battleships braved northeast gales off Provincetown Cape Cod. Three ships sheltered near Long Point while torpedo boats arrived, submarines Narwhal Stingray and Tarpon tested beneath the harbor, with trials slated before a naval board next week. Town plans shore HQ at town hall with papers and reading materiel for sailors.
Lawrence E. Tilton. police broadcast description after his wife allegedly doused him with hot water during a return from Revere Beach visit. He then allegedly attacked and beat her before escaping. search ongoing in Newburyport on July 8.
William Scanlon an East Side youth of 19 was fined $10 in Police Court today for shooting holes in the American flag with a Roman candle.
Three Dartmouth undergraduates including a baseball star have taken summer work as firemen on the Winthrop branch. Edward H Chamberlain class of 1911 and brothers William and Edward F Chase class of 1912 hold the positions.
Prohibitionists ask federal interference in interstate liquor shipments by express companies. They allege several interstate firms evade prohibition laws, naming Massachusetts and Mississippi as examples. The Interstate Commerce Commission now reviews the matter.
Massachusetts reports an express company formed by liquor dealers in Fall River to ship beer and liquor via a Connecticut office. Orders are fulfilled there by wagon express, dodging Massachusetts liquor laws. Similar firms arose in Natchez Mississippi, enabling transport of beverages from other states into Mississippi by express wagons.
Timothy J. O'Connor of Somerville sues Daniel McCarthy for 5000 dollars alleging alienation of his wife’s affections. O'Connor had his wife and McCarthy arrested about a month ago on a serious charge. Judge Wentworth of Somerville Police Court acquitted both defendants after a lengthy trial.
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