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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1910
Page
7
A veteran Boston educator retires after 55 years in the classroom. The article highlights colleagues who mentored generations of students and reflects on changes in teaching over decades.
Miss Sarah Fuller longtime principal of the Horace Mann School for the Deaf in Boston retires after a landmark career beginning in 1869. She taught Helen Keller to speak and shaped the first public school for the deaf. Born February 15, 1836 in Weston she contributed an illustrated primer and phonetic charts guiding Deaf education for over half a century.
New York July 9 Frank N Double day offered a silver trophy to the first aviator to circle Manhattan Island in an aeroplane. The route runs from Governor's Island up the Hudson to Spuyten Duyvil then via canals and rivers past the East River bridges back to the start. Clifford Harmon plans to attempt the hazardous course despite river-traffic crashes and the Willie Wawax airship.
July 9 report from Vice-Consul Henry D. Baker describes an Australian inventor adapting a steam coffee percolator for washing machines. A copper cone in the wash boiler channels steam to push soapy water through the apex, cleaning linen while saving effort and reducing wear on delicate fabrics.
Rain this morning temporarily checked the forest fires raging for days in the pine forests near Chippewa Falls Wisconsin. The blazes have already caused losses aggregating more than a million dollars and threaten property and timber in the region.
Under Elizabeth Peabody House auspices a five act pantomime of Beethoven Prometheus was presented at Charlesbank playground. About two thousand attended, many children, with Miss Eleanora Marguerite Curtis directing aided by Miss Virginia Tanner.
Pupils of the Peabody House dancing class presented a first class show after rehearsing for some time and received widespread applause. Notable performances came from Mr. Goodinsky and dancers Miss Gladys Weinbaum Miss Curtis and Miss Tanner.
Newark Ohio endures a night of turmoil after a raid on alleged speakeasies ends with the death of William Howard and the lynching of Detective Carl Etherington. A morgue crowd gathers as relic hunters hack at a hanging pole severed for mementos amid police protection.
A dispute over corset pricing at H Shirer’s 64 Prince Street escalated to an assault on a clerk. Rumor of a murder spread as the assailant drew a stilletto and fled, while a concerned crowd gathered and police were alerted.
William J. Sterling of Waterville was nominated for Congress by the Prohibitionists of Maine's third district during a session in Oakland on July 9.
The court martial heard for weeks on charges against Captain Wilson First Lieutenant McLaughlin and Second Lieutenant Sawyer of the Third Company Coast Artillery Corps MV M has completed its task and all three officers have been given permission to resign. Captain Wilson’s attorney requested retirement but the court refused. The trio submitted their resignations late yesterday afternoon under the retirement law Captain Wilson who served in the Spanish War may now apply for retirement and is expected to be listed.
The Old South Historical Society of Boston held its annual pilgrimage to Whittierland in Haverhill with about 350 on a special train. They visited Whittier's birthplace on the road to Amesbury, then spent time in Amesbury, Whittier's home for 46 years, before moving to Salisbury Beach and returning up the Merrimack River.
Thieves entered the Plymouth Public Library, the Plymouth Public Market and the Plymouth Hardware Company last night and secured $17 in money. Much cutlery and groceries were taken. The breaks follow a long succession of thefts this year and have stirred up the police.
Van Amringe of the Transcript defeated J F O Connell of the Herald 4 up and 3 to play in a 26 hole final at Allaton Golf Club to clinch the Press Club of New England championship.
Consul General James T. DuBois reports a new alluvial gold area in British New Guinea. A prospecting party returns to Singapore after nine months with fine ore specimens. Australian miners are moving into the new gold country.
Several hundred passengers on the Port land division of the B. and M. railroad were held up yesterday morning when the air hose of an inbound freight train parted near Chelsea. The 50 car train crossed marshes east of Chelsea and caused delays for trains from the North Shore Marblehead Gloucester Salem Beverly Manchester and the main line from Portland and the Peabody branch.
At 10 30 a m a fire recorded at Box 53 9 Harrison avenue belonging to Solomon Horson with loss recorded. 11 55 a m box 276 114 Dudley street Roxbury People s National Bank loss 106. 6 05 p m box 80 62 Chandler Street Lena McDougall loss 25. 6 15 p m box 310 Carhouse Grove Hall Roxbury Boston Elevated Company loss 5. 8 08 p m box 7 243 Shawmut avenue in a tree opposite no loss. 6 17 p m box 23 2 Stamford meet Alexander Anderson loss 10. 2 2? mm box 15 62 Fulton Streetoseph Batchelupp loss 25. 9 21 and 9 25 p m box 125 367 Dorchester avenue South Boston Dexter estate and others loss 7000.
Mrs. Helen L. McLean Kimball, a longtime clerk in the comptroller of the currency office, marked her 90th birthday in Washington today, described as the oldest federal employee in the United States government.
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