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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1907
Page
12
Newport society buzzes over a Tuesday midnight swim at Hazard's Beach near Bailey's Beach. Fort Adams searchlights illuminated the bathers while carriages and autos passed by from dinner parties. Night swims are rare since the Harry Lehr led event four summers ago.
The Milford Granite Company plant in Milford New Hampshire, once a leading regional manufacturer, was sold at bankrupt sale today. The entire property originally costing $60 000 netted about $3600 under the hammer.
Edwin D. Mead spoke at the 25th annual lecture series in Old South Church about St. Botolphs Town. He urged a Boston founders monument, ideally in Spring Lane, and noted poets Longfellow Whittier Lowell Emerson Holmes highlighted New England history.
Brest France July 10 dock laborers who recently walked out have failed to win concessions and returned to work under the previous terms as the dispute concludes.
Ten year old Frank Morgan of Ledyard is jailed in New London County on a murder charge for allegedly shooting playmate Ivy L Rogers with a shotgun during a fishing outing. Preliminary hearing set for Monday July 22 in Ledyard. both families are prominent in the town.
A 28 year old man Hugh Loeb, said to suffer kleptomania from a brain blood clot, escaped Islip State Insane Asylum on Monday night. He sent a special delivery letter to his parents yesterday stating he was bound for Boston.
James White was convicted of assault and battery on Ernest S. Borden for June 26. He received a three month sentence in the House of Correction and remains held in $200 bond for the Superior Court appeal.
The store announces its semi annual sale with a list of marked down Morse made suits ranging from nine to seven fifty dollars. It invites immediate action as safe opens and all sizes in an excellent variety of patterns are available.
Local gas customers face meter charges after a price cut to 80 cents per hundred. Boston Consolidated Gas Companies defend the meter fee as fair, with a yearly refund if consumption exceeds six dollars, while officials claim the charge supports capital costs and is legal under the sliding scale law.
East Boston representative Tom Doherty argued that he earned praise for pushing wage gains for laborers and claimed he originated the 25 cent daily raise. James P. Timilty received the pen presented by the Mayor, with a note lauding his support for the labor move.
Rome reports a notable surprise as Cardinal Merry Del Val, the papal secretary of state, purchases a powerful automobile. It had been widely believed the Vatican would not approve cardinals riding in motor cars.
Mayor McClellan announced the appointment of Hugo Hastings as tax commissioner. Hastings resigns as state historian in Albany and will assume the post at a salary of seven thousand nine dollars per year.
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