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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1909
Page
3
Washington July 12. Senators favored plain lemonade for cooling during the June end and early July period. Measured costs show 64 cases of lemons and 7 barrels of sugar for June, totaling 401.86 dollars, with early July adding twelve more cases and two barrels of sugar, and notes that charged water previously doubled the bill of plain water.
The State Board of Registration in Dentistry has not yet concluded its work on the latest batch of candidates for admission to practice. The class numbered 150 is one of the largest examinations ever taken. The board’s final meeting is held today and the report will be ready Wednesday.
California paper notes the Los Angeles water project drawing gold from Owens valley snows. Workers report heavy auriferous veins and pockets of gold in aqueduct trenches with high grade ore samples, one stretch yielding $900 per some samples and a laborer named Patrick McCullum allegedly clearing $1200.
A vast school of jellyfish washed ashore at Winthrop beaches over the last two days. Witnesses report millions of jellyfish making bathing unpleasant as sea currents deposited large numbers along the shore.
Judge Murray's court fined 12 men and 12 women twenty dollars each after police raided the Marshall House on Hanover Street at 1 am Sunday.
Advertisement touts Rexall 93 Hair Tonic claiming to revive hair roots and cure baldness. It offers a full refund if customers are not entirely satisfied and lists two sizes 50c and 1.00 from Riker-Jaynes Drug Stores The Rexall Store.
Police inspectors say the bucket shop arrests mark the start of a broader drive in Boston. The five brokers, Zion, Heyman, Beals, Wilson, and Beers, pleaded not guilty and bonds of 500 each were set. Investigations link sales to non bona fide confirmations and connected exchanges in New York.
Roy McGregor, wearing Scottish plaid and a silk American flag with a bagpipe, faced Judge Hutchinson in Dedham on vagrancy allegations. He claimed to earn a living with the bagpipe, stated he had $15, and was discharged after promising to leave the state.
Attorneys Henry H. Winslow and John A E Maroney met with James Mantir held at East Cambridge jail for the murder of Annie Mullins as they prepare Mantir's defence.
Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt and three children arrived from Naples and were met by her sister Miss Carow. They toured Genoa sights in the morning and proceeded to Miss Carow's villa at Porto Maurizio for a two week stay, with Monte Calvario offering a Riviera view.
Oscar Von Hagen, 24, claiming German military lineage and Heidelberg University background, was arrested in Chicago after allegedly robbing a woman of her pocketbook last night. The case ties to a wealth of personal history cited by police.
Hundreds of whales scarce seen before crowded the Nantucket south shoal area as the United Fruit Company steamer Esparta led the way northward from Port Limon Costa Rica. Captain Glenn reported the great school stretched far, some whales swimming alongside for miles while pursuing food.
Eleven year old Francis Bedereaux drowned after disappearing while swimming near the Dedham avenue bridge. Fellow bathers alerted authorities as William Gillette recovered the body, but he could not be revived.
San Francisco reports the Smithsonian Institution will erect a meteorological and astronomical observation station at about 14,000 feet on Mt. Whitney. The project advances scientific study and will involve high altitude data collection and celestial observations.
Word from Charlestown navy yard reports the battleship Maine and protected cruiser Montgomery will arrive in Boston next Saturday for coal. Both ships are with the Atlantic fleet under Rear Admiral Schroeder at Provincetown.
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