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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1910
Page
4
Arrangements for a special investigation of the Boston Custom House, to start September first, are now completed according to advices received yesterday from the Treasury Department in Washington.
A eight member board of special agents will repeat New York port inspection work at Boston. They will grade day wage inspectors, probe undervaluation at appraisers stores, and scrutinize imports of sugar and hides to standardize methods of inspection and appraisal nationwide. Former Police Inspector Ainsley C. Armstrong leads the team.
Horace A Taft brother of President William H Taft opposes showing the Johnson Jeffries fight pictures. He arrived in Millbury from Cambridge to visit Miss Delia C Torrey Elm Street and said exhibition is not right and would not be best if illegal then shown. He added the President has not begun thinking about a candidacy and is taking things easy but stays busy.
Miss Marcella Halliday, who taught third grade at Cushman School on Parmenter Street near Hanover in the Hancock district since 1867, has never taken leave and has few absences in 43 years. She recalls pupils Dr David Scannell and Walter Collins, shares views on new teaching methods, and notes her Italian and foreign-born students. She lives at 139 Worcester Street, South End.
Rome July 15 Anti vivisectionists seize on Pope Pius letter to Aldo Benetti parish priest of Terraia who tested a plane with live swallows. Benetti cut wings from birds to test his design and called the birds martyrs to science. Pope Pius warns bishop to discipline further experiments and sends money to fund models without torturing animals.
District Chief Henry A. Fox and his driver faced a balky bay horse that halted travel on Hanover and Blackstone streets for five minutes while Ladder 1 and other units watched. The horse balked repeatedly in the North End engine house delaying arrival after Box 138 incident.
The theory that Elijah Sandford sailed aboard the Holy Ghost and Usbarkentine Kingdom to escape process servers was challenged when Captain Godfrey of the Cape Ann reported seeing the bark within 100 yards off Swampscott and again near Gloucester. The Kingdom, within the three mile limit, was seen loading a small boat and provisions after leaving Maine waters a week earlier with many faithful aboard.
The Boston post office total postal receipts for the year ended June 30 reached 6 117 998 dollars according to Postmaster Mansfield figures. This marks an increase of 369 898 dollars from the previous fiscal year.
Edward M. Blake of Trinity Court drove a new auto that ran wild yesterday afternoon in Back Bay. It struck an electric car, then rammed a fence on the railroad bridge at Huntington Avenue and Irvington Street, causing panic among nearby pedestrians. Police attributed the mishaps to inexperience with the new vehicle.
An automobile slowed for a team on Huntington avenue and surged ahead trimming a fence while failing to injure the outward bound Allston car. The car was dragged away after smashing the fence, stopping on the railroad embankment edge as Blake escaped unharmed.
President Taft grants a pardon to Rev. James R. Kaye who is serving six months in Peoria House of Correction for making moulds in the likeness of silver coins. Kaye, former Presbyterian pastor at Lincoln and Wheaton, sought to boost Sunday school attendance by medals. moulds were found after being discarded. The first trial carried a two year sentence, reduced on a second trial. pardon cited need to reestablish citizenship and absence of fraudulent intent.
In U S District Court a year and a half legal fight to admit Chin Yen Yuen a Chinese boy resumed with a habeas corpus hearing brought by his father Chin Fing Don a Harrison avenue merchant Judge Dodge reserved ruling on the writ The appeal from local authority denial in April is challenged as irregular in Washington
An advertisement touts an at home cure for hay fever and asthma. It claims physician and public endorsement, free advice, and testimonials including a Rev. C H Rowley story. Readers are asked to request bulletin 1028A with a diagnosis blank, no payment, and to act before the 1910 allergy season.
The piece promotes Birt's Head Wash as a scientific cleansing product for hair and scalp. It claims dust, dirt, and germs cause dandruff and hair loss, urging cleanliness over tonics. The formula uses refined soap, coconut oil, egg white, glycerin, and salicylic acid, sold in tubes 25c and jars 200.
The piece follows a boy living in the Bay State who is being educated to assume leadership of an enormous venture planned by the world’s wealthiest man. The narrative hints at unprecedented scale and ambition behind the undertaking.
A Bay State innovator backed by the government plans remarkable experiments to master air travel. The noted inventor works to unlock the secrets of flight.
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