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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1911
Page
12
William E. Soule notes almost complete price and volume inertia over six weeks, predicting a possible market reversal after extended rest and a possible continuation of the up move if the sideward drift represents reaction. He cites 1910 highs, crop uncertainty, and a weak drought outlook as factors that could force a price retreat or further decline from current levels.
Brokers doubt a serious price decline even if crops finish below expectations. Liquidation last year has left the country on a firm financial footing supported by a large foreign credit balance from exports and lighter imports. Bank clearings show smaller declines, while the weather map will soon guide price movements before crop size matters less for the near term.
Governor Foss has not commuted Jesse Pomeroy’s life sentence to solitary confinement. Dudley Holman says no council approval yet for any privilege expansion, and the parole board is not inclined to alter the sentence. Pomeroy enjoys daily yard time but refuses to work, arguing he is not obliged under his sentence.
St Stephen's North End parish plans its annual mid summer reunion with sports events and dances. The committee led by Henry S. Fitzgerald organizes morning and afternoon ball games, races for children, and pavilion dancing, with Mrs Mary Greene and Miss Margery Farren overseeing married ladies and young ladies tables respectively.
Edward J. Cutin aged 12 of 3 Oriental Court Roxbury was scalded when a kettle of fat toppled spilling hot fat on his legs. He sustained full thickness burns and is in serious condition at City Hospital.
The portrait by John S. Sargent of Mrs. Fiske Warren and her daughter has become the centerpiece of the Rome exhibition of American painters. Warren, formerly Gretchen Osgood, was educated in France, married Fiske Warren in 1891, and later earned a letters degree at Oxford in 1908. Her husband is noted as an anti imperialist post Spanish war.
In Mattoon Illinois on July 16 Charlie Montague heir to Joel T Montague’s will faces a quarter million dollar prize if he marries and starts a family by age 50. He has received over a hundred proposals from women boasting good character but no money. Montague may contest the will amid these appeals. He checked into Medico Chirurgical Hospital as Joseph McLean age 22 at 246 North Twenty third Street. Doctors say the wound will heal with no lasting deafness.
New York July 16 Joseph Kinnard a motor company employee in Tarrytown was painting a water tower when the rope broke He dropped 1 feet turned a somersault and landed on his feet He smiled and said I didn t expect to come down this way but I m all right He walked home and planned to finish the job Monday morning.
A young man in Atlantic City attempting to clear water from his ear caused his eardrum to burst when air pressure from his palm struck the ear while swimming. The incident occurred during a bathing session on July 16.
New Orleans July 16 William F Hitt refused interview about a rumor he is engaged to Catherine Elkins. He had been a Mardi Gras attendant on a Bayou Teche cruise aboard Joseph Leiter’s launch Annie Russell. Hitt travels with brother R S Reynolds Hitt US minister to Guatemala who is on a year’s leave for health.
In Lenox July 16 infant David Turner Dana Jr son of Mr. and Mrs. David T. Dana was christened at Trinity Church by Rev. Arthur J. Gammack. Godmother Mrs. Raymond Townsend of New York and godfathers Joseph W. Burden and John C. Greenleaf attended along with grandmother Mrs. M. Dwight Collier and guest Mrs. George A. Addee of New York.
In ONE-MEMBER CHURCH MATTER in Penn July 16 a sole survivor W R Fronefield recommends sustaining Clinton New Jerusalem Church and its funds over $8000 held by Mrs Sarah A Burnley. He urges repairs, a memorial, and placing funds with local trustees to fund service missionary and charitable work.
A family of robins has built a nest on a trolley wire near Danbury Connecticut. The nest is cleverly mounted around the heavily charged wire so that passing cars do not disturb the birds. The birds stay in place even as trolley cars pass by.
Margaret Sullivan secretly wed Robert Mossman after a six year courtship. On June 16 he secured a license and the couple were married at an undisclosed location and moved into 17 Cortes Street. The bride hid the nuptials from her parents and relatives for weeks to avoid discovery.
An editorial in the New York Sunday World criticizes Woodrow Wilson and Dr. Eliot for idealizing colonial days. It argues 135 years of liberty carried dark shadows, noting slavery, indentured labor, and oppression while praising modern gains in freedom, education, and shorter work hours. The piece contrasts past boasts with the republic’s real benefits to the common man.
A harsh view of colonial life argues workers faced disease famine and brutal regulation. It contrasts urban hovels and rural bondage with limited mobility, heavy taxes, impressment, and the slave trade’s cruelty, asserting independence was a myth under royal and colonial control.
The speaker rejects nostalgia for colonial life under the King, noting it is easy to sing about and read in novels but was harsh to experience in daily living. The statement contrasts romantic literature with harsh historical reality.
Civil war veteran Andrew Jenkins, 73, of Lynn, asked for a place to sleep at the John H. Lawson residence on Franklin Street Melrose Highlands at 3 yesterday morning. Lawson armed with a razor when Jenkins entered noisily and searched rooms. Jenkins was taken to an attic room until Patrolman Doherty arrived. Jenkins claimed he was in his own bed and wondered about a pillow bill stash. Friends said he had behaved oddly since the second heat wave, and took him home after questioning.
Jeremiah J. Murphy, 36, of 90 Tremont Street, Cambridge, was found in bed early yesterday morning suffering from gas from an open jet. Doctors at Relief Hospital said Murphy regained consciousness in the afternoon and said he was tired of life and wished to die.
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