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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1913
Page
2
Colonel E M House of Texas arrives aboard the Cunard liner LaConia from Liverpool. Lately a little known figure outside Texas, he has surged to national fame and is seen by some statesmen as an informal cabinet member.
On the Laconia voyage from New York to Boston Colonel House denied ties to Mexican interests and dismissed New York letters as attempts to injure him. He planned to visit his sister in Beverly after saying the Mexico story was untrue and declined comment on the Mexican situation. The ship carried 121 saloon, 243 second cabin and 792 steerage passengers. Also aboard were King C. Gillette returning from England and J. Randolph Coolidge Jr. and family, with wedding plans for late month. The Hon. T A Spring-Rice heads to Washington to join the British embassy as third secretary.
The upcoming Post issue promises items on decorative dyes a lesson in Japanese embroidery and a range of other special features for readers planning ahead for Sunday.
Helen Cutler Preble of Nantucket celebrates ten months as a famed wartime sailor’s namesake, boasting measurements height thirty inches weight thirty pounds chest twenty three and a half inches thigh fifteen inches biceps eight inches head twenty inches. She claims eight teeth and a smile for all.
A 25 cent bottle GetSIT claims to cure corns warts callouses and bunions without knives plasters or salves harmful to healthy flesh. Sold by FE Lawrence & Co Chicago and Riker Jaynes Drug Stores Boston.
The Natick police identify the drowned passenger from the Ransom B. Fuller steamer trip Boston to Portland as John Schneider a 79 year old man from Lincoln Street South Natick. He jumped overboard Tuesday night and drowned according to local authorities.
A gray haired man admitted crimes and identified himself as the wanted forger Vincent Verrall, using aliases including Vincent A. Adams. He confessed to passing worthless checks and noted a parole from Clinton State Prison in New York after a career spanning years and 27 ocean crossings.
After a morning departure Schneider did not return. His sons reported he sent home all his money. Natick and Boston officers traced him to a steamship where a rescue boat tried to reach him but he sank. He leaves a brother in Revere and three sons George Louis Otto in South Natick.
The Sunday Post Magazine previews a specially good story by Paul West coming in next Sunday's issue. West is known for reader friendly fiction and engaging features.
Verrall identifies himself from a poster and admits to forgery in 1908 in New York City. He explains how, after parole from Sing Sing and Clinton, he used bad checks across multiple states including Canada, Detroit, Pawtucket, Lawrence, and Boston, totaling large sums before arrest in Franklin Square.
The First Corps Cadets host visitors day at Camp Talbot in West Barnstable. Old members and friends travel by special train from Boston at 10 a m for a day of annual field stunts on the hills.
Washington officials announced the United States Treasury handled 7 071 520 000 in actual cash during the fiscal year ended June 30, a record it declared as the greatest banking institution in the world.
Four companies staged a sham battle with pasteboard enemies and real bullets as hundreds watched. The Red company wore red ribbons and were defeated by three Blue companies, 27 to 7, in a later ball game and drills followed by a muster and concert.
An upcoming Post Magazine feature examines coastal defenses and maritime threats with historical context. The piece promises analysis by Wolcott Le Clear Beard and insights on national security and coastal policy.
Mrs. Lilla E. Perrigo of Boston sues in Suffolk county alleging fraud in buying a lodging house at 86 Upton Street from John J. Riley. She says the property was misrepresented as desirable with tenants paying about 185 dollars monthly and valuable good will, while police raids occurred, and she must place five lodgers from the house.
Rear Admiral Robert B. Peary reports to the National Geographic Society that famed geographers from many nations will gather to compare an aeronautical map of the world. The note follows the Tenth International Geographic Conference in Rome.
Dr Laura Muller Brazil foreign minister concludes a long US tour after bidding farewell to the party and friends at a luncheon and boards the Brazilian battleship Minas Geraes to sail for Rio Janeiro.
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