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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1908
Page
10
Kate Foley, an Irish woman arrested in Farnsworth, England, for larceny, was set to be deported to England from Charlestown aboard the White Star liner Cymric. She begged for mercy and court in the United States rather than return to England.
Miss Foley's relatives watched from the boat as the Cymric sailed away on Saturday. The girl wore her gown from landing and sobbed while denying guilt. She insisted she can prove innocence in court and urged fair defense before judgment.
Eugene N. Foss leads a Boston business group preparing plans for a large cotton mill in East Boston. Plans completed, land purchased, stock offered to the public, with the project described as an experimental venture expected to boost local industry near Boston.
Superintendent Guy C. Emerson warned that over 1.5 million dollars are needed to improve Boston streets. The Board of Aldermen planned a special meeting for Tuesday to consider the appropriation order, with department operations at risk of going half time.
Superintendent Emerson warns several city streets in bad condition with holes and gullies. The department projects about $16,000 year end deficit unless funds are found, while maintenance and paving plans move ahead on West Street and other blocks.
At the Draper plant Lieutenant-Governor Draper announces wage cuts to take effect next week. Painters earning 1.25 a day face a 25 cent reduction to six dollars a week if work is available. Other departments also see reductions to avoid operating at a loss.
Jacob and Morris Kaplan refuse to leave the coffin bier after their infant sister dies from a fire caused by a burning match. The 8 and 3 year old boys played with matches Friday and the carriage caught fire. the 2 year old perished. Police will not press charges due to the boys' youth and the incident ending as an accident.
A sequence of heavy showers has halted major Maine woods fires that had damaged hundreds of thousands of dollars. Coastal resorts from Portland to the state's extent faced threats as flames raced through timber and underbrush but were kept at bay by timely rain.
Fires in southwestern Maine devastated summer homes and woodlands as crews of hundreds battled the blazes for two weeks. Showers late in the week brought relief, the first rain in a month, while Kinco and Rangeley Lake regions suffered extensive forest damage. Losses to lumber interests and landowners are estimated around half a million dollars, possibly more.
Miss Mary McGann, superintendent of nurses at St Marys Infant Asylum Dorchester, saved 256 babies when a canopy canopy failed during a storm. Sisters of Charity plan a $1000 iron canopy replacement and a four story connected structure with support from Father Ronan Archdiocese leaders.
Back Bay residents protest a new saloon named The Quencher on Massachusetts Avenue near Huntington and Columbus. The site sits near Symphony Hall Horticultural Hall and an industrial home for crippled children, amid nearby upscale residences, prompting Licensing Board discussion.
The 46th biennial AOH convention opens in Indianapolis after a Bay State delegation departs by special Boston and Maine train. National president Matthew Cummings seeks re election with a Boston host reception. A large group of state and county officers accompanies him, including John J. Rogers and Terence O Donnell, with dozens of local presidents listed.
The Rev Annis Ford Eastman sagt that many so called pleasures overwork American women of means by filling their day with tasks they choose themselves. She urges a rational simple life and notes her own entry into the ministry after her husband fell ill.
Passengers bound for Ireland from Boston on the Saxonia organize an Irish Tree Society to plant a tree at each home. Founding president Mrs M E Curley leads a roster including Hugh C Toland and Miss J E Conway with officers in Dorchester and Roxbury and others connected to the Boston Gaelic School Society.
Paris July 19 The theatre committee of the Municipal Council will enforce a regulation forbidding hats of unreasonable size that annoy spectators in any way. The rule targets enormous directoire hats and applies to all theatres in the city.
Annette Kellermann, champion woman swimmer, will referee the swimming race at Star of the Sea parish games where the Post cup will be awarded.
Venus Aphrodite Annette Kellerman world champion swimmer, at Wonderland, has trained since age eight and now 21. She will referee amateur swimming races at Star of the Sea parish reunion next Wednesday July 22 for a Boston Post silver cup and also perform diving and a stroke demonstration for a Boston light swim from Charlestown bridge at noon July 30.
Resolutions adopted by Division 1, A. O. H. of Boston praise Martin A. Cannon as an exemplary Catholic and Irish patriot who contributed to Irish nationality. Condolences extended to his family. Resolutions committee chaired by Dennis A. Scannel with Thomas J. Joyce, Michael O'Halloran, Hugh McCarron and Andrew Frahey.
President Roosevelt will be guarded by a large force of armed marines during his visit to the Naval War College at Newport next Wednesday. Marines equipped with loaded rifles will be stationed around the training station to enforce strict access controls and keep the public away from the college grounds.
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