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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1906
Page
7
Newport gossip centers on Mrs. Glen Collins and her vivid red bathing suit with lace yoke and sleeve bands. The suit reportedly uses salt-water resistant lace and prompts chatter as it outshines even Mrs. Charlotte Pell’s black satin ensemble. Collins, formerly Nathalie Schenck, now draws attention at the fashionable resort.
In Brooklyn’s Stuyvesant Heights area, the Leudesdorff family at 414 McDonough street marked their silver wedding with a 21st stork visit. Emanuel and Mrs. Leudesdorff hosted a hall filled with 17 children born one at a time, seven girls and ten boys missing twins or triplets.
Samuel Byerley, Amer c ers Express clerk, won a 5 806 000 dollar Panama Canal bond bid and sold his option for about 20 000 dollars. He plans a Paris Normandy trip with his wife and two children, believing careful planning and market study led to the win.
Superintendent Doogue and four assistants lead a pest campaign against tussock moths in Boston. After spraying the historic Common the crew moves to the Public Garden to treat trunks and nests with arsenate of lead. The effort, watched by hundreds, will span several days and cost a large sum.
Trustees approve plans for a two story Art Museum on Huntington Avenue facing Tufts Medical School. A 320 foot frontage and surrounding quadrangle will form a harmonious group with future expansion. Building committee members are B. M. Wheelwright R. C. Sturgis D Despradelle and Guy Lowell to supervise.
Jimmy Garland, Boston and New York clubman, hovers between life and death at Hanover after a wasting illness. Physicians admit little hope of recovery as Mrs. Garland informs a Prudence Island friend that his condition is not satisfactory and may end soon.
In St Paul on July 27 the arrival of a stork at the Minnesota Penitentiary is linked to Stella Brennan's life imprisonment ruling. The event prompted Governor Johnson to suggest a possible pardon review, citing her claimed diminished responsibility due to mental condition when she killed her stepchildren last fall. James Brennan supported her through the trial and sentencing under a second degree verdict last January.
The will of Charles Ferguson, who died July 10, leaves an estate valued over 1 million dollars to be distributed to Presbyterian Hospital of Philadelphia and to the American and New England anti vivisection societies, under terms announced in Philadelphia.
Mrs. Thomas Hood of Amesbury Massachusetts learns her husband Edward L. Gerald alive in Pawtucket Rhode Island after six years believed him dead. The pair had wed in Amesbury in the 1890s, later separated, and she remarried. Gerald had been living in Pawtucket, while Hood remained married to him unaware.
Newton authorities examine alleged abuse by Thomas Collins uncle of Malcolm L Collins. Judge Kennedy finds insufficient evidence for arrest and the case is dismissed temporarily. The boy remains in the care of the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children on Joy Street Boston awaiting placement.
Catherine Feeley Daly 27 was identified as a former Worcester Insane Hospital patient who was at the Relief station in Boston after a spree in several city areas. The Worcester superintendent said she was treated there for six months three years ago and released as cured.
Thomas A. Lambert of Boston rescued a mother, daughter, and son from drowning after a sailboat capsized on Lake Sunapee in Pine Cliff New Hampshire. He rowed to the swimmers, towed them to shore in a crowded boat, and his actions sparked plans for a Carnegie medal.
Nashville dispatch reports at Kingston in Williamson County a Black woman gave birth to sextuplets. The six children survived to the latest accounts. The note lists prior sextuplet cases in Idaho California Minnesota and Kentucky and other large multiple births in the United States.
Autopsy by Dr. W W Minor finds no evidence of foul play and indicates Winnie Goodell likely drowned after a boat mishap on Upper Pond. Father Wesley Goodell recounts his belief that she slipped from the stern while paddling with her hands. Funeral set for tomorrow at 1 30 pm at the family home Dwight's burial.
New York July 27 His Highness the Maharaja Gaekwar of Baroda announced aboard the Cedric that American women are not beautiful. He said American women are independent frank and self possessed but failed to see the famed beauty despite spending time in Boston and touring the country.
Hollis Burgess sold the cruising gasoline launch Siren, owned by Herman W. Friend of Boston, to Marshall S. P. Pollard of Boston. The Siren is a modern hunting cabin type motor boat, handsomely equipped, to be used around Gloucester, Mass.
Boston barbers warn of higher hair cutting and shaving costs as 200 shop proprietors in the Master Barbers Association vote to expand to state and national levels. Increased sanitary standards workmanship and journeyman wages drive the rise. Eighty owners joined last night with promises of a first class shop excluding nonmembers within two months.
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