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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1909
Page
4
A catalog listing notes a wide range of sizes and styles with hundreds of lots not advertised. Examples include lingerie and foulard dresses 12.50, tub suits 3.50, long coats and flare skirts 2.85, black gauze stockings 19c, women’s vests 15c values at 10c, in plain and fancy colors.
Boston Harbor greets a practice squadron carrying Naval Academy cadets from Annapolis. The Olympia, Hartford, Chicago, and Tonopah sail in, with Hartford to dry dock for bottom repairs, as Montana North Carolina and New York prepare to coal at Charlestown before Provincetown maneuvers.
The clash between Donovan of the Democratic city committee and Curley of Ward 17 Democratic forces erupted in the Common Council with interruptions and bitter exchanges. Councilman Joyce defended Donovan amid biting remarks as colleagues, including Crocker Brennan Conners and Ryan, interrupted and halted his remarks during discussion of a city ice contract.
Miss Gina Krog one of Norway’s leading suffrage advocates stayed in Boston from Wednesday evening to last night. She toured historic sites and studied Boston women’s activities then left on a late train for New York to sail for Norway in August. Denison House and Alice Stone Blackwell hosted her.
Miss Elin Krog, official representative of the Norwegian government to the International Council of Women, toured the United States addressing Norwegian communities in Chicago Seattle and Denver. She discussed Norway’s ballot victory 24 years of lectures and publications and noted American suffrage debates while planning a Washington visit before returning to Norway.
The Collins Club of South Boston sets a Sunday outing at Ponkapoag to inaugurate a boom for Charles S. Hamlin as a Democratic candidate for governor. Attendees include Thomas J. Collins and former Congressman William S. McNary with other local figures invited and plans for 8:30 AM departure from Broadway.
In Waltham on July 29 a collie belonging to Porter L. Newton bit the 83 year old Evelyn Dickey on the nose as she played near 475 South Street. The dog was beaten off with a club, and after the child cried out the animal licked her hands. The father, George W. Dickey, tried to intervene but the girl suffered a badly lacerated face and received cauterization to the wounds. The Dickeys and Newtons share the same house.
Mrs Taft, recovering from illness, walked two miles with daughter Helen from Burgess Point to the Biddeford Pool area and back. She appeared in excellent health and out of public view, while sister Mrs More and her husband Prof Louis More traveled from Cincinnati on the Sylph yacht.
State Senator Charles L. Dean of Malden died at Malden Hospital after a relapse following surgery. He was born May 29 1844 in Ashford Connecticut and aged 65. He served Malden as mayor for five terms and spent years in the state legislature. He leaves a wife and a son.
A fire on the roof of the four story tenement at 20 Willard Street West End sent about 380 residents into the street early today. Nathan Goldberg and family slept on improvised beds when a candle touching bedding caused the blaze. Firemen extinguished the flames with about $60 in damages. Patrolmen Morgan Laney and Noonan aided frightened residents during the evacuation.
In Quero Nova Scotia the townsfolk recount Daniel Muise's brave act when he entered the sea to save a fellow dory hand who had fallen overboard. Muise disappeared beneath the waves, drowning before rescuers could reach him, leaving his fate still mysterious to friends and neighbors.
A 27 year old widower Muise vanished after a fishing accident on Quero Bank when his companion’s boots slipped beneath the water. Cautionary sea legends arose around the tragedy as others saved the partner but Muise never reappeared.
District Attorney Hill began inquiries into Alderman Curley’s accusation that Chairman Donovan received pay from the New England Sanitary Product Company over eight years. Hill asked Curley to meet, while Jennings delivered the alderman’s report to an assistant DA. A third conference with Hill followed, the first since Curley’s remarks were published.
The body of Charles Miller, 22 Chandler Street Newton, was found in the Charles River near the North Brighton bridge by three Somerville men in a rowboat. They towed the body ashore and alerted Brighton police. Miller was identified by a Brighton abattoir worker where he had worked.
A Baltimore reader recounts four years of misery from irregularities and nervous distress and credits Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with relief. The ad touts the remedy as the nation's most successful cure for female ailments including displacements irritable pains backache and indigestion.
Miss Harriet Ward, great granddaughter of General Artemus Ward, dies in Shrewsbury at 66 from stomach cancer. A New York resident, she summers at the historic Ward homestead, keeping the dining room as in revolutionary days for tourist visitors.
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