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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1908
Page
3
Rabbi Joseph J. Silverman addressed a mass meeting under District Grand Lodge No 1 of the Independent Order of Bnai Birth at Temple Chabei Shalom last evening stating the group represents the modern Jew and its values.
Rabbi Silverman urges funding from Hiam Solomon to save the United Colonies and defend the Jewish name. Speakers include Adolph Kraus Simon Wolf E N Calisch Jacob Furth and others. The executive board meets at the Hotel Touraine to finish deliberations and depart by train.
Edward E. Dennett of Fitchburg is arrested in Portsmouth on embezzlement charges involving Miss Glacia Calla also known as Mrs. Paul Roy. Dennett is a prominent local real estate agent and treasurer of the Fitchburg Granite Company, with friends defending him.
James B. Simpson city messenger for Medford died at his home after an epilepsy attack. He was stricken Saturday while helping decorate the Soldiers monument in Oak Square Cemetery.
Irma C. Johnson sues John Chandler for 15000 alleging he promised marriage and later refused. Chandler denies the pledge claiming she spurned a ride home and that their friendship soured amid local gossip. The suit splits Princeton, with families and neighbors taking sides in the two year romance saga.
Frederick L. Wood 18, from New Haven Conn, plunged into the Passaic River near Nutley after a parachute descent from Hillside Park balloon. He waved an American flag during ascent at 5 pm and became entangled as wind wrapped the flag around his legs before drowning. body not recovered.
Aged farmer Chandler recalls a long affair with the Johnson woman and a splitter after she spurned his advances. He says she walked home after a dispute about riding and foot travel and now sues him, promising a legal challenge with a rival lawyer.
After twenty years of deafness Mrs. Amelia Menz of Cincinnati suddenly regained hearing from a single loud bass drum thump.
Dorchester High and Somerville High meet English High in a decisive schoolboy baseball clash at Dunbar avenue this Saturday with Spaulding and Everett as the projected pitchers. A Dorchester win would seal the league title. an English High victory would keep both teams in a tight race for the championship.
Paris May 31 A sensational murder shocks the art world as painter Adolphe Steinheil and his mother in law are found strangled in his Rue de Vaugirard residence. The house was ransacked and the wife reports two men and a woman were involved. The painter, about 50, was linked to Louis Steinheil and Meissonier kin, and counted Francois Faure among his portrait patrons.
East Cambridge Probate Court hears four Hadley wills with no direct heir likely Attorney Farrell says Hadley never married and may have no legitimate offspring A gardener named Hugh Patterson holds a key document bearing Hadley’s signature from 1874 linked to Everett land agreement
Citizens in South Boston voice complaints about the L street bath where 800 lockers remain unavailable. Bathers must leave clothes on the sand or improvise hanging spaces, sparking ongoing protests across the city.
Next Saturday at Franklin Field Philadelphia the eastern Olympic trials will feature star college athletes and club competitors from New York Boston Philadelphia and other eastern cities. The Boston Athletic Association will send a team led by George W. Brown with Bill Coe Loring Young Herbert Gidney Bill Eaton and others. Yale Cornell and major clubs join, while Pennsylvania Princeton Harvard may enter, with Dartmouth represented by A B Shaw and possibly Sherman in sprints or broad jump.
About half a dozen long shore sailing yachts will sail 675 miles to Bermuda starting at Marblehead Rock at 11 a m Wednesday. Likely contenders include Fleur de Lys Dervish Historanza Zuhrah Venona Edithanna Marchioness Little Hope and Lila from clubs in New York Philadelphia and Marblehead with Dervish and Zuhrah supporting last year’s field.
More than 1500 bathers faced long waits at I street while 800 lockers sat unused due to a desk vacancy. Towels priced at 1 cent each ran out in the forenoon and hundreds of bathers waited to dry in the sun. The baths are to open June 14, but until then hot patrons endure these conditions.
May 31 Gravesend race day expects 25 000 to 30 000 spectators for the Brooklyn handicap. Celi the lone Keene entrant is a definite favorite after a strong juvenile form showing in the Jockey Club weight for age race. Some hold him nearly equal to Colin in ability.
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