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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1909
Page
4
Philadelphia reports the street car strike continues with limited service. The traction company rehired many discharged workers and resumed 700 cars of the 3300 fleet. A builder’s crew at Chestnut and Thirteenth hurled nails at a passing car, drawing a police warning. The mayor extended saloon hours to eight in the evening.
Robert T. Lincoln arrived home in Chicago declaring the illness that struck him at the Hodgenville Kentucky Lincoln monument unveiling yesterday was minor and not serious.
Mrs Ida Wells Barnett told the National Negro conference in New York that 3284 people were lynched in the last 25 years. She questioned Christian nation's tolerance and denounced taft’s southern concessions as appeasing racism. Conference closed to the public.
Memorial exercises in honor of the late John G. Stetson clerk of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals were held yesterday. Judge LeBaron B. Colt delivered the eulogy for the court. U S District Attorney Asa P. French spoke for the bar. All judges of the United States courts and leading Boston lawyers attended.
Pren Willetts captain of Harvard hockey was saved after falling from the King Philip steamer off Nantasket. A classmate crew of oo pulled him from the water and resuscitated him. Two others nearly drowned while swimming to the steamer, and Goepper, basketball manager, lost his trousers before borrowing replacements on return to Boston.
Naval circles report a large tract near the Narragansett Bay coaling station has been optioned for an immense drydock. The North Dakota class requires deeper water, as current Atlantic coast docks only reach 28 feet of draft.
Louis Gove aged 69 of 14 Suffolk street Lynn was struck by an automobile owned and operated by Frank E. Parrott of Chatham street. He suffered two fractured ribs and internal injuries and is not expected to live.
The Dramatic Club connected with Boston College was feted at a banquet in Boston College Hall to honor its Hamlet production. The show was staged twice at the hall and once in Cambridge, with many requests received for additional performances.
Five hundred soldiers from Fort McKinley and a detach ment of the revenue cutter Woodbury aided by the city fire department and residents battled a severe fire on Great Diamond Island Casco Bay. Cottages including those of Professor Robert E S Olmstead Rev Mr Buck and George Chandler were endangered as residents removed furniture. Fire origin unknown but flames spread rapidly overwhelming initial efforts. Half the troops formed a bucket brigade and others fought at close range with brush.
John Hannah an English sailor aboard the Michigan arrived to visit relatives in Lawrence and was detained by immigration officials as a stowaway for not naturalizing during 18 years in the United States. Deportation proceedings withheld pending relatives’ communication. he is ill and seeking Irish health treatment. About 125 first cabin 233 second cabin and 800 steerage passengers. Four barred due to condition. Cargo light at 1500 tons and miscellaneous.
Ex Gov John F Fitzgerald and Mrs Guild sail amid a Boston farewell as Guild plans five months touring Europe. He will speak at Geneva's 30th anniversary celebration and Vienna’s monument unveiling for Michael Servetus, while relatives and notable locals attend the voyage despite harbor launches causing minor drama.
A boat overturned and two men died in the incident. One swimmer brought an unconscious boy ashore and a physician revived him after more than an hour of effort. The bodies of Garcelon and Kenney were recovered later. Garcelon ran a real estate office in Boston and lived at 72 Montgomery Street with two surviving brothers.
The text lists siblings of Dr. Alonzo Garcelon Jr and Ellen Garcelon of Lewiston Maine. It includes Charles Garcelon a Lowell Maine lawyer and Mrs Edith Dennis a half sister on George Street Medford. William Kenney Jr aged 40 a native of South Yarmouth is mentioned.
At a Roxbury board meeting on Walnut Avenue the Home for Aged Couples voted to postpone the 5th anniversary celebration. The new $50,000 building on Columbus Avenue grounds will be used for family living and the formal ceremony will be held later in the summer.
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