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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1909
Page
5
Lynn, June 3. Verda Hussen, 9, was knocked down by an automobile owned by veterinary surgeon William Ximines, the city dog officer. Hair was torn in the machine, she suffered facial and bodily cuts, and was taken to Lynn Hospital where doctors said she is not critically injured and will recover.
After a ten week stay at the Virginia Hot Springs Mr and Mrs John D Rockefeller and a party departed for New York in their private car tonight. Mrs Rockefeller has fully recovered from her recent illness.
A bold pitch markets Protone as a flesh-building nerve strengthener promising dramatic gains for thin men and women. Readers are urged to send a coupon for a free 50c package to prove the product’s powerful effects on the user’s body and stamina.
President Woodrow Wilson warned at St Pauls School anniversary week that prestigious schools like Princeton must adapt to modern life or face possible demise. He indicated weariness with teaching under current conditions in elite blue blood institutions of learning.
A speaker laments the wealth divide and predicts obscurity for heirs. He challenges colleges and Princeton alike, arguing side shows eclipse the main tent and urging reform. He refuses to quit teaching but vows to push peers toward hardship to spur change, claiming education happens beyond classrooms.
Katherine Donahue aged 104, Roxbury's oldest woman and likely the state’s oldest unmarried woman, died at her niece Mrs Cornelius Powers home at 225 Longwood Avenue Roxbury. Born in County Kerry Ireland she came to America at age 34. Funeral set for tomorrow.
Victoria B C June 2 The steamer Monteagle carried word secret trials of airships and aeroplanes in Northern Japan showing guns and heavy loads can be carried. Japanese reportedly built an airship destroyer fitted with shells that explode on contact with another airship.
Irene Marmein a 15 year old pupil from the Girls Latin School of Jamaica Plain was chosen to read the Declaration of Independence at the Fourth of July exercises in Faneuil Hall. The selection was initiated by Mayor Hibbard and involved a committee of teachers.
Representatives from major milk contracting firms spoke at a Boston hearing in the old Court House about a proposed health board order requiring all milk to be delivered in sealed receptacles. Most favored the plan, though one Boston Dairy Company representative opposed changing the current private can and jar system. Additional hearings will be held for storekeepers and milk pedlars.
Harvard Night filled Symphony Hall with 10000 attendees from Cambridge for a festive program led by the Harvard Glee Club and orchestra. The audience rose en masse for The Star Spangled Banner and Fair Harvard as the organ accompanied a medley and choral numbers.
In a filled courtroom the three defendants faced judgment. Battis received a three year term, M'Cullough was sentenced to two years, while the third man faced a separate punishment. Crowds of supporters gathered outside the courtroom as the sentences were handed down.
Following the sentencing, friends of the convicted men crowded the courthouse steps and lingered outside the courtroom. Police maintained a calm perimeter while supporters and onlookers exchanged brief comments and waited for additional remarks.
The Common Council accepted Leo F. McCullough’s resignation after he was sentenced to two years in prison for conspiracy to defraud the city of $200. He sent the letter to President McCabe just before reporting to court to receive his sentence. The resignation cited avoiding criticism of his position.
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