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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1911
Page
4
The conference session urged a return to Christian life and sentiments and discussed colonization moving people from crowded tenements to unoccupied country. It addressed eradicating tenement housing and its moral and physical evils as a central solution.
Edmund Butler of New York reports a plan to reorganize the society along provincial and archdiocesan lines with a superior council in each archdiocesan province, equal in power to New York’s, and to seek Paris council-general approval. The proposal, approved unanimously by delegates at Washington, aims to expand home and child care work through St. Vincent de Paul and broaden women’s roles in Auxiliary and friendly-visitor programs. The meeting, led by Mgr William Byrne and chaired by Robert Biggs, discussed tenement conditions, labor bureaus, and “back to religion” as core reforms.
A poor woman advertised five dollar bills lost near Tremont Street and Beacon Hill. The finder placed notices and the owner recovered the money within 24 hours after responding to the ads in The Post. The quick recovery credited to The Post Found column and a prompt call to Main 1383.
The Boston Dairy Company controlled by William A Graustein is suing the Boston and Maine railroad to recover 7695 for milk transport. The case centers on a rate change from car to can systems prompted by the Saunders law aimed at stopping discriminatory favors to large contractors.
Charles F. Hall a prominent Tremont building lawyer died of heart disease on a New Haven railroad train between Savin Hill and Harrison Square after boarding at South Station for Cedar Grove. He was born in Sebago Maine in 183? and lived in Boston since 187? He married Ellen Burgess in 1884 and left no children.
An order issued today retires Rear Admiral Kossuth Niles effective June 14. He currently serves on duty in Washington and hails from Illinois. Bernhardt seat sale opens tomorrow morning at 9 o clock. Boston Theatre.
Earl Ovington of West Newton plans a 50 mile cross country flight between June 15 and 20 from Metz field in Waltham to Beverly to deliver an invitation to President Taft and family to attend the aviation meet at Waltham. His past flights raise high expectations among aviation enthusiasts.
An explanation extols Father John's Medicine for strengthening the body and cleansing impurities. It claims prevention of pneumonia and consumption, notes fifty years of use, and includes Mrs. Peter Reando of Tupper Lake New York saying she gained 24 pounds after taking it.
Aviator Ovington plans the longest flight ever over New England with a Bleriot monoplane and 70 horsepower Gnome engine. He returns to Massachusetts to assemble his craft and compete at the meet, having shown daring feats and electricity studies at MIT.
He learned to fly at the Bleriot school in Pau France and impressed European audiences with his bold maneuvers. He later trained in Mineola L. I. and recently flew into a New York street to shop before returning home. Last week he competed with top American aviators at the Columbus meet and earned high praise.
A new Sherlock Holmes tale titled The Adventure of the Red Circle is promoted as one of the treats for readers in next Sunday's Post. The feature is billed as among the best of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's renowned series.
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