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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1906
Page
5
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Mayor Fitzgerald selects Timothy Wilfred Coakley to deliver the Fourth of July ovation at Faneuil Hall this year with Rev. Lewis B Bates offering the prayer and William A Corley reading the Declaration of Independence. Dr Bates is father of former Governor John L Bates and Master Corley, a Boston Latin School senior, edits the Latin School Register and has won prizes for declamation. Corley is the son of Francis A Corley, longtime Boston Post composing room employee.
Boston Gas Company directors vote a third price reduction in a year. The July 1 rate drops to 85 cents per 100 feet, with President J O Richards saying dividends should rise as gas price falls. Louis D Brandeis of Public Franchise League praises the move and predicts broader adoption and lower costs.
John C. Cox, a 12 year old English boy with a Mormon conversion party, arrived in Boston with 150 others en route to Utah. Immigration officials held him, found he left home without permission and had no relatives in the U S. The Mormon church appealed to Washington. the government refused land entry and he was sent back on the Arabic.
Pittsfield June 7 Benjamin Peacock 18 arriving from Montreal to live with relatives drowned this afternoon when a canoe capsized at the outlet of Pontoosuc Lake.
Keeper Harry W. Shaw moved two accused murderers from Lowell jail to East Cambridge jail yesterday. Lawrence Cygless is charged with killing his wife with a flatiron in Lowell on January 4. Arthur LaFond is held for murdering George W. Vincent at 131 Colburn Street Lowell.
On June 7 at the First Baptist Church Newton Centre fourteen students received degrees at Newton Theological Institute graduation exercises. President Wood conferred the degrees and the students hosted a reception in the Hills library afterward.
The life savers of the Atlantic coast members of the Surfmen's Mutual Benefit Association met at the United States Hotel. Captain Worthen of Highland station Cape Cod and Mayor Fitzgerald addressed the gathering. Officers elected include President Captain N B Rich First vice president Captain G H Patterson second vice president Captain W H Barber secretary and treasurer Captain John T Wescott.
Miss Hattie Edgecomb, 18 Ward Street, Woburn, was taken to Relief Hospital after a Wednesday morning incident. An officer initially charged drunkenness, but medical exam showed cerebral hemorrhage. Her husband, a local businessman, plans legal action against the accuser.
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