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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1909
Page
5
June 16 at Salisbury Beach a hot water tank exploded in the Hotel Cushing. About 100 gallons of scalding water rushed through the room injuring no one, but causing twisted pipes and a ruined boiler and tank. The boiler sits beneath the kitchen.
This afternoon at Wood Island Park the Lynn Independent team will cross hats with the East Bostons as a record breaking crowd is expected for the event.
An advertised patent remedy claims to restore health and strength for nervous exhaustion and melancholia. It prescribes a kit including fifty cents of com pound balmwort, syrup sarsa parilla, cardiol essence, and endomene tincture with mixing and dosing instructions for daily use.
In Syracuse New York on June 16 Annie Manley colored is held by police on suspicion of stealing from a white man’s pocket. She claims to be the Annie Manley who sued Harvard professor Philippe Marcou for 25000 for breach of promise in 1908. Detectives captured her with another woman, Anna Williams of Philadelphia, after tracking a second robbery report. The Manley woman, 25 years old, says she lives on Holyoke street Boston.
Harvard classics chosen by ex President Eliot for the five foot shelf include poetry essays biographies and science with works like Milton Areopagitica Penn Fruits of Solitude and Origin of Species The plan includes prefaces notes and glossaries for reader clarity and a five volume arrangement with remaining titles to follow.
Rapid Transit Commission plans to skip a full filling of the chief engineer post after Howard A. Carson resigns June 30. Edmund Davis, assistant chief engineer for 14 years, would become chief engineer with Carson retained as a consulting engineer. Chief engineer salary is 12000 a year, higher than the mayor and corporation counsel.
An unknown man dressed neatly took his own life early yesterday morning in the South Station yard by leaping in front of a moving train.
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