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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1909
Page
5
The Quaker Oats Company promotes Puffed Wheat and Puffed Rice as whole cereal foods with eightfold expansion and preserved coats. Ads claim broad usage from breakfast to supper, urge trial, and note nationwide sales and digestion benefits. Sold by grocers nationwide.
June 20. John Donnelly and John F. Driscoll were treed by an angry mother bear in Middlesex Fells near Ben rights Pond. The youths, unarmed, climbed trees as the mother bear and a cub waited at the base. After about ninety minutes the bears wandered off.
Dr. Charles F. Aked of Fifth Avenue Church in New York proposes ending cross-examination of creeds in ordination. He cites cases at Chicago University and the New York Presbytery, arguing ministerial eligibility should rely on ability and character, not orthodox belief.
More than 2000 attended the Immaculate Conception Church service in Boston for the baccalaureate sermon to Boston College graduates. Rev Florence J Halloran warned of moral decline in modern universities and urged the Catholic college to uphold strong moral life and democracy.
The crews of the schooners Arthur Binney and Hattie M. Graham wrecked about 190 days ago off Bawline Rock Cape Breton were brought to this city yesterday morning from Yarmouth on the steamship Prince Arthur. The men rode from Cape Breton to Yarmouth by train where the American consul placed them aboard the Prince Arthur.
Peter MacQueen, IF. R. G. S., presented the Peabody Museum at Harvard with an Uganda drum a Masai spear and a Bagandi harp secured in Africa. He is writing a travel book about his journeys.
A touring car from New Jersey struck a taxicab on Tremont street near Beacon and School streets. The Jersey City car mounted the curb, nearly hitting Parker House windows, but stopped short. The Jersey car occupants fled the scene, the taxi driver was uninjured, and no passengers rode in the taxi. License 60M was on the Jersey City car.
The steamer Cymric is due to dock at about 8 o'clock Monday morning, with arrival anticipated in calm harbor conditions.
In Swansea on June 20 the Bourne garrison site was marked by a tablet on a large boulder. Dedicatory exercises were led by the Old Colony Society of Taunton and the Rhode Island Citizens' Historical Association with remarks from former Governor A. O. Bourne and leaders Bicknell and J. K. Crane.
Telegraph companies continue to collect an extra five words time of filing charge on messages though Governor Draper signed the bill. Clerks at Boston offices refuse to waive the charge and say rate changes must come from New York central offices. the law takes effect after 380 days.
President Taft hosted dinner for all Republican Senate finance committee members and Senator Root. A conference followed on the proposed tax on net earnings of corporations.
Roger Pines 18 of 154 Auburn Street Cambridge is dying at Cambridge Hospital with a fractured skull after being on a crowdedMt Auburn electric car yesterday when he was pushed or fell from the running board. He was found unconscious.
A fierce blaze in Newburyport during a westerly gale left nine houses ablaze at once. Fireman Jere Haley risked his life to save the hose horse, leading it to the engine house and driving the hose cart back to the fire. The flames also destroyed a barn with 11 poodles, farm tools, wagons, and damaged two Haley properties. Mrs Haley was rescued from a burning room by police and firefighters.
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