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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1908
Page
12
In Morristown New Jersey on a Friday evening Frank H Holden arrived at the post office with an 80 pound French poodle on his buggy seat. The horse bolted when startled by a passing car the poodle leaped out grasped the reins and kept them wrapped about his body under the wagon preventing the horse from running away.
Fire at the Boston & Northern car barns in Marblehead caused an estimated loss of $15,000. Discovered at 11:55 am, the two story 1882 structure burned to the ground except for one car. Trees and cemetery monuments near the site were scorched. motormen and conductors lost personal effects.
President Roosevelt, on the second day of his Sagamore Hill vacation, shyly shields his face with a Panama hat as cameras flash while he leaves Christ Church with Mrs. Roosevelt. No major political talks planned. Taft and Luke Wright to visit later to discuss the War Department.
Arlington and Cambridge police report ongoing work on the Annie Mullins murder case. State police withdrew and local officials paused after failing to locate a key eyewitness who saw the suspect with a woman on the night of the killing near Squire's Field. District Attorney Higgins says the case lacks a strong witness without that testimony.
John J. Farrenden of 73 Moore Street East Boston a motorman with the Boston Elevated Railway Company marked 35 years in city street railways. Born March 22, 1850 in London he began as conductor in Toronto then moved to Buffalo before helping introduce the bell punch in Boston. He drove the first Roxbury Crossing to the ferry car and later served through multiple railroad consolidations before a 17 year East Boston assignment.
East St. Louis club woman Mrs. O A Buck was compelled to surrender a child she had cared for after Rev Father Thomas S Bannon of St Josephs Church deemed the child should not be raised amid club ideas.
Crowds greet the Massachusetts infantry brigade as it returns from Pine Camp New York. The Sixth Eighth and Second regiments arrived in Boston with pay off in camp by state authorities. Lt Campbell will travel to Washington to press for government pay under the Dick bill provisions.
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