A Tailor’s Goose Offers Golden Opportunities
A proverb about seizing chances urges action to gain rewards. It contrasts a tailor’s goose with the famed golden egg, implying you must pursue chances to prosper.
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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1899
Page
8
A proverb about seizing chances urges action to gain rewards. It contrasts a tailor’s goose with the famed golden egg, implying you must pursue chances to prosper.
New York March 10 Thomas P Donaldson the diver injured during a Madison Square Garden dive Wednesday died this morning. Remote details on the incident remain sparse but the tragedy confirms his death.
A historical ad notes the Cushing Process by Ira B. Cushing M D aimed at removing alcoholic liquor odors and related pests. The notice offers a book of information and price lists from Cush ing Medical Supply Co with addresses in Boston and New York.
An old sunken hulk lies in the channel off Germantown near Quincy Point, with no buoys or marks. On Wednesday the Union Towboat Company's tug Samuel Little and coal barge East ran aground on the obstruction, prompting calls for removal or warning signals to protect mariners.
Archbishop Ireland says he knew Father Hecker well and expresses nuanced opinions on Heckerism the American church and monastic orders in a Rome interview dated March 10. He discusses pro Spanish touches and does not oppose religious orders.
The archbishop rejects charges of hostility to religious orders while criticizing parochial encroachment on secular clergy. He cites Jesuit opposition to a Catholic University in Washington and argues that American Catholicism needs a priesthood rooted in natural and civic virtues amid debates over Americanism.
In Quincy on March 10 the Granite Cutters Union voted to accept manufacturers proposals to raise the committee size to seventeen and grant it full power to handle all strike matters.
In Lewiston Maine George W. Pierce faced a preliminary hearing on charges of attempted murder of Judge A D Cornish after sending a sugar arsenic mix. Bowdoin professor Robinson testified the sugar poison was fatal in a spoonful. Pierce was held for grand jury in 15000 and faced a second hearing on poisoned whiskey against City Marshal Teel.
At Bell Rock station on the Saugus branch in Malden an 11 year old boy, Peter Costello of Pearl street near Oak street, was gathering coal on the tracks when an inbound train struck him. The engineer saw the boy too late and he was fatally mangled, dying almost instantly.
Petitions circulate among Back Bay residents to replace the Marlboro street car line with an electric system segment. General W. A. Bancroft says the company will likely comply if ordered by the Board of Aldermen since the line has never paid. The move seems aimed at stalling another attempt to reclaim the Marlboro street tracks.
Atlantic Works has installed a steam air compressor weighing about 15 000 pounds with an 8 psi storage tank and a full dry dock piping system. The system powers drilling, riveting, chipping and calking tools across Simpson's dry dock for steamer Admiral Dewey repairs. The investment, around 35000 dollars, aims to boost efficiency and competitiveness in ship repair yards nationwide.
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