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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1906
Page
7
Professor Guillaume Stengel, husband of famed soprano Mme Sembrich, is in serious condition at the Savoy Hotel after an automobile accident near a steamship pier. A wheel struck a gate, throwing him against a glass window and rendering him unconscious before rescue.
Testimony in Judge Fessenden's equity session reveals police hired a 20 year old woman, Cecilia Queen, to test the office of Dr. Frothingham for illegal abortion. Queen testified the doctor offered to perform the operation for 50 dollars at his office or 75 at the home, and she did not undergo the procedure.
Alice M. Blunt 22 a Roxbury carpet factory designer living at 67 Minden Street Roxbury appealed to Station 10 police to identify the person or persons sending tabloids and placing want ads in her name. She says she and her two sisters Mrs James Price and Mrs Eliza Bugbee have suffered anonymous posts for 18 months and last week appealed to federal authorities. They suspect a demented individual or jealous colleague at the same factory may be involved.
In St. Louis on March 15, Harry Miller seeks a divorce from his bride after she allegedly laughed under the canopy. He claims Orthodox Jewish wedding customs were violated and charges the wife is insane.
Waltham March 15 plans for a new five story steel wing at the American Waltham Watch Company factory are completed and construction will begin soon. The addition measures 94 feet by 28 feet and will provide work for about 200 additional employees.
Three girls are reported missing from Lynn. Mrs. Jessie H Porter of Rockaway Street asks police to locate the maids and recover two white aprons two stick pins a set of womanly apparel and other fluffy items. The trio roomed in Mrs Porter's house and left suddenly.
An epidemic of smallpox has broken out at Grand Falls New Brunswick about 20 miles from Fort Fairfield Maine. Eighteen cases were reported today and four buildings are quarantined with the patients. No deaths are reported. The disease is understood to be mild.
In Denver on March 15 Governor McDonald refused to extradite Mrs Isabella Fenwick to Malden Massachusetts for the alleged kidnapping of the Sully children. Attorney General Miller advised that the papers were properly made out. The stories of the children prompted the governor to violate precedents and deny the extradition.
Mrs Fenwick testified that her sister married John Sully of Montreal and lived in Canada ten years before fleeing to South Africa with two children. After quarrels and a failed home, the sister returned to Boston with a dollar and two children, supporting herself briefly before Sully tore up a rooming house. Inspector Greenleaf noted a possible habeas corpus action.
Miss Genevieve Gibney of Haverhill has charged Officer David J. Blair with neglect of duty and conduct unbecoming an officer and was summoned before the Lawrence Aldermen to testify. She seeks to withdraw the charges, hinting Blair promised marriage but later declined.
Paris reports a writ for absolute divorce shows Countess Anna nee Gould will settle a large sum on Count Boni if divorce proceeds, keeping residence at the palace for her sons French training and the inheritance of their father's title. Boni will be allowed to see his sons freely.
Former District Attorney Michael J. Sughrue, president of the Alumni Sodality of Boston, will give a talk to St. Paul's Catholic Club of Harvard University this evening at 7 30 on Criminal Courts and Fines. The meeting will be in the parochial school hall on Mt Auburn Street Cambridge with a student musical program.
Mrs. James Holt, likely the province’s oldest woman, celebrated her 103rd birthday in St. John New Brunswick. Born in Ballyshannon Ireland she has resided here for 97 years and remains vigorous in mind and body today.
The minstrel show scheduled for February 26 and 27 by the East Boston Catholic Association has been announced as not to be repeated.
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