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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1908
Page
2
In Quincy on March 15 Rev E W Hunt refuses to recede from his mental healing sermon at Wollaston Unitarian Society as directors call a meeting tomorrow evening to decide on discontinuing his services. The church clerk reads the notice as the pastor delivers what may be his farewell discourse.
Mr. Hunt says his sermons are misinterpreted as Christian Science and will issue a formal statement tomorrow. He clarifies he favors medical and spiritual healing, discusses healing as part of life, and notes the aim to unite medicine with spiritual power.
The American battleship fleet anchored in Magdalena Bay Lower California will start serious target practice tomorrow morning and continue for several weeks. Ranges begin at 1000 yards then 2000 yards and 3000 yards for small targets 12 by 21 feet. For 12 and 13 inch guns ranges rise from 6000 to 9000 yards with targets 30 by 60 feet.
Louis D. Brandeis told the Central Labor Union that the merger question is not a simple fight between Mellen and Harriman for Boston & Maine control. A prominent delegate had urged delaying action, calling it a clash of rail magnates.
Despite some opposition the C S A adopted a resolution condemning the proposed merger of the New York New Haven and Hartford with the Boston and Maine. It calls for a Massachusetts Referendum if action proceeds, warning the merger would create a New Haven dominated monopoly over New England transport. Brandeis notes broader political and economic power tied to such consolidation.
William J. Dougherty of Buffalo the general organizer of the International Blacksmiths Union will attend a Boston conference Saturday March 28 with the federated council of mechanical departments of the New Haven railroad to discuss the proposed introduction of a piecework system in the road’s workshops.
The Boston Central Labor Union met to consider an appeal from Boiler Makers Lodge 9 after it passed an order prejudicial to the lodge. No action was taken pending further decision by the Central Labor Union on the appeal.
The Charitable Irish Society marks its 171st anniversary with a banquet at the Hotel Brunswick tomorrow at 6 30 PM toast master Bartholmew A Brickley and speakers including Samuel L Powers Guild Hibbard Charles D McCarthy and Frank Severoni. The society holds its annual business session at 11 AM tomorrow with officer reports and elections.
Eliza Trask Hill the temperance advocate and suffragist lies critically ill at her Somerville home. Dr Stevens attends her and holds little hope for recovery. A family friend tells the Post the end is believed near.
March 15 report from New Bedford notes the Red Cross liner Silvia driven ashore on Sow and Pigs reef near Cuttyhunk Island. Crew abandoned ship. captains estimate doom imminent as gale pushes wreck toward pieces. Tug I. J. Merritt and lighter Chittenden begin cargo removal but weather halts operations. aim shifts to saving cargo while hull holds.
C B Osgood Company markets nearly $50 000 of furniture from the bankrupt Boston Distributing Company at drastic discounts from 40 to 70 percent. Dressers and chests are highlighted with prices such as $4.48 for a golden oak dresser and $14.50 for a mahogany piece. About 100 front beds sell for $1.75 to $12, with many other items like sideboards, buffets, and parlor sets available. The sale notes a unique receipt policy guaranteeing balances up to $500 in case of a customer death.
Jerome H. Remick & Co at 12 Tremont Row in Boston operates as the local branch of the world renowned New York sheet music publisher. Manager Henry Marshall has grown trade to make the store a leading seller of popular music with a wide variety from classic to operatic selections and an on hand staff of demonstrators.
Fragmented ad copy claims a quick cure for a cold using quinine tablets. The text is garbled with partial phrases and branding, offering a remedy and a money refund but lacks verifiable details or a clear attribution.
E Wesley Tobin of Malden breaks through thawed ice on Foster's Pond while returning to shore after lunch with a party including J B Green. Green is rescued. Tobin sinks and later dies after his father makes four dives. Tobin was a banker and former Maiden High School athlete.
The annual benefit at Hollis Street Theatre drew many Boston dignitaries to support the Working Boys Home. Mayor Hibbard and family and Captain Low of the Enterprise attended. Judge Michael J. Murray lectured on Irish history, amid a high quality musical program by St. Joseph's Orchestra and notable performers. Patronesses included Mrs. Guild Mrs. Hibbard and Mrs. J H O’Neil.
New York, March 15 That Mrs Jere Knode Cooke wife of the unfrocked rector of St George s Episcopal Church Hempstead L I who eloped with Miss Floretta Whaley one of his charges will not begin divorce proceedings against her husband was tested today by a personal friend Her determination not to be suit was made upon advice of her parents her counsel and the rector of her church In the face of this decision it also became known that the husband now in San Francisco with the girl with whom he died last May has attempted vainly to obtain his wife s forgiveness for certain statements he made when the fugitive couple were first discovered in the western city last December Under certain conditions a personal friend of Mrs Cooke asserts she might forgive and take him back but never as a husband.
West Boylston Betterment Association wrote to the school committee about school safety in fires in West Boylston and Oakdale, asking whether children are trained in fire drills. Local briefs also note Westboro town meeting, Southbridge chief candidacy, Spencer good government petition, Leominster railway franchise request, and Marlboro autopsy finding pancreatic cancer in ex-city marshal Chester W. Curtis.
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