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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1909
Page
5
The public expresses manifest interest in our early Spring Exhibits featuring Millinery Suits Gowns Waists Lingerie and more. Assorted styles are complete and varied with low cash prices underselling competitors. The Millinery and Suit Departments showcase new equipment and Spring novelties inviting personal inspection during opening days.
Magnus W. Alexander of General Electric Lynn addresses closing exercises on The Value of an Education. He says education builds a foundation for wholesome leisure time use, teaching core subjects, and stresses training the rising generation for efficiency and citizenship.
Wireless despatch reports the Cunarder Saxonia from Liverpool and Queenstown will reach East Boston at 8 oclock tomorrow morning. The liner was 574 miles east of Boston Light at 2 P M yesterday with 21 saloon 283 second cabin and 821 steerage passengers aboard.
C Gordon Neff of Cincinnati, chairman of the good roads committee for the American Automobile Association, resigns today due to pressure from other business.
The piece recalls Abbe Spallanzani and Beaumont who laid the basis of gastric digestion with Alexis St Martin. It extols Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets as natural digesters aiding digestion, nerves, and dyspepsia, sold by druggists for 50 cents with mail trial offers from F H EMA Co., 150 Stuart Bldg Marsha Mich.
The House voted 146 to 54 with eight pairs to bury a bill to head off capital punishment. The judiciary committee reported the measure favorably with five dissenters after extensive afternoon debate led by James H. Vahey, counsel for Charles J. Tucker and last year’s Democratic candidate for Governor.
The Henry Siegel Company spring opening features crowded aisles and new fashion lines. Millinery on the second floor showcases Maison Virot and Georgette hats with mauve, taupe, and ostrich trims, plus cloche shapes and French parlor influences.
Petitioners seeking a 0-cent gas rate in Chelsea have not filed with the Gas Commission and are referred to the next General Court. They will promptly petition the commission for a gas price reduction in Chelsea.
Figures show 2,500,000 tons of coal stored at Reading Company yards with nearly 1,000,000 more expected by month end. Operators plan steady mine production through March to meet brisk demand and pre by strike fears.
A blaze in Dallas on March 16 struck the business district causing $65,000 in damages. The Dysterbach Dry Goods Company sustained the heaviest loss in the fire.
The Charles river basin search for 10 year old Isaac Kirsner continued from daybreak to night, led by Harbor Police with Patrolmen McCarthy Crosby and Sergeant Perry. Isaac, last seen Saturday near a gravel pile at his Auburn Street home, vanished after separating from friend Hyman Chomsky who reported Isaac may have gone to the basin. Mrs. Kirsner holds onto hope for his return.
The Boston schooner Vanessa rescued William H. Muise after he was pulled from an overturned dory on the Georges. His mate William F. Muise was lost as rescuers closed in. Both men from Yarmouth, N S, were aboard the Conqueror and Vanessa.
Boston’s former mayor Dr Samuel A Green now 79 recalls early life and service at the Massachusetts Historical Society. He attributes his mayoral rise to a call from city prisoners and discusses views on the current charter referendum and non partisan politics. He was educated at Groton Harvard and abroad, graduating from Harvard Medical School in 1864.
Washington March 16 A Senate bill to provide subventions for the ocean mail service will be introduced by Senator Gallinger. Unlike the failed House measure it does not raise compensation for third class steamers of 14 knots nor specify port origins or expenditure limits.
An outbreak of smallpox was found aboard the steamer Kasma by U S officers on arrival at quarantine. Two English sailors were removed to Gallup's Island pest house, and the vessel remains detained at quarantine.
The committee on judiciary reported in the House yesterday leave to withdraw on the anti Standard Oil bills petitioned by Thomas JL Hisgen of West Springfield. Senator Teeling of Boston and Representative Hobson of Palmer dissented.
Funeral arrangements for Captain James A. Davis, commander of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, set for Lexington tomorrow at 2:45 pm. The ceremony will be conducted by the Massachusetts Consistory led by Colonel Everett C. Benton, with three Ancients officers in attendance. Trains from North Station depart at 1:26 and 1:51 pm.
The grand jury has finished work on the Boston Agreement cases and a report is expected to be issued on Saturday.
President William Taft will attend a dinner in Boston hosted by the Merchants' Association and the Chamber of Commerce to celebrate their merger. The exact date is unsettled as Taft must await word from Washington, with plans for late April. James J. Storrow Bernard J. Rothwell and John Co. Cobb extended the invitation after meeting in Hot Springs.
Sacramento report says the local option bill failed in the Senate by 12 to 25. The outcome affects regional governance and state policy.
Seventy suspended sewer department employees are to be reinstated today by order of Mayor Hibbard. The Mayor also announces restoration to full-time status for park department workers who had been on half-time schedules.
Attorney General Malone backed a judiciary committee bill imposing a fine between 500 and 1000 dollars or six months to one year in jail on railroad officials who disobey state rail laws. The measure targets acts by corporates to raise capital without legislative authority or to merge with or control other firms.
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