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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1909
Page
7
The committee preparing for the annual St Patrick s night concert met last night. Chairman the Hon Henry S Fitzgerald announced managers of local theatres promised professional talent. Ticket sales have reached 1500. The concert will be in St Johns Hall Moon street.
In Bangor Maine on March 16 Mrs Claude H Hutchinson attacked her 4 month old daughter Sadie Bell with a razor or knife at 23 Spring Street and then drank poison in a failed suicide attempt.
Mr Hutchinson returns home to find his young daughter dead from a throat cut while Mrs Hutchinson lies in the cellar unconscious from mercury overdose. She recalls the confession blaming Claude and says Lt did it. Arraignment expected tomorrow. husband 40, wife 27.
The steamship Horatio Hall, sunk in Polock Rip Blue and posing a navigation hazard, has been abandoned to the government and will be blown up probably in the latter part of the week.
Thousands visit the Gilchrist Company as the spring display opens with exquisite importations from Reabeaux Carlier Felix Lewis Barnheim Poncet and Gerhardt. The show features gedda braids from Swiss to Japanese varieties and jet trimming. Juvenile hats reveal Paris styling and a nut made of Chinese braid offers novelty. Ready-to-wear includes satin prunellas and new diagonal worsteds.
The Charitable Irish Society hosts a 6 p m banquet concert and oration at Hotel Brunswick with United States Senator Robert J. Gamble as the principal guest and orator. Other speakers include Charles Hamlin, Governor Draper, and Mayor Hibbard. National anthems will be sung and an original song dedicated to Gamble performed.
In Suffolk County Divorce Court John K. Gibson alleges separation from Ellen D. Gibson as she swears the two children in court are not hers. A 4 year old girl and a 16 month old infant were presented as Gibson’s offspring. Mrs. Gibson denies any connection. Gibson names John Sloan as corespondent and his brother testifies to a kiss, while Mrs. Gibson collapses after his testimony. The day’s testimony includes a witness claiming Mrs. Gibson admitted using another name and bringing a child to a burner-out story from Chelsea.
Mayor Hibbard, at Youngs Hotel in South Boston, offered a brief apology while urging confidence in public authority. The St Augustine Lyceum banquet honored clerics and officials including Rt. Rev. Denis O Callaghan, Lt Governor Toothingham, and Assistant US District Attorney J. S. Sullivan.
More than 1500 attendees packed Oddfellows Hall for the Jewish People's Institute Purim concert and ball. Prominent local Hebrews joined delegations from Jewish social and fraternal groups as tropical stage décor, elegant gowns, and jewel tones illuminated the evening. The concert featured several city artists from 8 to 9, followed by dancing into the early morning hours.
Professor Edmund von Mach lectured at the Public Library on the current German exhibition by the Copley Society. He criticized a Boston critic who said the collection had nothing good comparing him to Mephistopheles. Von Mach praised the paintings noting crowds at Copley Hall reflect strong interest.
The funeral for Mrs Mary Hannon widow of contractor Timothy Flannon was held from 2031 Columbus Avenue Roxbury. She died in Jamaica Plain Sunday at age 85. A requiem mass at Chapel of Our Lady of Lourdes was led by Rev Father Golden at 10 o clock. A large crowd attended with pallbearers named F J Kill Martin Griffin George T Cummings J A Cummings Joseph Hannon and Frank Hannon.
About 50 retail merchants gather at the Parker House at 12 30 for a luncheon to hear Professor Charles Sumner Howe president of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce outline industrial education before the Merchants Association dinner this evening.
Sheriff Seavey will return from Jamaica to find tensions among jail staff. Deputy Cronin sent Deputy Paine to read an indictment to a prisoner charged with murder, triggering resistance from Edward Kelly and later rebuke by Acting Sheriff John Kelly. Cronin backs Paine, while Seavey is on close terms with Cronin.
A major fire on Atlantic Street drew multiple alarms as flames engulfed a building housing J. Nardi Co. and nearby firms. Fire officials battled blazes from two fronts while trains stalled and a statue display threatened windows, with one hoseman injured by shattered glass and several chiefs overcome.
The Hon. Harvey N. Shepard was yesterday elected president of the Massachusetts Real Estate Exchange and the group voted to affiliate with the Merchants' Association. Frederick Woodruff, retiring president, received unanimous thanks for his service. A special meeting will decide if the name becomes the Massachusetts Realty Exchange and Taxpayers' Association.
Captain Roger N. Gardner formerly in command of the Coast Artillery Corps at Fort Adams died today at the Army hospital in Washington DC. The notice reached Newport officers this evening.
Ed Ward Wayson Weston extended his trek toward the Pacific coast reaching Wappinger Falls after starting in Tarrytown. Poor road conditions slowed his progress, postponing arrival in Poughkeepsie and prompting hopes to regain the route and sleep in Tucson tomorrow night.
Atlanta ruling says calling a man a liar in Georgia is a breach of the peace and may lead to a fight as per the State Court of Appeals decision handed down today.
Five minute relief claim for Papes Diapepsin promises to digest food and end sour stomach, belching, heartburn, and stomach distress. The ad urges families to keep a 50 cent case ready and notes the product works as if stomach isn’t there.
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