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Newspaper

Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Mar 19, 1909

Page

13

Large Fleet Drops Off at Wharves Amid Price Hopes

Nineteen arrivals at T wharf yesterday plus twelve lingering from Wednesday. Eight offshore vessels stayed to today hoping for higher prices as the fleet totals 616500 pounds of fresh fish including haddock cod hake cusk lemonsele and scrod. Several named vessels and captains are noted with cargoes and voyages, along with minor ship movements and a Gloucester fitting out of the schooner Alice.

T Wharf Thomas J. Carroll Bessie M. Dugan Thaddock Haddock BEA Anis Fannie KE Prescott Dugan Sears Thomas J. Carreil Bsu Bari Alice Thomas F. McManus Baker, Boise & Watson Gloucester Edward Russell McManus Cahoon Lillian Schmeisser Brynhilda Buenos Ayres Cape Cod Key West Fla Governor Powers Messrs Palmer Boston Neponset Doane Little Round Shoal Chatham Fred A. Small Ellsworth Vineyard Haven Cambrian Charlestown London

Five Foot Shelf of Classic Authors Proposed for Education

Dr Isliot of Harvard suggested a five foot shelf could educate a person with ten minutes daily reading. Dr William Hand Browne of Johns Hopkins shared a list including the Bible Homer Virgil and Dante. He judged Mrs Browning Poe Hawthorne and others as limited or unbalanced in different ways.

Baltimore Isliot Harvard Atlanta William Hand Browne Johns Hopkins University Sophocles Virgil Euripides Plutarch Marcus Aurelius Horace Boethius Gibbon Goethe Dante Livy Chaucer Shakspere Ben Johnson Milton Dryden Boswell Jolson Cervantes Pope Addison Fielding Thackeray Dickens George Thot Tennyson Browning Scott Moliere Mrs. Browning Poe Hawthorne New England

Cadets Stage Impromptu Gum Shoe Girl at Jordan Hall

A large audience applauded Company B First Corps of Cadets as they presented a dress rehearsal of The Gum Shoe Girl at Jordan Hall. The show runs tonight and tomorrow only with Robert Nicholas credited for the book and much of the music.

Jordan Hall Company B First Corps of Cadets Robert Nicholas Somerville John Oilyboy Jack Astor John Ollyboy, Jr North Pole Peary Zeke Priscilla Pinkerton Thlmes

Harriman Plans Panamanian Rail Link to Panama

E H Harriman travels Southwest for health while associates pursue a vast railroad project linkingNogales to Panama City along the Pacific coast through Mexico Guatemala Salvador Honduras Nicaragua Costa Rica to join the Panama railroad. The proposed trunk line could cost about 100 million dollars.

New York E. H. Harriman Southwest Southern Pacific Mexico Panama Canal Nogales Pacific Coast Guatemala Salvador Honduras Nicaragua Costa Rica Panama Panama Railroad

Harriman Rail Line Ambition Modern Construction Front Rank

The text praises E. H. Harriman as a leading railroad builder with a system to be modern and debt-light. It notes the Harriman extension into Mexico exceeds 700 miles finished, with 800 miles under construction and rapid progress unseen in Mexican rail building.

E. H. T Harriman Harriman Mexico

Bos ton Delayed by Storm Arrives Long Wharf from Yarmouth

The D A R line steamer Bos ton reached Longwharf at 3 pm yesterday after a five hour delay caused by a furious northwest gale. The vessel departed Yarmouth, NS at 6 pm Wednesday and battled the storm for three hours before docking.

Dominion Atlantic By.s.s Maritime Provinces Newfoundland Washington St Boston Yarmouth Nova Scotia Long Wharf Foot State St J. F. Masters N. E Warren Line Liverpool Sachem Sagamore Hoosac Tunnel Warren & CO State St D. A. R. Line Longwharf

Senate committee reshuffle names Crane new Rules chairman

In a Senate committee reorganization Senator Crane will become chairman of the rules committee succeeding Senator Knox. Senator Lodge will relinquish his seat on rules and likely remain chairman of the Philippines committee.

Washington, D. C Senate Crane Committee On Rules Knox Lodge Philippines

Denouncing Infected Beef and Demanding Law Enforcement

A Dorchester father pleads for strict enforcement to stop sale of tubercular beef. He urges Governor Draper and the State Board of Health to deploy inspectors at slaughterhouses, believing ongoing supervision will reduce market danger to children.

Ee Ella Boot Salem, N. Bs Topsfield Cambridge Mass M. FB. Mosley Milk St Gustave Mehler Columbus Save Boston State Board of Health

Draper’s Beef Inquiry Faces Local Inspection Standards

Governor Draper revisits his beef inquiry amid a Health Board report showing tainted and poorly inspected meat sold in the state. He acknowledges his earlier defense of Dr. Peters and urges raising local inspection to or above federal standards.

Vitchburg Daily News Draper State Board of Health Ann Billy Patterson Austin Peters Health Board United States Peters United

To the Editor of the Post Public Sentiment letter

A Merrimac reader lauds the Post for exposing tainted beef sales and aiding public rights. The letter commends the paper for its awakening of public sentiment and its ongoing fight against wrong.

the Post Sir Boss Ton Post Post

Stop Diseased Food Meat

Governor Draper urges the State Board of Health to align state meat inspection with federal standards and hire special inspectors to prevent sale of meat unfit for food, noting reports show the issue is not inspection lack but a ruling that beef slightly infected with tuberculosis is acceptable.

North Adams Draper State Board of Health

Coot Debate Ends With House Consensus

During yesterday's session a dispute over whether a stuffed coot is an owl sparked a lively debate led by Representative Norman White and Representative Tom Pattison of Barnstable. The House eventually ruled a coot is a coot, even when stuffed, drawing smiles from the galleries.

Pattison Norman White Tom” Pattison Barnstable Mr. Pattison

Not Guilty Verdict in Larceny Case

The case against Minnia Williams ends with a not guilty verdict on one count after the two alleged victims M J Bellville and James Yr Barrett fail to appear in Superior Criminal Court. Judge Aiken orders the jury to verdict and Williams is returned to jail.

Minnia Williams M. J. Bellville James Yr. Barrett Superior Criminal Court Aiken

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