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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1909
Page
12
City Square in Charlestown is undergoing elevated station changes to allow longer trains. The island station plan is dropped for two separate north and southbound stations with tracks to be shifted farther apart. Temporary shelters and platform extensions have begun and work is expected to take about two more months to finish.
Reports from Cleveland and Sharon describe J P Whitla meeting a kidnapper representative in Cleveland and promising $10 000 ransom for Willie Whitla. Police detain a man and boy in Cuyahoga Falls amid ongoing attempts to recover the kidnapped child.
Mr. Whitla delivered the ransom money as planned but police saw the setup and waited at the park. Detectives and city authorities tracked the case from Cleveland to Ashtabula while letters from the captors arrived at the Smith Hotel. The money remained untouched at the rock, and Whitla returned to Cleveland after a long wait.
In the morning hours until noon, customers at Wolf's Clothier corner Hanover and Portland Streets receive double stamps with every purchase. After noon, stamps return to a single per purchase.
Tony Muscarelli and Willie Madden testified they carried a note from kidnappers to a Cleveland hotel clerk. A man, 30, dark complexion, 140 pounds, pimply face in a dark-striped suit gave them a dime for delivery and asked about a telephone. Police sent the description to Whitla home detectives in Sharon.
The three new US Navy scout cruisers Salem Birmingham and Chester began competitive tests at 9 am from Bradford coaling station. Calm Narragansett Bay provided mirror conditions as the ships steamed from Brenton's Reef light ship toward open sea.
Chester Birmingham and Salem sail from port to compare engine types. They voyage 1000 miles at 10 knots, return for coal after four days, then run 750 miles at 15 knots, a 2000-knot race at 29 knots toward Cape Hatteras, and finish with 24 hours at peak speed. The ships use different propulsion: Birmingham with triple expansion, Chester with four turbines, Salem with two American turbines. All are in top condition and loaded equally to start.
Henry Franklin Wilddreth longtime Lawrence journalist and part owner of the Lawrence Daily Eagle and the Evening Tribune died early today at 11 Willow Street He was 57 and survived by a widow.
Ex President Theodore Roosevelt plans to depart Tuesday morning for his long planned African safari. He hosts a family reunion at Sagamore Hill before shipping personal baggage to Hamburg. James R Garfield visits to wish him safe travels as civic groups prepare to greet the steamer at the dock.
On the first day of spring, Mr Roosevelt and his wife walk to Christ Church with Quentin while Archie and Ethel lead. The rector offers a prayer for his safe return from foreign shores as Roosevelt inspects baggage for the four week voyage to Nome. He plans to go to New York tomorrow to check the steamer and quarters.
The final shipment of rifles and ammunition for Roosevelt to Africa was sent from New Haven to New York for loading onto the Hamburg. The Smithsonian ordered Winchester arms matching Roosevelt’s chosen patterns, including 1898 .405 rifles and 1903 .30 government rifles, plus 1897 shotguns. The arms are described as powerful smokeless rifles with soft-point bullets capable of crippling large game.
At 1 o clock this morning a general fight broke out in Nolan's restaurant Roxbury Crossing. Officers from station 1 arrested several people. Plates bottles and crockery were used as weapons leaving many bruised and smeared with pies and ketchup.
The Roosevelt Smithsonian African expedition plans a six month hunt from Mombasa along the Uganda Railway toward Nairobi and Port Florence. The party targets specimens for Washington while tracing a route past Tsavo Kilimanjaro Nakuru and Entebbe then onward toward Lake Victoria Nyanza and the Congo Nile toward the Mediterranean.
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