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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1907
Page
8
Miss Bertha Tylock, 20, of Millersburg, struck by mumps and sudden blindness three weeks ago, recovered her sight after the illness left her. Doctors were puzzled by the miraculous change, but the patient retained her cheerful disposition throughout.
Philadelphia report notes the National Association of Hosiery Manufacturers will raise prices 15 percent on silk wool cotton and mixed stockings citing fabric costs up about 80 percent. Consumers may patch old socks or do without as manufacturers justify the rise and say rising prices are preferable to declines.
Marshalltown Iowa March 24 Mrs G W Norton wife of the Postal Telegraph manager reports she has found her baby kidnapped 23 years ago. The recovered son is William Porter now living in Grand Junction Colorado with two children. Mrs Norton and her first husband lived in Nebraska where a divorce and custody dispute occurred.
A mother tracks her missing son across time and doubt. She suspects her ex husband but lacks proof, forever uncertain. A recent clue arrives via a Colorado letter hinting the son sought his mother for years, leaving Porter unsure who stole him.
In Louisville on March 24 Rev. and Mrs. George W. H. Ross welcomed their fourth child, a record birth for the United States given Mrs. Ross’s age of 38. Ross, a Roosevelt supporter, started a family long before the president’s stance on race suicide, and takes pride in the latest addition.
Abner McGary, wealthy Vandergrift merchant and retiring president of the council, was crushed under a 200-pound woman at a roller rink yesterday. He is dying at his home with a crushed pelvic bone and multiple internal injuries. The woman was unconscious briefly but unharmed.
The Clan Cameron tug-of-war team accepts a challenge from the Thomas Francis Meagher team. Interested parties should contact Joseph Pitcher, manager, 98 Union Street, Boston, or John Silliker, captain, 2 Elec Square, Malden.
The piece reviews a week of volatile stock activity with a weeklong slide after earlier sharp recoveries. It notes rumors of NYSE failures, Erie railroad retrenchment, and **Bank of France** rate hikes signaling tighter international finance. It quotes Erie executives on non retroactive public utilities bills and contract cancellations, and cites Mellen and Clews on labor, demand, and potential moderate future slack. It ends with a teaser on a table of Boston copper prices.
In Malden on March 24 Mrs. Miner reported a burglar in her home at 227 Brockenberr Street. Police rushed to the scene only to discover the culprit was her big black cat perched on a piano keyboard leaving muddy footprints, much to the officers and Chief Harris.
A booster touts Argenta buy at $1.50 with claims of doubling to $5.00 in a year. The message highlights rising prices from $1.00 to $1.50, 50 percent daily dividends on 133 tons of ore, and insider ownership in a touted Boston Copper project. Investors are urged to buy now before further gains.
A strong easterly storm brought 33 fishing vessels to the fish pier, with more expected before opening hours. Total catch reached 713,500 pounds of mixed fish including 313,500 haddock and 358,500 cod, with smaller amounts of hake cusk and pollock. The D A R line steamer Boston arrived from Yarmouth at dawn, while the Cymric is anticipated at Hoosac with about 1105 passengers aboard.
The closing lecture to non Catholics in the Cathedral of the Holy Cross centered on why Father Burke is a Catholic. He argued certainty in Christ teachings and the church as moral guide, condemning divorces and foeticide while praising confession as a national restraint. He asserted Catholic teaching unites individual souls with Christ.
Sermon remarks on declining church attendance and rising secularism in the nation. In one eastern city a divorce rate appears to be rising, with Rev Fr Burke C S P noting a troubling trend during a recent sermon.
Palm Sunday services closed the missions as papal benediction was given to thousands. At St. Augustine's Dorchester Street Rev. T J Cullen led the close, with Rev. D O Sullivan conducting for the Gate of Heaven men. High masses and English readings, with a 60-voice choir performing works by Haydn and Rossini, marked the day at St Vincent's and Gate of Heaven.
Catholics in East Boston anticipate a special and solemn musical program at Most Holy Redeemer Church tomorrow night. Organist Edward J. Whelan prepared the program featuring Gounod Gallia performed by a 40-voice trained choir with Mrs. Mary White Mullen as soloist.
The Lawrence and Mather Schools Alumni Association announces that preliminary arrangements are complete for a reunion and banquet. Notices will be sent to over 1600 alumni inviting them to assemble at the Quincy House on Tuesday evening May 14 to meet former teachers and renew school friendships.
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