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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1909
Page
5
The C F Hovey company offers sheets and pillow cases in a range of prices from low to high, with units listed from 80 to 98 cents and bundles priced up to 1.15 dollars. The catalog shows multiple price steps and quantities.
Advertisement notes discounts on feather boas stoles collarettes and muffs with varying piece counts and prices. Offers include five to eight pieces priced from 5.25 to 3.00 and up to fourteen pieces from 2.75 to 1.50. Nonspecific end shows fragmented copy.
Prominent social and professional women led by Charlotte Smith form the Women’s Homestead Association to push House Bill 688 for a 10 member governor appointed board to buy land for honest industrious wage earners outside crowded city districts. Officers elected at the Colonial building include Jennie Rogers president and May Griffin first vice president. A portion of the amendment calls for at least two women on the commission, including one from the Women’s Massachusetts Homestead Association.
Herbert Parker argued before the full bench of the Supreme Judicial Court that King Cardenio F. King should receive a new trial. King, a financial agent, is serving a 10 to 14 year sentence at Charlestown State Prison. If Parker's objections are sustained, a new trial will be granted.
In New York on March 24 a small fire broke out on the lower floor of a Bronx public school as pupils were dismissed. Teachers steadied students and supervised orderly evacuation as some staff members tackled the blaze before firefighters arrived. the fire was confined to a single room.
President Taft broke the first White House office chair after only 20 days in office, setting a record for speed and signaling a lighthearted start to his presidency in Washington D C.
Boston society girls trained in domestic science will teach housekeeping to mothers of school children with tuberculosis. The Boston Association for the Relief and Control of Tuberculosis plans to have the girls visit families to improve living conditions among the city's poorer classes.
A community effort trains mothers in proper cooking using family funded materials. Society girls assist at markets, teaching nutrition and budgeting while a tuberculosis colony in West Roxbury will house discharged patients and families under physician care until cure confidence is achieved.
Intimate friends of Senator Lodge recount his attempt to reach home by telephone after he had his number changed to keep business calls away from home. He called Central Information and demanded the house number but was told only by the operator that permission must come from him. He protested that he was calling from his own line and hung up in frustration.
Marblehead March 24 J Colby Drew 69 formerly a Lynn grocer convicted of forgery in Middlesex District Court East Cambridge sentenced to three years at the house of correction. He had earlier served four years of a six year prison term after a 1888 sentence and pardon by ex Governor Russell. Drew then worked as a flour salesman in Boston before a new forgery charge involving Salem and Everett firms. He was arrested November 10 at his Mechanic Street home and rearrested March 4 for Salem police. His wife cited worry and unscrupulous speculators as factors in his decline. He is described as a college man educated at Phillips Exeter.
Malden March 4 Members of the Board of Aldermen held a hearing on adding to the high school Building Inspector Connors refused to approve bills totaling about 2000 still owed to contractors under a claim of incomplete work. Chairman Rood said the building was practically completed but small repairs remained.
John Reiger a 65 year old maker of pool and billiard tables hanged himself from a tree in Franklin Park Tuesday night. His body found early yesterday by park workers. Motive given as business and domestic troubles and poor health. He was divorced about seven years ago and resided on Dartmouth street.
President Taft received a ceremonious certificate making him a member of Bill Club No 1 of the World, a group led by Bill Fowler and Bill Hyser with headquarters at Excelsior Springs Missouri. Senator Warner of Missouri arranged the document and William Bryan was expected to join.
Justice Morton grants writ of mandamus to S. H. Andrews after finding Davidson & Mines Corporation abused access to its books. The decision says the firm did business in Boston and that Andrews had the right to examine the books, which Davidson violated by removing them. Andrews alleged gross mismanagement by Davidson.
In Scranton the miners convention debated a resolution seeking arbitration and urged Taft to appoint a Roosevelt era style commission. The measure was sent to three executive boards with a call to stay at work unless told otherwise while boards pursue a negotiated agreement.
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