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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1910
Page
2
Coleman recounts a long running fare bank swindle led by “Big Bill” Kelcher and associates. He describes trips to New York to gamble at various clubs, losses totaling thousands, and attempts to obtain money orders and legal help while dodging identification requirements.
The record recounts Coleman testimony with Attorney Winslow Captain Hurley and Inspector Neilon. It covers meeting Draper Wheeler and Jack Keliher, fare bank schemes, New York trips, and amounts ranging from 35 000 to 180 000 in connection with the City National Bank of Cambridge loss. Coleman details payments to cover board and telegrams, and efforts to hire Cronin, with references to an Atlanta prison sentence and a disputed stock market loss.
The article promotes a weight gain remedy for thin individuals aged 16 to 55. It describes a recipe using essence of pepsin, syrup of rhubarb, cardiol, and endomen compound with instructions to shake and take before and after meals. It claims 1 to 3 pounds weekly plus improved health.
George W. Coleman has a marriage license in Cambridge to wed Mamie Hightower of Kansas City but no ceremony date is set. Hightower, 24, has been in Boston as a seamstress and met Coleman there after he disappeared from a Cambridge bank shorting scandal. Her father, Matthew Hightower, says he never heard of Coleman.
Fire Commissioner Parker weighed whether firemen may join a labor union amid Rule 230 forbidding members to join groups aiming to alter department rules. The Stationary Engineers union adopted a resolution denying any aim to change rules while many engineers joined. Attny Mansfield for the locals reported Parker warned he would dismiss members who join the union.
Mrs. Howard G. Cole once Mrs. Jarvis Hunt and social figure in Chicago was sued in Kansas City for 250000 dollars by Mrs. Hattie Dun woody Cole of Chicago the divorced wife of Howard G. Cole. The suit claims Mrs Cole No 2 pursued Mr Cole so intensely that a divorce became necessary.
Mrs Cole No 2, married to Cole in Jacksonville on January 7, faces a suit from Mrs Cole No 1 now residing in Chicago after a divorce granted there November 10 1909 with a two year non remarriage clause. Mrs Cole No 2 had been divorced from Jarvis Hunt at Wheaton Illinois last October with custody of their two children and a family farm awarded. Cole and his first wife wed January 1 1900 and had five children now with the mother.
Professor Ezra R. Thayer of Harvard Law School is expected to be named next dean after the death last year of Professor Adams. The Harvard board of overseers will meet soon to vote, with Thayer reportedly the chosen candidate.
The Secretary of War orders major bridge changes or reconstruction in Boston and Chelsea. A hearing set for April 22 in the federal building will decide if a 1 000 000 Chelsea Charlestown bridge redesign is required to ease Mystic River navigation. Meridian Street East Boston would cost 800 000.
The piece notes the yearly rush for Easter outfits and urges shoppers to visit Wolf's My Clothier at the Hanover and Portland streets corner. It promises a large selection for men women and children and claims unbeatable prices with legal stamps included with every purchase.
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