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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1909
Page
4
Mrs. Shaw admits her liaison with Marble and plans to return East after a Boston split. The tale follows a televised chase across Boston Pasadena and Portsmouth as the couple’s son Eldredge is traced and the driver Marble’s moving picture business is exposed.
The son of Hon James F Shaw was seized by detectives in his employ and taken from his mother at Santa Barbara. Shaw, a Boston financier and Republican figure, stands with prominent New Hampshire and Massachusetts connections. The Eldredge family, owners of Eldredge Brewery, protected the boy after prior kidnapping attempts in Springfield and Portsmouth. The case sparked tense legal moves and a California relocation to dodge habeas corpus actions.
The piece argues that home baked beans ferment and gas because dry heat cannot digest the beans. It claims one third digestible, two thirds wasted, and that dry baking loses nutrition. Van Camp's uses live steam at 245 degrees in small parcels, delivering digestible beans and lower cost.
Van Camp's Pork and Beans are promoted as a cheap, versatile staple replacing meat. Beans are shown as a breakfast croquette ingredient with ham, a luncheon main dish, and a dinner salad, saving meat costs as consumption rises. The ad argues beans offer nutriment and economy.
The piece chronicles Mrs Eldredge and Miss Eldredge Shaw in a bitter fight over a grandson. It notes Van Camp Packing Co ties in Indianapolis and a Westward move, while James F Shaw a Boston street railway scion and state senator faces a receiver action. Legal action and political ties loom as courts near.
In Portsmouth New Hampshire on April 30 the lime cargo fire aboard the schooner Herman F Kimball reignited while being towed to Rockland. The ship was returned to her berth and sealed again, lowering hopes for saving the vessel after earlier suppression.
Grace Price and 15-year-old Agatha Pickard from Dorchester Mass were found in Chinatown. Pickard had run away from home and was sent to the Bedford Reformatory for three years.
In 1903 the Anglo American liner Oklahoma sails for Southampton with 30 million in gold aboard. The voyage sparks international alarm as police suspect Gentleman Jim Longwood and a gang hid on board. Nations deploy fleets, while British fears of piracy and war loom until new clues surface.
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