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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1909
Page
12
Gas and electric firms and Streets Superintendent Emerson remain tense after Edison Company wins a $1,925,000 street lighting contract. A new clash arises over another city street lighting deal valued between $1.5 million and $2 million to replace gas and gasoline lamps.
In Flushing New York on May 7 counsel for Peter C. Hains Jr. disclosed unpublished love letters from Mrs Claudia L Hains written to a captain in the Philippines. One letter mentions being crazy over Colonel Heistand and another notes church affinity and a dance crush.
A pair of letters from Fort Hancock dated April 29 and a Wednesday in May recount carefree social evenings. Claudia writes about church, sewing, eggs, and affectionate notes to her husband while describing dances, posters, and interactions at gatherings with multiple acquaintances and others present. The missives illuminate social life and relationships at the fort during that era.
Rising Sun Gas faces competition from a New York firm backed by Lothrop and Edison Electric Illuminating in a heated bid for a new street lighting contract. Three companies install lamps on Brewer Street and nearby streets to prove superiority, creating a gleaming, crowded district nicknamed the district of the midnight sun.
The advertisement touts Morse-Made suits at $25, claiming superior appearance, comfort, fit, and durability. It asserts long experience of over fifty years and urges widespread adoption, predicting a large turnout if wearers align.
President Taft suffered an inflamed eye after a gnat or small object irritated it on Wednesday. He attended morning duties with a bandage, later wore green goggles for a meeting with the Italian ambassador and an indoor garden party.
William O. Linkin of Gloucester swallowed laudanum in the waiting room of the North station at 8:15 pm. Patrolman Mahoney alerted the Relief Hospital and an ambulance rushed him there where doctors kept him overnight and pronounced him out of danger. Linkin, 31, son of Captain Osborne Linkin, had been out of work two months and was despondent. he is single.
Funeral held for Pembroke Crockett a State prison officer for 25 years from 98 High Street Charlestown. The Rev William S Chamberlain and the Rev E C Herrick officiated with music by Mrs FE C Herrick. Body sent to Portland Maine for burial. He died Thursday after brief illness at age 72.
Columbus May 7 Mrs Gladden wife of Dr Washington Gladden pastor of the First Congregational Church is dying of arterial sclerosis in a Columbus hospital.
George Brown the Lowell policeman executive faced charges from George S. Dion owner of a lunch cart who alleged Brown promised a liquor license before election and accepted small sums for campaign help and lunches to supporters. Dion said Brown urged liberal treatment of campaign aides.
Dion testifies that the Mayor gave him a dollar to buy fruit for charges against the police board over Sabbath sales. He alleges grocery orders to his family while in Hot Springs. Testimony links Mayor Brown to liquor license plans as a sensational campaign rival to last fall.
Charles Dudley, 45, head of Leominster Woodworking Co., was found dead in the attic storeroom of the factory. A pair of heavy tinsmith shears lay beside him. An autopsy by Dr. Frederick H. Thompson will determine the cause. Dudley had been in the liquor business in Clinton previously.
Mrs. Charles Gustin of 8 Mulvey Street Dorchester died from burns after a gas stove exploded shortly after 6 PM The blaze caused heavy damage to the Gustin home A neighbor pulled the alarm and Mrs Gustin was found unconscious in the kitchen dying while being moved to a neighbor’s house.
Advices from Duluth report the steamer Shores, six days overdue, went down off White Fish Point in Lake Superior with 21 aboard. Sailors of the Northland found wreckage strewn across the lake and identified it as Shores debris.
Medical examiners testified at the Superior Criminal Court trial of Roderick C. McKenzie and Murdock C. McGregor, attendants charged with manslaughter in the death of Richard F. Mitchell at Pierce Farm on March 25. They described injuries, possible causes, and whether a fall with knees near the chest could have produced the fractures.
Miss Annie Kinsley of Cheever New Hampshire, niece of Willard C Kinsley after whom the Somerville Grand Army Post is named, will unveil the Soldiers and Sailors monument on Central Hill May 31 Mayor Woods will preside ex governor Guild will be orator a 1500 seat tent will be erected a short militia parade Sons of Veterans Spanish War Veterans and a chorus of 100 school children will sing under S Henry Hadley.
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