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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1909
Page
4
The man hunt for Giread and Dredeau, two York county jail escapees, was abandoned in a heavy rain after deputies trailed them through the woods all day.
Representatives from the Anglican Catholic and Greek Orthodox churches in the eastern United States will meet at St. John the Evangelist to foster fraternal relations and possible practical cooperation. The event excludes Roman Catholics and highlights shared creeds with one contested clause. The Rev. William H. Van Allen and Bishop Raphael will speak, with a reception and dinner following the Thursday session.
Counsel for Chester S. Jordan will file a motion for a new trial this week alleging juror Willis A. White of Maynard was insane during service. The defense, confident, delays 32 items for the bill of exceptions pending the motion. A public hearing may be held once the district attorney returns from Jamaica.
Middlesex district attorney contemplates a new trial motion after juror insanity surfaced. Jordan's chief counsel General Charles Barnett and aides hurry to prepare precedents and affidavits while Higgins cuts short his vacation to return to Cambridge.
Readers are invited to buy the 1909 Britannica, offered at half price by the Werner Company of Akron Ohio. The advertisement touts its comprehensiveness and ease of reference, noting the large cost of the last edition and the high pay for a single article while emphasizing the new edition’s timeliness.
In a Fort Warren accident two sailors died after a boat capsized near the fort. Dougherty, 30, from Roxbury, and Crowley are presumed dead. Hunt, 30, survived after a near-drowning. Rescue efforts and subsequent searches followed the capsizing.
Commissioner O Meara defended public figures amid talk of a square deal for public acts. He contrasted the new district attorney Hill with others, praising knowledge of human nature and tolerance. Edmund Billings of the Good Government Association spoke for reform, while Bernard Rothwell of the Chamber of Commerce weighed in on finance.
The Commission and the Good Government Association endured good natured jabs during J. Mitchell Galvin's reading of Waste Basket. A highlighted line mocked B. J. Rothwell and the balloon jib sail. Another quip joked about Fitzgerald and a busy Boston in 1915.
The Rev. A. A. Berle will deliver the commemoration address at the 100th anniversary of the Connecticut Bible class at Centre Church Hartford. The Deaconess Bible Training School and Deaconess Hospital commencement exercises will be at St. Mark's Church Brookline on Wednesday at 7 30 p m with the Rev. R. H. Schuett of Portland delivering the address.
Boston churches and Sunday schools held services for Mothers Day while carnations were not widely worn due to supply delays. In Dorchester Pilgrim Church the pastor preached Our Mothers and honored guests from G A R groups wore white carnations.
May 9 Philadelphia marked Mothers Day with 10 000 white carnations bought by the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company for motormen and conductors to honor their mothers. The city’s men and women in all walks of life joined in the tribute to “the best mother who ever lived.”
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