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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1908
Page
2
In Pittsburg on May 10 Staff Captain Trever of the Salvation Army preached from inside a coffin wearing corpse robes to stage a deathlike display at the bar racks. The barracks hall was draped in mourning as the bass drum and funeral dirges accompanied the macabre spectacle.
The Knickerbocker grand opera company arrives in Boston for a two week engagement at the Majestic Theatre. Soprano Adelina Padovini and dramatic soprano Laura Rethy headline a cast from the Metropolitan and Royal Opera House, with Signor Barilli among the billed tenors, as director S Kronberg touts a strong chorus and high expectations.
The general adjustment board of the railroad clerks of the New Haven railroad will meet at Commercial Hall 694 Washington street on Sunday May 31 to consider the proposed schedule governing clerks on this road.
A trial launch carrying nine men including two Ellis Bros. shoe shop workers and Captain Bailey overturned near the outer bar. Keenan survived after a perilous struggle with three Italians clinging to him. four others died and two boats rescued several passengers.
Tea grown at high altitudes on Ceylon's mountain slopes matures slowly and is more carefully cultivated than valley tea. High grown tea such as Salada not only offers finer quality but also contains more essential oil in the leaf, a difference shown by comparing Salada to other teas.
Washington May 10 It is believed Senator Foraker of Ohio will introduce a Senate resolution censuring President Roosevelt He intends to force public release of letters the President wrote to Senators Smith Michigan Rayner Maryland and Stewart Vermont In them the President asserts supremacy over the army and navy and declares plans to ignore a bill on re enlistment of colored soldiers discharged after the Brownsville incident
Private Thomas Mallory of Troop D cavalry who was yesterday exonerated for shooting Private Patrick Bynne a convict during an escape attempt from Fort Ethan Allen has been promoted to lance sergeant. He will become sergeant when a vacancy occurs.
Ethel Gannon aged eleven lies in City Hospital after plunging twenty feet from a fire escape at 109 East Canton Street. She was conscious and asked for pudding after the fall. Her family and friends visited the hospital while her condition was described as bad but not dangerous.
The New England Board of International Moulders Union closed its sixth annual conference in Nashua New Hampshire. Officers elected include President Dennis J. O Keefe of New Britain Connecticut and Vice President William Acton of Fall River Massachusetts. John S. Gale of Worcester serves as secretary-treasurer and Charles E Anderson of Plymouth is secretary. The next conference will be in Taunton May 7 8 9 1909.
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