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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1910
Page
9
New Haven Conn May 10 An order from New Haven road headquarters directs conductors and brakemen to watch for gambling. A railroad police detail is covering top trains to nab professionals, aided by top men who know the local professional gamblers.
The last rites for Mrs William Dean Howells were conducted yesterday at Shepard Memorial Church in Cambridge. Dr Alexander McKenzie, pastor of the church, led the service. Mrs Howells was a longtime member.
Free tells the progress of the citrus fruit and garden tractor community in the world. Thousands of acres are already sold and planted by people from all parts of the States. Eight to ten acres of grapefruit oranges pineapples and vegetables will earn you $5000 a year.
Mrs Frederick T Lord leads Beacon street residents in a year long campaign to plant shade trees from Arlington street to Massachusetts avenue. A 12 000 plan by landscape architect Arthur A Shurtleff would require pits private maintenance and about 34 per house for 352 homes. The committee includes Eben S Draper Frank L Higginson Henry P King Charles A Stone Ralph B Williams and Richard Glad sworth with volunteers from the Metropolitan Improvement League and the Massachusetts Forestry Association.
A Boston woman reports pain relief and improved energy after using Dean's Kidney Pills. She describes backache, weakness, and exhaustion easing as the kidney remedy strengthened her entire system. Sold by all dealers. Foster Milburn Co. New York sole agents for the United States. Remember the name Doan take no other.
Alfred, Me May 10 Enoch Durgin an 18 year old orphan and would be desperado was sentenced to 10 years in State prison after pleading guilty to obstructing the Boston & Maine railroad by switching lights and placing iron on rails stopping two or three trains He asked to go to prison saying he disliked conditions at the State School for Boys from which he had escaped and preferred to be sent down East He appeared pleased at sentencing.
The tuberculosis camp erected to treat and exterminate the white plague in Quincy and nearby towns was formally opened to the public on May 10. An invitation was extended to citizens supporting the camp and to city residents to visit the facility on Quincy avenue.
Daniel J McDonald long identified with organized labor is secretary of the Allied Printing Trades Council of Boston for about 12 years. A Charlestown resident for 15 years he has held multiple union posts, served in the Common Council and Legislature, and was elected to the City Council under the new charter in January. He championed labor through Franklin Association No. 18 and the council representation of Boston unions.
The New England Railroad Club held their regular meeting and dinner at the Copley Square Hotel last night. L. G. Murphy, designing engineer for the Bow ton & Albany railroad, read a paper on The Section Forces in Railroading.
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