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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1910
Page
4
A brief notice states that milk sold in Boston recently was ten days old and no guarantee is given that it had been inspected. The item notes continued publication from the first page and cautions consumers about potential quality issues.
Testimony shows milk from New York via middlemen, with Whiting admitting no guarantees on milk age or inspection for Boston hospitals and infants. Witnesses discuss a past five-contractor union and price fixing dissolved years ago, amid public hearings and later gymnastic exhibitions at Posse Gymnasium.
The O. L. Fern Company liquor dealers at 95 Union Street petitioned into bankruptcy by creditors on April 1g filed schedules in U S district court showing liabilities of 20000 and assets of 15750. Of the total liability 13625 is unsecured.
W A Graustein president of Boston Dairy Company testified in the afternoon session. He said he did not track his profit but claimed he made something and stayed busy in business. He asserted no farmers have gone on strike and that milk is arriving from Massachusetts as usual. Producers and officers voiced optimism as a meeting on Tuesday plans a large creamery to process undispensed milk, aiming to end the strike dispute.
In Berlin on May 13 Theodore Roosevelt hosted a social day ending with a reception for 350 American citizens at the American embassy. EarlierRoosevelt and his family dined privately at the French embassy hosted by Jules Cambon with only Ambassador and Mrs Hill and embassy staffs in attendance.
Colonel Roosevelt joins a Berlin visit to the city poor farm and attends a luncheon at the American embassy followed by a joint naval and military reception hosted by Lieutenant Commander Belknap and Captain Shartle. German officers present gifts of photographs showing Roosevelt and Emperor William at Doeberitz maneuvers with the Emperor's autograph. Roosevelt is elected to the German Interparliamentary Peace Union and the German Shakespeare Society.
Portland Maine May 13 revenue cutter Androscoggin received orders to be at New York June 18 to assist in welcoming ex President Roosevelt on his return to America.
Mrs. Mary E. Mulvihill, 47, of 4 Freeport Street Dorchester, fell eight steps at the north side of Dudley Street terminal late last night, fracturing her skull and causing severe scalp wounds. She was taken to City Hospital and is on the dangerous list.
Fire calls from 2 a. m. to 2 a. m. include Box 732 258 Shawmut avenue Peter Albert loss 100. Box 844 70 Market street Brighton John Trince loss sight. Box 451 Bear 121 Medford street Charlestown Orpin and others loss 1. Box 442 8S North Dakota at Navy Yard docks Charles town loss 2. Box 250 5 and 6 Highland manpeer Fannie D Morse loss. Box 92 Public Library Copley square city of Boston loss slight. Box 251 Rear S2 Cedar street Josiah Chapman alight. Charles pox 28 loss 6:30 p. m. Mrs J Gold ext 0.
W. J. Rolfe of 405 Broadway Cambridge writes to the Post recalling Haley's comet visit of 1835. He says he was eight years old then and vividly remembers the hazy head and a tail about eight to thirty degrees long. He notes the 1835 apparition was dimmer than the great comets of 1843, 1858, 1861 and 1881, and seems to have diminished in size with each return.
In Webster City Iowa on May 13 Rev Dr Spicer of St. Pauls Universalist Church argues the star of Bethlehem was actually Halley’s comet. Bible scholars place Jesus birth four years before 1 AD based on the current calendar. He says the comet and the star share an east appearance and southern trajectory, implying they are one celestial event.
After the Hyde murder jury balloted for one hour and forty minutes tonight without reaching a verdict they were sent to their hotel for the night. They will resume balloting at 9 o clock tomorrow morning.
In Sioux City on May 13, William Collier, who is appearing there tonight, wed May 10 to Miss Paula Marr the actress who plays Nell Van Buren in his play A Lucky Star. The ceremony was performed in the afternoon and the couple plan to tour with the production.
Cairo May 13 The student Wardini was condemned to death for shooting Boutros Pacha Ghali the Egyptian premier and foreign minister on Feb 20. The nationalist killer said he sought vengeance for government acts attributed to Ghali. Colonel Roosevelt's Cairo visit drew attention as he denounced the assassination.
Father Hedrick of Georgetown University refutes Paris reports that Halley’s tail contains cyanogen and that the comet is off its path. He says earth’s nearest approach is 14 million miles and if the tail stretches long enough Earth may pass through it on May 18 with only possible shooting stars as observable effects.
Dr William R Brooks of Smiths Observatory reports Halley’s comet has a brighter nucleus and a distorted broader coma toward the sun. The tail also broadens with a dark streak from the nucleus splitting the tail into two branches, evidencing tidal action.
Pearl Burns a young telegraph operator at Westminster station uses a monkey wrench to deter a bold intruder who breaks glass and threatens her post. She signals Boston dispatch and coordinates with Gardner and Westminster crews to trap the man, Patrick O Leary, while police plan his arrest in Fitchburg. Pearl and the crew drive the man away and prepare to press charges.
A postage stamp of philatelic value 590 dollars, bearing King Edward VII’s profile, was sent to Postmaster-General Hitchcock from the International Postal Union in Berne. Issued for the Straits Settlements, it has the highest face value of any stamp. Stanley I. Slack, curator of the Postal Museum, will place it on exhibit.
A San Francisco man, James M. Kelly, leaves a $70,000 fortune to his sister believed residing in Boston. Representative Thomas M. Vinson of Ward 20 says two friends, John A Hooper and George Hooper of San Francisco, have asked him to locate the heir.
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