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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1901
Page
7
The grand jury in Riverside Superior Court returned an indictment of murder in the first degree against Josephine Zavatsky for allegedly strangling her child, a 56 month old.
George Juby a conductor on the New York Newten and Hartford line was run over by his train at the Quincy depot yesterday morning. He fell beneath a car and both legs were crushed by the wheels. Juby is married and resides in Boston.
Little Margaret McCarthy lost a curl when Thomas Connors grabbed her hair near her East Boston home. He admitted the act and was sentenced to six months on the island, with the judge ruling drunkenness no excuse for the assault.
Judge Lawton opened the Lowell Superior Court contested divorce list. Cyrille Nadeau was granted a divorce from Zoe Nadeau. In William S. Brown vs Inez E. Brown a cross libel was filed by Mrs. Brown’s counsel. The couple married in Townsend Massachusetts on May 13 1899 and resided there. Melville T. Adams a boarder was named as corespondent.
The case against Chinamen Goon Dong Chin Sheung and Hoo Yen charged with conspiring to induce two countrymen to appear in a Brattleboro court to impersonate defendants residing in the United States was heard by U S Commissioner Hale. After a two hour hearing the case was continued until May 24.
Workmen tear down the old Hotel Van Rensselaer on Tremont Street to make way for a new theatre slated for autumn occupancy. Gertrude Bennett will join J Stoddart in Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush at Tremont. James A. Herne slight improvement at home in New York.
The Giddy Throng, New York burlesque review, stars 48 Hatfe Wells and May Stebbens with a troupe of English acrobats and several famed revivals. Dorothy Morton scores with singing. favorites Mabel Fenton and others perform travesties. The show headlines at Boston venues with daily matinees. last performances are near.
A correspondence from Cavor on the moon details Selenite society meditating on language, math, and labor. He observes administrators, experts, and erudite minds, along with mooncalf caretakers, workers, and a vast brain-based knowledge system.
Cavor describes two lunar guardians Phi-oo and Tsi-puff, giant insect beings with hypertrophied brains who guard him in a hexagonal cell. They mimic his speech and rapidly learn English, starting with the words man and Mooney, as the scene portrays the first steps of communication.
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