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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1909
Page
5
Harvard prepares to mark the transfer as Dr. Charles W. Eliot ends forty years as president. Dean Briggs invites Professor George Herbert Palmer to read a tribute on behalf of the faculty, praising Eliot’s personality and leadership as the faculty mourns losses since the era began.
The article describes Harvard’s leadership transition with Dr Eliot and President Lowell in Cambridge. It notes Eliot's remarks on his future, Lowell’s preparations, and a planned autumn ceremony on October 6 and 7. It mentions Gold Dust cleaner in an unrelated ad fragment.
An article promotes whiskey based treatment for lame back and rheumatism. It details a formula using one-half pint whiskey with Toris compound and syrup Sarsaparilla, to be taken in tablespoonful doses before meals and at night, claiming quick pain relief and broad health benefits.
President Lowell avoided specifics in response to an inquiry about radical changes in administration. He explained a busy schedule as he prepared to assume duties as president of the university, noting no official ceremony today. Undergraduates plan a mass meeting at Harvard Union with cheers, songs, and speeches to mark the occasion.
Thomas Jeffcotte, 17, arrested after threatening two girls with an axe in Providence. He claimed knowledge of Miss Laura Regester’s murder, while doctors deem him mentally unsound. Police broadcast a description of the missing jewelry to over 800 New England cities.
Clarence Chase, the Auburn barber linked by police to Laura Regester’s Providence murder, was located in Boston last night. He claimed no recent contact with Regester, said he left Providence May 6, and explained he started new work on School Street after moving to Boston. He admitted visiting police once and writing to Providence police.
Anne Partlan notes the poet George Meredith is gone but not dead to his influence. His eighty years of tireless work are praised as a guiding light through life’s long night. The tribute speaks of release from pain and a public farewell with reverent, tearful respect.
May 18 Newton High faced Waltham High in a city game that nearly sparked a lynching. A Watch City fan allegedly struck a boy supporter, while a mob rushed Harry Ballantine, 33, the man accused, crying to lynch him. Police intervened to prevent violence during the incident.
In a tense game the Waltham schoolboys lost amid heated exchanges. Eddie King, class of '10, was knocked unconscious by a blow triggering a chaotic scene as Ballantine was accused of the attack and mob action ensued.
Trampled on by a hostile crowd, Ballantine was aided by Chief of Police Mitch ell and officers. He was escorted from the field, pale, as the crowd hurled epithets. No arrest at the moment, but court action may follow from today’s affair.
The Chase family case questions whether an adoption can be revoked after both adopting party and adoptee are dead. Leonard Chase seeks to undo the decree that made DeForrest Woodruff Chase Dr. Horace Chase’s son by a prior marriage. Judge Knowlton took the matter under advisement.
Graduates of the Prince School of Newbury Street Boston held a reunion at Copley Hall last evening. The Glee Club provided entertainment and a special banjo duet by Annie S Appleton Prince School 07 and Gladys Moore Malden High School, with Mrs C D Appleton on piano.
A doe kept the crowd, police, and 10,000 spectators spellbound as Game Warden William Nixon pursued the agile deer through Fenway Park, Newton woods, and Brookline, with the creature breaking from a carriage window before fading into the Parkway.
Timothy J. Connor, 28, resident of 45 Dane Street Somerville, was arrested yesterday afternoon by Somerville police on a warrant charging larceny from the Hotel Touraine. Articles valued at 20 dollars, including glasses, napkins, towels and tableware, were allegedly stolen. Connor, employed at the hotel, was turned over to Boston Station 4 police. he is married.
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