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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1909
Page
7
A legislative committee on roads and bridges agreed on a bill adding a horsepower tax and stricter penalties. It allows non residents to drive cars for 10 days, requires drivers to stop for frightened horses, sets a flexible speed limit, and lowers urban limits from 20 to 15 mph. Local authorities may exclude cars from certain highways.
Anemia is lack of blood and a common, dangerous disease for growing girls. The article promotes Dr Williams Pink Pills, citing a Lynn Massachusetts case of restored health after taking the remedy. It claims the pills purify and build up blood and lists other illnesses they allegedly cure.
Leroy Armstrong, son of a wealthy paper maker, married Miss Anna Fitzhugh Breckinridge in St Andrews Church South Orange. Armstrong's father Meynett had eight years ago wed a sister of Breckinridge, making Armstrong's stepmother his sister in law. The elder Mrs Armstrong opposed the match, reasons unknown, possibly due to tangled relations.
Benjamin C. Clark of Boston died at 43 Bay State road. Born October 10, 1838, he led B C Clark & Co and Pearson Cordage, served as consul for Haiti for 48 years, and supported charitable causes including the State prison at Charlestown and the Floating Hospital. Survived by four children and his wife Adeline Weld.
Ex Chief George F. Griffin of the Boston Fire Department District 11 will be buried at 2 o'clock this afternoon from his Jamaica Plain home 3141 Washington Street with special honors from the fire department.
London May 20 The Westminster dean refuses to permit the ashes of author George Meredith to be interred in the abbey and gives no reasons for the decision.
In Beverly Massachusetts and Washington Mississippi Miss Mabel Boardman sister in law to Senator Crane dominates social circles. She is a trusted confidant of Mrs Taft and the President guiding White House social life. As Red Cross executive head she brings vigor and business discipline and helped choose Beverly as a summer capital for Mrs Taft.
A young mother and her light haired baby girl were seized from Sterling Street in Roxbury last night. Police describe a fierce struggle before they were driven away in a covered car. The incident is regarded as one of the most carefully planned abductions to alarm Boston residents.
Theodore Roosevelt and son Kermit Roosevelt hunt on Jura ranch near Nairobi British East Africa. They collect 60 specimens from 20 species including water buck impala and python. A female rhinoceros charged Roosevelt before any shot and Kermit killed a leopard at six paces after a beater was mauled.
News briefs from Boston area churches note: Rev. Charles H. Watson elected president of Newton Theological Institute board of trustees after visiting Colgate University where he gave three lectures. Mrs. Anna Haskell funeral service held. Rev J H Crocker recalls her devotion. Burial at Harmony Grove Salem. The 121st Presbyterian General Assembly met in Denver with Dr B P Fullerton criticizing Salvation Army and YMCA as rebukes to the church. Deaconess Valborg Dorothea Carlsen set apart at St Pauls Malden, to go to Tokyo for missionary work. Rev Cortland Myers to begin at Tremont Temple in September. mid day services at King's Chapel discontinued. Ev E A Corbett spoke at Tabernacle Baptist Church.
Hon J W Longley supreme judge of Nova Scotia told Roxbury Intercolonial Club that Canada and England will become friendly nations and that Canadians would fund build and man battleships only for Canada's protection with Canadian crews and control.
A pair of burglars fired shots while fleeing toward Brandon Hall and escaped into a Corey Hill estate. Patrol units swarmed the area after a break in at the Blunt residence, where the family was away. The Blunt family banker broker operates in Boston on School Street.
Frank P. Connor aged 23, of 32 Crest Avenue Beachmont, arrested by Patrolman Tilton at Station 3 after cries were heard near Merrimac and Lancaster streets. He allegedly stole a gold watch and chain worth 185 dollars from William Higney of 155 Bread Street Salem, chased by the officer.
A large rat in the hair of Mrs Richard Frost helped save her life after a collision with a telephone pole in Jackson Mississippi. Mrs Frost and her baby were thrown from the car with the baby sustaining a head injury while surgeons reported the rat prevented head crushing.
The New England Shoe and Leather Association pushes for a constitutional amendment to classify property for taxation. Letters from trade representatives show broad support, especially from manufacturers. Commonwealth Shoe & Leather Company President Charles H. Jones lauds the measure as necessary for industrial equality and progress.
Recipes from The Sunday Post show how to make yeast biscuits with milk sugar butter salt and egg, then shape bake and glaze. Also included are instructions for fruit and nut bars with chopped raisins figs dates pecans and walnuts pressed with confectioners sugar and waxed paper layers.
Select medium firm tomatoes cut a round cap and scoop out pulp. Fill with breadcrumbs seasoned with butter salt pepper and minced onion. Reassemble caps, place in a buttered tin with bits of butter, bake about half an hour. Bear 11 Mhict 7738 Thin.
Five thousand Carpenters' District Council members vote to ask employers to keep current working rules after June 1 with a new wage scale of 47 1/2 cents per hour and a Saturday half holiday year round. They currently earn 43 3/4 cents for 48 hours and want 44 hours for the same pay. The union condemns Governor Draper for vetoing the eight hour law.
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