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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1908
Page
6
The federal parliamentary committee is tasked with arranging a welcome for the American fleet. Victoria outlines a program of daily fetes during the fleet’s Australian waters stay, featuring public displays, processions, illuminations, church services, race meetings, naval and military displays, and a grand ball.
Captain Samuel D. McAllister of the Thirty-eighth Company of Coast Artillery has been missing from the Presidio since Friday morning. Police and a dozen officers have searched the city in vain. He is a popular, efficient officer whose wife suspects a temporary insanity.
Before a large audience the Dramatic Club of the Gil christ Company Benefit Association presented Henry Esmond's When We Were Twenty One at Jordan Hall Conservatory of Music. Mae A. Leach led as Phyllis with Bertha Campbell as Kara Glyvesk. H B Lowe and Terrence Miles Audaine featured as the Imp and the guardian, with Knowlton and Stiles also in key roles.
The court ordered Mae C Wood jailed in the Tombs on perjury charges after ruling her claimed marriage to Senator Platt a wicked fabrication based on forged evidence. Bail set at 3000. grand jury likely to act soon as district attorneys press for indictment.
A humorous Irish lyric exhorts Widow Machree to smile as nature and creatures pair up for spring. It playfully suggests her gloom keeps a phantom company and that warmth from love and home will banish ghosts and sorrow.
Conference report on the postoffice appropriation bill reached complete agreement in Washington. Key provisions include an $821,900 authorization to promote clerks from fifth to sixth grade, retention of the Sundays and holidays exclusion from 15 day calculations, mail weighing for railroad compensation, and a strengthened incendiary article clause defining indecent material as content tending to incite arson murder or assassination.
Dr. Henri de Roths child, a Paris physician of the notable Roth family, announces plans to build at his own expense a home for aged dramatic authors on the edge of the Bois de Boulogne.
A mysterious English woman appears as the chief legatee under two alleged last wills of Benjamin Hadley the Somerville recluse whose fortune is under court dispute. The probate fight continues as the claimant asserts inheritance rights.
The case surrounds a controversial new will and later codicils amid secrecy employed by lawyers. Reporter notes rumors of a romance involving an unnamed woman Moore described as an adopted daughter who would inherit most of the Hadley property. The tale questions Hadley's lifelong bachelor status and possible motive for his wealth.
At the Charlestown navy yard two marines on duty at the Water street gate pursued and captured two men attempting to escape with brass castings. Private John J. Sullivan and Acting Corporal Leon W. Farwell arrested the pair, later turning them over to Deputy Marshal James Waters and lodging them in Charles street jail. The captives were named Charles Davis of Henley street and Michael O'Brien of Tufts street.
At 8 30 in Roxbury two men from Callahan's Roxbury express were held up at Amory Street by two armed attackers. The drivers Arthur Baker and George Reade were forced to stop with a covered wagon and were relieved of four dollars and fifty cents. Suspects described as two negroes in dark clothing and golf caps fled.
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