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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1909
Page
2
An early catalog itemized lace trimmed drawers gowns and chemises with 1.00 1.25 1.50 price points. Girls dresses for 5 to 14 years feature percale chambray and gingham waists at 29 cents. Children 2 to 5 years wear Dutch hi gh neck ginghams percales chambrays at 69 to 1.50 values.
Twenty men with buckets from the revenue cutter Woodbury under Captain Van Boskerck battled a blaze at Knott C. Rankin's summer cottage in Rockland Maine on Owl's Head. The fire threatened four other cottages but was controlled.
Miss Athene Agnes Sterling and her twin Irene Inez will wed in Portland with twin bridesmaids Mabel and Mildred Granger. Grooms are Portland men N Ward Allen and Morrill Allen. The double bridal party plans a joint honeymoon to Jamaica.
A Charlestown man, Frank H. Steele, 22, was arrested as he prepared to receive a $750 check for selling old Economics 1 final exam papers to Harvard students. An accomplice fled after a chase near Harvard Square while Dean Hurlburt and Cambridge police planned the sting.
Henry N Simpson 68 of Washington Street Dorchester died after shooting himself in the right temple early last evening.
The body of Michael J. Keady, 45, of Ashland, was found early today beside the Boston & Maine tracks above the station. Police say he was likely struck by the Worcester express passing through at about 5 30 a m. He was listed as a single laborer.
The Boston School Committee approved a plan granting teachers over 70 a one year leave of absence with 75 percent salary starting August 31 1909, for those resigning by August 31 1910. Eight headmasters will step down September 1 with new appointees named, including Joel C. Boland and Juliette Hayward. The board also seeks $29 000 to maintain a tuberculous children’s school and requests use of Franklin Park refectory for the facility.
Ex mayor Fitzgerald faces no opposition while Donovan, Democratic city committee chair, states he has not negotiated with Senator Lodge or the Republican machine. He says he will reveal policy after Legislature acts and signals preference for a convention system to defeat Fitzgerald.
Charles Burgess Russell a 24 year old Brockton Last Company lastmaker killed himself in his home at 14 Brook street before his wedding to Florence Adams planned for today. Physicians cited mental strain from ailing father and bride to be. Florence Adams hailed as Elmwood village belle of East Bridgewater.
Augustus Gats was found dying in a stable at 99 Ward Street Roxbury. He uttered Elise as his last words and died in a police ambulance en route to the hospital.
Paris May 24. Henry Russell director of the Boston Opera Company announces the engagement of Mme. Lipkowska the Russian light soprano known as the Russian Tetrazzini to sing with the company.
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State Senator James F. Shaw regained undisputed custody of his 12-year-old son Eldredge after a private Boston meeting. Eldredge traveled with H. Fisher Eldredge of Portsmouth to Shaw’s Congress Street office, then to the Algonquin Club before boarding a Portsmouth train.
A 600 foot concrete tower to be erected in Rock Creek Park will host a wireless station claimed to deliver messages within a 3000 mile radius to reach Navy ships in the North Atlantic. Bids for construction will be invited this week with an estimated installation cost near 300000 dollars.
Annual admission exams for Normal Latin and high schools set for June 10 and 11 at 9 a.m. in school buildings. Normal school tests to be conducted in the respective school building.
A believer in L I Cooper’s stomach health theory touts Cooper’s New Discovery as restoring the stomach and curing nervous weakness. George Hyde of Maquoketa Iowa swears he recovered after using four bottles, saying he is now healthier at sixty than in a decade. The testimonial notes sales spread nationwide and offers free samples from The Cooper Medicine Company Dayton Ohio.
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