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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1904
Page
12
A batch of 75 Italian and Greek youths arrived aboard the White Star liner Canopic in Charlestown and were detained amid fears they were sold to padrone recruiters. Officials held 25 more for deportation. unless relatives could claim them, landing would be barred. Of the Canopic's 1300 immigrants, about 200 were detained including several women with small children.
Forbes Thoitt, described as a Danish count, pleaded guilty to multiple thefts from lodging houses in Back Bay. Judge De Courcey ordered sentence to the Massachusetts reformatory after the guilty plea. The man appeared in fine attire, with no aristocratic friends present.
The American Board Morning Star now lies at Commercial Wharf and is open for inspection until Saturday afternoon. Hundreds of stockholders visited yesterday as the government consents to rename the Sunbeam to Morning Star. The vessel is expected to sail June 1 or so.
Impromptu beauty pageant unfolds in Divorce Court as Carmella and Noe Rocci face cross libels amid claims of fidelity and domestic violence. Witnesses include physicians and a letter from a correspondent as proceedings pause for interpreter led testimony. The judge considers alimony adjustments and desertion in related cases, including Shrair vs. Shrair and Wilson judgments.
Mayor Collins secured Senate support to kill a House bill creating a Boston collector for Suffolk county. He argued Boston already pays Suffolk expenses and extra title is unnecessary. In a separate vote the Senate advanced a measure to establish a Massachusetts Hospital for Consumptives, 18 to 8.
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