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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 08, 1910
Page
7
An outbreak of typhoid spreads among workers at Austin Farm III. Around twenty employees including several women nurses are ill but not severely affected as authorities investigate the rapid transmission and cause remains undetermined.
The illness mostly affects the staff with 11 of 20 workers down and six under observation, while only one of 840 inmates is ill. Most patients are women, with a male porter very ill. Nine patients were sent to City Hospital as Pr B EB Southard of Harvard Medical School investigates for the State Board of Health.
Mrs. Frank C. Averill pleads not guilty to first degree murder after her husband Frank Averill died from gunshot wounds on Oct. 20. Arraignment in Franklin County Court underway with jury selection. Prosecutors include Attorney General John G. Sargent and Elmer Johnson. defense asserts accidental shooting.
Dr. Clifton F. Hodge of Clark University leads an extensive study on whether wild passenger pigeons are extinct in the United States. He plans to present findings to the American Ornithological Union in Washington on November 15, asserting data may settle the issue definitively.
A Boston Post feature photographed a street car and offered a five dollar gold piece to the conductor or motorman identified within five days at the City Editor’s office. The page lists five yesterday’s winners with car makes: Peerless Packard Maxwell Frayer Miller Pierce-Arrow and a Stanley truck. Names include Rowan McCain C W Willman H J Martin Chester Lanier J R Wilkinson Pee A Conners Thomas McPhee.
Washington on November 7. Chief of Police Sylvester endorses whipping post for wife beaters and pocketbook snatchers as a deterrent, a view he has held for years. His remark follows a Washington College of Law debate where the affirmative side prevailed.
The will of Katje Slodenburg, a late New York businessman who died in October, directs twelve friends to have a dinner costing 500 dollars, or 341.66 per plate, at the estate's expense. The executor selects guests and timing, with the dinner to be held within three months of death.
Chicago November 7 a strike vote will be taken among engineers of 61 railroads west south and north of Chicago including the Illinois Central after negotiations with the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers ended today The dispute centers on wage increases of about seven percent and changes in working conditions
Grand Chief Warren S. Stone of the Brotherhood says the strike vote will likely favor suspending work and that enginemen will express their intent by December 10. If not. all engines west of Chicago could be stilled within five hours, drivers halted, and cabs emptied across routes. He cites wage gaps and rising costs as major issues impacting lines from Santa Fe to Union Pacific and beyond, detailing 7 percent wage differentials equating to about 2.8 million annually and projected working-condition costs near 0.5 million.
Jennie Berando, six, was struck and killed by an outward bound Cambridge car near Strong place on Cambridge street in West End. Motorman Daniel Ahern was detained briefly before being released after explaining he could not stop in time as the child crossed too quickly.
Edwin A. Abbey, American royal artist, declines to paint the coronation scene in Westminster Abbey for King George. Previously chosen for Edward VII’s coronation, he cites dissatisfaction with early experience, noting private sittings from about 10 prominent pageant participants and recurring delays and irritations.
Seventeen-year-old Catherine Hogan and her 15-year-old sister Margaret repulse a would-be attacker on Pelham avenue near Washington avenue in the Bronx. Catherine uppercutted the man, then a left swing felled him as Margaret screamed for help. Their father, undertaker Daniel Hogan, lauds their boxing training and grit.
Vineyard Haven reports a captain recounting an odd fish story from the schooner Antoinette sailing from Florence New Jersey to Boston. While 16 miles southwest of Fire Island a mackerel jumped overboard and landed on deck. Crew seized the fish and had it for breakfast.
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