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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1907
Page
3
Thomas J. Kenney issued a statement denying he apologized to Mrs. Julia I. Duff for endorsing David A. Ellis, Democratic school board candidate. He condemns race bias in school governance, defends a visiting committee as nonauthoritative, and argues merit-based hiring benefits children and teachers.
For over a week the public buildings department sought bids for thousands of tons of coal meeting the Finance Commission standard set by Expert Williams. Yesterday's bidding deadline passed with no offers as Metropolitan Coal Company and Marston Coal Company said they do not sell coal under that test.
Vorenberg launches a new shop at 332 Boylston Street with a crowd that fills the store and spills into the street. Five thousand Swiss clocks priced at 29 cents vanish by midday, prompting calls to rush more stock. A $50,000 import stock showcases the opening and signals strong sales without harming the Winter Street store’s business.
Norfolk, Va November 1 The People's Bank of Portsmouth suspended days ago and tonight was placed in receivership on the directors petition. They allege the bank became insolvent due to defalcations by the cashier.
Mrs. Henry Pickering, a longtime benefactor to the Dormitory Fund and the institution libraries, presented Technology with an electric projection lantern of the most improved pattern to be permanently installed in Huntington Hall.
Patrolman Daniel A. Doherty from headquarters has been promoted to sergeant and assigned as inspector of carriages. Patrolman Terrance McNeil of Division 16 is also elevated to sergeant and assigned to the same division for duty.
Superintendent William H. Pierce and Chief Inspector William B Watts broadcast circulars with photographs to locate alleged dangerous criminals. Names include William E Dillman alias Julius D Gray alias George E Curtis 40 to 45 forger. Cornelius Van Debort 25 Duluth Minn larceny. Harmonica King Howard Clayton 34 larceny. Joseph N Pastene 40 mortgage fraud. Theodore P Johnson 19 to 21 alleged murder. Isaac Eighmie waiter suspected murder. Walter Joyce 24 multiple aliases for break in and theft.
A I Richards named Independence League candidate for Mayor of Cambridge with strong senatorial influence. League lists aldermen candidates Augustus Seaver Ira Bowlby Stoward Cassidy Edward Delaney Robert Johnson Carl Josephson Lewis Little James Mercer Monahan and William Palmer. Wake resigns from board post due to health and plans to run for mayor in 1908.
Doctor Boos found no poison in Walter Farnsworth Baker's viscera and expects a final report tomorrow. Edward Baker vows to avenge his brother’s death while denying rumors of secrecy and a New York absence. Attorney Nay says no statement on the will while analysis remains incomplete.
An elevated train rear-ended another north of the Thirty-third Street station on the Sixth Avenue L in New York at 11:20 am. Twenty people were injured and panic spread as two cars were wrecked and one vehicle toppled toward the edge of the tracks threatening collapse.
In Plainfield Connecticut today about 300 workers walked out at Lawton Cotton Mills after three girls refused to join the weavers union. Nearly every department of the mill was affected by the strike.
John D. Rockefeller invites several Standard Oil Trust associates to compete in a golf event on his Pocantico Hills links. The announcement notes the gathering aims to showcase cordial relations within the trust and promote mutual interest in the sport.
In Pittsburg, Mrs. A W McMillan led a mob of police to Mrs M E Fwing's house where her husband slept after a divorce suit was filed. Mrs McMillan fainted after sending her husband to central station. The affair follows a prior scandal involving State Representative L B Cook.
Mr I Brown of 614 Bingham Ave Pittsburg Pa says a severe pleurisy left his lung weak but Duffy's Pure Malt Whiskey restored his health. He contracted pleurisy after a cold in 1905 and, after trying many medicines, gained strength and twenty pounds, claiming the tonic helped him recover fully.
An advertisement extols Duffy's Pure Malt Whiskey as an absolutely pure medicinal malt distillation. It claims benefits for digestion, nerves, heart, brain, muscles, and blood, targeting workers, women, and children, and urges purchase in sealed bottles for $1.00 with the Old Chemist trademark.
Paul Thebaud, 11, wounded at his father’s country home near New York, regained consciousness but remains unable to be questioned. Doctors keep family from bedside. condition may keep him from talking for several days.
Alderman Flanagan withdraws from the Fifth district contest in favor of Ellery H. Clark, a local athlete and settlement worker, a move hailed by the Quincy Club of Ward 9 as strategic. The withdrawal removes Flanagan as a rival and may aid Clark against Gartland and Callahan backed by Jim Donovan, though some expect a tough bid for election in the South End.
Jeremiah J. Driscoll, longtime Roxbury resident and former Boston police officer, died yesterday at 38 Homestead Street from apoplexy. Born in Cork Ireland 73 years ago, he came to Boston as a boy and served about eight years on the force before retirement. He leaves a widow two daughters Elizabeth and Annie M. Driscoll, and two sons William H. Driscoll and Frank J. Driscoll. A sister lives in San Francisco.
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