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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 14, 1908
Page
3
President Theodore Roosevelt warns Delta Kappa Epsilon against campaigns that divide by class. He praises the fraternity for uniting men across regions on shared values and calls for brotherhood and strength to stand for what is right.
Theodore B Halsend of Cortland New York was brought to Boston and jailed on a postal money order forgery charge. George Fedwards alias Portland Fatty is wanted for Vermont charges of robbing Morgan post office. Two accomplices blew up after a Beechers Falls escape attempt, losing an eye and part of the face. Edwards escaped unharmed and was found in New York awaiting removal.
Taft and Sherman joined Governor-elect Draper at a luncheon at the Oaks in Hot Springs Virginia. Taft planned to travel to Brooklyn where he would give the principal address at tomorrow's monument unveiling for the Prison Ship martyrs.
The discovery that Luke T. Landman of Londonderry, a former legislator, carried smallpox prompted Vermont officials and lawmakers to seek vaccination. Landman visited Montpelier for a 1906 Legislature reunion, met many officials, then fell ill and was isolated in a car en route home.
Alexander Pou drier, 54, of Manville Rhode Island, was struck and killed early today in Wrentham by a Harvard student driven car. He and assistant Henry Pardis were loading a furniture van to Providence when Pou drier stepped from behind the van to view the oncoming auto and was hurled twenty feet.
The Boston Finance Commission refuses to investigate charges by the South Boston Citizens Association alleging graft in the South Boston High School grounds improvements. It says it cannot act before year end and will forward papers to the district attorney, with the case possibly going before a grand jury.
Margaret Coughlin, a young adopted daughter of Mr. and Mrs. David Coughlin of 54 Antrim Street Cambridge, wandered away Thursday morning and was thought abducted by distraught foster parents but has now returned home.
Mrs BE A Remick was away from 145 Eustis Street Roxbury yesterday afternoon when thieves ransacked the house leaving about 1000 dollars in goods. The robbers fled as Mrs Remick and her sister Miss Eva Meserve returned about 6 pm. They found the front door jammed and the rear door open with a glove and matches left in the hall. The two women were shaken by the scene as bureaus and closets were rifled and rooms overturned.
Mrs. Allen Potts of Castle Hill Cobham Va daughter of a proud Old Dominion family and sister of Amelie Rives rode in a large officers mounts class while a Negro rider won the blue ribbon on the superb charger the only colored performer in the show.
North Attleboro November 13 a Sunday school teacher Miss Katherine Kirk of St Marys Church prevented a crush during a chapel fire with calm prompt actions as nearly 100 children evacuated. Bishop Feehan of Fall River was rehearing the children for a confirmation ceremony set for Sunday.
Lincoln reports Mr and Mrs William J Bryan will depart Sunday for a trip to Mexico with plans to travel for several weeks across the country.
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