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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1909
Page
5
President Taft plans an executive order to make enticing Canal Zone laborers a misdemeanor. Last month about a thousand workers left the Panama Canal Zone to join railroad projects run by contractors in South America.
At the November meeting of the American Humane Education Society and the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals it was reported that the Massachusetts Society received a $7517.94 bequest from Miss Martha Harrington of Waltham and $2090 from Miss Alice Byington of Stockbridge, plus $50 from Miss Lydia E. Sumner. By the will of Miss Caroline Phelps Stokes, the American Humane Education Society is to receive $20,000.
Nov. 17 Harwich. Mrs. Josephine C. Berry a widow on a North Harwich farm raises a flock of religious fowl that answer only to a hymn. When she sings Come Ye Sinners Poor and Needy the birds gather, while other flocks ignore the general call. Neighbors confirm chicks and hens respond to the hymn-based signal.
In Cairo Illinois Henry Small colored shot and killed William Pope a discharged negro soldier linked to the Brownsville Texas shooting The killing followed last weeks lynching of Will James accused of murdering Miss Annie Pelley Pope was well liked among local Negroes and Small was arrested promptly in the incident
The Canadian Club annual banquet will be in the Parker House Crystal Room next Monday evening with a keynote on international trade. Speakers include Hon. W. O. Sealey M P and Congressman W. S Greene along with other prominent guests and musical performances by the Canadian Club Orchestra and Piper Ferrier.
Pilot William Van Sleet of Pittsfield Mass steered the Pittsfield balloon from Rutland Vermont in a heavy snow storm to a meadow near the Springfield line Enfield New Hampshire arriving at 5 20 pm The passengers were Miss Edith Sawyer and Ezra Allen both of Rutland Vermont
The bodies of Frank Loftus William Hasty and James Hays all of Leadville were found today on the line between Clark and Lake counties. They perished from freezing during a severe blizzard.
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