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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1906
Page
7
Comedienne Fanny Rice declares reports of her illness and sanatorium stay false. She explains a fall last Christmas caused spinal trouble and a brief Bridgeport hospital stay, then resumed work and disputes the Bridgeport sanatorium rumor.
New York Nov 27 reports plan for early next year to organize a movement for religious freedom led by Rev Dr Algernon S Crapsey who resigned from the Protestant Episcopal ministry after being judged heretical. Lay supporters fund his family during a lengthy vacation as he debates next steps possibly starting an independent church or pursuing theology writings.
The American born Princess Estelle De Broglie, wife of a French prince, performs at a Boston venue while her husband conducts the orchestra. The couple, with their baby daughter Jasmine, previously faced elopement, divorce, and estrangement from the prince’s family, seeking a new life in America.
Thomas F. Anderson outlined Europe’s great seaports and their ties to New England commerce before Boston YMCAs School of Commerce. The audience included Preliminary Waterfront Commission members and Boston business leaders. He showed 150 stereopticon views of ports from Liverpool to Copenhagen and Belfast to Bristol noting Boston’s current lines and gaps. He urged new direct links to France and Germany and improved services to Cuba, Puerto Rico and South American ports.
Washington, Nov 27 Representative Tawney of Minnesota, chair of the appropriations committee and a progressive Republican leader, said tariff revision cannot move without the president showing the way. He predicted a majority would back him once Roosevelt points the path.
John Haley a scow hand with Morris & Cummings Dredging Company was discharged after a hearing before United States Commissioner Hayes. He had faced a federal charge of dumping cobble stones and refuse from a scow off Graves light.
In New York Navy 27 a judge fined the American Sugar Refining Company $18 000 for accepting rebates from the New York Central Railroad. The rebates totaled $26 000. The court allowed 60 days to appeal. Indictments remain against multiple sugar interests and railroad officials.
Miss Annie S. Peck of Providence Rhode Island who just scaled the highest peaks in Peru was aboard the Colon sailing yesterday from Panama to New York.
Albert M. Creighton a leading shoe merchant married Margaret Abbott at St Stephen's Episcopal Church in Lynn on November 27. Miss Abbott comes from a prominent New England family and is noted in society.
Alexander S. Porter urges extending Hamilton Place to Washington Street to create a parallel relief route to Winter Street. He argues this would be cheaper than widening Winter Street, as most required land is back land and the remaining properties would gain frontage and value from the new street.
Washington reports the 1905 census data reveal city debts exceed 3.6 billion dollars and that urban populations data predict over half the people will live in large cities. The director notes rising importance of city government and municipal finance in shaping governance.
Charles Conroy of Cambridge was jailed in Brighton on a theft charge after selling a crippled pig he found tethered at a stock yard. A Hebrew marketman agreed to buy the pig for eight dollars, but the farmer reclaimed the animal as Conroy fled with the money.
The Fall River cotton mills employ over 30,000 workers under a wage scale higher than the pre 1908 cut. October dividends total 381,900 on 21,825,000 capital, averaging 1.74 percent. Two mills resumed dividends and only three still unpaid. Last year 30 corporations paid 235,150 total, averaging 1.25 percent. Many mills expected higher earnings for January.
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