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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1904
Page
7
Superintendent Donovan of the street department chastised district foremen for carrying dead men and other improper names on the payroll. Rumors talk of disclosures about city salaries to nonworkers, naming two well-known ward politicians tied to officials and a congressman.
Private Degan on sentry duty at Fort Banks Winthrop was accidentally shot by his own gun while pursuing a suspected break in. He tripped and fell, the bullet striking his ribs and exiting his back. Doctors say recovery chances are slight.
Speakers at the anti-imperialistic meeting in the Twentieth Century Club rooms condemned current conditions. Epigrams quoted include defiant passages from Boutwell, Putnam, Sanborn, Garrison and others. Officers elected after the speeches: Boutwell president, Haskins treasurer, Winslow secretary, with an executive slate including Ames, Bradford, Codman, Collins, Dole, Gar rison, Ginn, McNeill, Parsons, Perry, Putnam, Quincy, Sanborn, Warren and others.
Malden police search for a burglar who attempted to force Mrs. Varney’s home at 187 Bryant Street last night. O Connell, who boards there, was struck unconscious with a blunt weapon and left at the foot of the rear stairs. He recalls nothing of the attacker.
Boston social scene features multiple weddings today with couples including Miss Sarah Whicher and Arthur Holden in Quincy and Miss Marion Simmons with Edward Owen in the Berkshires. Lincoln House sale at Vendome, Mrs Batcheller’s Somerset tea for Julia Ward Howe, Eleanor Whidden’s presentation tea, and Eleanor Jay to Arthur Iselin in New York. General Bancroft delayed homecoming, and Mrs Chick plans winter in Mexico with a Vendome party.
A 17 year old stenographer asks if it is proper to meet a male friend at a ball or have him call at home. The adviser says the 18 year old suitor lacks discretion but not evil motive, urges parental trust, and recommends allowing home visits to keep her safer and understand home life.
The message declines to provide details about correspondents citing a breach of trust. It emphasizes that sharing names or addresses would be inappropriate and states the refusal clearly.
A young woman writes to Miss Champagne seeking advice on a five year senior who visits her home often and dates other girls. The columnist urges caution, notes male freedom to pursue multiple attachments unless commitment is shown, and suggests Daisy mirror his behavior to test his seriousness.
Thomas McGovern of Troy named general New England organizer for Bridge and Structural Iron Workers. He outlined plans to thoroughly organize the craft in the area at a well attended meeting. A special session is set for Wednesday December 7 at Wells Memorial Hall to complete shopmen unionizing.
The Boston Central Labor Union blocs elects Frank H. McCarthy as convention representative and plans a central delegates body with Building Trades Council. Memorial for Robert Middleton, support for striking Fall River textile workers, and aid to steamfitters are noted alongside committee nominations and venue details for upcoming union events.
Mme Schumann Heink arrives in Boston for Love's Lottery at the Colonial Theatre while a cable arrives announcing the death of her husband Paul Schumann near Dresden from a stroke. He was a noted German stage manager and the couple have four children together plus four from a prior marriage. Her manager F C Whitney orders postponement of opening night. The star planned to continue the engagement before sailing home to Germany. The care of the children falls to the mother as she endures the distance of separation.
New York November 29 The lawyer for Mrs. Chadwick Philip Carpenter states in a dictated interview that of the suit against Mrs. Chadwick by Herbert B. Newton of Boston fifty thousand dollars is the bonus promised for the loan Carpenter says Mrs. Chadwick allowed Newton to proceed without security He asserts the bonus is usurious under New York law and would cause forfeiture of both principal and interest and vows to fight the suit to the utmost.
Dublin dispatch reports potato crops failing across western counties with many fields bare. Destitution grows as barley and oats are scarce and winter approaches. MPs like John Dillon push for relief and a broad appeal to Parliament and friends of Ireland.
Francis J. Rochford, blind Bates College student at Lewiston, excels on the cinder path as in Greek and mathematics. A Newton Lower Falls youth, he travels the streets alone, from Jamaica Plain kindergarten to Perkins Institute, and has impressed Bates faculty with high scholarship despite blindness.
Lying dead in City Hospital morgue is William Wallace Turner with relatives in the state, but authorities have not located them. If unclaimed in three days, the body will be sent to Potter's Field for burial.
The Woman's Charity Club hosts a Christmas sale in the Hotel Vendome suite with hothouse flowers sent by Mrs. Jack Gardner and others. Volunteers organize aprons tables cakes and pastry books tea and special tables run by Mrs. Dinsmore Wood and Hall along with Daughters of the Charity assistance and flower displays led by Mrs. Winn and Mrs. Buffinton.
King Edward on November 28 approved changes in the foreign service. Gerard Lowther moves from Santiago to Tangier as minister, while Arthur Raikes, long secretary at the British embassy in Washington, is named minister at Santiago.
Harvard College voted to present 100 books on romance law and medieval history to the National Library at Turin as repayment for a debt of 150 years. The Turin library burned last spring after Harvard’s collection had earlier been burned in the mid 18th century.
In West Newton Judge Kennedy of the Municipal Court sentenced Julia Floyd a colored domestic to Sherborn for an indefinite term for larceny of several hundred dollars of property from her former employer D. M. Belcher of Lawrence Road Chestnut Hill. She was brought from New York Saturday by Inspector Fletcher who traced her by her trunk.
The annual meeting at St. Rose Hall on Worcester Street elected officers: President Henry F. Purcell, Vice-President James P. Cleary, Secretary Frank J. Magrath, Treasurer M. A. Driver, Trustees Thomas J. Waggett William A. Moore and Richard Leahy.
Thatcher and the passenger from Section 5 survive a flood after the Co. and A.'s No. 38 derails near Shawnee. They cling to life, share a rescue on a stormy night, and later learn they had coincidental plans with a clergyman in Leavenworth.
In this serial installment, the Eye of Goona hidden in Tokay wine travels from Delhi to England. Harvey Crook and Hahn pursue the concealed gem as purchasers intersect. Basil Clifton, an intended buyer, is murdered by a impostor. Merrick unknowingly buys a bottle. Daisy Merrick considers Harvey Crook at the Langham Hotel.
A desperate young man trades a priceless set for a $500 loan from a quiet English stranger. The loan, repaid with interest, funds a future oil boom and the birth of Merricksville, though the lender remains distant and eventually forgotten. The tale ends as the visitor’s journal entry hints at a dramatic turn awaiting tomorrow.
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