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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1907
Page
7
At Meadow Farm in Pittsfield fifty eight cows and twelve work horses perished as two barns two silos and a boiler house burned. The estate of Colonel Walter Cutting owned the property. Loss estimated at thirty thousand dollars with twenty three thousand dollars insured. Cause of the blaze is not known.
Chicago reports a murder and suicide, a homicide with the killer fleeing, a victim left to die at a hospital, and an assault on a white child by a Black man, as police tallied a violent day in the city.
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge chosen as permanent chairman and Congressman William S. Greene named chairman of resolutions at the Republican State Convention to be held in Symphony Hall next Saturday. The committee on resolutions favors Roosevelt and Guild, backs a tariff stance until after the next presidential election, and urges that merger considerations remain a business matter for Massachusetts.
Miss Nielsen and Senor Constantino arrive aboard the Canopic in Boston after a tempestuous voyage. Nielsen visits a dentist on landing but recovers her vivacity. she stars as prima donna with the San Carlo Opera company opening at the Majestic on December 9. Henry Russell discusses plans to bring an enhanced company with famed artists including M. Victor Maurel and Blanchard, plus Mme Olitzka and D Aubigny, while Nielsen prepares two new operas Martha and The Elixir of Love.
A new act, passed by the last Legislature, restricts work on Sundays. Except in emergencies or at employee request, armed forces or corporations cannot require Sunday labor in commercial, industrial, or transportation jobs unless the worker has 24 consecutive hours off within the next six days.
About 50 longshoremen and teamsters walked off the job on the river front in New Orleans. Officials expect the stoppage to draw in roughly 80 workers from nearly every riverfront labor class.
The Jewish festival Simchas Torah began at sundown yesterday and runs to sundown tonight to honor completing the Bible reading. Synagogues held joyful services with scrolls carried in the streets and around the ark. A harvest festival concludes this afternoon at Temple Israel on Commonwealth Avenue.
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