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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1909
Page
4
Harvard University began its college year with freshman advisers and information bureaus guiding new students. Upperclass registrations occurred, a freshman football meeting was held at Massachusetts Hall with Captain Fish and Coach Waterbury speaking.
W. T. Rooney once a leading Revere businessman was pardoned by Governor Draper for perjury linked to acknowledging service of a legal document. Rooney has served in the house of correction since June 1 as his attorney argued the act was an oversight rather than intentional wrongdoing.
George Churchill Il, head of the Churchill and Alden Shoe Co and a leading New England figure, married Mary A. Humphrey, former Grove School principal, at the bride’s Warren Avenue home. The Rev. Stanley Durkee officiated. They will reside at 15 Clifton Avenue after a brief western honeymoon.
An extreme high tide along Atlantic avenue drove thousands of rats from under the wharves onto the docks. They scattered onto Atlantic avenue frightening women riding trains and ferries. Cellars flooded and some damage occurred as fishermen killed many rats.
Halley's comet, nearing Earth for the first time since the 16th century, has been sighted at the Harvard Observatory. Astronomers are watching its progress. it remains visible only with a powerful telescope for now and grows brighter. Naked-eye visibility is not expected until early spring near perihelion.
New York report notes J Warren Keifer of Springfield Ohio former Speaker appeared in evening dress at the Knickerbocker Hotel luncheon and drew attention as regular hotel guests discuss adopting evening wear for afternoon use.
The coal barge West Virginia, en route from Newport News to Boston, ran aground at Pollock Rip Slue. It lost its rudder, began leaking, and sank at 9:45 p.m. one and a half miles south by west of the channel. Captain Willis Baker, his wife and daughter, and four crew members were rescued by the Murrill’s Captain J W Johnson and taken to Boston. The barge, owned by Eastern Coal Company of Providence, valued at $30,000, carried 2728 tons of coal.
The Massachusetts Board heard Chelsea and East Boston residents seek gas salesto their cities at 80 cents per thousand feet. Chelsea and East Boston gas companies contested current rates above one dollar. Attorney Thomas Hunt represented East Boston Gas Company at the hearing.
Senator Jonn G. Beck and representatives from Chelsea and East Boston urged a reexamination of gas rates. They argued Chelsea pays more than suburbs like Milton and Dorchester for gas from Everett, while profits and company structure were questioned. The board will study the matter and report in about two weeks.
The first monument to be erected in St Michael's cemetery of the Italian Catholic Cemetery Association will be dedicated Sunday at 2 30 PM on Walk Hill Street Forest Hills. The 27 foot shaft stands on Francesco Sessa's lot in memory of his son Vito Sessa a prominent young man of the North End.
Alderman John T. Brennan of Cambridge secured a nomination for Senator at the second Middlesex Democratic senatorial convention held at Brattle Hall last night.
The Boston and Maine railroad announced winter timetables to take effect next Monday at 12:05 a m. with expanded services on the western and Eastern divisions. Additional Dover to Lakeport trains and through Portland connections to Bangor and Conway branch vehicles are planned, alongside evening and late theatre trains on the Southern division.
Two cases from Greater Boston involve school girls who became unconscious after vaccination. Margaret Jaynes, 14, of Malden, has been unconscious since Saturday after receiving a vaccine two weeks earlier. Bertha Hudson, 5, of Brighton, also vaccinated two weeks ago, lapsed into a trance-like state three days later.
An advertisement touts Pape's Diapepsin as a fast acting cure for indigestion and stomach distress. It claims relief in five minutes, digestion of any meal, and elimination of sour belching gas and heartburn with a 50 cent case available at drug stores.
Cable advices from the State House report the departure of the Massachusetts nautical training ship Ranger from Gibraltar under Commander William F. Lowe bound for Funchal Madeira. She then proceeds to Bermuda on the final leg of the voyage home. All 105 cadets are reported well.
Newburyport Sept 30 Inspector George F Sams seized Reuben Malonson an escaped inmate from Danvers asylum after dawn while patrolling Storey avenue area amid a spate of burglaries and hen thefts near John D King and E C Byers homes. He had been confined five years from Gloucester.
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