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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1909
Page
7
Advertises infant and child bonnets and hats in silk crepe de chine broadcloth and felt. Items feature trim with flowers lace ribbons and embroidery. Prices range from 1.25 to 12.75 for bonnets and 1.75 to 10.75 for hats, with imported beaver felt and broadcloth models noted.
Typhoid fever claims four lives and 52 cases rise in Allston and Brighton. Victims include two children on Alcott street a man and a girl from the main Boston telephone exchange on Milk street. Officials attribute outbreak to recuperation lapses rather than the milk supply. Investigators will visit Allston as the Board of Health seeks causes and safeguards.
Buffalo, Oct 4 Kyrle Bellew the actor in town to star in The Builder of Brides at Star Theatre suffered a violent nasal hemorrhage early today. He fainted from blood loss and remains very weak. doctors say he will likely miss several days of the engagement.
Albert T. Whiting of Boston filed a Suffolk probate claim, leaving 38000 to High Street Cemetery Association in South Hingham. His siblings receive life interest on 17000 each, to later pass to the cemetery. Other bequests include 4000 to the association and 5000 to Home for Aged Couples, with several schools and churches each at 1000, memorial windows funded. George Whiting and Charles B. Barnes Jr. serve as executors and trustees.
The trade school for girls occupying 618 and 620 Massachusetts Avenue is so crowded that an addition to the school may be needed. After city control the school became highly popular and the fall term opened with a great crowd testing the capacity of the two houses. If growth continues as expected, larger accommodations will be required.
The annual dancing party of the Knights of St. John the Baptist is scheduled for Friday evening October 1 at Whiton Hall.
Alice Clark aged 14 from 10 Williams street disappeared a week ago and was found married today to Alec Theodora 93, ex Boston mill worker now in Fall River. Father Thomas Clark plans to seek a warrant for abducting and may seek annulment on age grounds. Halloween party ideas and designs follow in next Sunday's Post.
A runaway force attached to an express train caused a small panic among several hundred women in Harvard Square early last night. It entered the square from Garden Street and dashed into the forward part of an outbound Arlington Heights car filled with home com...
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