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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1907
Page
2
A sensational confession links Antoine Thomas with the Cape of Orth theft valued at $120,000 from the Church of Ambazao near Limoges. He was arrested with his mother and sister on complicity charges.
Mrs Minnie Chadwick admits killing her husband at Atlanta a village 250 miles north of Detroit in a pine barrens. Officials believe the confession is a desperate ploy to protect her son amid the murder investigation.
Pittsburg reports that Percy Digby a law librarian of Allegheny county heard a friend urge him to write a will marry and then kill himself. Digby disappeared days later and his body was recovered from the Monongahela River.
Clinton Oklahoma, October 8. Frisco freight train No 312 wrecked when a Washita river bridge failed near town. The engine tender and 15 cars sank into quicksand and disappeared.
In Even Michigan on October 8 the nearby town of Gile is described as shedding its wild open era. Once a wide open community with outlaws and feuds, it will be remembered as a place where the last survivor remained after relentless fighting.
In Jasper Indiana the Saloonkeepers League votes to prohibit any member from selling whiskey at five cents a drink. The move aims to standardize pricing and curb undercutting within the association.
In Clinton Missouri Imogene Parks aged 2 died after swallowing a peanut that lodged in her windpipe. She coughed severely and the peanut was coughed up but then blocked her airway, causing death within minutes.
An advertisement touts Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets claiming they digest food, increase gastric juice, and prevent discomfort after meals. It promises a free sample by mail from FP A Stuart Co Marshall Michigan and suggests a 50 cent box after trial.
Luke W. Emerson owns a six year old mule described as the biggest Missouri mule. The animal stands 19% hands high and weighs 21609 pounds. It was raised in Platte County Missouri.
Ben R. Smith a Black patient at Kansas City General Hospital expressed his faith and fear of death before being baptized. He said he wanted full immersion rather than sprinkling and was baptized in a tub in the Negro ward.
In Jeffersonville, six month old Madison Dugan was playing with Leona Parker when the two and a half year old bit the baby's right wrist and hand. Dr. Han cock attended the infant as both children feared the incident despite Leona's claim she loved the baby and wished to eat it up.
Three cows sleeping on the Milwaukee road right of way near Sidnaw on the Ontonagon line caused the derailment of the night train between Houghton Michigan and Ontonagon. No injuries reported. Investigation underway by railroad authorities.
Milwaukee judge hears undisputed district court testimony detailing Frank Moraski forcing Clara aged 6 and Anna aged 4 to kneel on a cold floor in nightgowns for eight hours until exhausted. Moraski receives sentence of a fine and costs or seven months in the house of correction. He defends actions citing past punishment.
Boston announces a change in the position held by Miss Robson as she steps into a new role within the organization. No further details available in the fragment.
Eleanor Robson arrives next week to perform Salomy Jane in a Western heroine role unlike her prior city appearances. She has previously played Audrey Juliet and The Girl Who Has Everything, and this summer visited her mother Mrs.
Thomas claims after church and state separation law Paris antiquaries, some millionaires, hired him to bribe parish priests to surrender relics for counterfeit substitutes to be handed to the state. He says operations ran months, leading to wholesale burglary with $400000 in robberies. He says a share of the profit sold to an English antiquary for $10000 and that Paris antiquaries laundered plunder in England and America. Letters at his home allegedly show involvement with illegal activities against society women.
The trial of Lorenzo D. Perkins and Orrin I. Pray opened in Superior Criminal Court before Judge Aiken. Kane, a prisoner injured in a 1906 swim attempt, testified he was beaten and suspended by the two defendants, with Perkins choking and abusing him. Lieutenant Lee testified to post incident statements by Pray and Perkins.
Charles Dutton was tried in Municipal Criminal Court before Judge Ely on charges of taking a gas engine and fixings worth 250 to 300 dollars for Continental Export Company. The judge ruled insufficient evidence to bind the case over to the grand jury and discharged him.
A Boston era article questions why Wood Island Park in East Boston and other sparsely used parks stay lit all night. It quotes fear of wasteful electricity, notes empty streets at 2 am, and hints the Finance Commission may investigate after observing the bright arc lighting and possible city expense.
Madge Carr Cooke in London reports British audiences seek serious amusement and prefer to mull over plays while American successes rely on rapid novelty. Local color influences reception and Miss Robson notes patient managers could revive plays taken from English stages after short trial periods.
The R. S. Brine Transportation Company was found guilty in Cambridge District Court of hauling a load over 15 tons through Cambridge streets without a permit from the superintendent of streets. The case was continued for sentence today.
Osmo-Chemic Physicians at 18 Boylston Street offer a free month’s treatment including all medicine for patients applying by October 31. No charge for consultation or initial examination with X rays. The ad touts light as a healing source and highlights treatments for catarrh bronchitis and consumption.
Osmo-Chemic Physicians offer a month of free treatment and medicine for all patients who begin care by October 21 at their offices. The promotion, covering diseases of the head and chest, ends with withdrawal of the offer on October 31 at 8 PM.
Miss Frances Brooke of New York reports a wealthy Seattle man J P Graham sending daily roses from place to place. The anonymous donor has never spoken to her yet each bouquet hides costly trinkets including a diamond pin. She fears a nervous breakdown and seeks relief.
President Arthur T. Hadley of Yale and Mrs. Hadley embarked on the Kronprinz Wilhelm from New York on October 8 bound for Berlin. He will deliver the Roosevelt course on The Industrial Organization in the United States.
An effort to rescind the franchise of the Standard Oil Pipe Line crossing the Hudson and East rivers and Manhattan Island was made in the Board of Aldermen today. The line delivers oil from New Jersey refineries to Brooklyn and Long Island.
The Boston Clinic touts rapid cures for diseases ordinary doctors can’t treat. It cites an inhalatoria cabinet, X ray, Galvano Faradie, Nebulizer and other devices claiming to cure catarrh asthma bronchitis consumption blood diseases rheumatism skin and nerve issues. Free consultations are offered.
Stephen F. O'Hara of Middleboro, a grocer, won a nominal verdict of $1.02 in Superior Court for assault and imprisonment alleged in 1903. He had faced charges of transporting liquors into the town and was discharged after a hearing. O'Hara sought $5,000 from town officers in two suits claiming harm to reputation and business.
Mary Fanning died in the Tombs last Thursday morning. Reports say she lived at No 280 Shawmut Avenue but police and the Post cannot confirm the residence. Investigations continue to locate her true home.
An advertisement for LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine credits the Cold and Grip remedy with removing the cause of headaches and neuralgia. The ad urges readers to seek the full product name and look for the signature E. W. Grove, priced at 25e.
Horace M. Day, a Boston City Hospital graduate and nurse at 27 Gainsboro Street, testifies she recovered from partial facial and auditory nerve paralysis after seven treatments with Osmo-Chemic Physicians. She credits the care with restoring her hearing and endorses the system to skeptical patients.
In letters from patients and a superintendent, Osmo Chemic physicians are claimed to have cured cancer of the tongue stomach disease rheumatism and catarrh. The letters quote Rev D C Bixby of Haverhill Mass Superintendent Melville A Stone of Reading Mass and Real Estate Agent William O Connell of Boston Mass.
Adolph Fetter, 12, died after contact with a live wire during a storm in Camden New Jersey. A letter carrier who tried to aid him freed the boy by lifting a board but he burned badly and died within minutes.
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