11 Oct 1910
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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1910
Page
1
The Congregational Council now only deliberates and makes recommendations with no administrative power over the 6000 churches. The vital issue is whether the council will gain administrative authority over church societies and possibly meet annually rather than triennially to centralize church work.
Congregationalist delegates to the 14th triennial National Council were welcomed last night at Tremont Temple by Governor Draper Mayor Fitzgerald and the Rev A Z Conrad. Over 2000 attended as Thomas C. MacMillan opened the convention with the audience formally assembled on the platform included Draper Fitzgerald Rev A Z Conrad Rev Asher Anderson Frank Gaylor Cook and other clergy.
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City plans sketches and a Park Commission report on a Franklin Park zoological garden and a Marine Park aquarium. The starter zoo would house hardy outdoor animals and cost about 240000, with the Greeting backbone at 200000 and the aquarium building around 100000.
Reports from Rainy River Minnesota describe forest fires expanding and killing from 75 to over 100 people while thousands are homeless. Refugees flee toward Winnipeg as wildlife joins the fleeing mass and dramatic scenes unfold amid the blazing edge of the conflagration.
A split in the Democratic governor candidate committee persists after three days. Charles Hamlin and Congressman Eugene N. Foss were rejected. Hamlin backed by Mayor Crowley of Lowell and ex-Mayor Hayes of Springfield, while Macleod and Maynard opposed Hamlin. Foss faced the same division. Crowley and Hayes voted against him, while Macleod and Maynard supported Foss.
The committee showed a clearer rift as six Democratic leaders were nominated and rejected, delaying any session as members failed to reach a decision on a fifth member.
In Berlin during the last act of Carmen last night tenor Enrico Caruso received an accidental sword thrust to the knee. The injury is not considered serious and he continued .
Philadelphia Oct 10 Robert E Lindsay former engineer in U S government committed death by own action by inhaling illuminating gas according to friends.
The forecast for Boston and vicinity calls for fair skies on Tuesday and Wednesday with warmer temperatures. Winds will be light and westerly, diminishing along the New England coast, turning variable Tuesday night and Wednesday. Mariners leaving Tuesday for European ports can expect moderate northwest winds and fair conditions to the Grand Banks.
A garbled OCR fragment mentions temperatures and a Thompson's Spa item with numbers like 710 and 66. The readable data notes yesterday’s average temperature of 50 and a year ago reading of 63, with stray figures such as 45 and 20-24 interspersed.
National sports brief covers St Louis loss to Chicago 15 7 Philadelphia win New York 2. Mentions investigation by Johnson bars future prizes for batting. Harvard holds secret signal drill. Vikle makes squad. Joan wins Transylvania stake at Lexington. Night tails meet at a pens. Rival elders left in rough comparison.
Director Henry Russell in Boston on his return declares he runs an opera house to place Boston atop the world stage. He dismisses concerns about Cavalieri's marriage, insisting she can sing, and says a Boston petition could bar her from performing.
For the first time critics take aim at the president over his stance on swamp land policy in Arkansas. Officials and observers debate the administration's approach and potential implications for land use.
Director Russell returns to Boston amid a warm crowd pledging a bold aim to craft homegrown opera stars. He touts Andre Caplet as conductor and Cavalieri as a leading soprano, promising high production values and a schedule opening with Mefistofele, Rigoletto, Otello, and Tosca with acclaimed cast names in a bid to make Boston’s opera scene unique.
At 173 Summer Street near Dewey Square blue and green flames roared from a fifth story blaze in the Hub Engraving Company offices. Firemen on ladders fled the noxious fumes as the blaze triggered three alarms and nearly leveled the engraving plant in the congested district.
A passerby spotted flames bursting from a five story structure and alerted authorities. Firefighters battled evolving inferno as tongues of fire shot from the roof and upper windows. Due to spread risk to the eight story Gahm building and South Street, multiple alarms were set. Aerial trucks 14 and 18 attacked from the ground, as crews worked to control chemicals inside the engraving shop. No injuries reported amid narrow escapes as tops of ladders burned away.
Theodore Roosevelt told Atlanta officials and a reception committee that he would run for the Presidency if he could care in a single Southern state. The remark came during a stop that included Mayor Maddox and other city leaders.
In Hot Springs, Arkansas, Roosevelt declared support for federal aid to reclaim Mississippi Valley swamps. He contrasted with Taft who, in St Paul on September 6, favored state responsibility and opposed federal action.
At the Arkansas State Fair Colonel Roosevelt, thanked by Governor Donaghey and others for federal aid in reclamation, argued swamp drainage is inter state work requiring national support. He framed New Nationalism as applying old morals to new conditions, stressing farm welfare and conservation for future generations.
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