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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1907
Page
4
Misses' suits arriving from our factory will be offered in three special lots this Saturday. Each lot features 14 to 20 year sizes with detailed tailoring and materials including broadcloth, serges, and cheviots. Prices range from $16.50 to $24.50 per suit. These suits are exceptional values.
Thomas Edison told the American Electro Chemical Society he solved building a three story house in 12 hours costing 1000 dollars. He showed a full size model 25 by 45 feet, fireproof and indestructible, cast in iron moulds with stairs and bathtub included. He predicted identical houses from one mould and plans to build the first next summer for three families.
A plan to tell a deluded patient at McLean Asylum that actor Richard Mansfield is dead is proposed to restore her sanity. Six years earlier a Boston box at a Mansfield performance drove a young woman to madness, with alienists debating the method’s effectiveness and risks. In New York, William G. Rockefeller testified in the Standard Oil dissolution case about large surplus loans and pipeline affairs, including the Manhattan Oil Company sale to London interests.
Mary Be Anthony, 50, of Cazenove Street South End and worker for the M S P C A Society, was run down on the Dartmouth Street Bridge by a car from a South End garage. She suffered skull fracture brain concussion and scalp injuries and was taken to City Hospital where doctors say recovery is unlikely. Chauffeur Alfred R Ambler of Warren Street Brookline surrendered to police and is held pending results of her condition.
Assistant District Attorney Philip J. Doherty resigns from the district attorney's office. He will tender his resignation to Mr. Moran in the morning. Isaac Isaacs, currently indictment clerk, is expected to succeed him as Moran's assistant. Doherty cites need to resume private practice due to business pressures.
The new Webster Hall auditorium at Dartmouth was dedicated tonight with over 2000 students and alumni present. President William J. Tucker and Melvin C. Adams presided during Dartmouth night ceremonies honoring Daniel Webster, the hall's namesake and refounder.
Worcester report says Mrs. Lucy B. Whitney of 29 Pleasant Street kept a runaway horse under control during a rush hour incident in front of City Hall. She leaped from the carriage after throwing the horse and pinned it by the head until aid arrived.
A circulating home remedy claims ease for rheumatism and kidney bladder issues. The recipe uses fluid extract dandelion compound Karyon and compound syrup of sarsaparilla with dosing after meals and at night. Dandelion aids stomach liver, sarsaparilla cleans blood, and a local druggist deems it safe to use.
John P. Foye, formerly of Boston, died in Seattle on October 18. He had lived in the West as Farney since 1899 after fleeing Boston to escape an indictment tied to the Scoulin steaming fraud case.
Foye, once a Boston city wire department electrical inspector, traveled to Seattle in 1898 to study mining properties then returned. He faced bribery accusations in the Scollans trial but fled west before indictment, later resisted extradition and vanished after a planned return to Massachusetts.
At Madison Square Garden on October 18, Rose L. Fritz, blindfolded, wrote 97 words per minute for 30 minutes on an Underwood typewriter breaking all existing records after winning the world speed championship the night before.
Funeral services for Charles A. Allen 53 a South Weymouth business agent for Photo Engravers Union 43 were conducted at his home 164 Randolph Street Reverend H W Kimball officiated Relatives and union officials attended and a large floral tribute was sent He is survived by his widow and aged mother Interment followed at Mt Hope Cemetery Boston The article also notes a separate ad about a smokeless coal invention and Maine Eye Tonicado appears as an unrelated closing line.
In Providence Rhode Island on October 18 the United Textile Workers voted to urge the executive council to call an immediate strike at a nearby city mill. The action targets thousands of workers unless a woman delegate with five years at the mill is reinstated after being fired for leaving her bench to attend the convention.
The G G A splits from the city Republican machine over mayoral plans. Dr Morton Prince is rejected by the G G A but candidates Hibbard and Tinkham are offered by the party and declined. Innes accepts a possible nomination with the ward 10 machine influence shaping the field and Mayor Fitzgerald eyeing Innes as a top rival.
The Finance Commission cannot decide which City Hall department to probe next. It reports only minor discrepancies across departments with no sensational graft findings. It declines Mayor's request to summon Senator Lodge due to graft charges from a Republican convention speech.
Chicago on October 18 reports Catherine Coggin, secretary of the Teachers' Federation, says men fear to marry teachers because they have ruled imperiously and will not brook dictation from husbands.
Taunton police stopped John Fitzpatrick walking with a dress suit case along Providence Street. Inside and on his person they found a little Angora goat eight live chickens eight dead chickens and he admitted robbing Seekonk farms. He was sentenced to six months in the House of Correction.
Frank Mason, a former switchman, won 18 250 in the Bay Circuit against the Michigan Central railway after a foot injury at a frog left him with one leg lost and the other crippled. He sought 25 000 in damages.
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