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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1911
Page
6
The National Reform Convention, under the National Reform Association, gathers at Park Street Church with morning, afternoon, and evening sessions. Speakers include noted pastors addressing national religious regeneration and topics such as the nation's morality, purity, and the omission of Christ's name from the Thanksgiving Proclamation.
Mrs Allison McFarland died after taking cyanide from a bottle substituted by her husband, Crocker Wheeler ad man. Police suspect another woman may be involved. Philadelphia contacts and letters found in the desk are under review. McFarland remains in Essex County jail pending grand jury action. Diffculties described in preparing the body for shipment to Maine.
A Middletown NY paper shares a village obituary for Sam Tobeell describing him as a fighting troublemaker who grew worse with alcohol and crime. It condemns his “viper” reputation while noting his death comes as cold seasons begin and remarks on his life in jail and his final luck.
In Yarmouth on Main Street near the post office a bicycle rider was struck and killed by an auto. The victim was 11 year old Fred Howes of Dennis. The incident prompted aid and an investigation, with details unclear due to damaged OCR text.
A young woman named Abbie Moulton, arrested by Detective Sergeant Irwin on a $100 theft charge, refused to name family or provide Maine connections. She claimed noble Maine lineage and a musician study stay, while detectives traced stolen clothes and jewelry through a Columbus avenue friend, Miss Minnie True.
Information from Boston reports the Holland liner Stoter dyke bound for Boston and Philadelphia is in a disabled state about 800 miles off Ireland. Sighted by the North German steamer Kaiserin Auguste Victoria at latitude 60.15 N, longitude 16 W, with a broken crank shaft. The Broterdyk left Rotterdam Oct 18 for Boston and Philadelphia.
Mrs Mildred Irma Keefe was arrested on a murder warrant for her three year old son Martin Howard Keefe who drowned at a mill pond in Bath Maine last Friday. Deputy Ballou and her statements led to the arrest. Jurors visited the scene and Mrs Keefe described how she followed the child to the pond but could not stop him. Witnesses placed her on nearby roads and in the vicinity of the pond.
In a quirky exchange Mr White confronts Mr Black about dyspepsia. White extols Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets claiming quick digestion relief and energy, noting the pills cost 50 cents a package and can be mailed to customers.
Mrs Elizabeth Worth Muller first Sullivan county woman licensed to shoot a deer. She shot the buck at dawn near Monticello but the animal charged again. She escaped by leaping behind saplings as her guide fired from a distance and the buck fled.
Two boys aged 14 and 13 were arrested by American District Telegraph Company officers after alarm calls at W. J. & D. Lyons liquor store opposite South Station on Atlantic avenue. They reportedly climbed a six foot iron gate. deemed delinquent children and released to parents after booking at Lagrange Street station.
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