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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1907
Page
2
The Pope excommunicated the authors of the reply to his encyclical on Modernism and ordered bishops to ban reading of the reply in their dioceses. The reply argued for adapting church teaching to the age and the right to discuss the Bible and other writings as human productions.
The Fur ness line steamer Tabasco docked at Mystic wharf from Fowey England with 3600 tons of china clay after a 16 day voyage marked by westerly gales and heavy seas. Captain J. E. Yeoman reported the ship left Fowey on October 14 and endured one of its roughest passages, with oil used to steady the seas.
A vintage advertisement promotes Stuart's Charcoal Lozenges as a remedy for bad breath and gas. It touts charcoal as an absorber and laxative, promises purer breath after meals, and offers a free sample by mail from A. Stuart Co in Marshall Michigan.
The 1908 Old Farmers Almanack features Robert B. Thomas and Benjamin Franklin on its covers and lists three solar eclipses January 3 June 28 and December 28 with June 28 visible in New England. Leap year February 29 prompts colder weather warnings while holidays land on weekends and snow is forecast well into mid March.
Dover New Hampshire Mayor M J White ordered city businesses closed for the funeral of Charles Gale Foster editor of the Daily Democrat who died last Sunday. The service at 2 pm was held at the Foster home with Rev Dr George E Hall officiating and many state newspaper men attended.
The body of Charles Johnson, 40, asphyxiated on Shawmut avenue, lies at City Hospital morgue as investigators seek relatives for J. M. Marston & Co. An elderly woman, Mary Walsh, 62, found dead at Union Park street lodging. authorities suspect missing relatives. Also reported: Mortimer Innis fined $10 for unlicensed driving. John Breen, 31, dies in police custody, alcoholism suspected. Cornelius De Boer, 24, brakeman, found on tracks near Crescent avenue station. burglary at E. W. Frost grocery on Beacon street. 15 burglaries in two weeks in Brookline.
Farmers in Worcester county unite to back Thomas On. Lawson in a campaign against Boston milk contractors. They forecast a victorious struggle leading to cheaper milk for consumers.
Mr Lawson denies wider involvement while acting as a backer for farmers in central Massachusetts. Farmers oppose Boston contractors, seek direct-to-consumer sales, and plan to withhold signing new contracts after Nov 1. A Producers' Association leads the effort with funding and a planned Worcester headquarters to distribute milk locally.
Parou hie Chendiquian an Armenian girl who stowed away on a grain steamer and reached Greece by bribing officers married last Thursday in New York City to Benjamin Hovaginian of New Haven. He is a photo-engraver who came from Armenia nine years ago leaving his fiancée to finish schooling at Adabazar.
In Vladivostok a naval clash erupted when mutinous crew of the torpedo boat destroyer Skory fought loyal forces aboard the Mandschur Garsovoz Smely and Serditz and a harbor fort. The Skory was beached after heavy fire and several officers were killed or wounded. The town was placed under siege with casualties on both sides.
Back Bay residents challenge the Boston Transit Commission over a proposed western entrance to the Riverbank subway on Commonwealth Avenue between Kenmore Street and Charlesgate West. They warn it breaches a 1856 agreement restricting vehicle traffic on the avenue’s walk and grass plots, and could disrupt the Fens waterway and raise neighborhood noise. The remonstrants pledge to oppose the plan to protect their area’s character and quiet.
The Retail Merchants of New England held their first annual convention at the New American House gathering merchants from Maine Vermont and New Hampshire to form a New England association for mutual aid. Elisha Winter in Boston outlined aims with D F Driscoll of Chelsea serving as toastmaster. State Treasurer George F Leland of Springfield Vermont George H Carter former Chelsea mayor and other officials spoke.
Catarrh is an inflammation of mucous membranes affecting head throat stomach bowels or bladder with head catarrh as the common form. The remedy Hood's Sarsaparilla is promoted as a constitutional purifying treatment that reaches mucous tissues and cures the condition, with customer testimonials and mail order options.
The two masted schooner Elmer E Gray ran aground off Fort Warren to avoid two coal barges. Tug James Woolley aided and towed her clear. Captain Enslow said the ship’s hull was not damaged. The Gray delivered 40 000 pounds of fish 35 000 haddock and 15 000 cod.
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