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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1909
Page
3
Mrs Sophie Wetterline of Cambridge produced a single tomato in her kitchen garden that is big enough to make a whole meal. It measured 15 inches around and weighed about a pound. The Weatherlines, both proud of their plot, brought the monster into the Post yesterday.
Fourteen Pittsfield young ladies formed a necklace circle for engaged or married members with beads marked by initials and year. Miss Marian Campbell Plunkett receives the latest bead as her engagement to Samuel Rockwell is announced. The group meets at the Country Club with a ceremonial grave stone at the unmarried end and a dinner, while the married members sit together at the opposite end.
In Charlestown Patrolman Arthur H. Barker quits the Bunker Hill police after 14 years and vanishes. Jennie Coonan, 35, a well known Charlestown resident who worked on Main Street, also disappears from Baldwin Street. Mrs Barker suspects only coincidence while the Post notes no known link between the two absences.
The Post Office Department awarded a four year postal card supply contract for 3 487 000 000 cards starting 1910 to the government printing office with a bid of 934 717 9 percent. Oxford Paper Company of Rumford Falls Maine was the second bidder, and the decision may close the Maine plant.
Rockland Me Aug 31 The torpedo boat destroyer Flusser achieved 22? knots an hour in an unofficial builders trial with only two of four boilers active. Officials expect the contract speed of 28 knots to be surpassed in tomorrow's standardization trial.
Off Quiberon during gunnery practice the French armored cruiser Gloire misfired sending six shells toward the cruiser Marseillaise. One shell penetrated the hull and exploded inside but no injuries occurred as crew were elsewhere aboard the ship.
A lone robber stopped a Pennsylvania express train near Lewistown Narrows and forced the crew to hand over coin and bullion. He shot the conductor in the hand when challenged and escaped, mistaking a bag of Lincoln pennies for gold coins thus leaving spoils of bullion behind for railroad workers to recover.
A masked bandit halted a Lewistown section train at 1:50 a.m. near the Juniata gorge and seized gold and bullion from the first express car. Detectives and bloodhounds swarm the scene as railroad and Adams Express officials set up headquarters to pursue the robber, who escaped with valuables after threatening dynamite.
Paymaster William H. Dougherty of the battleship Missouri returns to duty after two week leave overstay. He arrives with a woman described as his wife, provoking shock among officers. Dougherty heads for a hearing at Hampton Roads after practice off Cape Cod, while the ship remains restricted.
A Saturday noon wedding at the McDonald cottage Magnolia unites Mrs. Carroll Livingston of New York with Lt Commander B B McCormick of the Mississippi. Naval officers and New York Boston society figures attend with a lavish silver service gift and a reception to follow on the North Shore.
Barnstable Agricultural Society opens a three day cattle show and fair with over 10000 attendees. Events include baseball, balloon ascensions, poultry cattle and horse exhibits and a first 24 hour butter contest. Athletic results list multiple dashes jumps and throws with Brookline Amherst and South Boston clubs prominent. Officials include President Dr G Bacon and secretaries and treasurers.
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts traveled by a special tug to meet the Kronprin Wilhelm in New York Bay. His son Justin, summoned from Europe, returned for the funeral of his brother George at the Lodge summer home.
The North American Civic League for Immigrants and the Travellers' Aid Society report substantial help from Charles Kaufman, Cunard line agent, in investigating alleged immigrant robberies tied to transatlantic steamship lines. He provided investigators with details and offered timely guidance to newcomers to avoid pitfalls.
Coleman Hogan aged 18 of Offorrison Avenue was taken to City Hospital after a dispute on Ruggles Street near Washington Street Roxbury. He suffered a slight concussion of the brain when he fell and struck his head on the sidewalk during the altercation.
Report from Constantinople says Imperial yacht Standart with Emperor Nicholas aboard passed the Dardanelles en route to Crimea.
Explosion of a gasoline tank on a speeding auto near Magnolia sent Harry Hooper and a companion flying over a fence into a field. The $2000 car burned, Hooper and his friend escaped with bruises as bystanders watched the scene unfold near Rockport.
The wedding of Miss Margaret M Kane sister of former Representative Daniel J Kane to Senator James Mellen democratic leader of Charlestown district took place at 8 am at St Marys Church Charlestown. They will depart at 1 pm for New York for a two week honeymoon.
Paris August 31 Samuel Gompers president of the American Federation of Labor was barred from participating as the conference voted to discuss only proposals from organizations affiliated with it The AFL not affiliated with European unions cannot argue their adoption The afternoon session heatedly debated a French General Federation of Labor plan to broaden the congress powers席
President Taft defeated his Secretary of State, Mr. Knox, on the links of the Myopia Club in Beverly this morning. A brief call this afternoon from George H. Doty and Charles B. Groves of the Massachusetts State Republican committee referenced the social nature of matters, noting few federal patronage items pending in the state.
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