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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1908
Page
5
Fine materials and expert workmanship count as much in yarns as in any commodity. Fleisher Yarns offer tested skeins, guaranteed quality, and more yards per pound. Insist on the Fleisher trade mark. six cream white and six color Shetland Floss required for a scarf. Includes Pleisher's Knitting and Crochetin Manual with illustrated directions.
A powerful gale in the English Channel disrupts sea and shore activities. The British bark Amazon goes aground on Margate Sands with 32 crew aboard. six survive ashore, two rescued by life lines, the captain killed by a falling mast.
Telegraph dispatch reports Rev. Joseph M. Jerge S J of Boston College is gravely ill with life despaired of. He traveled to New Brunswick weeks ago seeking strength to resume duties at the Church of the Immaculate Conception on Harrison Avenue.
A Toledo parade drew about 4000 marchers as part of a civic program ahead of the Fort Meigs monument dedication in Perrysburg. Speakers included Senator Foraker Governor Harris and General Bennet H. Young. A Venetian Night river pageant featured torches, gunboats and searchlights on the Maumee River. The next G A R encampment is set for Salt Lake City.
Readers invited to submit a last line for a Tabasco limerick with name and address. Contest closes May 1 1909, prizes announced May 15, 1999. Open to all, funded by Geo W Young & Co Bankers, New York City.
The nearly finished bath house in North End Park will serve about 200 bathers at once and up to 8000 daily. The building allocates floors for male and female use plus a shared gym on the top. Construction has lasted over a year with a cost near $130,000.
Despondency over blindness and unrequited love prompted two men to attempt suicide at their lodgings. Dennis Leary, 45, and Percy Meyers, 24, were found by Miss Katherine Bellea at 524 Columbus avenue. Leary inhaled gas then slashed his wrist. Meyers used morphine and gas fumes. Leary is hospitalized. Meyers’ status unknown. Leary’s sister in Franklin was informed.
A second attempted break in within three weeks at John M. Longyear's Brookline 35 acre Fisher Hill estate was thwarted when the intruders fled as the Longyear steward confronted them with a revolver. Police view a former employee as a possible suspect amid reported interior knowledge of the house.
Mr Brown reported a man’s name and film description to police after a robbery. Chief Alonzo W Corey said Mr Longyear asked the force not to pursue the case, and the police claim no arrest was made. Longyear family absent, estate valued at 500000 dollars managed by a steward and two men.
City Treasurer Slattery released figures showing Mayor Hibbard reduced the payroll by 276 275 53 during the first eight months of his term compared with Mayor Fitzgeralds prior eight months. Hibbard payrolls reached 8 937 310 45 versus 8 613 585 98. August payroll dropped to 853 817 27 from 982 544 38 the year before, a 128 727 11 decline.
Atlantic City reports a stalled police inquiry into the Roberts shooting. Chief Woodruff says W S G Williams of Baltimore, husband of the woman present, has been eliminated and is not expected to shed light on the attack.
The chief indicated two weeks or more for developments. Roberts improves at City Hospital with strong recovery prospects. Police consider a possible robbery attempt on the two in a rolling chair, noting nothing was stolen. Mrs Williams' account of resistance may influence officials to discuss the hold up theory.
Potato bugs halted eight trolley cars carrying excursionists to Lake Compounce in Bristol Connecticut. Despite heavy bug siege the insects seized the rails until carmen could sand the tracks and clear the way.
Eastbound B and M freight No 222 from Greenfield to Boston derailed after crashing into an open switch near Waltham station. Engineer Matthew Henderson was killed, pinned in the cab as the locomotive and tender overturned and tore into the Boston Manufacturing Company building. Firemen and two brakemen escaped by jumping before the locomotive collapsed. The Watertown branch was blocked while crews cleared rails and a wrecking crew worked through the night. Henderson, about 45, single, lived with Thomas Bradenburg in Waltham and had 15 years with the railroad.
Moscow reports Count Tolstoi's doctors fear his illness will develop into pneumonia likely fatal for a man his age. They compare his condition to the late Pope Leo XIII's fatal illness.
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