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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1905
Page
10
Esther Susan of East Boston married Joseph A. Farnsworth a prominent Boston labor figure. Their romance began in school and rekindled after he saved her from drowning at Bar Harbor. The couple wed yesterday under joyous, hopeful auspices.
Miss Susan and Mr. Farnsworth wed at the Portuguese Mission Church under Rev Father Perry. The reception at 142 Trenton Street followed, with family and friends offering congratulations. The couple plan to live at 142 Trenton Street in East Boston after a Maine lakes trip.
Alfred Goyette claims Rev. Alfred Langevin refused to christen his son Theodore Roosevelt Goyotte for $2 at St. Joseph's Church on Wall Street. The rector allegedly tore up the baptism slip after being offered the small fee, prompting a confrontation with the French American family and others present. Langevin declined to comment when approached.
Two new yellow fever cases were found in Pensacola on September 8, Miss Brent and John Humphreys remain in the original infection area. State health officers sealed off the city to prevent spread to other towns as the crisis was expected to peak later in the week.
The yellow fever report from New Orleans lists 29 new cases today and 3 deaths, with total cases reaching 2024 and 287 deaths to date. Eleven new disease centres opened today. 305 cases remain under treatment and 1432 have been discharged.
The Atlanta Board of Health refused to impose quarantines on yellow fever infected points. It adopted resolutions affirming faith in Atlanta's climate and its claim of never having a death from yellow fever nor a case originating there.
Thomas Moore a 17 year old of 205 Endicott Street walked into Relief Hospital last night after being pushed from a curb by companions while fooling around on the sidewalk. Doctors report a serious skull fracture and he was placed in bed for treatment.
A new clue from a child prompts plans for a large search of a still unsearched area for Mrs. Merrick who vanished from her Kingston area farm home 11 days ago. One hundred men with bird dogs to comb the countryside at dawn. clairvoyants offer varied theories as families debate fate.
John Prendergast of Thomas W. Lawson's Dreamwold farm alleges pickpockets robbed him of $10 in a Beach Street hotel dining room. He grappled a suspect who escaped after taunting for more. Patrolman Butler investigated but found no culprits.
Herbert Bishop, 38, visited his father at 56 Friend Street in Lynn. When refused entry, the son shattered window panes with an umbrella. The father fired two blank shots from a revolver to frighten him away. The son was charged with malicious mischief.
A west bound Atchison Topeka Santa Fe train derailed one mile east of Boone Colorado injuring about a dozen people. None of the injuries are serious.
St Petersburg dispatch reports that 1000 sailors involved in mutinous disorders at Libau and in the Black Sea will be transferred to the army and sent to the far east to serve in the occupation forces.
In Littleton at dawn the burned Millard house ruins yielded the charred bodies of Mrs. Mary Ninds Lydia Ninds and Mrs. Eunice Knox. The proximity of Knox and Lydia suggests Knox left her room to awaken and save the Ninds girl during the fire.
The fire killed Mrs Knox and Mrs Ninds and fatally burned Rev Mr Ninds as the Millard house burned. Neighbors and the Rev Mr Enslin tried to rescue inmates while a bucket brigade formed to fight the flames. The town seeks fire apparatus as risk of further blazes grows.
Mr and Mrs J Conrad Etter of 484 Beach Street Roslindale mark six decades of marriage. Mr Etter 86 and his wife 84 born in Switzerland married there in 1845. Etter silk weaver by trade emigrated 1853 later ran a newspaper route in Dedham and Rhode Island. Their family includes 11 grandchildren three great grandchildren and one grand niece.
Concord and Fall River prepare to play a post season series with Holyoke and the Connecticut league leaders. Dates are unsettled but four team managers have agreed to the plan.
Put In Bay Ohio September 38 It required 78 votes in the Royal Arcanum gathered here to repeal the new rates but there were only 88. The affirmative votes were Massachusetts 5 New Jersey 2 Indiana 2 New York 14 Ohio 8 Pennsylvania 3 Ontario 2 Georgia 1 Maritime Provinces 1 North Carolina 1 Connecticut 1 Quebec 1 Tennessee 1 Iowa 1 No meeting was held today likely final session tomorrow when repeal propositions B C and D will be reported upon. Protesting delegates would not be quoted until reporting to committees. The opposition to the new rates is milder than earlier, but protest remains over lack of prior notice.
A three acre field in Northboro owned by Joseph L. Moore on South street displays over 30 000 gladioli and 10 000 dahlias. More than 1000 gladioli varieties and hundreds of dahlia kinds fill the plots in all sizes and colors attracting artists and visitors seeking photographic scenes.
Public bene factors praise the Boyle Bros charity within their credit clothing business. They help customers with sympathy and leniency, choosing to aid those in need despite limited means. The note notes extended assistance and mentions hours: open Monday and Saturday evenings.
President Roosevelt plans a quiet Sagamore Hill vacation with minimal visitors and no nonessential business. He spent the day at Sagamore Hill with Mrs Roosevelt and children amid a wind and rain storm, attending church and returning home by carriage. Representative Wadsworth and Mrs Wadsworth were house guests during the trip.
Burnside Winslow formerly of Yale baseball saved Buckingham Merriman son of W B Merriman of Waterbury from drowning at Madison Conn. Merriman was pulled from strong undertow and brought to shore exhausted after a bathing incident.
At the September meeting in Providence Rhode Island the National Duck Pin Association adopted a standard pin measuring 17 16 across the bottom, 9 inches high and 8 1 2 inches thick at the thickest point 2 12 inches from the bottom. A bid to abolish the lob line failed to gain approval.
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