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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1910
Page
4
In Newburgh on September 4, Charles Willard Yongs home was closed for a family outing. A yellow hammer bird flew down the chimney and struck a curtain, loosening the roller spring. Constable Muckenhoupt and onlookers watched the bird’s release after the attempted “burglary” was solved.
In the San Bernardino Mountains Professor J. Williams and Evangelist T. Evans with a party found twelve rattlesnakes sleeping by a pool. One snake seized a trout from the pool and later four snakes were shot. The large snake swallowed fish then released it back to the pool.
A Boston meeting brings six renowned clairvoyants and psychics to attempt communication with the spirit of Harvard psychologist William James. The event, at M. S. Ayers residence, includes the Ayer Temple band and other mediums, aiming to test organized science’s reach into the disembodied.
Portsmouth N H Sept 4 After spending over 50000 on a ship brake to slow war vessels at sea the navy inspection board finds the equipment unfavorable and the chief constructor calls the invention of no value The Indiana the only ship fitted is on a European trip and will be sent to the Philadelphia yard on return to have the brake removed The government will bear no installation or removal costs
A humorous verse by Walt Mason laments heat and thirst for snow and cold. The speaker asks Auntie to bring frost and ice, recalling past winters while describing being exhausted by the heat and sun. The piece ends with a plea to put him on ice.
A Dorchester district photo by a Post photographer prompts driver identification to win five dollars. The driver Joseph H. Egan of South Boston identified the team from Murphy and Driscoll at Purchase and Oliver streets. The horse is named Nigger, the Black Diamond. The Post plans daily pictures and a full-page feature in Sunday's issue.
William L. Douglas defeated John L. Bates for the governorship and served from 190 to 1906. Born August 22, 1845, in Plymouth, his schooling was limited and he learned shoemaking. He built a large Brockton shoe business with two Brockton factories and 70 stores, was a Democrat, served in the State House and Senate, and was Brockton mayor in 1891. He declined renomination in 1905 and was active in banking and transit.
On the first Sunday of the month many ministers from Boston denominations returned to their pulpits after summer layoff. Reverends Herbert S. Johnson George W. King James A. Francis George W. Ging Allan A. Stockdale and numerous others resumed duties at their churches across the city.
Alexander Pottie of Boston, recently discharged from Lawrence Hospital after a fracture of the seventh cervical vertebra, is in Worcester. He was injured July 10 when a car with four companions struck a tree, was hurled 50 feet, and initially thought dead. He plans to return to Boston as strength returns.
The Nahant line steamer General Lincoln became disabled at the Nahant wharf when the crank pin key broke. The Mercury towboat towed the crippled vessel to Bertelsen and Petersen's yard East Boston for repairs, with service expected to resume this morning.
Colonel Roosevelt set his own date for a Massachusetts appearance on October 21 in Boston Thea tre to aid his friend Senator Henry Cabot Lodge. Ex Governor John J Bates will preside at the Republican Club of Massachusetts event.
J Lewis Hutchinson longtime partner in Barnum Bailey Hutchinson died of heart failure at his summer residence on Shelter Island early yesterday morning.
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