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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1909
Page
10
Market review notes a subdued week with rallies and declines, highlighting sentiment as the main driver. A single security jumped nearly ten million in five hours due to health rumors surrounding a key figure, then retraced when rumors cooled. It argues professional traders control the swings and warns small traders face risk amid narrow expected price movements.
Cincinnati dispatch reports W Kelsey Schoepf breeds and tends a $75,000 herd of jerseys at a Glendale Ohio farm. Cows receive three daily tooth brushings to improve health and milk yield, with two gallons produced per day during trial. Breeding and butter samples linked to Philadelphia contacts.
In Lisbon on September 5 a heated debate in Parliament discussed royal debts to the state dating back to Queen Maria Pia era under King Peter V and two successors. The royal family reportedly borrowed nearly five million dollars, and the state aims to collect the sum.
North Adams opens its old home week with streets decked in bunting lights and flags. About 1200 children perform at a monster concert at the State Normal School grounds while 16 engine and nine hose companies enter a firemen’s muster with $1000 in prizes. Five thousand visitors are in town and up to 60,000 are expected. Governor Draper and staff planned to attend the Hoosac Valley Agricultural Fair and speak Thursday.
Plymouth silent service on Burial Hill marks opening of the General Society of Mayflower Descendants fifth Triennial Congress. Delegates from across the country attend readings, meetings at First Church, a reception and banquet, then excursions to nearby historic spots.
Three women officers of the immigration bureau who boarded incoming steamships for six years to inspect women passengers in the first and second cabins have been withdrawn by Commissioner Williams. Mrs. Jennie J. Mooney will transfer to the Census Bureau in Washington, Mrs. A. Salisbury and Mrs. S. A. Watters to Ellis Island as matrons. They will keep their salaries.
Yesterday's port arrivals saw three swordfishermen ships with 78 total tons and a 35,000 pound trip of handock cod hake and pollock aboard the Joseph H Cromwell. A trawler fleet is expected to begin business tomorrow morning as swordfishing winds down and haddock fishing resumes with optimism for Labor Day crowds.
Mrs Tucia Ames Mead, wife of Edwin D. Mead, a prominent suffragette and peace advocate, greeted Explorer Cook on his Copenhagen return from the North Pole. Abroad for a peace congress, she is renowned in Hartford society and noted for world wide peace work and lectures.
Shipping notices list incoming vessels and sailings with dates and ports. Captains named include Marquette, Sachem, Powhatan, Prince Arthur, Toward, Governor Cobb, Yale, and others from Britain, Canada, and the U.S. along routes to Liverpool, Fowey, Yar mouth, St. John, and New York.
Boston Italians prepare lavish entertainment for officers and sailors of the Italian cruiser Etna arriving soon. Etna will represent Italy at the Hudson Fulton celebration in New York. The ship now lies at Providence and will visit ports with large Italian communities before sailing home.
Do, Bunker Hill, Healy, do, Belfast, Curtis, Bangor, City of Rockland, Blair, Bath, Governor Dingley, Strout, Port land, City of Gloucester, Ober, Glouces ter, Mass. Cape Ann, Godfrey, do. tugs Cumberland, Svendsen, Baltimore, towing barges Nos. 17 and 21, Lenape, Calhoun, Philadelphia, towing barges Ham mond for Newburyport, Paxtang for Salem and Tamanend, bark Pestalozzi Nov. Forsdal, Christiania, Norway, July 20, schooner Mercedes Br., Henshaw, Clementsport, N. 8. SAILED. Steamers Prince George Br., Yarmouth, N. S., Yale, New York, tug Lenape, towing barges Paxtang from Philadelphia, Salem, and Hammond from do., Newburyport. Ready: Schooners Benjamin F. Poole for Jacksonville, William T. Donnell for Sullivan Me. and New York.
Charles W Johnson of Campton New Hampshire aged 94, born April 15 1815, a lifelong farmer who still works on his farm and drives a lively horse. He joined the Free Will Baptist Church early, never used liquor or tobacco, credits plain living temperance and hard work for his long life. He married twice, first to Hannah Warner of Thornton with three living children, second to Eliza A Taylor.
Moses Carr of Sangerville Maine died at age 99. Born April 22 1810 in Vienna he left home at 16 to farm, later buying land in Sangerville. He helped haul lumber supplies between Bangor and Moosehead Lake and was an owner in Sangerville Woolen and Carleton Mills. He blamed longevity on ancestry and kept good health until recently. He never used tobacco or liquor except as medicine and is survived by a great great grandson aged two.
Andrew T. Jones of Ashland Massachusetts born May 19 1810 in Framingham area now Ashland lived there almost all his life except 18 months. A lifelong temperance advocate he never used tobacco or liquor. He remained active and mentally sharp in old age. He had six children, three surviving. He attributed his longevity to abstinence from intoxicants and sturdy ancestry.
Ashley Hastings Wood of West Boylston Mass aged 90, born in Boylston, long served the town as constable for 35 years and as selectman and assessor. A Civil War veteran with nine months service in the Forty second Massachusetts, he later raised market produce and led a temperate, active life until retirement.
Miss Evelyn May Converse of Wisconsin became the model for a Buckingham Palace mural by Edwin R. Abbey. The artist waited two years to find the right body for Queen Alexandra's portrait, which now hangs on a conspicuous wall.
Lawrence Fahey, 2, living at 18 Dexter Street South Boston, was left near the ticket office while his father bought a Waltham ticket. A stranger lifted the boy and put him on a Providence bound train. The boy was later found wandering at Providence station and returned to Boston. Police could not trace the kidnapper.
The Germantown Citizens Association met yesterday and voted to endorse Plan 1 of Boston's city charter. It also went on record supporting the federal income tax amendment.
North Scituate residents rally after a Cliff House raid. The town had voted no license a year ago, with constable Supple repeatedly failing to raid the hotel until now. William Young of Boston faces arraignment in Hingham District Court tomorrow as Sheriff Turner notes this is Scituate’s first raid in a decade.
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