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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1912
Page
4
Internal revenue officers from Boston found a full blast moonshine still in a lonely Plymouth county farmhouse cellar four miles outside Lakeville while tracing illicit spirits sold in the North and West Ends.
Max and Reuben Gobet, former End residents with wives and nine children, were arrested and brought to Boston to face a charge of operating and directing an illicit still. Accompanied by Internal Revenue Agent Amen and deputies Bancroft Carter and Carpenter, authorities recovered a still and six gallons of colorless molasses brandy. Two stills were found in the farmhouse.
Fifty feet of the old Cushing wharf collapsed into the Merrimac River just after midnight. The granite blocks and timbers sank the structure and a power boat was destroyed. Police search for fishermen missing and possible deaths in the debris.
Fred Theise of Theise Manufacturing Company 174 176 Commercial Street claims firemen did not find blocked stairs after a Sunday night blaze. He says the foreman should have cleared reed and willow waste after each day’s work. The fire, found at 8 pm, caused over 6000 dollars in damage with partial insurance coverage.
The Quincy Nurses' Home funded by Henry M Faxon will be dedicated next week along with new operating wards. The brick colonial building near the hospital entrance provides a true home for nurses, cost $25,000, and will offer rest and social space. Head nurse Miss Blanche M Thayer has served 22 years, with assistants Annie W Youngquist Elizabeth DeWolfe Florence A Hanscom Mary A Walsh Katherine C Black and Nora H Nielson.
405 Atlantic children stay home as the grammar school roof is feared to collapse under 10 tons of plaster iron and slate. The School Board chair John L Miller and City Council President Hobbs seek fault at a Monday night meeting. Inspector Parker warns the building is unsafe while a contractor adds structural steel to reinforce the roof.
E. C. Mansfield of Boston was elected third vice president of the Postmasters Association at its 15th annual convention in Atlantic City on September 6.
One fireman died and several train crew were injured when a heavy freight crashed into a switching engine on the Rutland railroad Bennington branch in thick fog. Victim was Harry B. Miller of Rutland. others hurt included W. W. Andrews Castekton Corners C. A. Squires and Frank Snow of Rutland and G. E. Rawson. The wreck tore roadbed and delayed service. the sleeper Montreal to New York was redirected via Delaware and Hudson.
Seventy five veterans of the Thirty ninth Massachusetts regiment gathered at the Somerville State armory to mark the fiftieth anniversary of their departure for the Civil War front. General Charles L. Pierson, who led the regiment from July 11, 1864, was greeted with applause as he entered.
An advertisement claims Adamson's Balsam quickly eases a rasping graveyard cough and assures a sure cure with no side details or warnings.
Skipper Joseph Gillotia of the Gaspare says he fought a shark after it attacked his dory at T wharf. He plunged his knife into the shark’s right eye, wrestled it for over half an hour, and returned with the eye as “proof” of the kill.
Harry H. Todd and Tony Belany were arrested after attempting to rob four young women on Shawmut Avenue. The victims Jennie and Julia Cohen and Mollie and Mary Bleet were returning from a dance when Todd grabbed at Jennie Cohen’s bag and watch. Officer Fitzgerald pursued the pair to Dover Street and took them into custody. Todd is known to East Dedham Street police.
Walter Holland a 21 year old furniture team driver from Watertown died at the Boston & Maine station when he during his noon break tried to board the 12:55 train to Boston fell under the wheels. He was employed by Luther Bent & Co and was missing his hold when the incident occurred.
Miss Margaret Sigourney Smith daughter of Rev. Roland Cotton Smith and Guy Emerson son of Dr. Nathaniel Waldon Emerson announce their engagement. Smith, a Washington resident with North Shore ties at Ipswich Cottonfield, is connected to Otis and Woods families. Emerson, Harvard ’08 alumnus, formerly lived on Newbury Street.
United States District Attorney Asa P. French and DoJ special agent Kirt De Belle spent over an hour discussing the investigation of dynamite shipments to and from Lawrence during last winter’s strike. Both declined to speak after the meeting. French suggested a statement early next week, with the grand jury meeting Tuesday highlighted as significant.
The ninth annual encampment of United Spanish War Veterans opens today in Atlantic City and runs to Sept 12. Massachusetts delegates, about 35 strong, sail from Boston on a special train to Haddon Hall with leaders including Will iam Stopford Neil F. McDonald James H arenson George P. Field Edgar J. Whelpley and Frederick H. Foye. A Maine pageant depicting the Maine sinking will be staged on the boardwalk at midnight Wednesday.
A vintage ad touts Cascaret as a cure for sour stomach, biliousness, and constipation. It claims a torpid liver and constipated bowels cause foul digestion and bad breath, promising a 10 cent box will cleanse the insides and keep the head clear and cheerful for months.
James Gaffney 45 a Dorchester paving department worker was killed at 4 PM when struck by an inbound semi convertible electric car near St Angelas Church Mattapan. Motorman William J Gibbon of Roxbury and conductor Earl Springer of Roxbury were arrested and held for a morning hearing before Judge Joseph R Churchill.
In Lowell on September 6 Professor Hugh J. Molloy assistant principal at the State Normal School has been elected superintendent of the Lowell public schools.
Ad promotes TIZ foot soothing powder and foot bath claiming to ease aching feet corns and blisters. It urges readers to request a free trial from Walter Luther Dodge Co or buy at stores for 25 cents a box.
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