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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1906
Page
12
Dusky Lena Mikel, queen of Bedelive gypsies, wed her nomad lover in a North End tenement. She calls a five year roaming honeymoon in a prairie wagon ideal, praises Australia and Hungary, mocks Boston girls, and showcases her dowry and guards ready with six shooters.
Four thousand longshoremen and freight handlers on the Boston waterfront vote to refuse cargo for the Metropolitan Steamship Company starting Wednesday in protest of alleged discrimination against Knights of Labor members. If nonunion crews load cargo, all wharves and yards will strike. drivers and switch crews may join in sympathy with the threatened waterfront shutdown.
Acting on tips from New York and Boston authorities Chief Hudson of Chelsea police detained five young men as suspicious persons after a suspected gang of New York crooks operated on Congress avenue for three days. Police describe the group as Gordon 20, Cohen 17, Morgensterg 17, with two youths Kelley 16 and Stepper 14.
The Leyland line announces the Servian, a 14 540 gross ton vessel built at Harland and Wolff Belfast. It joins the Boston service replacing the Cestrian with sailings from Liverpool December 8 and Boston December 2, carrying 115 first class passengers on one class per Leyland line practice.
Pope Pius IX appoints J. McGrain of New York, conductor of the latest American pilgrimage to Rome, as a Knight of St. Gregory.
John Lovett known as John the Orangeman left nearly all his estate to his daughter Katherine BB. Lovett in his filed will. He leaves $1 to each of his deceased sister Mary L. Sullivan’s children and to his brothers. No appraisal accompanies the will.
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge and John P. Swasey addressed a large Auburn Hall meeting in Auburn Maine on September 7. Lodge urged returning Mr Littlefield to Congress and criticized Samuel Gompers while asserting the Republican party is the labor party. Swasey spoke on state issues.
The Minnesota Supreme Court upheld the St. Louis County Court ruling affirming the state law on mineral leases. The case concerns title to the Virginia Silver Mine on the Minnesota range, said to be worth several million dollars.
A Boston girl’s future is sketched as she vows to travel with a partner for five years, visiting China and Africa, while a reporter departs. The gypsy queen is described as healthy with a wealth of gold, and she and her husband seem set for a "happy ever after."
Mrs Selma Sharretts of Boston shot herself in a Boston Homeopathic Hospital ward soon after her husband Edward Sharretts a War Department cashier from Washington died. She lay with his body in a final embrace as a nurse and cousin left the room briefly. The couple had lived in Washington before moving to Boston for care.
Mrs Colby, a guest at Hotel Pemberton, vanished after leaving Saturday without address. Police and hotel staff conducted a thorough search, but no clues have emerged and townsfolk speculate on a temporary aberration or a journey. Chief Reynolds identifies the missing woman as Mrs Colby.
Miss Mary Ann Lincoln aged 100 died today at her lifelong home in Leominster after celebrating her birthday on August 3. Identified with the Unitarian church since 1822, she is believed the oldest member of that faith and retained her faculties to the end.
An investigation into a recent attempt to smuggle 38 undesirables into the United States aboard the White Star liner Romantic, from Naples and the Azores, was begun by Assistant US District Attorney Lewis. Officials suspect ship officers aided stowaways, with a preliminary hearing held and the captain and several officers questioned. The steamer is expected to sail Tuesday as the inquiry continues.
Two young men in a team came to 78 Belmont Street claiming Colonel James B. David ordered their pickup of his old clothes. The maid questioned them and they fled when unable to prove the instruction. No harm reported.
Hot Springs Sept. 7 The executive committee of the Southern Cotton Association met in session and fixed 10 cents as the minimum price for cotton this season.
L Speidel & Co liquor dealers filed an involuntary bankruptcy petition Saturday against W H La Pointe Co operators of the Revere House with two other creditors. A separate petition against Marcus A Clark of Clark's Hotel cites an assignment to Reuben Ring and Francis H Johnson on June 5. Creditors include A J Houghton Co for 185 dollars and Conway Co for 52 50. Paul & Barnard filed the petitions.
A Charlestown Roxbury streetcar numbered 2686, operated by Motorman 1309 and Conductor 1198, collided with an express team owned by Nyman Libby of Somerville at the city end of the Charlestown bridge. Libby was slightly hurt but declined help and drove away. Annie Danaher of East Somerville, 21, riding on the car, became hysterical and was taken to a nearby hospital.
Charles E. Ferguson aged 14 of 16 Pleasant Street Revere was instantly killed crossing the Boston and Maine tracks near Winthrop Avenue Station in Revere at 3 30 yesterday afternoon. The body was taken to Sanborne's undertaking rooms and his widowed mother Mrs Elizabeth Ferguson notified.
King Edward finishes a spa cure in Marienbad Bohemia and departs for London after completing the treatment.
A distinct quake was felt in Princeton Indiana at 10 33 this morning. Houses rocked and dishes rattled as the tremor lasted two to three seconds.
Our new Fall suits for young men are ready available in all sizes including stout and long. Morse-made quality ensures absolute correctness for present wear and enduring fit.
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