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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1908
Page
5
Massachusetts leaders advocate revised basketball rules for girls and oppose interscholastic competition. Miss Linda Berenson of Smith College and Miss Helen H. McKinstry urge safer, less competitive training to protect vital energy and future mothering roles.
Mise M. Russell of Revere won the water tilting contest beating Katherine Smith while W L Richards defeated Harry Greenberg after a restart for the men’s bout. Referee John Hurley allowed a replay after Greenberg grabbed Richards spear. Crowds flooded Revere Beach for the event amid warm, muggy weather and a band concert with fireworks.
Mayor Porter supports woman suffrage and proposes Lynn Common space for a suffrage meeting. Lynn suffragists plan a 3:30 pm gathering with Miss Ellen F. Wetherell as chair and speakers including Estelle Woodruff Slocum and Rev James Barker. The four star flag, representing four states, flies in defiance amid protests and questions about flag use.
More than 60 notable residents from Greater Boston and nearby towns sail at 5 p m Wednesday aboard Merchants Miners line for a seven day South tour. Stops include Norfolk Old Point Comfort Fortress Monroe Hampton Newport News Baltimore Washington Philadelphia and New York with Baltimore carriage tour and three day stay in Washington under F M Briggs. Booking via George E Marsters tourist agency 298 Washington street Boston.
John Craig will address the regular meeting of Boston Baptist ministers in Ford Hall on Monday morning September 21. He chose the topic What an Actor Expects When He Goes to Church, a subject left to his choice by the organizers.
A quarrel between Bowker Torrey Company workers over a woman sparked a short brutal fight inside a moving elevator. Elevator boy Frank Lantt, 18, attacked coworker Gilbert Bartley, 22, with a knife, injuring Bartley on arm and neck before Bartley pinned him and stopped the car. Lantt was arrested by Joy Street officers for assault and battery with a knife.
R. F. Newton of 9 Linwood Place Charlestown appeals to the Post to help locate his half sister separated over 26 years ago. He does not know her current name as she was married recently and adopted by Mrs Love of Charlestown. He also hopes to find his half sister believed to be in the Boston area.
Sheriff Cilley arrests William Gordon of a Westphalia area farm on charges of poisoning the Miller family with Paris green mixed in coffee. Gordon confessed after the plot was discovered following disputes over lead pen cells.
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