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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1910
Page
8
Mrs. C. S. Barker of 286 Spring Street Medford showed a very small tomato photographed beside a watch. She picked it yesterday morning and took it to the Post office. The rest of her farm tomatoes are normal in size and she attributes the anomaly to an unusually dry summer.
Congressman John A. Keliher defended his two terms in Congress at Faneuil Hall while denouncing William F. Murray for advocating rotation in office. He argued voters prefer continuity and challenged Murray’s charges on Cannon rule and party leadership, urging alignment with Washington business interests over partisan ambition.
A Massachusetts delegation led by Mrs. M. Foley took Miss Laura Ordway and Miss Gradner from the Orpheum Theatre to the Squantum aero meet in a yellow flag decorated touring car. Ordway, jailed for suffrage, spoke on woman rights and the group plans an aggressive campaign tied to the Maine landslide.
Boston & Maine president Lucius Tuttle retires after 17 years as the railroad posts earnings growth from 17.3 million to 43.4 million. Acting president Charles Mellen, tied to the New Haven system, moves to cut milk rates and push Hoosac Tunnel electrification. Critics accuse Governor Draper of leveraging Wall Street allies and a Connecticut firm to shield political allies, with Maine election upheaval seen as accelerating Tuttle’s fall and the broader decline of the Boston Railroad Holding Company. Mellen and Tuttle attend a Maine Central meeting in Portland before a Boston reassessment of operations and financing.
James M. Curley, Democratic candidate for Congress in the 10th district, spoke at two South Boston gatherings on the high cost of living. He denounced Cannonism and tariff policies, attacking his opponents for opposing true Democratic doctrine and promising to fight for lower living costs.
The annual American Baptist Missionary Union conference opens at its Ford building headquarters with 60 members preparing for missions abroad. Forty new missionaries depart, others return from furlough, and Rev. Charles Fulton joins evangelist work in Chicago while Rev. Dr. Samuel Gray and Dr. Charles F. Allen conduct campaigns in Virginia. Park Street Church installs a new organ, completing its renovation.
An organ recital by John A. O'Shea at St. Cecilia's Church will feature a new instrument with 36 speaking stops 13 couplers 11 combination pistons and 4 pedal movements voiced in English diapasons and French reeds. The gold bronze pipes sit behind the singers, with the console on the auditorium floor. Electro pneumatic action allows any full grand organ composition with orchestral effects. The organ cost several thousand dollars.
A business section photo offers a five dollar gold piece to the person who was driving the car when the photo was taken after proving identity at the City Editor’s office. The Wednesday photo was identified as driven by Philip W Place of South Lincoln. The Sunday image was linked to Fred Edwards of 530 Columbia Road Dorchester.
Albino Fiatti, employee of T. W. Peirce Hardware Co., Middleboro, was frightened when a companion shouted, bit his index finger so severely it had to be amputated by a surgeon.
Laura M Parker age 67 died at her Pleasant Street home after a life of prominence in Wakefield social affairs. She was active in religious and charitable societies and a charter member of the Wakefield Home for Aged Women.
In Middleboro on September 14 Officer Harry F. Snow arrested Isaac Cohen who claimed Boston as his residence for selling pencils and shoelaces without a license. Cohen initially claimed blindness and protested the arrest but on the way to the station tried to hawk a box of silver polish to the officer.
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