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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1907
Page
12
A Democrat of prominence reports President Cleveland's health is failing rapidly due to gout spreading to his knees and weight loss of forty pounds in three months. Mrs. Cleveland acts as adviser while he remains at Princeton. Recovery is unlikely. he may live weeks and will not return to the Equitable Life building.
Grover Cleveland, seen in Princeton with a nurse beside him, says reports of his failing health are unfounded. He praises the interest of observers, notes a crippled foot but general good health, and mentions stomach trouble overcome with minor lameness.
Police publish a report on the August attempt to blow up Lord Ashtown’s hunting lodge near Clonmel. It claims the fuse was lit from outside, the bomb built from a lodge pot, and that entry failed with the lodge window open. ItSuggests link to anti Irish press in England.
Senator Lodge spoke to about 900 at Boston’s Faneuil Hall about the public opinion bill. He warned it would undermine representative government and shift power to direct ballots, urging careful debate and safeguards. The event, hosted by the Central Labor Union, featured no questions, and a future reply may come from Henry Sterling or others.
Excerpts show Lodge arguing the bill would undermine the representative principle and empower political profiteers. He warns less than 1 percent could force questions on 99 percent and fears moneyed influence and erosion of free government. He pledges resistance to any measure toward one man rule.
The Revere Beach season closed at 11 pm with a record level of prosperity for merchants and operators. Officials reported over 150000 visitors on closing day, 2500 bathers at the State bath house, and a season total near 174000 bathers. A deer sighting at Oak Island Grove stirred crowds, while sailing races near Nahant and a four oared Lynn shell entertained beachgoers. The boulevard closure for tar resurfacing runs today 8 am to Tuesday 8 am from the Point of Pines circle to the Lynn bridge.
The speaker warns that a bill enabling direct votes would empower a small, moneyed minority to force questions on 99 percent of voters. He claims organized factions would wield signatures, craft questions, and pressure approvals while dulling representative government and risking court independence under a drift toward despotism.
Professor Macauley of Harvard reports a hunter encountered a wild woman in the Gatineau region near Blue Sea Lake and Maniwaki. The figure, sunburnt and hair covered, wore leaf coverings and fled when approached.
In Waterville Maine on September 15 Lafay ette Butler 18 was shot and killed by Willie Nadeau 10 who did not know the gun was loaded He fired through a window as Butler ran around a corner striking him in the left breast and causing instant death
President James J. McGarty of Branch 4 asserts telegraphers remain united, claiming higher numbers and finances since the strike began. He notes workers have not returned, cites limited defections in Cleveland and nearby towns, and predicts more rejoinings this week.
The Ward 13 Improvement Association of South Boston endorsed Edward F. McGrady for the Democratic State committee from the sixth district. Saturday he received a reception from the union printers of Wards 13 14 15 and 146. McGrady is a member of the Newspaper Pressmen's Union and the Boston Central Labor Union and has served as State representative.
George W. Roth an 18 year old of 10 Fairmont Avenue Cambridge drowned at Glenecho Lake while swimming with friends. After cramps and a dive from a raft he vanished underwater in full view of hundreds. His body was recovered half an hour later and sent to Cambridge. He had attended Westfield and Cambridge schools and worked in Boston.
A five story brick block at 45 49 Beverly street housing the George H. Carter Wood Working Co was gutted by fire at 1 30 this morning. The Cashman family in a rear Medford street building barely escaped as dry wood fueled a furnace like blaze and firemen faced narrow escapes. The two alarms were spaced about 15 minutes apart, similar to the 12 Summer street incident two weeks earlier.
Despondent over illness, Mrs. Margaret A. Dade aged 35 of 2 Mark Street Roxbury killed herself by inhaling gas in the bathroom of her home yesterday morning. She leaves a husband and a five month old child.
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