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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1910
Page
16
A crowd of about 8000 filled Clinton on September 16 for the final day featuring the John R Thayer questrian prizes. Eastern stock showed in 18 classes with prizes for top teams and a special award for the best delivery wagon used by a local business. Parachute displays dirigible evolutions and an apple exhibit failed to divert attention from the horses.
Edward A. Bennett risked his life by donating his blood to his dying fiancee Miss Elma M. Williams of Orrville, in a hospital in Oakland. Surgeons joined Bennett’s artery to Williams to revive her, but the illness w as too advanced and she died.
Pauline F. Cook aged 51 of 4 Jenner Street Charlestown was found dead on the kitchen floor late yesterday afternoon by a fellow tenant. Medical Examiner Magrath ruled death due to natural causes.
Mrs Eleanor Hitchcock Cobb aged 67 of 32 Hollis Street Newton married yesterday George St Rogers 69 of Riverside California a wealthy Civil War veteran in a romance that began before the war. Sister Martha A Hitchcock reported the news from Los Angeles.
In Boston 1861 a couple pledged marriage but war separated them. Both married others. decades passed. Last week, now widowed or remarried, they reunited in Riverside Los Angeles and wed at First Presbyterian Church with plans to reside on Rogers’ Los Angeles area lumber estate.
Acting Mayor Mitchell orders investigation after sending a list of gambling and disorderly houses to Commissioner Baker. He seeks aid from District Attorney Whitman and promises prosecutions. The list names owners and addresses deemed respectable but allowing gambling.
Workmen at 7 Elm Street unearthed an eight pound cannon ball believed to be from the War of the Revolution. David Crowe and John McCormack found it eight feet below the surface in hard clay. locals suspect it may have been hurled into the city from the Bunker Hill engagement.
A fight between two Walworth Manufacturing Company workers left Charles Bacon, 48, of Roxbury severely burned and hospitalized at Carney Hospital. Edward M. Kehoe, 26, of Jamaica Plain, was arrested at City Point police station on assault charges.
Kehoe and Bacon workers in East First Street plant quarrel over a loan dispute. Kehoe seized a red hot forge bar to strike Bacon after days of demands. Bacon is hospitalized with a serious but non fatal jaw injury.
John J. Evans of the Edgemont Hotel was killed in his sleep in Chester. His son Richard Evans, 19, was arrested and jailed in Media on murder charges. A prior head injury from football left him at Elwyn School for Feeble Minded Children four years earlier.
Washington Sept 16 Richard A Ballinger travels from Seattle to attend the cabinet meeting on Sept 26. His decision to resign or stay hinges on the cabinet's stance and on Congress receiving the committee reports on his stewardship of the public domain.
The seventh annual conference of the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society ends with departures for Burma Assam and South India and for China Japan and the Philippines. About 60 missionaries in attendance hear papers on the missionary intellectual life and spiritual aims before farewell services at Ford Hall.
Subpenas for witnesses who will testify for the government in the beef cases were issued today. Although 25 were issued today it is probable that the total number of witnesses to be called will run well over 100.
Superintendent of Streets Rourke departs for New York to buy two large turbine pumps to replace the Cow Pasture pumping station units. He will seek bids after consulting local manufacturers and placing an advertisement in New York papers.
Bones believed to be a four century old Native American skeleton were dug up on Ballard street by Lynn Gas and Electric workers laying a pipeline. The skull and large bones are in remarkable preservation and on display at the Saugus police station.
Advertisement touts Horstford’s Acid Phosphate as especially recommended to restore appetite, strength and vitality after loss of appetite. The claim targets individuals seeking improved digestion and energy through a tonic remedy.
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