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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1907
Page
9
Congressman Butler Ames denounces Jackson of the Board of Railroad Commissioners for denying Lowell and Lawrence and nearby towns access to transportation. Ames vows to keep up the fight since Jackson’s resignation has not been accepted.
Congressman Ames lambasts the Board of Railroad Commissioners over a report denying a certificate of exigency for the Boston Lowell Lawrence Interurban. He accuses the chairman of bias and hints at a plan linking the New York New Haven Hartford system with Boston and Providence rail interests. He alleges suppressed facts and ties between Boston Elevated Railroad and major firms Kidder Peabody Stone & Webster.
Amy Wenonah Alden, a Vincent Club member, wed Will L. Lowrie in St Marys Church Hanwell Old Middlesex. The ceremony was private due to the bride’s father’s illness with Miss Jay Lupton as maid of honor. The couple will reside in Weimar after a tour of the English lake country. Lowrie serves as United States consul at Weimar.
The New Hampshire Federation of Labor announces its officers for the year. President is Charles J. French of Concord. Vice presidents include Henry A. Smith Berlin James P. Ellis Portsmouth Charles D. Perkins Manchester Albert M. Lavigne Lebanon A A Farnsworth Keene James F Lawler Dover and John Corbett Concord. D W Finn Keene serves as secretary and treasurer.
Wellesley reports Miss Dorothy Straine is in ill health and plans to travel to Europe soon while her father faces an indictment for attempting to abduct her.
Alderman Leary plans to push a petition at the Board of Aldermen to allow 5 cent fares for Breeds Island residents by linking double tracks from Bennington Street to Saratoga Street and tying into the Boston & Northern lines. No opposition is expected as a working agreement with the Elevated is anticipated once permission is granted.
A rally for senator candidate John E. Lonergan at the Franklin schoolhouse Washington street was broken up by a fight. Jeremiah Bowen of 1501 Washington street and John Sheehan of 207 West Fourth street were arrested on mutual assault and battery charges.
Harvard defeats Yale in the maiden all water trip between Boston and New York aboard turbine steamers of the Metropolitan line. Each vessel 407 feet long, 63 feet wide with triple screws and 24 mph speed. Harvard carried 400 passengers, Yale about 1,000, voyage time targeted at 15 hours.
Louis Cote, 35, a driver for an ice wagon, shot Mrs. Nellie C. Pennock in her Franklin lodging house, then slit his own throat. The 37 year old widow from Bath, Maine, had been living in the city six weeks. The tragedy followed a rejected love and an earlier eviction from the residence. Fred Pennock, her former husband, resides in town.
Residents of Camberwell report three bright star like objects falling from the sky and striking the street with sharp detonations. The event is linked to comet 1907 D and its debris passing Earth on September 12.
In Texas the Standard Oil Company operates under the Corsicana Refining Company name, which government suit claims bars oil operations in the state. Treasurer Wesley H. Tilford testified that H. C. Folger and C. M. Payne, said to control the Corsicana Company, are prominent in Standard Oil affairs.
Kellogg traced Standard Oil origins from 1882 trust to 1899 dissolution and the formation of Standard Oil of New Jersey. Tilford denied Texas interests for Standard Oil and noted Folger and Payne as officers, while Rockefeller held over a quarter of the trust shares, with 256,854 of 972,500 in 1892.
About 200 Knights of Columbus members gathered in Corinthian Hall Deacon Building to honor Joseph C. Pelletier state board of civil service commissioners and former state deputy. The banquet celebrated his service to Franklin Council and the order and lauded his election as state advocate.
In North Attleboro a family disturbance arose as William RE Smith attempts to recover his child Clare Smith from her grandmother Mrs. Smith on Fisher Street. Reports differ with one claim that Smith choked his mother, which he denies. He plans to visit the clerk to secure papers to compel the grandmother to relinquish the child.
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