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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1909
Page
5
Malden Sept 20 a fire at Sacred Heart Church on Main street caused considerable excitement about 10 45 pm. Fire is believed incendiary and damage is estimated around 10000 dollars.
A basement fire in a church altar boys room spread through wiring and smoke to the main area. Firefighters had to run hoses through the church as smoke and water damaged walls and highly figured stations of the cross. Estimated total damage about 19000 dollars. authorities suspect arson but have no suspect. No services were held that evening.
About two thousand Italians gathered at Point of Pines for a Rome anniversary picnic honoring Garibaldi’s Rome take on Sept 20, 1870. Morning events included running, cheese rolling, saddle race, prize drawings. evening parade followed by Edoardo Milo’s play Presa a Roma at Commonwealth Hall.
Senator James H. Doyle and supporters rallied at Hampden and Dudley last night to defeat Jeremiah Good, the Tammany candidate, as thousands crowded the scene. James M. Curley followers held a quieter Vine Street Church meeting, while ex representative William Grady faced jeers and a brick shower, halting his Curley remarks amid a gust of campaign cards.
Police Captain George FE Savory was pensioned on half pay yesterday after serving faithfully in the police department for 86 years, marking a remarkably long career.
An advertisement touts a free trial package of Pyramid Pile Cure offered by Pyramid Drug Company. It claims rapid, painless relief from piles, inflammation, and itching, promising renewed ambition and appearance for men and women, with instructions to send for a free sample from 219 Pyramid Building, Marshall, Michigan.
Cambridge Sept 20 Mrs Straboula Paraskevacos pleaded guilty to assault with a dangerous weapon for attempting a vendetta in Lowell on July 18. Judge Henry A King sentenced her to an indeterminate term in the Sherborn women’s prison. Paraskevacos came from Greece to seek revenge after her son was jailed for killing Mrs Paraskevacos’ son. a shot wounded James Stefanakos.
The Rev. Arthur Lawrence rector of St. Pauls Episcopal Church Stockbridge for 37 years died at 67. He was Harvard and Williams graduate and Civil War veteran. He belonged to the American Geographical Society a fellow, Massachusetts Military Historical Society Harvard Club of New York and the Union Club of Boston.
Mrs. Arthur Tetrault widow of a honeymoon couple, died at Rhode Island Hospital after her husband was found dead beside her in their hotel room the previous Tuesday.
Open hunting season for big game runs Oct 16 to Nov 15 in Temagami area. Moose are plentiful, waters hold diverse game fish. Red deer habitats lie south of Temagami within Muskoka Lakes Lake of Bays Maganetwan River Lake Nipissing Kawartha Lakes regions. Contact E H Boynton for Haunts of Fish and Game by Grand Trunk Railway, with hunting territories, game laws and maps.
The Post harvest festival featured unusual produce from local gardens. Specimens included a five-part two pound ten ounce potato from Valentine A. Loir Wakefield a 11 pear bunch from W F Stetson West Hanover a hybrid No 6 grape cluster from M B White Norwood a Rhode Island red egg seven ounces from W P Whitehead Wakefield and two gigantic tomatoes from Charles B Juard Wollaston one 16 inch and another 14 inch in circumference.
Mauretania completes a 4 day 18 hour 41 minute crossing at 25.61 knots, reaching Fishguard then Liverpool. Passengers are sent by special trains to London and Paris via Dover with mail trains.
Forgiving her pastor husband Rev Wallace M. Stuckey, pastor and editor of Williamsburg Kan., the wife of four children intends to be in Ottawa to stand by him in his Waukegan Ill. trial, though bitter about the young girl who allegedly enticed him.
Massachusetts Red Cross donors are thanked by Gardiner Martin Lane for a total 355 dollars. Contributions include Eben Draper 100 dollars Mrs James T Fields 5 dollars and several individuals from Hampden County and Boston totaling 355 dollars.
Chelsea witnesses a second disaster as a fire at 145 Washington Avenue destroys an automobile garage. Several cars burn or suffer damage, with total losses around 11 000 dollars. Local families displaced again after last year’s Chelsea blaze.
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