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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1907
Page
3
London reports a nobleman, an earl, and his wife were refused admission to the Savoy Hotel restaurant at dinner hour for not wearing evening attire. The head waiter upheld the house rule requiring a dinner gown for ladies and a dress suit for escorts, with the grill room offered as an alternative.
The Teachers' Annuity Guild held its quarterly meeting at Tremont Temple. Formed in 1893 the group funds pensions for teachers hindered by ill health old age or overwork. Reported expenditures totaled 11 675 with 1170 members while Boston area pay scales were cited as insufficent to support retirement. Gordon A Southworth of Somerville serves as president.
An engineering expedition reports on collecting data in the Penobscot Kennebec Androscoggin and Saco valleys to design a reservoir system. The goal is to determine how to balance water flow for steady power through dry seasons and prevent waste, with results to be published by the geological survey.
In Marion Indiana a poodle belonging to a wealthy woman was chased by four alligators in a fenced city park enclosure. After the dog barked, one alligator seized it and the others joined, prompting the board of public works to order leather muzzles so they can eat small meat but not chew larger prey.
An American buyer purchased a small painting for $10 from a London dealer. Experts later confirmed it is a genuine Guido Reni work, valued at least $62,000, shocking the dealer.
Oscar Toda, 72, a California pioneer who established the first stage route from Texas to California, died at the home of his daughter Mrs. Fred J. Baker at 4671 Pasadena Avenue in Los Angeles.
New York dispatch reports District Attorney Jerome's insistence on retrying Harry K. Thaw for murder while Thaw endures summer confinement in the Tombs. Officials praise his physical and mental steadiness and expect a December trial, with Mrs Thaw visiting daily despite previous vacations.
A 14 year old New York boy John Procknick was left in South Station while his father briefly stepped out. The boy wandered, spent a night under a bench, and then was found by Officer Donovan who placed him in a safe home for uncared for children after three days of distress.
Paris reports King Alfonso travels to France for a minor operation described as a submucous nasal septum section. The procedure aims to improve breathing while noting the king’s snoring may have influenced the decision, aided by his young wife’s counsel.
In Whiting Indiana on September 22 an angry crowd stormed the city hall council chamber and prevented passage of a fifty year franchise for the Hammond Whiting and Fast Chicago Railway Company by threatening to tar and feather aldermen who supported the measure and drove them from the hall.
In Worcester a beauty club formed by local girls meets weekly to exchange massages for the neck face and arms. Each session lasts about three quarters of an hour with a social period afterward. Members claim wrinkles fade hollow cheeks fill out and complexions improve as bachelorhood becomes a near certainty next spring.
Worcester reporter notes Alton W Fairbanks, aged 40 years at sea, spins a tale of the ocean bottom as a vast garden. He claims the sea floor on the Grand Banks grows lemons, sweet peas, corn, pumpkins and other fruits for fishes, with cod fat on such vegetables.
Massachusetts colonial loan exhibit installed in the History building at the Jamestown exposition. The board of managers reports its full installation completed last Saturday and notes the collection was sent to Virginia within ten days. Described as one of the most valuable and complete loans ever sent to an exposition with safeguards adopted for care and return.
Fort Dodge Iowa September 22 Forty years a miner Owen McGovern aged seventy died at his home in Kalo six miles south of the city He had missed only twenty days from work and never took a vacation in his long career.
Secretary of State Root returned from vacation and recreation to his Washington office after nearly three months away. Observers noted a brighter complexion and firmer grip. Root said he felt much improved and could view affairs in their natural aspect.
Crowds of students return as Harvard plans opening day activities on Thursday September 26. Freshmen register Wednesday with advisers to plan schedules, while all students must enroll by 6 p.m. that day. A record freshman class is anticipated despite tougher entrance exams.
Copenhagen September 22. Roald Amundsen plans to use polar bears instead of Eskimo dogs for his next Arctic expedition. He intends to harness ice bears to his sleighs to cross the polar plains.
In Truro Nova Scotia on September 22 Dr J N Pep pard 70 of Great Village and Samuel Lindsay 65 of Londonderry station died from poisoning after Dr Pep pard mixed a drink with strychnine by mistake while harvesting oats on Pep pards farm. Lindsay died the next day.
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