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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1909
Page
2
There is no magic about our coffee simply the best coffee berries grown blended and roasted as well as we know how to do it. We call it Chase Sanborn's Seal Brand Coffee and its price is 30c a pound in one and two pound cans never in bulk.
Worcester, Sept 26 William Nardi 20 of Mendow Street Worcester accidentally shot and killed Francis Roach of Millbury at Singletary Lake while examining a discarded shotgun found in an abandoned shed. Nardi arrested on manslaughter charges. Roach a Millbury High School student.
Bishop Hartzell heads African Diamond Jubilee Field Day across 25 Boston area Methodist churches. He notes a $182,278 tally this year toward a $300,000 goal and urges continued gifts. Speakers include J E Crowthers Ralph Welles Keeler and doctors Frease Richards and the Springer duo addressing parishes in Malden Dorchester Bromfield East Weymouth and other Boston churches.
Dr. Frederick A. Cook Arctic explorer to lecture in Symphony Hall on Oct 1 about his discovery of the North Pole. The talk will feature stereopticon views taken by Cook. Seating details to be announced. A St Louis Business Men's League debate offered Cook $20,000 but considered $10,000 as a possible counter, if accepted.
Rainfall yesterday kept Boston at the top for wettest in New England. A day of steady drizzle with occasional heavier showers left pedestrians seeking umbrellas while the Public Garden swans enjoyed the damp mood. Storm center lingered over New England as the middle West saw clearing skies. authorities forecast relief by Tuesday with northerly winds.
Pittsfield Sept 26 The Aero Club of New England balloon became the first airship to traverse the Hudson River since the Hudson Fulton celebration opening, rising at 3 40 a m from Pittsfield and crossing into New York along the Hudson for miles before landing in Sussex New Jersey about 125 miles from Pittsfield.
Balloon piloted by William Van Sleet with passengers J B Benton of Boston and J Walter Flagg of Worcester crosses the Hudson three times traveling over Massachusetts New York and New Jersey. Landing near the Pennsylvania line in Sussex New Jersey. The crew unharmed though shaken. Local Mystic Shrine and Odd Fellows lodges provide welcome care.
Cotham New York Sept 26 sailors from England Germany France Italy Holland Mexico Argentina and the United States wandered Riverside Drive as the Hudson Fulton celebration opened. The armada of battleships anchored offshore drew crowds and at 3 PM Riverside Drive was crowded with visitors from across the country and abroad.
The Half Moon and Clermont anchor for a Friday naval parade as British flagship Inflexible draws admiring crowds. Hudson Fulton week features aviation demos by Wright and Curtiss from Governor's Island with plans to cross the bay and circle the Statue of Liberty, amid crowded docks and looming city towers.
The Hudson Fulton celebration features an aerial race with Curtiss and Wright machines from Governor's Island. Start depends on favorable weather. pennants identify racers, with Baldwin Pennant 1, Roeder Pennant 2, Tomlinson Pennant 4%. Each pilot carries limited gasoline and provisions. Races expected duration ranges from three to six hours. Fulton’s historic support and Navy Department ambivalence noted.
Washington reports that Robert Fulton, inventor of the steam boat, also conceived torpedoes as a war engine. A government collection of Jeffersoniana cites a letter to the First Democrat describing a torpedo fleet plan to defend New York Harbor, foreshadowing modern defense concepts.
Mrs O H P Belmont dedicates her Madison Avenue mansion to three pioneering suffrage figures Lucretia Mott Susan B Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton with busts installed to inspire renewed effort toward securing the vote.
St Peter Minn Sept 26 A startling scene unfolded as Miss Margaret Connant bareback rider and circus star met her former lover Guy Repasz who vanished from Chicago last winter. Repasz, then an inpatient at St Peter State Hospital for the Insane, was brought into the tent with a group of patients. A year earlier Repasz and Connant were fellow circus troupe members.
A testimonial from 1905 describes avoiding sanatoriums for bronchitis and lung trouble by using Eckman’s Alterative. The letter claims recovery at home, gaining health and weight, and cites sale through Riker-Jaynes eight drug stores with an offer to send a booklet. It mentions Philadelphia address and signer W. M. Tatem.
A health advertorial urges headache sufferers to inspect liver health rather than rely on powders. It promotes Smith's Pineapple and Butternut Pills as a natural laxative remedy that cleanses the liver, aids digestion, and wards off headaches by removing the cause. Physicians allegedly endorse the pills as non habit forming.
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