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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1905
Page
7
A letter from the Children’s Editor invites Young People’s Art Club members to submit pretty pictures and original sketches. Contestants are asked to mail in works with a 2 cent stamp to receive a membership badge from the Boston Post YPAC.
The Church of the Disciples at Jersey and Peterboro streets will open tomorrow morning with Rev. Charles Gordon Ames delivering the sermon. The church has long avoided debt and has kept pews free from sale or rent, maintaining its noted hospitality as its neighborhood grows.
At sunset yesterday began the Hebrew year 5666 with the ten days of fear. Boston Hebrews filled synagogues, hiring halls to seat worshipers and bring famed cantors. Rosh Hashana and penitential season open with Tashlikh ceremonies and prayers calling for forgiveness and God’s blessings.
Broth ers Charles E Phillips and Leonard Phillips vow to fight the will of Jennie P Chase who died under unusual circumstances and left all legal estate to adopted son Woodruff Chase and husband Horace Chase as executors The $1 000 000 estate also leaves small sums to siblings a nephew and a niece in a contested will with alleged hypnotic influence raised by brothers.
In Swampscott on September 29 the police found Miss Alice Forris formerly employed as a domestic in the Chase household. She will testify at the inquest into the woman’s death, likely to be held next Thursday.
The principals of Chicago’s major department stores organize a mutual bank to start October 2. The Mutual Bank will offer 8 percent interest to both savings depositors and stockholders, with profits thereafter shared equally. Large retailers and thousands of employees back the venture.
Tomorrow and every Sunday in October at 3 30 p m solemn services for the dead will be held in the mortuary chapel at Calvary Cemetery conducted by Rev Father John F Cummins chaplain. The rites include the rosary sermon and benediction of the Blessed Sacrament.
Bright-eyed Mary Stearn aged 12 is chosen as mayor of the Hancock School city, a National School City League chapter started in Boston. She will lead a 14 member city council plus police and judiciary, while residents debate policies and await printed laws.
At a Tuesday meeting the St Marys Total Abstinence Society of Cambridgeport pledged to discourage serving beer and intoxicants at smoke talks and political rallies. The society seeks aid from kindred organizations in this effort.
The death of Professor Ea Payson Slye, famed dancing master of 661 Tremont Street, is announced after a sudden heart attack yesterday. He was 61 and left a widow and two children.
Peter J. Kennedy aged 60 a furniture salesman was found dead in Orchard Park Roxbury with an empty bottle and carbolic acid dregs at his feet. He died en route to City Hospital. Authorities link the death to self inflicted poisoning amid family troubles and unemployment.
Hanover Pennsylvania September 29 The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania unveiled a new equestrian war monument by Boston sculptor Cyrus E Dallin. The 20 foot high statue depicts a mounted picket on duty and cost seven thousand five hundred dollars.
Hydraulic engineer Victor Hatherley recounts his night of pursuit and narrow escape from Colonel Lysander Stark. A German woman guides him to safety as Stark's plan unravels, and Holmes links the case to a missing hydraulic engineer. They head to Scotland Yard to pursue Byford.
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