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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1911
Page
5
The A. G. Walton Shoe Manufacturing Company on Heard Street Chelsea faced mass departure as 70 women and 80 men left their posts. They accuse Manager Smith of discharging 15 workers for union activity and implementing new working rules.
Governor Foss appointed Massachusetts delegates to the Third National Peace Congress to meet in Baltimore Maryland on May 3 4 and 5 1911. Named are John D Long Charles S Hamlin Congressman Samuel W McCall Samuel J Elder Robert Treat Paine Jr and Samuel Bowles of Springfield.
New York march 31 Mrs Roy E Pierce laments a damnable plot to ruin her happiness as an annulment suit is filed to dissolve her marriage to Henry Clay Pierce’s son. She defends her husband against insanity claims and recounts his disappearance after a telephone call. She appeals to his father for truth and says she seeks quiet happiness.
Boston approves the largest annual appropriation in city history totaling 19,289,073.45 dollars. The measure, passed by the council's committee of appropriations, increases the prior year's total by 481,207.45 and adds 697,477.87 to departmental expenditures. An extra 1,028,960 is allotted for water service and debt, to be paid from water revenue. The council will finalize action on the water provisions at Monday's meeting.
Miss Sarah R. Sage of Ware and Boston died at age 8 years leaving a will filed for probate. She left 3000 in private bequests and 1500 to her niece Harriet S Hyde of Ware. The will designates gifts to missionary societies churches colleges and academies across the United States totaling 176000 with the remainder to be divided as directed.
Mary M. Rattigan displayed remarkable calm and presence of mind yesterday when she rescued Wesley Walton a six year old boy from the ooze in the drained Cook's Pond bed at Watertown. Carrying the child to firmer ground she fell from the planks she laid and narrowly escaped sinking into the quicksand.
Miss Rattigan saved a boy trapped in drained pond mire behind the Rat tigan residence using planks and calm strength. She dragged him from the ooze after sinking, then was aided ashore by Mil dred and Bessie Klinger. George Willis Cooke to speak on Mexico and Child Labor at Irving Hall tomorrow at 3.
Charles Johnson Post explored Brazil Ecuador and Bolivia. Julius Kahn California congressman was once an actor with Booth Jefferson Salvini and Clara Morris. Mrs Frank Leslie Baroness de Bazus editor and publisher claims Louis IX lineage. Jack London ran away to Klondike then roamed North America. Walt Mason humorist self educated native of Canada. Sir Hiram Maxim inventor learned carriage building and is Hudson Maxim’s brother.
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