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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1912
Page
3
Ballots from locomotive engineers on 50 railroads east of Chicago and north of the Potomac River arrive in New York. The vote on a strike was taken after companies refused to meet demands and results are expected to be announced on Thursday. Ballots were transported by chairmen of the various brotherhoods.
Engineers ballots were guarded as unofficial opinions favored a strike but Warren S. Stone has veto power. Stone declined to predict the result and the count may not be complete before Thursday. Local group chairmen plan a 50 member committee to decide how to tally the official vote.
In Jojutla Morelos rebels were driven from the town, a key commercial center. Despatches released by the Department of the Interior report about 500 rebels killed in the battle.
Reports reach Cuernavaca from Jojutla say Zapatistas held the mercantile town two days ago with 300 to 1500 fighters. Later dispatches note federal forces from Cuautla and Cuernavaca surrounding the town and firing artillery. Many dead and wounded reported on both sides.
Refugees arriving in Boston include Edward Putnam a mining engineer from Boston W W Stewart manager of Parral Electric Light Power Co and Edward Almy of Boston. The troop train out of Parral to Jun 4 was the first to leave since Sept 23 with about 200 more foreigners seeking escape as business stalls and future stays uncertain. Regular service expected to resume soon.
Arthur Nikisch, leading the London Symphony Orchestra, conducted a remarkable night at Symphony Hall. The galleries were full while floor seats were scarce due to high prices. The audience greeted him warmly as the program featured Beethoven and Brahms works, Tschaikowsky pieces, and Wagner selections.
The critic praises Nikisch for masterful control and luminous detail in a Brahms symphony performance noted for its epic drama and expressive range. Tschaikowsky and Wagner excerpts receive mixed but compelling treatment as the orchestra, especially the strings, earns high praise. A second Boston concert is planned for April 27 with Wagner and Tschaikowsky songs.
Elizabeth Glendower Evans of the Boston Women's Trade Union League mediated as 300 Roxbury carpet weavers demand a 10 percent raise and reinstatement of three discharged workers. Superintendent Joseph Hamilton refused reinstatement claiming the wage increase is impossible as pickets maintain peace from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sara A. Conboy, IWU representative, led the strike.
Blanche Sink, 41, of 21 Munroe Street Roxbury, was arrested last night on a charge of illegal surgery performed on Mrs Alice Melody wife of boxing champion Honey Melody of Charlestown. The Melody woman testified while in City Hospital in danger, later discharged a few weeks afterward.
Nearly 800 attendees at High School Hall supported the club scholarship fund through two plays. Close Prisoner by M T Gregg of Cambridge and Mrs Tubb's Telegram by Katherine McDowell Rice of Cambridge were directed by the club dramatic committee led by Franklin P Shumway.
In Brockton April 9 a store partnership wedding saga continues as Meyer Munsch, partner, plans to wed Ida Abrahams 17, sister of Sadie Abrahams who just married Samuel Jaffe. The couple, who have known each other three months, hope to marry soon after the Jaffe nuptials and leave the shop in charge of the others on honeymoon.
William H. Partch of New Haven Vermont states he suffered rheumatism and weight loss from 195 to 145 pounds before using Kilmer Swamp Root. He credits a fifty-cent bottle and later three dollar bottles with restoring his weight to 195 pounds and endorses the product. The affidavit sworn September 4, 1909, before Justice D. A. Roseau confirms the statement.
Letter to Dr Kilmer company urges readers to obtain a sample bottle from Kilmer Co Binghamton N Y and receive a booklet on kidneys and bladder. Readers are told to mention the Boston Daily Post in their letter and to consider fifty cent and one dollar bottle sizes.
A pantomime style performance titled Wordless Drama opened at Boston's Shubert Theatre last evening. Nicolas Orloff led as the hunchback with a highly realistic, acrobatic portrayal, while Leopoldine Constantin's dancing girl sparked fire and coquetry. Camilla Wibenschutz starred in the title role with Fritz Feher as Nur al Din, supported by a strong ensemble. The production features Victor Hollaender's distinctive music and runs two weeks.
Mayor Fitzgerald issued a circular to the press and civic groups detailing opposition to delay in consolidating the park bath public grounds and music departments. He praised Boston’s park equipment but urged unified administration to boost playground use and city pride.
The Sunday Post profile notes Percy, famed for crafting fan art in the comic section, returning next Sunday to his garden work. It highlights his playful reputation and anticipated routine.
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