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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1913
Page
2
Lillian M Turner of Malden filed a $50,000 suit in Superior Court against John Sennett of Milk Street for alleged misrepresentation and leading her to invest in Hancock Minds Company stocks. The plaintiff claims damages from statements she says induced the investment.
The first suit alleges a May 1910 to July 1910 purchase of Hancock Company stock based on Sennett statements about earnings and dividends, with $17,450 in damages claimed. The second suit, filed yesterday, by Arioch W. Erickson seeks $75,000 over 200 shares of preferred and 301 shares of common Union Manufacturing Forge Company stock bought as treasury stock.
George B. Fowle died at his Needham home on Great Plain Avenue aged about 50 years. A well known figure in Boston music circles years ago he led church choirs and organized several choruses. Born in Roxbury he attended Boston Latin School and helped form St Paul’s Cathedral double quartet and founded St Andrew's Episcopal in Wellesley and Christchurch in Needham.
A nostalgic piece extols a boyhood summer in Colorado with a burro, praising outdoor life, and invites families to visit. It advertises a Colorado vacation book with maps and pictures and mentions excursion ticket deals via Alex Stocks in Boston.
William Ducas a 25 year old Lynn restaurant cook laments the disappearance of his 19 year old bride of a few weeks. She left Lynn to visit Auburn Maine and was reportedly married before to N J Pelletier in Lewiston. Ducas recovered a $100 diamond ring she had worn.
The Boston Young Men's Christian Union marked its 620th anniversary with day exhibitions by various classes and an evening annual meeting. Officers were elected and the past year showed 5289 members, $74,868.15 receipts, and $72,912.04 expenditures.
James B. Kearns, 47, lodger at Edward Kennedy's residence at 197 Sumner Street East Boston, was found dead in his bed at 6 o'clock last night. The death is reported to be due to natural causes.
Gardiner M. Lane reports Massachusetts Red Cross branches raised 191 338 36 dollars for flood victims. Subscriptions come from churches, Sunday schools, unions, individuals, and civic groups across Boston area, Melrose, Wilmington, Somerville, Brockton, and other communities, totaling nearly two hundred thousand dollars.
A baby was born in the East Dedham street police station office shortly before 5 am yesterday. Mrs. Mary Connors was en route to work as a scrubwoman when she became ill and entered the station. Dr Madden arrived after the birth as the patrol wagon took mother and child to City Hospital. both were reported well last night.
The National Skin Hospital at 1144 Main Street St. Joseph Missouri publishes a sixty page book on eczema with color plates, causes and remedies, and home treatment. Free by request mailed to all who write with 4 cent postage.
Herbert L Bald win known as Lucky and Ruth P Emerton of Malden married secretly for seven months. The news surprised friends and high school peers who cheered the couple after the revelation. Courtship began in fall 1910 at a football game.
Jeannette O Niel six of 18 Story street South Boston was struck by a Bay View City Point streetcar at East Wighth Covington streets at 2 30 yesterday afternoon and died at Carney Hospital. Witnesses say the motorman George McKenna tried to avoid the child but she ran in front of the moving car on her way home from school.
Professor T N Carver of Harvard has requested a year’s leave to serve as director of the new rural organization branch of the United States Department of Agriculture. He will continue the farming product marketing study begun last year.
Frederick Roy Martin, Harvard 1893, assistant general manager of Associated press in New York and former editor of the Providence Journal, will lecture at the Harvard Union this evening on gathering the news of the world.
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