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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1913
Page
3
All high school athletic managers in Boston join the Mayor and park department officials tomorrow afternoon to discuss the proposed Franklin Field schoolboy stadium. The Council considers an appropriation to fund construction.
Vancouver telegraph operators connected directly to London using new instruments. Previously messages traveled from Vancouver to Montreal then via relays to Hazel Hill N S sent by cable to Waterville Ireland and finally London.
Annoyances surround Bishop John W. Hamilton as the New England conference cabinet adjourned overnight without completing ministerial appointments. A telegram demanding a specific preacher sparked calls of shame while changes included Rev. John Chaffee to Lynn and other moves. The Rev. J. Chadbourne announced his withdrawal amid a divorce suit, with parishioners backing him. The pope’s illness was noted as the Roman Church’s ebb, and John W. Suter urged ending public funding for sectarian church uses.
The Karema of the Eastern Balkan Steamship Company arrived in East Boston after a three month voyage from Calcutta with two fires aboard the vessel. The first fire appeared in Colombo harbor on January 17 and was extinguished. A second blaze broke out in the forward hold, detected by the ship’s dog Nellie, and fought by 61 sailors including 40 Hindoos for two days and three nights until control was regained. Captain J H Beare initially aimed for New York but diverted to safety as flames were brought under, 300 miles from New York.
The Karema carrying teas rice spices and skins had much of its cargo ruined by fire and thrown overboard. To prevent a new outbreak the ship anchored in the harbor and sealed off hatchways. Nellie the ship dog who detected the fire has crossed the ocean over 100 times aboard many vessels.
Washington April 14 Representative Underwood of Alabama chairman of the House ways and means committee and Democratic floor leader was confined to his bed with an attack of acute indigestion. His condition was only slightly improved but he announced he would be at the Capitol tomorrow despite his physician's protest.
Dr George D Kahlo medical director at White Sulphur Springs W Va announces radium in its waters the first American mineral water to show radium Froehling Robertson chemists of Richmond VA completed tests over a month ago Radium measured in mache units confirms pure discovery with European cures cited as context
Mrs. Juliette H. Souther of Portland Maine files in Dedham court to recover 57 household articles including carpets clocks furniture cut glass and silverware claimed as her property from ex husband Dr. Robert F. Souther Brookline physician. She alleges possession since 1902 and seeks injunction preventing disposal of the goods during litigation.
Frank W. Coughlin of 258 Prospect street Cambridge attaches property for Jeremiah Green of Boston in a suit to recover 20000 damages for personal injuries from work on a Harvard street Cambridge building July 1 1911.
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