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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1911
Page
6
An 80 foot sloop owned by August Belmont Jr. was beached by a northeast gale near Sandy Hook after its engine failed. Two men on board were rescued by the steam pilot boat New York as the vessel headed from Barnegat to Gravesend Bay.
The federal income tax amendment passed the House 140 to 69 and faces a close Senate battle. A canvass shows about 20 votes for opponents, including 14 senators who opposed it last year. The list of states voting for and against plus remaining undecided states is given, with prospects that six key states may eventually support ratification.
The article lists nineteen senators firmly opposing the tax amendment, naming Curley Doyle Grainger Halley Hatton Hibbard Hoar Hunt Lomasney Mack and others. President Treadway also opposes the resolve, with additional skeptics including Barnes Chase Gates Schoonmaker Stearns and Pierson who chaired the committee on federal relations. The tally cited totals 290.
In Chicago on April 20 Kurtz Carlson, who says his real name is Kurtz Mueller and is an ordained Lutheran preacher, pled guilty in Municipal Court to having three wives. He was arraigned on the complaint of his third wife who called him her true love. He asked that his first marriages not be held against him.
A census committee report proposes House membership of 483 with no state losing seats. Massachusetts gains 2, Rhode Island 1, and New York 4, in a reapportionment similar to the Crumpacker bill which passed the House last session but died in the Senate.
Police in Andover and Lawrence link a burglar shot by North Andover man Charles M. Newton Jr. to an earlier gang behind a 1908 Methuen killing. The body lies in a Lawrence undertaking room as investigators expect identification to aid arrests across the Lawrence Andover district.
Patrolmen Emmons and McDermott were shot to death by robbers who had stalked garden patches and hen houses for nights. A burglar, pursued by Newton at North Andover, was killed in a confrontation when Newton fired a shotgun. The attackers used an ambush method similar to a Methuen bandit pattern.
Louis Bohner of 109 Worcester Street, long time stage door keeper at the Old Boston Museum, marked his 76th birthday yesterday. On next Sunday afternoon his daughter Mrs. Charles Gorman in Dorchester will host a family gathering with relatives and comrades from the Charles Russell Lowell Post 7, 6 A. R. to celebrate. Bohner remains one of the few surviving staff members of the famed Boston playhouse.
The Equitable Life Assurance Society elected William A. Day, JP Morgan's candidate, to succeed the late Paul Morton as president despite objections from Superintendent Hotchkiss and the insurance board. Day will earn $50,000 annually, with no new vice president chosen for the vacant post.
Massachusetts judges and local lawyers lectured at the Norfolk Bar Association dinner in Boston with about 60 attendees. Asa P. French presided while guests ponder revolutions in Central America and historic Room 15 at the Revere House housing figures from Edward VII to Webster and Patti.
A Finance Commission communication to the Mayor charges city officials with harming East Boston gymnasium contract integrity by improper furnishing and installation methods, risking the city's reputation for fair dealing in public bidding.
The 1910 East Boston bath department advertised for gymnastic apparatus bids, awarding to Narragansett after delays and mayoral hesitation. A year later Wright & Ditson won a final bid at 1975, a $74 saving, amid claims of unfair practice and local-preference pressures.
The Portrait of a Young Ecclesiastic by Velasquez was purchased by Henry E. Huntington of Los Angeles for 150000 dollars. It marks the second Velasquez imported to the U S in months following the sale of the Portrait of King Philip IV to Henry C. Frick for over 200000 dollars.
Tomorrow night the Boston lodge No. 34 Loyal Order of Moose degree team presents The Octoroon by Dion Boucicault. Cast includes George F. Amory as manager Edith G. Doyle Zoe Mrs May Brooks Payton Marie Drawing Dora Sunnyside Emma L Wilson Grace and actors Mr Amory Jacob McCloskey Frank Morton Solon Scudder for the revived production.
Lynn April 20 John F Kane a patrolman is dying at Lynn Hospital from injuries after falling from a Boston and Northern streetcar at Revere last night while returning from Boston.
Governor Robert P. Bass issues a proclamation marking Thursday April 27 as Fast Day, a legal holiday in New Hampshire in line with annual custom.
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