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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1913
Page
8
Vito Pucilato, 37, was stabbed to death in a basement passageway as two women laughed at his struggles for life. Police consider it Black Hand vengeance with the crime heard by a building janitor and his assistant.
Witnesses recall a scream and fleeing women as janitors find Pucilato slain in a passageway. He suffered 12 stab wounds to face and body and a stilleto thrust into the heart. A semi circular cheek cut marks the Black Hand vengeance sign.
White Sox manager Callahan says pitcher Benz is about fifty percent stronger than last year, noting noticeable improvement in stamina and performance.
An advertisement asserts Fulton’s Renal Compound can extend life in Bright's Disease cases. It cites a daughter of ex US sub treasurer N W Spalding living twenty years after treatment and a well known San Francisco editor claiming twelve years of supposed temporary improvement. It invites inquiries and pamphlets from John J. Fulton Co. in San Francisco.
Boston architect Guy Lowell will design the Kings County Courthouse in New York at a cost of 60 000. The $10 million project features two circular buildings, outer modeled after Rome's Coliseum. Lowell's plans, drawn at 25 Fifth Avenue, are to begin soon and aim to become a city sight.
On April 21 at 4:15 am Monier Callemin and Soudy were guillotined in Paris after a short spectacle of police presence. Soudy died first, Monter last, who defied with a final taunt. Four would‑be victims were slated but Dieudonne was pardoned by President Poincare.
Delegates of the Boston Central Labor Union voted to ask affiliated unions to urge their women relatives to register and vote for labor friendly candidates in the next Boston school committee election. The meeting protested the current board as non representative and backed widening the committee to 26 members.
Journeymen Horseshoers Union held a special meeting and heard a wage scale report after a conference with the Master Horseshoers Association. The union seeks a $22 weekly minimum and Saturday half holidays year round, up from $19 weekly and half holidays six months.
A flood of union notices reports meetings and actions across multiple unions in Boston. Events include the candy makers union evening meeting at North Bennet Street School with J J Dooley present and various open sessions by Stationary Engineers and other unions.
Former President Taft accepts invitation to read a paper at the American Bar Association annual meeting in Montreal in September. Chief Justice White will preside and Viscount Haldane will deliver the annual address.
The first motor car church in America was dedicated on a Chicago lawn by Rt. Rev. D. J. Dougherty. The St. Peter's Motor Chapel, donated by a California woman in memory of her husband, will be shipped to Brownsville Texas for a year of use in the Southwest. A tent on the car tops it and it seats 200.
A blaze started by a defective gas piping gutted the third floor and roof of a home at 156 Vine street Everett causing about 200 dollars in damage as 15 guests fled with the infant during the christening celebration.
More than 200 workers who went to New York to seek jobs have returned to Boston and will resume work today. About 2500 strikers are returning under union conditions with a dollar weekly raise, and only shops with union members will be hired. A brass band will lead a march from 724 Washington Street to the largest shops.
Delegates to District Assembly 30 of the K of L. voted in favor of permitting the Boston & Maine system to advance its rates to cover operating expenses. Some delegates raised alleged eight hour law violations by city contractors, and the convention reaffirmed opposition to contract work in city departments.
The Massachusetts State Branch, A. F. of L. executive board adopted resolutions protesting the nomination of Frank L. Randall of Minnesota for state position. The move reflects internal union politics and regional concerns within the federation.
Prison commissioners announce that all Governor's Council members should vote against confirmation. They declare Massachusetts has men capable enough to fill any office in the Commonwealth.
Officials of the Order of Railroad Telegraphers warned that unless President Mellen of the New Haven system reaches agreement with the New Haven Boston Maine Boston Albany and Boston Terminal Company on wage increases and better working conditions a general strike of telegraphers towermen and station agents is likely to occur this week.
Vice-President T. M. Pierson of the O. R. T. plans a conference with President Mellen to discuss New Haven and Boston & Maine matters. A Boston & Maine committee will meet Vice-President Horn at South station. Telegrapher requests from the Boston Terminal Company are being considered amid renewed negotiations with the Boston Elevated Company. A local union seeks international sanction for a strike at a South End department store stable. John Winfield to organize a new Sheet Metal Workers local with charter list over 100 names.
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