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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1913
Page
7
New York April 22 William A. Keener former Supreme Court justice Story professor of law at Harvard and dean of the Columbia Law School died at his home today He was 57 years old.
A Boston retailer advertises Hart Schaffner & Marx suits with a tiered price approach. It argues the $25 suit offers greater long term value than $18 or $20 options, urging buyers to start at $25 and shop at The Continental on Washington and Boylston.
A vintage musterole advertisement touts fast relief from rheumatism and related ailments. It claims doctors and nurses endorse the white mustard ointment and urges readers to buy 25 cent jars or a hospital size for 2.50. A testimonial from a September case in Mayville cites dramatic improvement after use.
Harvard College professors and students learned that football coach Percy Haughton will stay in the job with pay raised from 5000 to 7500 dollars a year. Based on a 12 week season at five days a week and three hours daily, this equals about 125 dollars per day or roughly 75 cents per minute of actual working time.
Wage figures from Francis Hunnewell 2d Harvard comptroller show professors earn 4000 to 2600 yearly with vacations and assistants at 700. Discussion notes Percy Haughton, five years coach, reportedly requested 7500 to stay. The article hints the figure was likely provided.
Harvard plans to keep Haughton as head coach for the football team with a nine to twelve week active season starting in September and ending in November while the rest of the year focuses on strategic planning. The Harvard graduate, nearly 40, also has business roles in a cotton brokerage in Boston and a summer home at Manchester by the Sea where much of the head work is done. Compton Hunnewell released salary details but did not discuss the raise for Haughton.
Mayor J Edward Barry submitted an estimate of 2 761 722 59 to run the city for the coming years. He recommends a 1 227 290 32 appropriation with 1 346 146 88 anticipated from taxes. Major items include schools 560 890 35 public safety 564 578 72 interest 339 560 50 sinking fund 269 412 70 and revenue 814 496 97.
The House rules committee named Governor Foss as the authority to petition the State Board of Conciliation and Arbitration to investigate the Draper company strike in Hopedale and Milford. The session touched on the Morrill order, milk bill support, and several vetoes and legislative actions including probation officers and flags in public spaces.
Joseph M. Coldwell led the strikers before the committee and read their pay envelopes while urging adoption of the Morrill order. John Weaver Sherman Cornelius Carmody spoke briefly. Henry Sterling urged a State board investigation. Representative Bliss suggested the Governor should make the recommendation.
A fragment from Beacon Hill notes a gem dropped during an oratory event yesterday. Joy Beaton’s remarks inspired a new nickname for a lawyer, generating local chatter about wit and rhetoric.
Robert D. Weston reports in the Wade estate dispute that Joseph M. Wade believed himself the spiritual husband of Mme Blavatsky and lived in an occult room. The suit by executor Herbert W. Burke against Yamanaka & Co. seeks return of a $20 000 Japanese and Oriental collection, claiming fraud while Wade was feeble. Judge Pierce orders restitution and bars two recovery actions. Wade formerly edited Fibre and Fabric.
Herbert L Brookins arrested in a Tremont street flat on April 12 by Customs Inspectors McKenna and Sleep for manufacturing opium was arraigned before Judge Morton in the United States District Court on the same charge and sent to East Cambridge jail in default of 500 dollar bond.
The Ulders Sanitarium at 67 Main Street in St. Joseph Missouri releases a free book detailing tobacco’s deadly effects and a three to five day method to stop. Requests for copies should include the requester’s name and full address for mailing.
John Lincoln Barry died at his Dorchester home aged 91. An old Bostonian born near Essex and Lincoln streets, he shared deep knowledge of the city’s past and served with Stoddard Lovering Co. He traveled in Europe with the firm and spoke French and German. Funeral at Old South Church Thursday at 2:50 p.m. He is survived by his wife and eight children.
The Barham Memorial Church in South Boston hosts a reception for Rev. D Harold Hickey and Mrs Hickey following his appointment at the New England conference. Emmanuel Episcopal in West Roxbury holds a Men's Club meeting and an illustrated talk on The Telephone by Frank B Clark. Union Congregational in Dorchester invites Albert Weaver for an illustrated Jerusalem lecture tomorrow night.
A pair of letters trace a courtship through sending violets as silent messengers. Nell replies that Jack's flowers arrive with a surprise response, calling the blossoms fitting symbols of their feelings and the couple’s exchanged affection.
Miss Zelie Emerson, the American militant suffragette who recently endured a hunger strike in Holloway jail, travels from London to the countryside to enter a sanitarium for an appendicitis operation. She vows not to return to America and says the struggle here is just beginning.
An activist recounts experiences in Holloway jail linking suffrage to prison reform. She describes forcible feeding as torture during her stay, severe pain from appendicitis, and notes Miss Emerson must not be seen until two weeks after her operation, with the patient in extreme nervous condition.
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