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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1911
Page
2
The Connecticut State Grange informed the Connecticut Fair Association it will not participate in a reception for President Taft at Charter Oak Park during the fair in September. The decision means the Grange will not attend the official guest event.
The Times interviews F. E. Duffy and John H. Hale show the State Grange stance on reciprocity with Canada. The Grange refuses to participate in the fair when President Taft attends, citing opposition to reciprocity and Taft’s leadership of the movement.
In a Washington hearing, Grant B. Schley disclosed he knew little of a plan to transfer Tennessee Coal and Iron stock to United States Steel to avert Moore & Schley’s collapse. He described talks with J. Pierpont Morgan and George Perkins and said he did not reveal his control to Morgan. The committee set future testimonies for J A Topping Clark Williams and Richard Trimble.
Provincetown Aug 2. Atlantic Squadron battleships and torpedo boats prepare for a night engagement off Cape Cod Bay. Admiral Hugo Osterhaus commands the fleet with Washington Delaware and Michigan among ships.
Destroyers numbering about fourteen left the harbor shortly after six in the evening while a squadron of submarines moved an hour later toward the conflict. The small sea scouts operated with improvised battle lamps and used battleship searchlights for guidance as they scanned Cape Cod Bay for the big ships and were instructed to burn upon approaching within four thousand yards.
J Henry Watson, 58, president of the Watson Shoe Company of Lynn, a major firm, suffered heart failure in the sixth inning of yesterday's Red Sox game. He remains in hospital in dangerous condition after the excitation caused by two runs in what is described as a potentially fatal inning.
Watson, a prominent Lynn shoe businessman, collapsed from a heart attack at a double header in Boston. An ambulance rushed him to City Hospital where doctors feared he would not survive. Mrs Watson and their son Charles H. rushed to his bedside as police tracked the case.
Washington August 2 William Jennings Bryan denounced Representative Oscar Underwood as a protectionist trying to betray the party and stall tariff revision to benefit iron business in Birmingham. Underwood replied that Bryan’s statements were absolute falsehoods and asked Claud Kitchin to support him.
The House gave Alabama’s Majority Leader an ovation as he called Bryan’s interview false. Democratic lawmakers cheered while Underwood defended the tariff revisions and affirmed his and Mr. Kitchin’s positions on iron and steel, wool, the free list, and cotton.
On recommendation of the Fine Arts Commission Taft and the Lincoln memorial commission designated Henry Bacon of New York as architect for a design for a $2,000,000 memorial to be erected in Washington.
The Resinol line claims to suit all ages from infants to elders and to treat a wide range of skin ailments from minor irritations to boils and eczema. It notes wide professional use in hospitals and homes and highlights screw-top opal containers priced fifty cents to a dollar. The Resino Chemical Co. of Baltimore markets both ointment and soap.
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