05 Aug 1912
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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1912
Page
1
Mayor Fitzgerald has begun a meat boycott at his home, following his Sunday suggestion to crush the beef trust. The Fitzgerald table features fish vegetables beans and eggs with no beef or other meat.
The article portrays Boston Mayor Fitzgerald advocating ending beef consumption to curb the meat trust and promote beans and vegetables. He cites his SF relief work and praises a vegetarian in health, urges national reach of the meat-free message, and muses on a potential Senate run to enforce laws against the beef trust.
Cincinnati Aug 4 Old Cy Young the long reigning king of pitchers was humbled by Wiedemann baseball team a local semi professional outfit He declared he is finished with baseball if he does not win today and afterward said he plans to end his career Cy Young is under contract to the Boston Nationals but cannot help the club after the defeat and failed comeback attempt.
The national Progressive party will be launched tomorrow at noon in the Coliseum where Taft was renominated for the Republican ticket a month prior. The convention hall mirrors Republican setup while a bull moose head over the entrance signals the party’s nickname and departure.
Chester Roundthrill a wireman on the Boston and Albany leaped from shore to rescue Mrs. Joseph Noonan and her seven month old baby after their boat capsized near the St. Alphonsus boat club. He carried the child to a float while Officer George E. Coombs aided the mother. The infant was revived.
Nine boy scouts were drowned when a cutter capsized off Sheppey Island on the way to a summer camp. Four young men from the Saltdean Mission camp near Brighton also drowned during bathing. Additional bank holiday fatalities are reported.
Between 1100 and 1200 delegates gather in the Coliseum to ratify Colonel Theodore Roosevelt for President after preliminaries. Nomination was tentatively made at Orchestra Hall last night as the convention built toward tomorrow. Vice presidential choice remains undecided with talks of a Southern Democrat for second, and Parker of New Orleans named as permanent chairman by some.
Richard D Arcy seven year old son of William D Arcy of 42 Chilton street Cambridge has been missing since Saturday morning. He left at 10 am and was seen twice after that including sitting on a hydrant near his home and walking toward Belmont in the company of a poorly dressed man at 7 15 pm. He wore a tan Russian suit and tan shoes with no hat or stockings. He has dark complexion brown eyes and long brown hair.
Incendiary fire struck Edward F. Atkins sugar magnate's Belmont cow barn on Concord Avenue shortly after midnight. The unoccupied barn with 17 tons of hay and five cows was burned. Poole barn nearby also destroyed. Damage estimated at 5000 dollars.
Scores show Boston 8 over Cleveland G 3 and Washington 3 over Chicago 2. Philadelphia edged St Louis 3 to 4 while Detroit beat New York 4 to 1. Collins notes Red Sox slump warning. Sweeney nears top NL batting list. Cobb extends lead in American records for Boston players.
The article presents the personal account of Bald Jack Rose once a graft collector for Police Lieutenant Becker now an associate in the murder of Herman Rosenthal. It describes Rose's surrender on July 18 and details the third degree he received and the terror as Becker's face loomed in Commissioner Bougherty's office.
The Boston Central Labor Union passed a unanimous resolution urging voters to defeat Lieutenant Governor Robert Luce due to his stance on the street railway carmen strike. Leaders of the carmen's union and nine delegates attended the labor gathering, with the origin of the resolution kept private by the union laws.
Boston organized labor speakers condemn Lieutenant Governor Robert Luce for blocking access to the State House during the Boston Elevated Railway strike. The Boston Central Labor Union will urge the Massachusetts AFL to campaign statewide on the issue. Delegates numbered in the hundreds at the special session near a general strike call.
After 24 hours police completed inventory of art treasures jewelry and silver plate stolen by Jacob F Guthrie alleged society burglar and forger now under arrest and goods recovered valued at 250000.
Police say property valued at 150000 found in Guthrie’s barn room and later in trunks. More jewelry and valuables found at his home with family. Guthrie, 26, a former electrical engineer and teacher, had over 16000 in Chicago banks. Doctors call him a kleptomaniac.
Becker recalls a silent moment that shifts the tale from calm to danger. He realizes a trusted policeman plans his sacrifice in Sing Sing's death chamber and vows to resist. Other officials imply they would share blame if harm comes to him, signaling a broad cover up.
A large Melrose police contingent hunted for a woman flat worker suspected of burgling Thomas A. Brown’s home at 9 Park Street Saturday. About $50 in money and valuables were stolen while the family was away, with table linen also missing. Neighbors reported seeing a woman at the door earlier, strengthening the lead a female burglar is at large in Melrose.
Charles Tsaro of Boston a rookie at the Farra gut House Rye Beach is at Portsmouth Hospital in serious condition after a fall from a Portsmouth electric railway car He attempted to jump at 25 miles an hour toward a passing automobile and landed on his head fracturing his skull He cannot live.
The notes recount Farragut’s 1864 Mobile Bay victory over a federal fleet and mark the 1858 completion of the Atlantic cable between the United States and England and Britain’s 1889 capture of Cabul ending Afghan war.
Fair and slightly warmer conditions expected for Boston and nearby areas Monday and Tuesday with light west to northwest winds. Washington reports New England forecast as fair through Monday and Tuesday with slowly rising temperatures and light winds from the west and north.
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